The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-15
BANDIT KILLED
AFTER ROBBERY
Fights Police Reserves Three
Hours After Looting New
Orleans Fast Mail.

Chicago, May t4.-One OF the. most
daring train robberies in the middle
west in recent years ended this morn
ing in the death Of bandit who last
night looted mail car Of the Illinois
Central New Orleans limited Of cur
rency estimated to total about 100000
The money was recovered.
One policeman, shot by the bandit,
died later in a hospital and another
was wounded seriously. -
The bandit was identified as Horace
Walton, aged 50. OF st. Joseph, Mo.
He fell with four bullets in his body
after barricading himself in his apart
ment and fighting with more than one
hundred police, including several
picked rifle squads.
Walton boarded the train at Gilman,
a few miles from Kankakee. last night,
taking seat in a Pullman. A pouch
containing shipment Of st0o,0OO from
a Decatur bank was taken on the train
at Gilman. ~
Walton stepped into the mail car and
announced that he was the postal in
spector. He walked toward Elmer F.
Harris, chief clerk, and his four as
sistants, then. suddenly drew a pistol
and commanded ''hands up The
clerks obeyed Harris and three of the
clerks were ordered to lie on the floor.
James E. Burke, another clerk, was
forced to bind their hands behind
them. Walton then tied Burke's hands
and set about in leisurely fashion sort
ing the mail pouches.
Armed with the clerks key, he picked
out and rifled the bags which con-
tanned shipments of money, remarking
Its easy when you have inside infor-
nation" He took travelling bag from
one of the clerks and put the money
into it.
After filling the bag Walton kept up
a running fire of banter with the clerks
until the train reached Englewood
station, in South Chicago shortly be-
fore 1 a. m. There he leaped out.
Fifteen minutes later Patrolmen
William A. Roberts and John Ken
dricks met Walton. Their suspicious
were aroused by the bag he carried
and Roberts stepped forward to ques-
ton the man. Walton, with revolver
in his pocket, fired through his coat.
Roberts fell, shot in the head and side.
Walton leaped into the areaway of
an apartment building, while Ken
bricks dropped behind Roberts body
and openeti fire After an exchange of
shots the policeman dashed forward
and grappled with the man. Walton
dropped the bag and fled.
Police rifle squads, summoned by
neighbors, located the man in an apar'-
ment house half block away. They
surrounded the building and for more
than an hour poured hundreds Of bull
lets into Walton's apartment lie re-
turned the fire steadily using two guns,
then suddenly stopped. Detective Chief
Moody led the dash into the room.
Walton was found on the floor, dead,
with four bullets in his body.
A membership card issued by the
St. Joseph. Mo-, Y. M. C. A.. and a
letter addressed to Mrs. L. Y. Walton,
No. 523 n. Seventh-st. st. Joseph,
were found in his pockets.
Patrolman Roberts was rushed to a
hospital. where he died after a few
hours. He is survived by widow and
five children. Patrolman Thomas Ser
refer also was wounded. but probably
not fatally. Walton had lived in the
apartment where he was killed for sew
eral weeks. according to neighbors. A
postal inspectors badge, mail pouch
KEY and an Illinois Central time table
printed in pencil on card. were found
on the bod,