St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-06
The Pacific Express Com
pany's Clerk at Dallas
Steals a Fortune.
With $35, 900 in His Grip He
Skips Over to Greas-
erdom.
After Conviction a Pennsyl-
Vania Murderer ConfesseS
His Bloody Crime.
A Shocking Case Of Borgiaism
Stips Up Prince Edward
Islanders.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 5.-Oneof the biggest
sensations since the famous J. w.
Cummings robbery Of Express Messen-
ger rockingham on the St. Louis 81
San Francisco railroad, securing be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000 of the Pacific
Express company's cash, was &C.
caSioned to-day when l.. A.
Fuller, superintendent of the Pa
cific Express company, was notified
by the commercial bank of this city.
that package containing 5000 in
greenbacks, consigned TO that bank 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 Feb. the
City National Bank OF Dallas RENTED
to the Commercial Bank of St. Louis
the sum of $4,000. of which $4,000 in
gold was contained in canvas bay, and
$4,000 IN bills was enclosed in a
regular express package. The
gold was duly received, two days
ago, and delivered to the bank, The
bank reported to Supt. Fuller that the
gold was only part of the remittance
from the City National bank, and that
the bank held
one for $50, 600 and one for $1,000. On
receipt of this alarming information
Supt. Fuller at once telegraphed As
slStant Supt. Aiken, at Dallas, notify
ing him of the shortage, and asking him
TO Investigate and forward Informal
ton as soon as possible. Mr.. Aiken
replied that there was no trace
of the missing package there.
This fully confirmed Supt. FulIer's
fears, and with it came the additionally
astounding information that the money
clerk of the Dallas Office. young man
named L. A. Walton, had been missing
since last Sunday night. Walton's flight
led to the belief at Dallas that he must
be defaulter and an investigation was
at once instituted but without result, as
the cash of the Dallas Office was found
to be Intact. When Assistant Superin-
tendent Aiken received Supt. Fuller'S
message. however, it opened up a new
avenue for investigation and the cunning
scheme of Walton to secure delay in the
discovery OF the shortage was unfolded.
lie had made out two receipts which
were on file in the Dallas Office-one for
$4,000 and one for So, 0O0-on one
blank. On the duplicate forwarded to
81. Louis, however, no mention was
made OF the $1,000, and it was not until
the Commercial bank of this city had
notified the Dallas bank of the receipt
of but $4,000 of the $4,000 that there
was the least suspicion of anything
WRONG. After pursuing this line of in
curry to the end, Assistant Superinten-
dent Aiken telegraphed as follows to
Superintendent Fuller:
walton, our money clerk, has takea the
$4,000 BE was with the American Ex-
press company at Ionia, Mich, FIVE years.
He came TO US from Wells Fargo & Co His
father resides at st. Joseph, Mo. Have
traced him to the Indian territory and have
detective on his track. Agent Garrison leaves
for st. Louis tonight
Descriptions of the absconding money
clerk have been wired everywhere by
SuDt. Fuller, and tonight the following
nue. and cry circular was sent out:
The Pacific Express Company, Superin
tendents Office, 81. Louis. Mo. Feb s. iSgO.
-Absconded. f. A. Walton. clerk III the Pa
CHIC Express company's office at Dallas,
lex, left that city Sunday evening, Feb. 2,
and was last seen on a Missouri, Kansas q
Texas train going north.I Description: Good
looking; smooth. red face; hair dark;
weight l37 pounds: height. five feet FIVE
inches; medium build; round scar on back
of head: deaf in right ear; dark clothes,
Derby hat.
tonight Supt. Fuller said that Wal
ton was always considered a young man
of good habits. The Gu rantee COM
pany, Of New York, is on his bond for
$4,000. Walton had been with the com
pany since last October. He was at
first employed in the ce at jefferson,
Tex, and from there went to Dallas i'm
November last He is twenty-five years
OF age and unmarried. A Mr.. Kerney,
clerk in the Dallas office,
who is now in st. Louis, says
Walton'S habits were of the best. He
was not a drinking man. nor did he
gamble. There was some sort of story
about Walton having shot ami killed a
man in old Mexico, but beyond this his
record was supposed to be unblemished.
Detectives are securing the country in
every direction. and late tonight Supt.
Fuller said he expected to hear Of Wal
toms capture at any moment.