The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-11-08
POST OFFICE ROBBER
TELLS OF THE CRIME
u. ]. WALL TELLS JURY ABOUT
ROBBERY OF THE POSTOFFICE
AT CLIFFORD

Calmly, quietly, in low voice but
with an air that is convincing that he
is telling the truth, J. j. Wall sat in
the witness chair in the federal court
this afternoon and told the jury in
the case against Jack Dalton and Dan
Cline how the postOffice at Clifford
was robbed on the night of September
4, and how the money was divided.
He told of his part in the crime and
the amount he got out of it, in two
payments, $46 in cash, and s135 when
he had sold the stolen Liberty bonds
for $4O5. This sum was cut into three
equal parts and the witness "got his"
Wall is serving a sentence of one
year in the penitentiary at Boise for
his part in the crime. He hired the
taXlcab to take the party from Lew
iston to Clifford, helped the driver put
a cardboard bearing the words Tic
ence applied for" over the license
plate, and paid the taxicab driver S25
for the trip and sold the bonds to a
Lewiston bond broker.
Wall is a married man, having a
wife and two children who are in
school. He about so years old, looks
like an honest laborer, is turning gray
and has nothing of the appearance of |
criminal ABOUT MIN.
He told of hiring the taxicab and |
picking up Jack Dalton, or '1rish" on |
Main street near the flour mill, and |
finding Cline on the road near Lew
iston orchards; of driving to within
mile of Clifford and stopping an hour
for the moon to go down; of driving
through the town and turning and
coming back, stopping in the shadow
of a building and letting Dalton and
Cline out of the taxicab then driving
on through the town and stopped at
point near the school house for an
hour, when they were joined by Dali
ton and Cline, who had a tin box
They drove to Lewiston and stop
ped at Wallis home. They went into
the kitchen. 1t was just getting day
light. The taxicab driver went on
down town. Cline and Dalton pro- J
duced the tin box which was locked
and they broke it open and found
$3.50 in Liberty bonds, four of $100
each and one of $50; diamond ring, :
a gold nugget, lot of war savings
stamps with a name written across {
them, and a lot of insurance policies.
Wall lighted a fire in the kitchen I
stove as it was nearing the time when
his wife got up to prepare breakfast
for the children who go to school, He
said she usually arose at 6 O'Clock.
Cline suggested they must destroy the
war savings stamps which were In
book form with a name written on
them as they would be damaging evil
dence, If found. They we're burned in
the cook stove. Dalton suggested
they had better burn the insurance :,
policies as we'll and this was done.
Yo1J oh, Il Sc,
share and was given $25 to pay the
taxicab driver, whose name was Low
cry. Dalton and Cline took the dia-
mond ring, the gold nugget and the U
bonds. O.
A few days later Wall met Dalton tt
in pool room and went with him to n
the rooming house where he and lie
Cline were staying. He was given the ct
bonds and asked to sell them for Il
$405 He did so and within three p'
hours afterward was arrested That tc
night he told where he had got the
bonds and led the officers to the rooms til
where Dalton and Cline we're arrested. bs
Wall pleaded guilty in the district &c
court at Lewiston to charge of bur-
slary. and got one to five years at lyf
Boise. He is now serving the SEN pl
ence and was brought here as a wit m
less. against the other two men, who ps
lave been held in the Lewiston jail to
since their arrest last September but sc
we're brought here for trial yesterday sc
afternoon. or
Shattuck Acquitted. tn
1t took the jury very few minutes TT
O return verdict of not guilty in
he case of George Shattuck, charged ri
With introducing liquor on an Indian w
in the federal court. tn
,hattuck had been held to the court to
" the grand jury but the trial jury tn
urned him loose. wi
The trial of Cline and Dalton is ru
till in progress as The Star-Mirror sit
oes to press. VIZ
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