The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-14
CHICAGO POLICE
KILL BANDIT Who
HELD Up TRAIN
Former Mail Clerk Riddled
With Bullets After Two
Hour Fight-$100, 600 in
Currency Is Recovered.

CHICAGO. May i4--0ne 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 the mail car OF the Illinois
Central New Orleans limited Of currency
estimated to total about $4,000 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 30, OF st. Joseph. Mo-
He fell with four bullets in his body
after barrCadiug himself In his aparts
ment and fighting with more than 100
policemen, including several picked
squads
Walton boarded the train at Gilman.
a few miles from kankaRee. last night,
taking seat IN a Pullman. A pouch
containing a shipment of 100000 from
Decatur bank was taken on the train
at Gilman.
As the flyer pulled out OF Kankakee
Walton stepped into the mail car and
announced that he was the postal ipv
spcCtor. He walked toward Elmer r.
Harris, chief clerk, and his four assist
ants, then suddenly drew pistol and
commanded hands up" The clerks
obcyed Harris and three of the clerks
were ordered to lie on the floor. James
r. Burke. another clerk. was forced
to bind their hands behind them. Wall
ton then tied Burke's hands and set
about In leisurely fashion sorting the
mail pouches.
Armed with the clerks key he picked
out and rifled the bags which contained
shipments OF money remarking IT'S
easy when you have inside information
He took a travelling bag from one OF
the clerks and put the money into IL,
After filling the bag Walton kept up
a running fire OF banter with the clerks
until the train reached Englewood sta
ton. in South Chicago, shortly before
l am, There he leaped out
Fifteen minutes later Patrolmen VIM.
A. Roberts and John Hendricks met
Walton Their suspicious were aroused
by bag he carried and Roberts stepped
forward to question 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 Hendricks
dropped behind Roberts body and
opened fire, After an exchange Of shots
the policeman dashed forward and
prappled with the man. Walton dropped
the bag and fled,
Police rifle squads, summoned by
ncighbors. located the man in an apart
ment house half block away. They
surrounded the building and for more
than an hour poured hundreds of but
| lets into Walton's apartment He re-
| turned the fire steadily, using two guns.
| then suddenly stopped, Detective Chief
| Mooney led "A dash on the room. Wal
| ton was found on the floor, dead, with
| four bullets in his body
| A membership card issued by the St
| Joseph, Mo, Y. NJ G. A. and a let
ter addressed to Mrs. l., v. Walton. No.
| 5e3 North Seventh street, st. Joseph,
| were found in his pocket.
patsoinian Roberts was rusEGd to q
| hospital whore he died after few
| hours He Is survived by a widow and
| five children. Patrolman Thomas Serre-
ter also was wounded but probably not
| fatally
Walton had lived in the apartment
where he was killed for several weeks.
according to neighbors. A postal it-,
spector's badge. a mail pouch key and
an Illinois Central timetable, printed in
pencil on card. were found on the
body.