Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-06
MEMBER OF F. f. Y.
| TAKEN AS SWINDLER
Thought Himself Lost and Safe
In Texas While Practic-
ing Law,

PHOENIX, March 5.-The political
career of D. l.. Walker of Wellington,
Texas, and for some time resident OF
Phoenix and the surrounding country
has been interrupted Sheriff Hayden
left last night for Wellington to bring
Walker back to answer to the charge
of selling mortgaged property. On his
return il is likely that charge of big
There might be many charges OF OBJ
tanning property by false pretenses,
for his victims in this vicinity are
numerous.
Walker appeared in Phoenix about a
year ago and at once assumed posi-
ton of Importance. He represented
himself as a member of theNF. F.
VS. and he said that his father was
General Walker of Virginia who had
distinguished himself on the eonfed-
crate side in the civil war. He also
held out that he was a person of great
wealth, though embarrassed frequently
by a want of ready money. However,
he had no trouble in securing as much
as he needed.
| He was a soldier himself he said and
he proved it by a conspicuous scar on
the forehead which he said he had in
Cured while freeing Cuba. Walker
was notably a born horse trader as
many of his victims painfully recall.
Along in the early summer he came
into possession of a span of mules
on which he subsequently gave mort
gage to Goldman & Co. for $500 With
| in a very few days he sold the mules
to A. F. Spencer at price which Mr..
| Spencer was unable to resist. 1t was
some time after that Goldman & Co
| became curious about the mules and
making inquiry, learned that Walker
| had left the country. A little later the
| mules were found in the possession OF
Mr.. Spencer. Immediately thereafter
various other crooked acts of Walker
were brought TO light. But the mean
| est thing he had done was to marry
| Miss Callie Philips, a daughter of }
E. Phillips of Glendale.
These discoveries were made last
September and September IL a war
rant was Issued out Of Justice John
| stones court for his arrest. 1t was
supposed that Walker had gone to the
coast. In fact it was known that he
han gone in that direction. But Sher
| if Hayden having learned that Wal
ker had formerly resided in Texas sur
missed that he might work back to that
state.
I. Following a practice which he had
inaugurated from the beginning and
which had been very successful, the
sheriff PROCEEDED to flood the state Of
Texas with posters descriptive of Wal
ker. The description was aided by a
very good photograph of him.
| The advertisement was at once pro
| ductive of results though it did not
| at first throw any light en- his where
abouts. 1t was brought out that Wal
ker was born in Alabama in 1863; thai
he was raised in CoryeIl county, Tex.
near Copperas Cove; that he lived lat
er in Bell, Mccullough, Lampasas
Kimble and Howard counties; that or
June 30, 1894 he was sentenced to five
and six years cumulative sentences in
the Texas state penitentiary for horse
stealing from Kaufman and Ellis coun
| ties: that his convict number was
11e6S and that he served little more
/ than six years.
| Another fact in his career connect
| ing him with Arizona was discovered
Soon after his release from the peni
Tertiary he married a Miss Mckinney
at Big Springs, Texas, without having
been divorced from wife who wal
then living. The bigamy wa discov
cred and Walker fled to Arizona. He
was arrested at ella Bend in 1904 b,
Rangers Wheeler and Peterson anC
was taken back to Texas, but for some
reason the case was not prosecuted o.
he was acquitted.
Early this month. Sheriff Hayder
Learned from the authorities of Bel
county, Texas, that Walker was a
Wellington in the Panhandle -engaget
in the practice of law in the firm o
/ Powell & Walker. The Bell count!
authorities had not the slightest doub
of his identity which was the NOR
easy by reason OF another scar which
Walker has secured on the top of tn
head here in the course of runawa.
near Tempe not long before his fligh
from the country.
On receipt OF the information from
Bell county. Sheriff Hayden took tn
matter up with Sheriff Singley Of Well
ington and everything was ready L
take the lawyer into custody on in
structions from Maricopa county Jus
before this Governor Kibbey had LET
the territory hnd the territorial
Tauthorities were not able to guaran
tee the expense of bringing Wake
within the territorial boundaries. L
the meantime the sheriffs Office a