Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-07
FRED WALTON.
He and Georgia Carlin, the Amateur
Female Detective, at Montreal.
He Takes the Witness Stand and Gives BIS
FIperieuce-The Woman to Testify
To-Day-A Big Sensation.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
MONTREAL, ONT, May 6.-Fred Walton, the
young man who stole SIS, 900 from the Dallas.
Tex. office of the Pacific express company. and
afterward returned all he had, less $500 which
was taken from him by two gamblers,
named Laird and Bradley, and two women
named Ashton and Leslie, in a broth
ell ran by Ashton, arrived in
Montreal to-day and began action by giving
testimony discriminating the gamblers and the
women He was entirely self possessed and
account of how he was "done ior'' in Montreal
He had SIS, 600 when he arrived here, he said
and after spending three days in hotel reading
novels and drinking whisky asked a hotel
porter to bring him a woman, which the
porter obligingly did. Half an hour after the
woman arrived at the hotel the proprietor turned
her Sll5 ''for fun" He said the woman was
Nellie Leslie. She invited him to go to Ash
the invitation taking his valise full Of packages
OF s. $40, So $50 and Sl00 bills with him. He
then testified: 81 went to Nellie's room
between and 10 o. clock in the evening and STAYED
there all that night and the second night. had
good deal OF whisky and woke at neon the next
day with headache. then told Nellie that I
friend named Jack Harris W no would help me to
get away, TO whom she introduced me. 1t was
Lalrd.. Brady then came in and advised
me to leave. as the officers were after Mr.. Laird
and Ashton suggested that should go to Laird's
house, and it was then arranged to leave for the
West Indies. / don't remember how much
money spent in Ashton's was under the in
fuence of liquor until Thursday. left again on
Monday night in company with Nellie, Laird and
Brady and drove to Lairdis room. L don't
know where il was. Nellie STAYED all the time
with me in LSird's room. ! first opened nv
valise on that evening ID Nellie's room. did
not relock it. ! stayed in Laird's room until
Tuesday night. opened my valise ct Laird's
was given the bed and Brady and Laird slept
on the floor. Brady and Laid were whispering
to one another while they were
lying on the floor. About O'Clock Brady left
and Laird came to bed. Brady went out and got
some medicine which he said would be good for
mad at that and told me that unless
acted better he would not help me to escape.
/ took the medicine that night two or three
timesi it made me kind OF drowsy. Brady told
me that there q great many detectives in Mon
treal. and that they were all pretty smart men.
Tnsy ,o,d asked sSsa, t me where was Eoing
Indies. Laird proposed going to st. John, N.
B, and Brady thought that he would 90 too.
They did not make any demand upon me until
given her sii5 at the hotel. She took
the;money out OF my stocking to pay for wine.
Brady said next day that there were wine bottles
all over the house. This was at Ashton 3. Laird
bought tickets in the afternoon with money
had given him, l asked Brady IL he were q
gambler, and gave him $50 or $50 to gamble
with. 1 also gave Laird money to buy victuals
with and for gambling purposes.
walton s evidence produced CONSERVATION
and when il is continued tomorrow it is expect
ed he will have more startling revelations to
make. George CRrlin, the woman to whom
Walton gave ST. 90 in Dallas, and who came
here and secured Confessions from the inmates
Of Ashton's house, Will follow Walton on the
stand, and her testimony and remarkable de-
teetive work in the case will create big sensa-
ton,