The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-07-05
CHICAGO BANK ROBBER
CAUGHT AT GLENDIVE
Young Finn Arrested in Dawson
County Has Small Fortune
in Bank Bills.

clothes and a 17-year-old girl whom
he is said to have abducted, On his arm
a young man who gives his name as
Alexander Palmer, was arrested by
the sheriff at Glendive Tuesday after
noon upon the request of the sheriff
of Dickinson, North Dakota, where the
young nan was wanted on a charge
Of abduction. The young girls par
ents live near Hebron, North Dakota.
After the arrest in searching the
prisoner the sheriff found on his
person $31 900 in cash consisting of
thirty-one $1,000 bills. In addition
to this large sum of money Palmer
had a check for $4,000 given him by a
department store at Dickinson and a
few dollars in change.
The county attorney after having
talked with the girl who was with
the young man, filed a complaint
charging the young man with rape.
His bail was fixed at $4,000, which
he has been unable to furnish and
in default of bail is held by the sheriff
at the county Jail.
Palmer offered to put up cash bail
out of the money in his possession, but
the court refused to accept this
money as bail, owing to the fact that
the authorities have information to
the effect that the money does not be-
long to the young man.
In explaining his possession of the
large su moi money he first stated
that it was given to him by his
father four years ago, that at the
time his father went back to Finland
and before leaving he had given him
$4,000 in cash in bills in the
denomination of $1,000. He said that
he has retained these same bills in
his possession ever since, excepting
what he has used and spent.
Had $4,000 Bill.
He gave the names of different
banks and persons with whom he has
had the money for safe keeping dur
ing that time. The parties he men,
toned have been communicated with
and one of them have ever had
any of his money for safe keeping.
One party to whom he referred as
having had his money stated that he
had met the young man and had a
half hours o yersation with him at
one time, but had never seer any of
his money or knew nothing of him.
The $4,000 check Palmer received
from a department store at Dickinson
as change. In making a purchase he
used a $4,000 bill. The girl who was
with him is a daughter of a we'll to do
and prominent farmer near Hebron,
How He Met the Girl.
Palmer first got acquainted with
the girl last spring when he was
driving through from Harvey to Bill
lings, Mont. His car broke down
Hebron and he stopped at the
farm house of the Waltz family and
then made the acquaintance of the
daughter. He appears to have made
a good impression on these people
and remained for three weeks as
their guest. Last Saturday after
he took the girl away with him
without the knowledge and consent
of the parents and drove through
Dickinson and reached Sentinel
Butte, where they stopped over night.
They, then drove on to Glendive and
got in here on Sunday afternoon.
They remained in town until Tues
day: when Palmer vas arrested, the
girls parents having filed a com
at Dickinson, charging Palmer
with the abduction of their daughter.
He claims to be 81 years old and is
about 5 feet 10 inches, is a very
neat dresser and drove a Paige car.
Later Palmer confessed that his
right name was Anton Galatoris and
that he was one of the two bank clerks
wanted in Chicago. The two missing
have been sought on a charge
of embezzlement of more than $40, 900
from the State Bank of Chicago.