The New York herald., 1921-02-27
Dalton Found Playing Pool
With Valuable Suitcase on
Floor at His Side.
PENITENT, CoNFEssEs
Bad Companions and Lam
dis's Mercy in Similar
Case Blamed.
SOUTH AMERICA HIS GOAL
Heyworth, ILL.,, Constable,
Whose Pay Is 500 a Month,
Gets $4,000 Reward.

Gets 1926, 200 Reward.
Special Despatch to THE NEw YoRK HHsALp.
CHICAGO. Feb 26.-William Dalton.
the seventeen-year-ol Chicago bank
messenger, who gained notoriety over
night by robbing the Northern Trust
Company of s772,o00 worth of Liberty
bonds Thursday. was captured to-day.
He was found playing pool in a
squalid pool hall in Heyworth. H.. a
small! town.
All the bonds except one $500 GER
tiflcate, which he had sold before leav-
ing Chicago, were found In Dalton's
possession. He carried the immense
sum of bonds in suit case. When
he entered the pool hall TO engage in
a game OF rotation pool he threw the
suit case with its fortune on the floor
as carelessly as II it contained only an
old suit OF clothes.
Dalton confessed everything. He told
his captor he had asked for an increase
In wages. but 1t had been refused.
II was getting only s65 a month.
which is only money enough to eat on. .
said Dalton. II had chance to grab
thdse bonds, and I did
He was asked II his theft had been
influenced by the case Of Francis Carey.
the Ottawa bank clerk. TO whom mercy
was shown by Judge Lands because he
was underpaid.
Yes" he answered. II read what
Judge Lands said. and I believed Il
fitted my case exactly.
Wanted to Live Like King.
IT thought would go to South Amer
lea and live like king. Gee. I'm sorry
now that I took the bonds guess my
poor mother Is heartproken."
Dalton was arrested by Jack Draper.
the village constable. Constable Draper
whose stipend totals 800 a month. by
arresting the young embezzler finds
himself a man OF wealth. He will get
$4,000 as a reward-s1. 900 for the
capture of the boy and $4,000 for re-
covering the bonds. The reward prob
ably will be shared between the consta-
BILE and his son Paul. who was the first
to recognize Dalton. w. s. Miller. vice.
president OF the Northern Trust Com
pany. said that II Draper and his son
established the fact that they were SOLE
ly responsible for Dalton's capture the
reward would be paid to them imme-
dIately.
Young Draper, an ex-service man and
crippled by wounds suffered IN France.
found Dalton playing pool in Bud Mays
poolroom in Heyworth. Dalton. who
had been on the road almost continu-
ously since Thursday afternoon. stepped
into the pool hall and offered to play
anybody in the house a game OF rotation
pool for 81. Dalton. more by accident
than design. had slipped through the
hands Of the police. once near Blooming
ton and again in Saperville.
Pool at 81 q Game.
Jack Hennessy. the local pool cham
pion of Heyworth, accepted the chal-
lenge OF the young stranger to play any
body present. While watching the game
young Draper got the idea the stranger
was Dalton. the boy embezzler.
"I Just played a hunch and walked
out and bought a Chicago paper said
Draper. "The moment I saw his picture
and looked at him knew he wns the
bird / called my dad over the phone.
Dad rushes over like fire horse. He
grabs the stranger. We opens his grip
and out falls fortune In bonds. Now
my father wants to claim the reward.
He'll go fifty-fifty. II II hadn't been for
me calling him on the phone he would
still be playing pinochle with the Fire
Chief" stormed young Draper.
Credit for Dalton's capture was ac-
corded by w. S. Miller, vice-president
and legal adviser Of the Northern Trust
Company. to the newspaper publicity
given to the case.
The boys picture and description
were scattered so widely" said Mr.. Mil
Ter. that he had practically no chance
or getting away | attribute his capture
TO the newspapers which cooperated 80
splendidly. When you run a picture OF
thief In the paper and offer a reward
you make a detective out OF every reader
OF the paper. and everybody nowadays
reads n newspaper"
When Mrs. Nora Dalton. the widowed
mother OF the youthful thief, was noti-
fled that her son had been arrested her
first cry was Did they shoot him p"
The mother is confined to her bed as
result OF worry since her only son fled
with the bonds. Mrs. Dalton was as
sured that no harm had befallen her
boy. did they get the bonds back ?"
she sobbed. Then she lapsed into a
hysterical ut OF weeping.
In the Town Hall OF Heyworth Dali
ton told the story. Constable Draper.
who has held his post for seven years
played the part OF grand inquisitor.
III the bank had given me an ad-
vance when I asked for IL I would have
gone along like my mother always told
me to do. straight and honest" said
young Dalton. His story was punctu-
ated with sobs II have spent too much
time in poolrooms. A pool shark taught
me fancy shots, and always liked 20
have a crowd watch me shoot my fancy
shots. I guess Il was the conversation
I listened TO IN poolrooms that set me
thinking about getting the bonds
Had Get Rich Quick hug.
IL remember It. was only lately that I
wanted to get rich In a hurry The
more l thought of II the more money I