Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-24
BELIEVE MAN HELD
is BANKER WALKER
Traced By West Point. Ga, Ho.
tel Man, Who
RECOGNIZED HIS PHOTOGRAPH
He Travelled With Woman Who Has
Now Admitted She Is Not His Wife.
Man Is About Sixty Years of Age.
Woman About 20 Years Old.

West Point, Ga, February %
William f. Walker, the absconding
treasurer Of the Savings Bank of New
Britain, Conn, who succeeded in lift.
,ing over half a million dollars in
money and negotiable securities from
the bank and from Baptist organiza-
tions of which he was treasurer with
out bond, is believed to be the man
who was arrested in Opelika, Ala,
Friday with woman forty years his
junior, who admits that she is not
the wife of her travelling companion
and that she halls from New Britain,
Conn.
The capture of the pair was the
result of some shrewd thinking and
quick action on the part of Harry
Buckley, proprietor of the White
House, of this place, and if he has
caught the right fish he will be just
$4,000 to the good, as that amount
has been offered for the capture of
the truant banker, while the sum of
$1,000 was offered for his carcass
should he not be taken alive.
Among the arrivals from Atlanta
Wednesday night was a man of about
sixty years, accompanied by a young
woman of perhaps twenty or a little
beyond.
They went to the White House,
where they reg.-tered as "W. Harper
and Wife, Boston" The couple spent
Thursday in West Point, but seemed
to have no particular business here
and showed little inclination to be-
come acquainted with the town or it's
people, having their meals sent to
their room. De pite his reticence the
man was careless enough to state be-
fore he left on the 9 o'clock west
bound train Friday morning that he
intended to stop at Opelika This
chance remark proved his undoing.
The very train on which the couple
left brought circular from the Pin
kertons addressed to the local police
officials and asking for the arrest of
Walker. 1t was shown to Host Buick
ley and he instantly saw a striking
resemblance to his late guest Buck
ley took the next train for Opelika,
where he found Harper and Wife,
Of Boston," and had the man put
under arrest He is being held for
further Instructions from New Brit,
ain.
The woman admitted that she is
not the wife of her travelling compan-
ion and also stated that she is from
New Britain, Conn. Further than this
she would say nothing.
AS to where they had been before
coming to West Point nothing is
known beyond the fact that they ar
rived on the train from Atlanta Until
the arrival Of the circular only slight
interest was taken in the doings of
the pair and since tina time it has
not been possible to learn just where
they boarded the Atlanta and West
Point train
However, from the fact that they
spent two days here and then left
for Opelika, its is believed that the
couple have been travelling by short
stages, stopping only in the smaller
cities, hoping by this method if not to
outrun pursuit to just as effectually
escape it by letting pursuit run by
them and thus overlook them.
Mr.. Buckley saw the resemblance
the moment he looked at the circular
and is confident that he has the right
man. His friends are already con,
g,atulating him ON his good work in
landing such a fat reward.