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Show HOLDUP GAINS - I Si III 111 1 PAYSJWITH LIFE 1 Robber Enters Mail Car and H Uses Clerk to- Help Him Gather Loot H LEAVES TRAIN WHEN I CHICAGO IS REACHED Killed After He Shoots Police- H men Who Attempts to H Stop His Flight CHICAGO. May 14 One of the most daring 1 robberies in the middle west in recent years ended this morn- .ing in the death of a ldne bandit who . Ht night looted the Illinois Central "N.WOrleans limited and tho recovery jH of currency estimated to. total nearly jH ?ioo.oooI IH I One policeman shot by the bandit, is dead,' and another is soriouslv wound IIH ! Thbandit was identified as Hor- !acfe.-,YJalton.-aceil--32,-ot -St, Joseph, iH Mo. He foil with foMiiullets in life ; body aften barricading' liimselC in Iris" ' (apartment and 'fightinji a nitc'hed bat lH , tlo with more than 100 police. I Walton boarded the train a few miles rrom Kankakee last night A j Decatur pouch containing registercc. mail was taken on the train. Draws His Pistol. I As the flyer pulled out of Kanka- kee. Walton st'epped into the mail car and announced that he was the postal j inspector. He then drew a gun and j commanded "hands up." Four of the I clerks wero ordered to lay on the floor and the fifth was forced to bind their I hands. Walton then tied the fifth man's hands and set about the leisure ly sorting of the mail pouches. Inside Information. Armed with tne clerk's key, he pick-ed pick-ed out and rifled the bags which con luined shipments ol money, remarking that "it's easy when you have inside information." A traveling-bag appio-printed appio-printed from one of the clerks furnijif l ed a receptacle for tho money. Walton kept up a running fire of ! banter with the clerks until Hip train j readied South Chicago shortly br-ore il a. in. There he leaped out.-He out.-He Shcots Policeman. Fifteen minutes later Patrolman William A. -Roberts and John Ken-dricks Ken-dricks met Walton. Roberts stepped forward to question the man. AValton fired through his coat and llobeits fell, shot in the head and side. Walton leaped into the areaway ol an apartment building while Ken-dricks Ken-dricks opened fire. After an cx-change cx-change of shots the policeman dashed forward and Walton dropped the bag :H jand fled to an apartment house a half -H block away. Police rifle squads sur- rounded the building and for more H than an hour poured hundreds of bul-lets bul-lets info Walton's apartment. il Steady Fire Returned. Ho returned the fire steadily, using two guns, then suddenly stopped De tective Chief Mooney found Walton on tho floor dead, with, four bullets in his Patrolman Roberts was rushed to a hospital where doctors said he could not recover. Patrolman Thomas Ser- IH retor also was wounded, but not fa- Walton had lived in the apartment where ho was killed for several weeks, according to neighbors. Policenin.n Roberts died later this morning. Ho is survived by tho widow and five children, the eldest of whom Is six years old. H Former Mail Clerk. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., May 14. lloraca Walton, tho train robber who waa killed by the Chicago police, was u St. Joseph high school graduate. 22 years old. His father is a clerk In 'H tho city's leading hotel. Tho youth iH was a railway mall clerk until a month ago. when ho resigned and left home without letting his parents know where ho was going. ! oo |