The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-12-28
FATHER IS READY TO FORGIVE
Sends Old Friend of His Son to Keno
sha to Bring Him Back to Pittsburg
and Boy Weeps for Joy When Told
He Has Been Forgiven by Father.

With an assurance that all would be
forgiven, and that the fatted calf
would be killed and ready to greet his
arrival in Williamsburg, Loyal R. Walk
er, the young Franklin and Marshall
graduate who gave himself up to the of
ficers here on last Sunday night after
making confession that he had forged
the name of his father to check in
Detroit, Mich, started back home this
afternoon and tomorrow he will be wei
coined by his father at the home city.
Walker went in company with P.
| Q Conner, an old friend of his father,
and himself who reached Kenosha from
Williamsburg this morning. When O'Con-
nor arrived he went at once to the po-
lice station and was prepared to make
good any financial shortage that could
be shown against young Walker, and
he evidently thought there were a lot
of charges to meet, as he had money
enough with him to start small bank.
He explained to the police that the
father Of Walker had been Frustrated
by the report that his son was in custo-
dy in Kenosha, and that it was impos-
sible for him to make the long trip to
Kenosha. O'Connor was promptly adj
vised that the only charges to be paid
in Kenosha to secure the release of
young Walker were a few cents that
had been spent in telegraphing his faith
er, and this O'Connor paid IN a hurry,
then with Assistant Chief Of Police
Newhouse hurried to the county jail.
The greeting between O'Connor and the
big, strappmg college athlete was a
pathetic one and the boy wept real
tears when. he was told that his father
was willing to forgive and forget the
shortcoming at Detroit, and give him
new start in life Walker, when told
that his father was i'll, was greatly af-
fected and asked that arrangements be
made so that he could return to Pitts
burg at once. He was informed that
he had brought the only charges against
him here and that his father had alb
solved him of any necessity of answer
ing to the courts for these charges.
Young Walker left the jail without an
overcoat, but when he left Kenosha he
was bundled up in big ulster which
had been purchased by O'Connor, and
he looked like q new man. The check
which Walker admits that he cashed in
Detroit has as yet not been presented
to the Pittsburg banks for payment and
the first thing that the father Of Walk
er knew OF, his sons trouble was when
he received the telegram that the boy
had given himself up to the Kenosha
officials. O'Connor declared that in
the past young Walker had borne an ex-
cellent reputation and that his only
trouble was his romantic attachment
for woman. He insisted that the
father Of the boy was ready to receive
him with open arms and that the young
man would be given a chance to take
a fresh start. Before O'Connor arrived
Walker had sent to his father a long
letter, telling all Of his troubles, and
this will reach the father before the
son arrives.
Young Walker was decidedly profuse
in his thanks to the sheriff and the
turnkey and he declared that he would
never spend another Christmas in Jail.