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Show Ef TIB l TlllE TOU!! i Excites Suspicions c Motorist Who Give Him Lift; Taken r He Is Playing Pcx CHICAGO, Fab. W,-Offlelale ef t Northern Truet company, victim of t 772,000 bond robbery, today announr they would recommend immunity William Oalton. "I believe Willie le good boy . heart and waa probably under the i-fluenoe i-fluenoe ef some elder pereon," aaid S. Miller, vice preeident ef the so-pany. so-pany. "We reoemmended that he i given another chance." HEYWORTII, 111., Feb. I (By United Press). country town marshal to ' canghi the quarry of . the r of the nation. Jack Draper, the town marshal . thle YllUa-e, today arrested Wllllp Dalton, 17-year-old bank clerk, fled from tha Northern Truet eon. pany of Chicago with 1771,000 wor of Liberty bond. Dalton was playing; a game of p with Jack Hennessy, the local tIU;i: cue shark, when Draper walked up t tha lad and took him Into custody. BONDS RECOVERED. A 'small travel!-- bag- -twslds tl pool table wa opened, and $760 0 in Liberty bonds rolled out on t floor. "I guea yoir got Tne,"". Dalton remarked re-marked calmly. Dalton' arrest came as the renu of his asking (or a ride. Dalton was plugging alonr t' country road, lUKstng the email arnicas arni-cas containing the fortune In bom about dawn today when a motnn-came motnn-came along the road and asked If b wanted a- ride. The boy hesitated moment, and then climbed in. Th. motorist started to question tha youtn "I am going to Springfield," Dalti said. "Why don't you take the railroad? "I don't want to go through Bloom -ington," waa the answer. MOTORIST GIVES TIP. That started the motorist thlnklnr He had been reading In the paper-about paper-about the bank robbery. On reaching Hey worth, Dalton ha ' breakfast and then went to a poo hsll. where he challenged Bennessy u a game. The motorist, who live In Hex-worth, Hex-worth, went to hi bom. The moi he thought about the young fellow the more he thought he was Dalton He finally railed up his friend, Stevens, who runs a restaurant, a--where Dalton hsd got breakfast. Ii told Stevens of his suspicions. Stevens Ste-vens agreed the follow looked lik-Dalton. lik-Dalton. and he called on Draper an. told him. ARREST MADE. The marshal went to the pool hall and, after observing the player -or a few minutes, arrested him. Half a dozen of the villagers whr had gathered stood around with their mouths open as they ssw th buse amount of securities roll out on the floor. It was more money than had ever been In Heyworth in a lump sum before, and here It was lying on tha pool hall floor. i For a time, all the watcher were, afraid to pick up the bonds. The president of the local hank waa summoned to the poolroom. The bond were given Into hie custody, snd. e enrted by a large crowd, the bank offl-' rial carried the bonds to bis vault. j TEMPTED AND FELL. Dalton was the coolest man In the bunch. He smiled aa he watched th proceeding, with Marshal Draper holding hold-ing a atrong grip on hi arm. The marshal was afraid to trust Dalton Dal-ton to the little county Jafl. for fear some effort might be made by the prisoner pris-oner to escspe, or for someone to kui. nap him for the reward. The boy was taken to the home of a citizen, wher-ho wher-ho was placed under guard of f." armed men while waiting for polio oi fleers from Chicago to arrive. Dalton talked freely of the affair. 1 (ContlnuM on pare 2.) ! CAPTURED IN . I (Continued from page I.) . showed no regrt and didn't shed a tear. "I worked alone," he said. "I was just tempted when I had all those bonds In i my possession, and fail." Bnk Official Stands By His Proposal CHICAGO, Feb. 18. W. 8. Miller, vice president of tha Northern Trust company, waa Informed of the capture of Willi Dalton by tha United Press before th scores of detectives working on tho esse knew of It "It's news to me," cried Miller. "Did Willie hav th bonds with hltnT" Miller waa told that most of tha bonds were takon with Dalton. Miller stood by ths statement ho made earlier In the day that he would do all in his power to get Immunity for the boy. "Of course," he said, "we're willing to give him another chanc and to help him In every way." DETECTIVES PURSUE. Spurred by the large reward for recovery re-covery of the bond and the boy's capture cap-ture $2$. 000 tho greatest private detective de-tective agenclea of tho country were enlisted In th search for tha missing bank clerk. - Descriptions of Dalton were sent by wire to every police station In ths country. coun-try. Order won given for posting of larg placards bearing hi picture, description de-scription and announcement of th reward re-ward at every cross road In th country. coun-try. Police of every city, town, village and hamlet wor en the alert for the missing miss-ing youth. Tha brains of tho greatest crime expert In th nation wr working work-ing with those of country town marshals mar-shals In an effort to find the boy. Hundreds of private detectives were engaged In the search. They wanted the reward and the glory of solving the greatest robbery In Chicago history. his-tory. DEALERS WARN. DoaUrs In Liberty bonds Boated th number of th missing securities in their place of business and watched for th boy with th bonds. Chloago police, off duty lost night, spent th night Marching for th boy. When tho night force want off duty early today few went to their homes, but joined In th boy hunt Offlciala of th bank, hoping for return re-turn of tha bond Intact, announced today they would recommend Immunity for Dalton If he would giv himself up. Besides th detective and police headquarters there waa little rest at two other place In Chloago laat night a th roeult of tho robbery. One waa at the bank, where officials kept a constant vigil wsitlng for word of the arreet or surrender of the boy. Th other waa at th Dalton home on Wilcox street, where his widowed mother and twerslstsr also waited and hoped for word that it "isn't true.' MOTHER SLEEPLESS. Despite administration of drugs by physlciana to make the mother sleep, she would not rest. A physician and nurse remained constantly at her side. They feared the shock would kill her. Willie had alwaya been his mother's boy. She nsd regarded him as the head ef th family, alnce his father's death eight years ago. She gave htm more spending money thn he did her other two children and otherwise pampered pam-pered him. Aa th parishioner gathered at St. Mel's church, near the Wilcox street horn last night for the Friday night Lenten service, they gathered In little group and discussed the caae. They weren't very well acquainted with the Daltona bcause tha. family had only moved Into the neighborhood two years ago and war described as "reserved." WERE RESERVED. I Father D. J. McDonnell aaid he didn't know th Dalton very well, although he went to th horn Immediately after he heard of the robbery and attempted to comfort the family. "They were reserved and mad few friends." he said. Th blind were tightly drawn at th Dalton horn today. A private detective, on guard for an agency, paced up and down In front of the home and would not allow tho loiterers to stop. A uniformed policeman, on th beat-told beat-told tho email boya of tho neighborhood they would have to play up In he next block so as not to "disturb th woman." Four plain clothe ' men mad th rounds of th block, watching for Willi Wil-li to com homo to hla mother. A larg number of amateur detectives snooped around tho neighborhood trying try-ing to locate a probable hiding place for th bonds and th boy. |