The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11
A BIG HAUL WAS MADE.
A Banks Package Containing
$4,000 Missing.

st. Louis, Feb. Gone of the biggest
sensations since the famous "Jim Cum.
mings" robbery of Express Messenger
FstheriDgham, on the 81. Louis & San
aEh5aa rsfS e s5sa sSsie!a ni between $4,000
psnyis cash was occasionsd yesterday when
l.. A. Fuller, superintendent of the Pacific
express COMPANY, was notified by the Com
mercial bank of this city, that a package
containing S35, 900 in greenbacks, con-
signed TO that bauk by the City National
bank, of Dallas, Tex. and for which the
Commercial bank held the receipt of the
Pacific express company, was missing.
On February l, the City National bank
of Dallas, RENTED to the Commercial Ma
tional bank, OF st. Louis, the sum OF $50.
600, of which sun SI5, 900 was gold in q
bag and SS5,0O0 ID bills, inclosed in
regular express package. The gold was
duly received two days ago and delivered
TO the bank.
The bank reported to Superintendent
Fuller that the gold was only part of the
remittance from the City National bank
aud that the bank held two receipts, one
for s. 5, 900 and one for S35 90. On re-
eeipt OF this decidedly alarming Informs
lion, Superintendent Fuller telegraphed
Assistant Superintendent Aiken at Dallas,
notifying him of the shortage and asEing
him TO investigate aud forward infoI ma
ton as soon as possible.
Mr.. Alken's reply that there was no
trace of the missing package there fully
confirmed Superintendent Fuller's fears,
and with il came the additionally astound-
ing information that the money clerk OF
the Dallas Office. a young man named +.
| A. Walton, had been missing since last
Sunday night. Wslton's flight led 10 the
belief at Dallas that he must be default
| ter, and an investigation was at once IN
stitnted, but without result, as the cash
| Of the Dallas office WAS fund Ia be Intact.
| when Assistant Superintendent Aiken re-
ceiysd Superintendent Fuller's message,
il opened up a new avenue Tor investIga-
| ticn and the cunning scheme OF wal
ton TO secure delay IN the discovery oil
bis shortage was unfolded. He had made
out two receipts, one for Si5,O 900 and one
for So, 900 on one bank. On the dupli-
cate forwarded to ST. Louis, however, no
mention was made CT the $4,000 and 1t
was not until the Commercial bank OF this
city. had notified the Dallas bank OF the
receipt of but $4,000 If the ST., 600 thai
there was the least suspicion OF anything
wrong.
After pursuing this line OF inquiry to
the end, Assistant Superintendent Aiken
telegraphed as follows to Superintendent
Fuller:
Walton, our money clerk, has taken the
$50, 900. He was with the American ex'
press company at Iowa, Mich for five
years.
"He came to US from the Wells-Fargc
company. His father resides at St. Joseph
Mo. We have traced him to the Indian
Territory and have a detective on his trail
Agent Garrison leaves Tor st. Louis to-
night.
Description of the sbscor ding money
clerk have been wired everywhere by
Superintendent Fuller, and tonight th'
following circular Vas sent out:
"Superjntendent's Office, the Pa ci6c Ex
press company, St. Louis, Mo-, Feb, .
iS9o.-F. A. Walton, clerk in the Paci6
express company's Office at Dallas, Tex,
left that city Sunday evening, Feb. 2, ant
was last seen on a Missouri, Kansas ant
Texas train going north.
DESCRIPTION
| "GoOd- LOOKING; smooth Ieu lace, nai
dark; weight, l37 pounds; hight, FIVE fee
FIVE inches; medium build; round scar or
. back of head; deaf in right ear; dsri
clothes; derby hat.
Last night Superintendent Fuller sai'
|. that Walton was always considered
: young man of good habits. The Gusrante
5 company of New York, is on his bond TO
: $1,000. Walton has been with the com
psny since last October. He was first EN-
plsyed in the Office at Jefferson. Tex, an
from there went to Dallas in Novembe
last. He is % years of age and unmarried
A Mr.. Kearney, clerk at the Dalla!
!. Office, who is now in st. Louis, says Wa
% toms habits were Of the best. he is not
drinking man, nor did he gamble. Their
was some sort of story about Walto
J. having shot and killed woman in Oh
Mexico, hut beyond this his record WI
. supposed to be unblemishsd.
J. Detectives are securing the country
: every direction, and late tonight Superb
tenlent Fuller said he expected to hear ;