Iron County register., 1890-02-13

LoliO"S.
Pacific Express Co, w b, %.
Sack gold. So 600. From City Ma
tiOnai Bank. Dallas, to Commercial
Bank, st. Louis.
ID. H., 30 T. &. z. II. Z.
This billing was correct in form, and
the bag was accordingly delivered to the
st. Louis conSignees. Yesterday an off
Ger of the Commercial Bank reported tc
superintendent Fuller that the S15, O0(
In gold was only part of a remittance
from the City National Bank, and that
the receipt issued from the express office
at Dallas was for two packages, one OF
$4,000 gold, and the other SO. 900 cur.
rency. 1t was thought strange that
only part of the remittance had arrived,
and the Commercial Bank made its re.
port of the S35, 600 shortage accordingly.
On receiving this decidedly alarming
Intelligence, Superintendent Fuller i'm
mediately telegraphed to Assistant
Superintendent James Aiken at Dallas
informing him of the big shortage and
ordering an Immediate investigation
and reply. Mr.. Fuller's worst fears OF
another heavy robbery of the Pacific com
pany were confirmed by the answers re-
ceived to his telegrams. He was mott
fled by Assistant Superintendent Aiken
that no trace of the missing $50, ,000
package could be found. and that the
money clerk of the Dallas office, a
young man named T. A. Walton. had
been missing since Sunday night. OF
course Waltons flight had caused i'm
mediate suspicion that he was an alb
scOnder with funds entrusted to the
company. and an investigation of the
books and accounts of the Dallas
office had been begun at once, but until
the news of the missing St. Louis pack
age was wired from this city it had been
impossible to find that Walton had
stolen any thing. Upon receipt of Su-
perintendent Fuller's message, however,
investigation into that one transaction
rerealed the fact that the missing
mOney-clerk was heavy defaulter. He
had undoubtedly made away with the
S35, 900 package, but had so managed the
record on the company's books that he
had time to make his escape by q good
long start before suspicion was excited.
1t was done in this way. On the day
that the $4,000 bag of gold was for
warded to the st. Louis office for Ge-
3ivery to the Commercial Bank, Walton
made out the way-bills for the two
packages received from the City Ma
tional Bank, containing in all $4,000,
and took the impression of those way
bills in the company's letter-book. He
then destroyed those bills. and made
ont others for the one bag of sold, which
ne duly forwarded to st. Louis. Thus
: Tbs records of the Dallas office showed
tiaat $4,000 had been shipped to st.
Louis instead of $4,000, and Money
Clerk Walton rightly calculated that
before the discrepancy could be discov-
cred he would be beyond arrest.
As soon as these facts were developed
Assistant Superintendent Aiken wired
Superintendent Fuller:
Walton has doubtless stolen the S35 GOO
billed to Commercial Bank. Was with Amer
lean Express Company, Iona, Mich, five
years. From ells-FargO to us. Father
lives in ST. Joe, Mo. Have traced him to In
dian Territory. Detective on his trail. Gar
rison to st. Louis o-night.
This telegram was received by Super
1ntendent Fuller yesterday afternoon,
and that official Immediately wired to
all points likely to be passed by the
fugitive fell description of him with
which ne had been furnished from
Dallas. with instructions for his arrest.
The following hue and cry" circular
was also struck off. and is now on its
way broadcast TO every quarter of the
country:
TIE TACTIC EMPRESS CO,
SUrEgiSTENDEST'S OFFICE,
ST. LOUIS, Mo, Feb. 3, 1890.
ABSCONDED.
f. A. Walton. clerk in the Pacific Express
office ut Dallas. Tex; left that place sun
day evening. February =; was last seen on
the NJ, X. & T. II. r. going north.
DESCRIPTION.
Good-looking, smooth red face, hair dark.
cut short behind weight, 137 pounds; height
feet ). medium build; round scar on back
of head, just above hair line; new scar above
left eye; deaf in right ear. Wore Derby hat
black clothes, sack coat, chinchtlla over
coat. Carried gold headed umbrella.
liberal reward will be paid for his arrest
Or any information that may lead to MS
capture /. \. FULLER, Superintendent.
Superintendent Fuller was seen las
night at the office of the Pacific Expres:
Company, and said: THE missing money
clerk, Walton, has not made away with
more than the $50, 900 contained in the
package addressed to the Commercial
Bank of this city, as the accounts have
now been thoroughly gone over and nt
other shortage discovered. | anticipate
speedy capture of the defaulter, as
YOU can see by the description of hi:
personal appearance that he can b'
easily identified. ! am not sure whethe
he will try to reach Canada or vii
make for the West and trust TO hidin:
himself there. The Guarantee Com
many of New York was on his bond to tn
express company for 3, 600. They hav
not vet been notified of his flight. Wal
ton had been working for the Paciti
Express Company since last October. ii
was first employed in the Office at JET
ferson. Tex, and went from that othc
to Dallas in November last. His poSi
tion was that of money clerk, in whlc
he had the handling of all money pacl
ages passing through that office. Ii
came TO our company from the Wells
Fargo company, having been employe
hv them in Old Mexico. Previous to tn;
no worked for the American ExpreS
Company at Ionia, Mich, for five year
He was about twenty-five years OF az
and unmarried. l learn from clerk
the Dallas office. Mr.. kerney, VINO
now here on furlough, and who boarde
at the same house with Walton. that h
.habita were good; he was not dlsslpa1e'