Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1920-05-14
BINDS MAIL CLERKS AS
PASSENGER SPED
TO CHICAGO
SLAIN BY POLICE
POLICEMAN DIES or WOUNDS RE
CEiVED m BATTLE WITH HIGH.
WAYMAN - ROUTED OUT or
ROOMlNC HOUSE BY DETECT.
IVES.
tBY Tho AGsOClnInu rlras J

tBy the AssoClurru ri-ss)
Chicago, May + one of the most
daring train robbero8 in the middle
west in recent years ended this morn
ing in the death of lone bandit who
last night looted the Illinois Central
New Orleans limited. and the recovery
of currency estimated to total nearly
100000.
One policeman. shot by the bandit
is dead and another Is serOurly
wounded
The bandit was identified as Horace
Walton. aged 20 of St. Joseph. No.
Walton fell with four bullets in his
body after barricading himself in his
apartment and fighting a pitched bat
tie with more than 100 police. incud-
ing several picked rife squads
Walton boarded the train at Gilman,
a few miles from kankakce last night,
taking a seat in Pullman. A Deca-
tur- pouch containing registered NAL
was taken Oh the train at Gilman,
AS the flyer pulled out Of kankakea
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 aa.
sstants then suddenly drew gun
and commanded "hands up Tho
clerks obcyed. IIarri8 and three Of the
clerks we're ordered to lay down on
the floor and James T.. Burke, the
fourth CLERK. was forced to bind their
hands behind them. Walton then tied
Rurke's hands and set about d leisure
ly sorting of the mail pouches.
Armed with tho clerks key he pick
ed out and rihod the bags which con
tanned shipments of money remark
ing that its easy when YOU have in
side information
a travelling bag appropriated from
one Of the clerks furnished a rcccp-
taclc for the money.
After filing the bag Walton kept
up a running fire Of banter with the
clerks until the train reached Engel
wood station N South Chicago short
ly before 100 a. IN,
There he opened the door rs the
train gathered speed, leaped out
Fifteen minutes later patrOlman
William A. Roberts and John kenriCks
met Walton. Their suspicious were
arounsed by the bag and Roberts step /
ped forward to question the man. Wal
ton fired through his coat pocket and /
Roberts fell shot in the head and side. T
Walton dropped the bag and fed. !
Police rifle squads summoned by /
neighbors, located the man in an
apartment house a half block away. I
They surrounded the building and for /
more than an hour poured hundreds /
of bullets into Waton's apartment. |
He returned the fire steadily. using |
two guns. then suddenly stopped, De
tective chief Mooney led dash IN
the room and found Walton on the /
floor dead with four bullets in his body
\ membership card issued by the |
St Joseph y. NJ c. A. and letter
addressed to Mrs l.. V. Walton. mum |
Der 52S North Seventh street. st, JOS /
eph, were found in his pocket
The train arrived at the G3rd street /
station about one O'Clock, three hours |
late. and he train ROBBERS left the mail /
car there. \ few blocks away two /
policemen accosted him and he shot
one through the head, According to I
report 5 received by the police the ROB, /
Der boarded passenger car on the
train at Kankakce. about fifty miles /
south of Chicago and worked his way .
forward 10 the mail car where he com
PEELED one of the five mail clerks To t!o /
the hands and feet OF the others.
The shooting of the policeman at /
tlacted squad Of patrolmen who cor |
nered the robber in an apartment I
building not far away A rifle squad !
was summoned and after two hours OF
sniping by both sides the robber was
killed
During the exchange Of shots which |
followed the attempt Of the two police
men to search the robbor, 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 which4
totaled approximately 100000, accord /.
ing to the police.
Chief Clerk Elmer f. Harris in the |
mail coach loosened his bonds and pul. |
led the cord stopping The train soon
after the robber had departed, but
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