The Washington times., 1921-02-26
MUST RETURN
STOLENBONDS
Young Messenger Goes "Ts
Lunch" vanishes With For
tune-ls Thought Dupe.
master MIND" SUSPECTED
Police Strike Trail Of Fugitive In
Auto-Predict His
Early Capture.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2e.-A seventeen
year-old boy, bearing the name of .
once famous pair Of bandits, Is flee
ing today in an automobile from
legion Of detectives and police. who
declare they are closing in on his
trail.
The boy is William Dalton, Chi
cago's greatest bank thief, who
calmly went to lunch on Thursday.
taking with him SITE, 900 worth Of
Liberty bonds from the Northern
Trust Company, where he was en-
ployed.
EXPECT CAPTURE TONIGHT.
w. e. Webster. superintendent Of
the Pinkerton agency. which is d.
recting the search on behalf of the
bank, declared early today that he ex-
pected to have young Dalton In Gus
| tody by tonight.
Immunity IL he surrenders and re-
turns. his -e773.e00 loot was offered
young Dalton by w. 8. Miller. vice
president of'rne Northern Trust Com
pany.
II am satisfied that II the boy will
give himself up now and restore the
bonds. there will be no prosecution"
Miller stated. "The matter, of course,
Is in the hands Of the authorities,
but because this 10 the first time
young Dalton has been in trouble, the
bank is willing to give him another
chance.
THE. bank officials are human.
They are willing to drop the matter
and aid the boy in making a man OF
himself, IL he only will give himself
up. The only thing we fear Is that
an older man might have influenced
him in this crime"
Detectives believe they have picked
up definite clue in the report that
the boy spent Thursday night in wau-
kegan, ILL.,, north of Chicago, and are
confident that In following the north
| ward trail they are on the right track
NJ. s. Darr. salesman for Ray r.
Mudd Co. automobile dealers. has
Identified Dalton as the youth who at
tempted to purchase a secondhand
Ford car from him on Thursday night,
rendering Liberty bonds in payment.
| ACCOMPANIED BY MAN.
Darr declared that another man. q
few years older than Dalton, who
gave the name Of K. J. Oblinski, had
been with Dalton when they came to
buy the car. He offered them the
car, Darr said. for s275, and ObIinski
paid deposit OF $40, but did not re-
turn.
1t is believed that Dalton later pur-
chased Ford coupe at another
agency. Employees of the Hewes gar
age at Waukegan have identified
Dalton as the youth who left Ford
coupe in the garage on Thursday
night, went to the Salvation Army
Hotel, where he vas given cot.
called for the car at 6:15 Friday
morning, and drove away toward the
north.
Detective Webster believes that
Dalton was inspired to robbery By
reading of the exploits Of the Dalton
brothers, famous bandits of the days
of Jesse James and Cole Younger.
READ ABOUT BANDITS.
1--WE find that he has read countless
books about the Dalton brothe ers,-
Webster said. "and that he loved to
call attention to the fact that his
this influenced the boy in an other
wise apparently motivoless case"
| Webster also declared he had learn
ed that Dalton had disposed of a num-
ber of bonds of small denomination in
Chicago, thus obtaining funds to n
nance his flight. 1t has been learned
that Dalton was broke" on the morn
ing of the robbery and borrowed some
small change from a fellow bank
clerk to buy his lunch.
/ From the fact that Dalton is known
to be an habitue OF various roolroomA
and the declaration OF Darr that an
/ other man was with him when he
called to purchase the automobile,
the theory has arisen that Dalton may
have been the dupe OF older and wiser
heads, who planned the crime and are
aiding him In his getaway"
$4,000 IN REWARDS.
Rewards totaling $4,000 today have
spurred an army of police and detec-
tivcs in Chicago and surrounding
towns TO determined sctivit- in the
search for the boy. Droves OF private
! sleuths have Joined the official detec-
| tives in the hunt. Detectives today
were fearful that robbers might apd
the youth md rob him of his treasure
before the hand OF the law can reach
him. t....
Dalton's widowed mother. with
whom he lived. is prostrated today
with GRIEF and can assign no reason
why her son should turn thief. The
Dalton family Is composed OF two
sisters, both older than William. and
n email son, Jack, nine years old. The
father died eight years ago.
| Dalton's salary In the bank, IL has