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Show FORMER MAIL CLERK GUILTY OF ROBBERY CHICAGO, May 14. Federal officers tonight were investigating tho disappearance disap-pearance of $5,000 from a satchel containing con-taining ?75,000 stolen from the New Orleans limited on the Illinois Central railroad by a man identified as Horace Walton of SL JoBoph, Missouri, who later was killed in a fight with policemen, police-men, ono of whom was slain. Walton was identified as a former mail clerk of previously good charac tor, 22 years old, a high school gradu-:ate gradu-:ate and a member of the Y. M. C. A. Walton boarded tho train at Gllman, 111., hold up five clerks in the mall car, rifled the car, and left the train at the firat stop in Chicago. When two policemen questioned him ho opened open-ed fire, wounding Patrolman William A. Roberts, who died later In a hospital. hos-pital. Walton finally was surrounded at his rooming place and was killed in the fight that followed. Patrolman Thomas Pcrriter was slightly wounded. |