The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-05-21
BANDIT CAREER IS ENDED
BOLD HIGHWAYMAN SHOT
BY WINDY CITY POLICE
BULLET PUT IN CARCASS
Daring Robbery of Mail Coaches
On Train Bound For
Chicago
FROM Fridays Daily.

peo an Illinois Central railroad mai
car gar OF currency estimated to tota
The train arrived at the sixty-t third
street. station about one o'clock, three
nours late, and the train robber left
the mail car there. A few blocks
away two policemen accosted him and
ne snot one through the head.
Held Up Mail Clerk.
, According to reports received by
tne police, the robber boarded a pas
senger car on the train at Gilman
ABOUT nifty miles south of Chicago
ana worked his way forward for the
mail car where he compelled one OF
the five mail clerks to tie the hands
and feet OF the others.
The shooting of the policeman at
Tacted a squad of patrolmen who
cornered the robber in an apartment
pudding not far away. A rifle squad
was summoned and after two hours
or sniplng by both sides. the robber
-, According to ]. P. Walker, one OF
the mail clerks, the robber walked
directly to the mail sack containing
the currency, saying:
Was On Inside.
,,,; Inns stun is easy when you have
inside information"
In few minutes he had packed the
currency into a satchel and for the
next hour sat guarding the mail
clerks.
During the exchange of shots which
1oiiowed the attempts of the two
policemen to search the robber. he
dropped the satchel containing the
money taken from the mail pouches
AT the Hyde Park police station il
was found TO contain packages OF
currency. containing 100000 besides
many other packages of bills of larg-
er denomination.
Chief clerk Elmer = IIarr;e 49, .
mail coach loosened his bonds and
pulled the cord stopping the train
soon after the robber had DEPARTED
but while the alarm was being spread
TO south side police stations, Police
man William 4. Roberts, the wound
ed officer, and another policeman. had
found the bandit and recovered the
stolen currency.
Chased The Bandit.
The unwounded policeman, who
was knocked over when his com
Panlon fell mortally wounded, chased
nearby, wounding him once and re-
covering the money, and from there
into another building where the rob
per Is said to have been living. Dur
ing tns ssise The robber was shot
through the body. According to the
ponce, ne is Horace Walton, thought
to be from ST. Joseph, Missouri.
Robbery OF History.
chicago, May 14.-One of the most
daring train robberies that has taken
place IN recent years in the middle
west ended this morning in the death
of lone bandit who last night loot
ed the Illinois central New Orleans
limited and the recovery of currency
estimated to total nearly s1OO 600
one policeman, shot by the bandit, is
lying ana another is seriously
The bandit was identified as Hor-
are Walton, aged twenty-five of St
Joseph, Missouri. Walton fell with
1our bullets in his body after bar
ricading himself in his apartment and
lighting pitched battle with more
several picked rife squads.
Walton boarded the train at Gill
man, a few. miles from Kankakee
last night, taking seat in pullman
, A Decatur pouch containing register
ed mail was taken on the train at
Gilman.
Posed As INSPECTOR.
AS the flyer pulled out of Kanka-
kee. Walton stepped into the mail
car and announced that he was the
postal inspector. He walked toward
Elemer F. Harris, chief clerk, and his
four assistants, then suddenly drew
gun commanded Hands Up."
The clerks obeyed. Harris and three
OF the clerks were ordered to lie
down on the floor and James E. Burke
the fourth clerk, was forced to bind
their hands behind them. Walton then
tied Burke's hands and set about a
leisurely sorting of the mail pouches
Armed with the clerks kew he
picked out and rifled the bags which
contained shipments of money, re-
marking that TITS easy when YOU
have inside information" A traveiine
bag appropriated from one of the
> clerks furnished receptacle for the
money.
After filling the bag Walton kent
up a running fire of banter with the
clerks until the train reached Engle-
wood station, in south Chicago
shortly before one a. m. there he OPP
ened the door and, as the train gath
Fifteen minutes later patrolmeu
William A: Roberts and John Ken
bricks met Walton. Their suspicion
were aroused by the bag and Roberts
stepped forward to question the man
Walton with his revolver in his
pocket, fired through his coat and
Roberts fell, shot in the head and
side.
Walton leaped into the area way
of an apartment building, while Ken
bricks met Walton. Their suspicious
and opened fire. After an exchange OF
and grappled with the man. Walton
dropped the bag and fed
Police rife squads, summoned by
neighbors, located the man in an
apartment house and half block away
They surrounded the building and for
more than an hour poured hundreds
of bullets into Walton's apartment
He returned the fire steadily using
two guns. then suddenly stopped De-
tective Chief Mooney lead a dash on
the room and found Walton on the
floor dead, with four bullets in his
body.
Letter To Wife.
A member ship card issued by the
st. Joseph Y. M. C. A. and a letter
addressed to Mrs. L. V. Walton
number 523 North Seventh street, St
Joseph, were found in his pocket.
Patrolman Roberts was rushed to
hospital where doctors said he
could not recover. Patrolman Thomas
Serriter also was wounded, but not
fatally.
Walton had lived in the apartment