Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-02
I'M DEMAND.
5Ohnny Reagan Wanted Ia New Orleans. The
Sheriff Wants Him Here.

Some weeks ago, Iursd BY some strange
fascination, which We are at q loss to ex-
plain, although knowing that arrest
would almost certainly DO the conss-
quence, Johnny Reagan, the notorious
burglar and thief, came to this city, M
showed himself openly on b streets. A
day or two after his advent, a friend of
his anne to this reporter and requested
that nothing should be said about him, as
he had come back with the intention Of
reforming and earning an honest living.
Finding that the police were posted as to
his arrival, end hat he was behaving
himself quietly, the request was com-
piled with, and we did not alIude
to the advent OF the distinguished
gentleman among ~us-though we knew
that he was WANTED " IN several portions
Of this "great republic" on various
charges. Others were not 30 o~bliVious,
however, and information OF his where
abouts was conveyed, among other places,
to New Orleans, where, about q year ago,
Johnny made q OF b biggest a OF
his eventual career. We aIlude to tbs
DIAMOND ROBBERY
on Canal street. We have forgotten the
number and the uame of the house, but
the following ere the circumstances:
Reagan had been for a week or two hang
ing around the establishment, and once
or twice dropped in to price jewelry-
among other things a handsome diamond
ring. One evening about dusk he stepped
in and asked the jeweler to lst him see
the ring. Being dressed, setting and
looking like a gentleman, the jeweler, an
old man, handed out a tray containing
Jewels to the amount of $500 or 5000.
Pretending that he could not see very
well, Johnny asked him to light the gas,
and, thrown off his guard, the jeweler
walked back to the rear of the store to get
a match. When he returned to h ront
he found his customer gone, and with him
had vanished the tray of "baubles." To
rush TO the door and raise the hue and
cry was the work Of but a
moment-yet the thief could no.
where be seen. The case was put in
the hands of a detective and properly
worked up, but up to the present time
Johnny, though frequently in the hands
of the officers of the law, has never been
tried for the robbery. On Tuesday last
detective f. J, Smith arrived from New
Orleans with
REoUIsITIoN
for him, duly signed by the Governor of
Louisiana, and an order from Governor
Senter for his arrest and delivery. Now
it so happened that Johnny was at the
very time under bonds for his appearance
before the circuit court at Humboldt for
a certain robbery perpetrated by him and
his gang at that interesting village which
robbery our readers will no doubt re-
member-anc which came very near cost
ing Johnny his neckl, some months
ago. His bondsmen were Messrs Angelo
Marie and James Schooles. These gen.
tlemsn, hearing that Johnny was likely
to be taken out of the State on the re-
QUESTION, and not liking the idea of bav-
ing to pay several Thousand dollars for
his non-appearance when wanted, on
Wednesday concluded to surrender him
to the Sheriff, which they did, and there
upon he was Immediately arrested and
inearcerated in the calaboose, preparatory
to being locked up in the county jail,
whittier he was sent yesterday morning.
MI. Smith states to us that on applying
to Sheriff Wright, he was informed
that he (the Sheriff would not
surrender the prisoner under the
Governors order, as that official had
no right TO extradife to the authorities
of another State, a man already under ar
rest for a crime committed in his own
State. Whether this ba sound LdD or not,
we are not prepared to say, but such is
said to be the, fact. Mr.. Smith, who has
once before had a fruitless trip TO Nash
vile on the same errsnd Several months
ago., is very much put out about the mat
ter, and yesterday addressed a letter to
6OVernOr SenJeF, OI WHICH bne
is a copy:
MEMPHIS, September l, 1870.
To his Excellency, D. W. G. Senter, Gov
ernor of Tennessee:
Sri obtained from you oz the 25th of
February last, a requisition for one John
Reagan, who is charged with larceny, in
Louisiana. At the time that I obtained
requisitioE l stated to you ala the cir
,umstsnces of the case, and also concern-
.ng the larceny he committed at Hum
Ooldt, in this State.
As 1 have been informed by Sheriff
Wright, of his county land also by Col
,nel Curry, his predecessor, that you had
no authority to grant a requisition, when
you knew that there was a charge against
lim in the Stats. 1 therefore return to
you your requisition, it being worthless
% me. 1 would also suggest that you be
more careful in future, in signing your
name to worthless dOcuments-especially
when IL costs so much time and money to
procure your signature.
J. L. SMITH,
Detective Police, New Orleans.
The above, we print merely az a part of
he history of the affair, without come
men OF Justification, other than that
furnished by the correspondence itself.