New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
ALCORN OPPOSED TO
 RELEASE OF WALKER
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 render to the United States and Con- necticut authorities. He had the as- sistance of the ablest lawyers avail able, one of them, Ramariez, being employed so the lawyer himself says, at the solicitation of Walkers broth er-in-law in New Britain. AS part of his efforts to defeat extradition Walker wrote the governor of Mex ico that he and some Los Angeles cap italists were greatly interested in de- veloping the mineral and industrial resources of the country and that, if extradition was refused, he would make complete restitution within a short time.
 The impression prevails among a few people that Walkers embezzle- ment from the Savings Bank of New Britain was a single transaction This is not true. Gondorf, himself,-who does not talk freely, by any means,- says that Walker brought three or four lots of the banks securities to his place to have them negotiated on as many different trips which Walker made to New York prior to his flight.
 Knew What He Was Doing.
 The impression also obtains in some
 ouarters, entirely I think among those
 who are actively interested in his re- lease. that Walker was decoyed to
 New York and there drugged, and for that reason he does not know what
 took place on the day of his disap
 pearance, nor until he found himself at Goldfield, Neb This impression is fatlv contradicted by two letters which I have in my possession, writ ten by Walker, himself, after he
 reached New York on his way to Mex
 ico; one a four-page letter to MT.
 Philip Corbin of New Britain, and the
 other a three-page letter to Rev. F.
 H. Devine of Hartford. Both letters
 are we'll written and are unmlstak-
 ably the product of clear mlnd. Tn
 the letter to MT. Corbin, Walker ven- lures the suggestion that his embez- clement be kept secret because II would certainly result in a disastrous run that would be great injury to the bank" and that "a whisper of such a loss would be disastrous, and if the employees and directors, who must know, could be induced to maintain silence, I am sure it would be vastly better for the bank" and again. Il am writing this letter and leaving ii where it will be mailed in case any thing happens to me-" The letter was mailed in New York, presumably by Walker himself, and his clohins was shipped to New Britain to give color to the claim made at that time that he had probably committed sul- eide, all a part of the general scheme to cover his flight to Mexico. In the letter to MT. Devine, after confessing his crime, he said, My interests are ! in the hands of friend who will do all that can be done, and I hope that ultimately all losses will be retrieved. Walker Has Not Aided State. So far as my information goes Walker has exhibited little, if any l contrition; on the contrary he has | maintained from the outset the same
 sullen indifference which he showed l at the time of his arrest. He has not
 assisted the state in it's efforts to ap-
 prehend and punish his confederates 1 but by his silence he has effectively protected them. The reason he give: 1 for silence is that he has nothing tc | tell His letters. would indicate thai | there is much he can tell. In the l first place he can tell the names of the l men with whom he dealt during the years covered by his stealings; he can l tell the name of the "friend' in whose l hands his interests were placed at the l time of his contemplated flight; he ] can tell who the Los Angeles capital l ists are with whom he claimed to be | associated in developing the mineral | and industrial resources of Mexico; he 1 can tell what those interests are; what l they may reasonably be worth today, 1 and to what extent they represent the embedded funds. When asked in l Mexico to disclose the names of his associates in crime, he named only
 "Whitney' and "McDonald" (Con- dof's alias), saying that "the others he understood, were out of the coun-
 try" From whom and how did he
 understand this? Who are the others
 and to what country did they flee? 1 Walker, a trusted member of the 1 community in which he lived, posing 1 as a deeply religious man, was steal 1 ing from corporations and individuals 1 for years, and succeeded in convert 1 ing to his own use over $600,000 of ! the money of those who trusted him. 1 His multiplicity of crimes, his flight, l his conduct in resisting extradition re- | sulting in an expense to the state of | many thousands of dollars, his un- | broken silence when he ought to 1 speak, and his entire lack of contri- 1 tion, present, in combination, a con-
 elusive reason why he should not be
 paroled.
 | I am fully aware that Walker was formerly prominent in the business ! and social world, that he still has in
 fluential friends, and that a de- termined effort is being made to se-
 cure his release, but as the judge who
 sentenced him says, He should be
 treated like every other criminal, no