The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27
MAKING RECORDAS
 BOND THIEF EASY, YOUTH DECLARES
Lad Tells of Efforts to Evade Arrest and Describes Move- ments From Time 0f
 Flight Till Captured
PUD BEASEL.
Bx Associated Press

Bloomington, H., February 26-Wil- liam Dalton. 16-year-old bank clerk Fwho stole s772,00o worth of Liberty bonds in Chicago Thursday. an amount (which the police say is the largest bond theft on record, was caught in pool room at Heyworth, Ill.,, near here, to- day. All the bonds, except one for $500 that he used for expenses. were recovered in a small leather bag that he had tossed into corner while he played, as nonchalantly as if 1t con- Itained old clothes.
 The boy said that taking the record amount of. bonds was simple matter, but that escape was not so easy. He was taken for a ride by an autoist,
 James Dennis, while trudging along the road to Heyworth, heading in the general direction of the south, but with no definite plans for escape.
 Dalton was held tonight, awaiting arrival of bank officials from the Northern Trust company of Chicago, (which he robbed. These officials in- timated before they left Chicago that ,on account of the boys extreme youth they would be inclined to forgive him and to give him another chance.
 The lad tonight told how he tried to .& ing in automobiles, on foot, electric t: nd steam trains and on busses, but !Nas captured largely through wide publication of his picture in Chicago VI ewspapers, which reached this dis Strict
 BONDS IN SATCHEL
 He W,.s recognized by the son of Con- sable Joseph Draper who made the
 arrest and who probably will receive
 nnn for hn n V a iarrest and recovery of the bonds. Dal-
 ton was first suspected of being the bond thief by Dennis, with whom he rode into Heyworth. Dennis reported his suspicion to Paul Draper, son of
 the constable.
 Dalton carried the bonds in little satchel wherein he had secreted them
 day for lunch throughout his flight until he reached Heyworth.
 There his fondness for shooting pool
 and billiards caused him to seek a
 game with stranger and while the two knocked the balls aronnd, the satchel, with it's fortune, was left in Ia corner where anyone might have picked 1t up and walked away had he known of it's contents.
 and called the youth by name. he ad- ,mitted his identity.
 The lad said he had foolishly yielded to some plan he conceived to walk off with the bonds. He told newspaper men he had read of the remarks, of Judge Iandis in the case of the Ottawa bank thefts, but tonight, after the bankers and officers had arrived from iChicago, Dalton denied that he had been influenced by the Landis ruling sn the Ottawa case.
 "A Earlier in the evening, after being i Brought to Bloomington, he confirmed to newspaper men his remarks made in Heyworth, which were reported as follows:
 II read how Judge Landis had said the bankers were partly to blame in k ,the case of the Ottawa, Ill.,, boy named Cary. who stole nearly $2O0,000," said Dalton. "The judge said they should have paid Cary more, and his case lseemed to fit me. I saw the chance to take the bonds and decided on the spur of the moment to try to get away with them. It dosen't pay. however, and I'm sorry. I'm sorry for my mother and sisters. don't know what I can do now.' Dalton broke down and cried when speaking of his mother, who is widow.
 'I don't know what I wanted to do Ilwith the money" he said. -I just took Iia notion to go off, and had an easy llchance to get some money and I took Hit. did not have any particular notion IIof where I was going. but wanted to tiget to the south, either to Louisiana flor Georgia, where I thought there would be. less chance of my being |ifouvldp