The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-03
KEEP $62O,OOO THIEF
IN CELL, is DEMAND
Connecticut Prosecutor Gets
Out Old Indictments Fol-
lowing Walker Parole.
NOW FACES REARREST
GOndOrf's Operations Recalled
Bankers Deny stolen Bonds
Ever Were Traced.

HARTFORD. Conn. Dec. ?.--As / result
Of the storm of indignation that sta
in this city to-day and swept through
the State when It became known that
William +. Walker. who stole s62O,OoO.
had been plroled after serving only
seven years Of his twenty year sentence
Hugh NJ. Alcorn, state Attorney Ton
Hartford county. who prosecuted Walker,
IL investigating evidence he holds to sup
port two indictments never served on
Walker.
He will either have Walker rearrested
for the next term of the Superior Court.
or will continue the cases on the docket
against the time the board OF parole
might make Walkers release uncon-
ditional. Presidents Of banks and In
surance companies, state officials and
other prominent citizens to-day pro-
tested to Mr.. Alcorn against permitting
Walker TO have mis- liberty.
Walker. who told Mr.. Alcorn within
an hour after being sentenced on July
%. 1905. I'll never leave that prison
except In "A pine box will oe taken
away for a rest tomorrow by his sister
and her husband. state Referee John 81.
Coats When they called at the prison
this noon the authorities had not pre-
IA red the prisoners necessary cioth'hs'
nor had they arranged for the intended
visit of an old friend Of the cinbezzler
Baptists Rejoicing.
The leading editorial in to-nights
Hartford Times, owned and edited by a
member Of the parole board. is a defence
in advance 81 Walkers release. ana
nuts 4, IN to Mr. Alprn To- push the two
pending indictments II he wishes The
Hartford Post Tonight denounces the
boards action and thinks grave IN
justice has been done.
The leading Baptists OF the state are
rejoicing. Though as their treasurer
Walker robbed them u $4,000, never
theless through the widespread adver-
tising OF their plight they have acquifeh
a bank balance OF $250,0oo.
Walker is the first seN-confesscd thief
ever par,ioned In Connecticut without
either making 4 clean breast OF his mis-
doings or at least inventing some
nlauslhle nctior He has never said "A
about his speculatons and he refused 70
helm Mr. Aicorn several years ago when
William r. Jerome, then District Al
torney in Sew York suggested mat
Charles ,ionyorf the elusive wire zap
per now in Sing Sing, might he sue
cessfully prosecuted in Connecticut II
Walker would help.
Though the board Of parole. whlch
does not work in open session Ike the
stat. BOARD of pardons. gave II out last
night thai Walkers release was nec.dod
by a unanimous vote one member OF the
board admitted to-day that ne did not
enter the meet NIX until aiter the vote
had been taken. though he hid not then
oppose the action Another member was
| III ~ home.
six weeks ago Walker was granted an
| unprscedentei privilege. Accompanied
! by a prison guard he WAS permitted to
no TO New Britsin and pray tew
minutes beside his wife's coffin
Disputed by Bankers.
His wife's brother. Andrew j. Sloper
OF the New Britain National Bank. said
! In reply to reports to-day that more
than has been published Vas known
about what Walker did with his stolen
| half million.
.E,yery dollar of those stolen bonds
has been traced" he said. "and II was
| impossible TO recover more than $4,000
because they were held through bona
t:de sales by innocent parties
| Officials Of the New Britain Savings
Bank which Walker. rs Its treasurer
! robbed for seventeen years, said today
they never knew oi the bonds having
been traced and when told what Mr.
Sloper said. Prosecutor Alcorn tonight
wanted to know why, II they had been
traced. the go-between had not been
prosecuted and various other mysteries
4 II. r..A Inn
Sing recently Gondorf refused TO ex-
plain anything to Mr.. Alcorn.
When Walker was seen AT the sprison
to-day ne said through the warden that
he did not want TO talk to reporters.
He did not seem to bee In failing health
though his hair and mustache have
| turned from gray 10 white