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Show k in B I A. B. Walton Wanted for Commercial Bank Rob-- B 1 f'bery is Arrested Sunday Morning at the Her- B mitage Shafer Confesses and Names Two B. Men as His Accomplices. K Charged with complicity in the rob- mt bery of the Tooele Commercial bank Kl at Tooele of $9,900 last month, A. B. ftl Walton, a real estate salesman of EJ Salt Lake City, was arrested by depu- K ties from the sheriff's office at the Kl Hermitage here yesterday forenoon H and Is now confined in the county B m jail at Salt Lake City, having been B n turned over to the southern officers B at once. K The arrest of Walton followed those R of George H. Hlggs, cashier of the B looted bank, and S. I. Shafer, former B cashier of the bank, and who made B the first confession to the robbery. B Shafer's arrest took place two weeks B after the robbery, which occurred B on. June 7, but the authorities postal post-al poned the arrest of the other two B men In an effort to forestall the of-B of-B ficial vindication of 1. L. Irvine and B' his clerk, Joseph Baluff, who had B been arrested along with Shafer and B who demanded a grand jury lnvestl-K lnvestl-K gatlon In order that they be cleared B of the charge. It was not until Satur-B Satur-B day that the Tooele county authori-B authori-B ties were forced by Irvine to act in K the matter. M Walton, the accused real estate B salesman, was making no effort to M got away when he came to this city, B and submitted peaceably to arrest. It K. was stated in the Salt Lake papers of B yesterday morning that Sheriff E. E. B Harrison had been officially notified B to place Walton under arrest, but the B Weber county official denies that he B received any notice of this character B and knew nothing of Walton's pres- B ence in this city until he saw it in B the newspapers. Bjj Acting at once, he went to the Her- Bl mitage and found his man there. It Bp was learned that he came to Ogden in S v, an automobile Saturday evening, and H- was accompanied by a young lady B from Salt Lake. They took dinner at K a downtown cafe, but did not arrive Bf at the canyon hotel until shortly after Bj midnight. Immediately following his Bj arrest Walton was brought to the B sheriff's office, and there Sheriff Har- B nson received instructions to send i B him on to Salt Lake, which was done. B During his brief stay at the county B jail, Walton could not be induced to B discuss the case in which he is said Bj to be implicated. B Shafer Repeats Confession. B The confession of the deposed bank i B cashier, which was repeated to the B Tooele and Salt Lake county officers B in Salt Lake qity Saturday night, was B full and complete. He gave all of the B details of the robbery and of the con- B nection of the other persons whom he B named with the crime. The confes- H sion was supplemental to a confession H made bv him after his arrest to H Sheriff M. M Bush of Tooele county, H after he had returned the stolen H money to F E. McGurrin, president H of the Salt Lake Security and Trust H company and of the Commercial H bank of Tooele. M A B. Walton and George H. Hlggs, B whom Shafer accuses of being his ac- H complices In the robbery, are Salt H Lake business men. Walton Is a real H estate salesman. Hlggs was formerly H a clerk in the bank of the Salt Lake M Security and Trust company in Salt M Lake, and is, or rather was until Sat- B urday night, cashier of the Commer- B clal bank of Tooele, succeeding Sha- M fer in that position immediately fol- H lowing the bank robbery. He and H Walton are brothers-in-law Walton H was In this city last night, while m Higgs was sought in Tooele. B Irvine Forces Action. m The confession of Shafer to the offi- B cers In Salt Lake and the effort of B k the officers to secure the arrest of Higgs and Walton were the result of a demand by W. L, Irvine, who had been accused of participation in the robbery, and by his attorneys, for a full and complete grand jury investigation investi-gation of the case. TOOELE, July 2. With the arre3t early today of George H. Higgs and A, B. Walton, officers believe that I the entire mystery surrounding the robbery of the Commercial bank of Tooele on June 7 last, when nearly $10,000 was stolen from that institution, institu-tion, has been solved. In addition to the two men named, S I. Shafer, cashier of the bank at the time of the robbery, is implicated. Shafer was arrested on June 21, along with W. L. Irvine of Three Forks, Mont., who is manager of the Tooele Improvement Im-provement company, and the latter's clerk, Joseph Balluff. Immediately afterward Shafer, according to the officers, of-ficers, made a confidential confession to the sheriff of Tooele county, exonerating ex-onerating Irvine, who had befriended him, and thus fell under suspicion, and Balluff. Officials "Offered to dls miss the charges against all three of the men, but Irvine declined. He insisted in-sisted upon a full investigation and was preparing to ask for a grand Jury investigation, when the arrest of Higgs and Walton was ordered. According to the confession of Shafer, Sha-fer, say the officers, Higgs, who is also a bank clerk, planned the robbery rob-bery which was carried out by the other two. After banking hours on Juno 7, Walton, bo the confession runs, entered the bank, bound and gagged Shafer, the cashier, who was alone in the building. Then, taking the money, $9,900, which had been placed in a valise by Shafer, carried it to the edge of town where he had concealed a motorcycle and which he rode to Salt Lake City, 40 miles distant. dis-tant. . Higgs and Walton are both well connected here, Hlggs being a brother-in-law of Walton, is a well-to-do real estate man. Irvine is prominent in the community and is wealthy His arrest caused a sensation His for mal discharge - will be made tomorrow. tomor-row. The county attorney and the sheriff of Tooele county several days ago prepared a complete statement of exoneration for him and Balluff, which will be filed as a part of the record In the case. The money was returned to the bank several days ago. nn |