Charlotte, Jan. 22—Having confessed, according to the police that he robbed the American Exchange National Bank in Greensboro last Tuesday night, John Wilby Shelton of Danville, Va., arrested here today was taken to Greensboro tonight by City Detective Moser, accompanied by officials of the bank, called here this afternoon to identify a batch of blank cashier’s checks which he admitted, according to officers, that he stole from the bank.
According to his alleged confession, Shelton took from the bank 50 blank cashier’s checks, $50 in cash and a number of bonds. Shelton, according to his alleged confession, stealthily secured the cashier’s key from the cashier at a party at a Greensboro residence Tuesday night and entered the bank later the same night.
The arrest followed a chase over a good portion of the business section of the city, after Shelton had attempted to cash one of the bank cashier’s checks for $90, the limit designated on the face of the check, at a local hotel, where he had been stopping. The hotel clerk grew suspicious of the check and deferred payment until he had sent it to a local bank for advice.
The bank advised that it looked suspicious, whereupon the police department was notified and Detective Moser went to the hotel. Shelton hurried out and jumped into a large new automobile and drove away, but took a circuitous route and crisscrossed through town, the detective following him and finally catching up with him after he had taken off his overcoat.
He showed resentment when accosted by the detective, according to the officers, but when confronted with a recital of his unusual movements around town and the attempt to cash the check he remarked, according to the officer:
“You’ve got the goods on me, I had as well tell all I know.”
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, Jan. 25, 1926
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