The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-14
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Most Daring Train Robbery Ever Staged
In Middle West Ends With Bandits Death
And One of Chicagos Police Squad Killed.;
The Robber Horace Walton St Jo, Missouri
Secured S100, 900; Loot is Recovered

Chicago, May 14.--One Of the most
daring train robberies in recent years
in the middle west ended this morn
ing in the death of a bandit who
last night looted the Illinois Central,
New Orleans limited, and the recov-
cry Of 100000 in currency.
One policeman, shot by the bandit
is dead and another Is seriously
wounded. The bandit was identified
as Horace Walton, aged 22, of st.
Joseph, Mo. Walton fell with four
bullets in his body after barricading
himself in his apartment and fight
ing pitched battle with more than
100 police, including several picked
rifle squads.
The train arrived at the G3rd Street
station about one o'clock. three hours
late, and the train robber left the
mail car there. A few blocks away
two policemen accosted him and he
shot one through the head.
According to reports received by
The police, the robber boarded a pas
senger car on the train at Gilman,
about 80 miles south Of Chicago, and
worked his way forward to 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 policemen at
tracted a squad of patrolmen who
the robber in an apartment
not far away. A rifle squad
was summoned and after two hours
nj sniplng by both sides, the robber
was killed.
During the exchange Of shots which
followed the attempt OF the two DO.
liccmen to search the robber, he drop
ped the satchel containing the money
from the mail pouches. At Hyde
Park police station it was found to
contain packages Of currency of s5,-
300 each, or approximately 100000.
During the siege the robber was
shot through the head and several
times the body. According to the
police, he is Horace Walton, Of st.
Joseph. Mo.
Walton boarded the train at Gil
man, a few miles from Kankakee
asst night, taking seat in Pull.
man. a Decatur pouch containing
registered mail was taken on the
rain at Gilman.
AS the flyer pulled out of Kanka-
zee, Walton stepped into the mail
ar and announced that he was the
postal inspector. He walked toward
elmer F. Harris. chief clerk, and his
our assistants, then suddenly drew
| gun and commanded hands up"
The clerks obeyed, Harris and three
II the clerks were or1ereu 10 lie
Town en- the floor and James f..
3urke, the fourth clerk, was forced
o bind their hands behind them.
Walton then tied Burke's hands and
ct about a leisurely sorting Of the
nail pouches.
Armed with the clerks key he
licked out and rifled the bags which
ontained shipments Ct money, re.
marking that IT'S easy when you
ave inside Information" a travelling
ag appropriated from one Of the
Jerks furnished a receptacle for the
money.
After filling the bag, Walton kept
p a running fire of banter with
he clerks until the train reached
,nglewood station. in South Chicago,
hortly before l a. m. There he OPEN
L the door, and, as the train gather
speed, leaped out
Fifteen minutes later Patrolman
VILLAIN A. Roberts and John Ken
ricLs met Walton. Their suspicious
'ere aroused by the bag and Rob
arl 20 hn
IAN. Walton, with his revolver in
is pocket, fired through his coat and
oberts fell, shot in the head and
de.
Walton leaped into the areaway OF
n apartment building, while Ken
rlcks dropped behind Roberts body
nd opened fire. After an exchange
: shots the policeman dashed for
ard and grappled with the man.
1alton dropped the bag and fled.
Police rifle squads, summoned by
eighbors, located the man in an
1artment house a half block away.
hey surrounded the building and for
ore than an hour, poured hundreds
; bullets into Walton's apartment.
e returned the fire steadily, using
yo guns, then suddenly stopped.
elective Chief Mooney led q dash
l the room and found Walton on the
Dor, dead, with four bullets in his
,dy.
Patrolman Roberts died in hos.
tai Patrolman Thomas Serriter also
rs wounded, but not fatally.
Walton had lived in the apartment,
which he was killed for several
eeks, according to neighbors. The
,ldup apparently had been carefully
AIMED. A postal inspectors badge,
mail pouch key and an Illinois Cen
al time table, printed In pencil on
card, were found on the body.
ST. Joseph, Mo-, May 14.-Horace
alton was a railway mail clerk
It'll a month ago when he resigned
ID left home without telling his par
is where he was going. He was
member OF the local Y. NJ c. A,
d was we'll behaved here. His faith.
L. T. Walton, will go to Chicago
night to claim the body.
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