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ARREST TICKET
OFFICE Thief
Daring Robber is Captured By
| Boston Police.
|hElO UP EIGHT PERSONS

When Hs % Thwarted He Runs and
Is Found In Barber Chair After a
Chase.
Boston, Jan. 16.-Following the bold
oot daylight hold-up in the history OF
Hoston when one man, armed with
fsvolver. stood up persons in the Bos-
ton & Albany railroad city ticket office.
To the heart of Washington street, the
lone bandit was captured after short
chase.
From a diary found on his person,
the police declare they have cleared
up the series of railroad office hold
ups perpetrated in New York, Philadel.
phia, RuIalo, Pittsburgh and other
large cities recently.
The man in custody gives the name
|bf William ]. Clayton and an entry in
his diary indicates that he came FROM
Thorne, Nevada. His age is twenty
two years, and he stands six feet three
Inches in his stocking md weighs
IT'S pounds.
Clayton entered the city ticket office
iof the BostGs.& albany road at time
when Washinee Oh street was crowded
With Thousand c: business men and
5shoppers, hasteni-.s homeward. The
mice is locateu II. he busiest section
|sof the city There ere eight persons
"a the Office at tns ne. including c.
II Connolly. city ~ senger agent for
The road. and George T!tcomb. city
h passenger agent for the Canadian Pa
ciflc railroad, WHO was making a bust
ness call
There was nothing in the appearance
Of Clayton to arouse suspicion of the
runs lengthwise of the office. Clayton
approached the counter near the cas-
Ier's desk as II i-nont 10 transact SON
business.
AS he reached th-- r:.il he whipped
out revolver, moved it threateningl
at the startled group and shouted
IssHands up!" Sixteen hands, including
those of pretty Frances Peeley, the
railroad Office stercgra pier, shot into
|sthe air simultaneously
Then the bandit, at the point of his
ENeapon, herded the officials and the
.cderks at the rear o. the Office, driving
/ the cashier out of his cage also. Clay
Ton, with one hand h,l3irz the revol
ENnr covering the Trembling group
sxasped the counter too and threw one
& |sRsup over with the evident intention
Noting the cash drawer In the cash
cage.
HI Ecnaolsy, the agent. -hasad had edged edged
~ to rear door that the robber
ID "a overlooked. AS Clayton began to
kmb over, Connolly ducked a-i dodg-
"a outside too quickly for Clarion to
Hhoot. Miss Peeley risked hcr lie tc
follow.
i The bandit hesitated and theu cried
with an oath you've got iue now!"
He scrambled down and rushed for the
door into Washington street, ti1nst;ng
his pistol into his pocket as he ran.
When the bandit reached a ha. her
shop located in newspaper row base
ment he lodged in there, quickly dot
fed his hat and seated himself j.. 8
chair. When the pursuers, now loiaed
by detail of police, entered, Clayton
was being lathered for shave.
Clayton was hurried to police head
quarters, where search brought to|
light, besides two revolvers. a large
sum of money and diary which the
police look upon as of highest value.
In this were entries showing that Clay
ton on Dec. % last held up and rohhed
the Grand Trunk ticket Office in But
falo. getting 1925, and that OF, Jan. /
he held up the Erie Office in New York,
getting $3.50. Two entries referred ,G
hold-ups in Pennsylvania, one oi. Jan.
10, when he robbed ticket Office IL
Erie. Pa, getting $500, and then -
ferring to the hold-up of the / :n's b
Valley Office in Philadelphia, wher 4l5'
was his booty. Another entry si'o1au
that on Jan. II Clayton held W. he
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh oficc
in Pittsburgh getting S54