Lot 164 - Antique Wells Fargo & Company Express Wanted Poster With Photographs And Facsimile Signature For David H. Barker, $500 Reward, Absconded Cashier, Hot Springs, Arkansas, St. Louis, Missouri, March 22, 1907

This is a wanted poster offering a $500 reward issued by Wells Fargo & Company Express, dated St. Louis, Missouri, March 22, 1907, for the arrest and conviction of David H. Barker, formerly cashier at Hot Springs, Arkansas, who absconded March 16, 1907. The poster features two photographs taken about one year prior and a facsimile of Barker's signature as cashier. Physical description: age 27, height five feet nine inches, slender form, weight between 130 and 140 pounds, gray-blue eyes, brown hair, regular features, light complexion, pale face, shaves smooth, square shoulders, stands erect. Described as well educated, effeminate in appearance and manner, with the appearance and manner of a gentleman, a pleasant well-modulated voice, talks rather slowly with a very slight hesitancy in his speech. He dressed neatly and wore dark clothes when he left Hot Springs. He purchased a new imitation leather grip in medium brown color the evening he left, with two letters, Y and T, on the lock of the suit case. Barker took with him 10 Wells Fargo & Company Express Travelers' Money Orders, numbers 0005150 to 0005159. A warrant was issued at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Approved by R.A. Wells, General Manager, Wells Fargo & Company, Kansas City, Missouri. Signed by C.R. Teas, Superintendent, Wells Fargo & Company, St. Louis, Missouri. Poster shows age toning, edge wear, and handling marks consistent with age and use.