The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-18
Jesse P. Reinach, Arrested at
Union Station Sunday, Said
to Be an Accomplice.
WAS SENDING CIPHER MESSAGE.
Another Man in Custody at Chi
cagO Has Told of Plans for
Swindling American Elk
press Company.

Jesse p. Reinach. an expert teiegrapher
! arrested in 81. Louis, was taken to Chicago
yesterday to answer a charge of conspiracy
10 defraud the American Express Company
He was taken into custody last Sunday
morning In the teiegraphers' room at Union
Station while sending a cipher message to
u. +. Dillon In Chicago. ILL.,. but the matter
was kept secret by the police to forestalI
any attempt to Secure his release on a writ
OF haoeas corpus. Detective Thompson Of
Chicago, In Company with a REPRESENTATIVE
or the American Express Company. arrived
IN St Louis yesterday morning and, as
iSeihach agreed to return with them w;thou,
reGuisition papers. they departed on the
next train
IL Is alleged that a conspiracy. having
representatives in ST. Louis. Chicago. III
indianapolis. Ind. and Storm Lake. Ia. has
Deen formed to rob the American Express
Company. The representatives in the dif
'ereht cities are said to include expert teIe-
graphers. whose duty IL Is to send .aIze
teiegrams as g part OF the scheme to de-
fraud some time ago the express office ct
storm Lake. Ia. was broken open and a
number of money order blanks were stolen.
~ is thought tina, these blanks were taken
py TIE cOnspirators.
inir pan was 10 have an operator one
OF their number. send a fake telegram TO
an american express Office, stating that a
money order had been sent to a certain
person ana to pay him the amount on re-
ce!pt OF the telegram. A Ebony" order
made out on one Of the hIanka sto,sn ~
storm Lake would follow. As far as is
hno"h the scheme was worked only once.
"hen Si"H was secured a. Indianapolis on
On oroer purportins TO have been sent from
the - Louis Office.
nnerY the forgery was discovered. de-
tectives were detailed on the case and O.
+. Dillon's arrest followed In Chicago He
confessed TO Detective Thompson that he
was conducting the Chicago end of thu
scheme ana Reinach was the ST. Louis man
An OF them. he said were to have met in
81 Louis on July Is to divide the money
Dilon 5 arrest was kept quiet until Reinach
was taken In custody here by Detectives
howard and Gallagher. From a statement
made by Rcinach the police are now look
ing Tor man named Mattick, who is
thought to be in ST. Louis
Reinach refused to make any statemenf
to reporters. He came to 81. Louis fvo
Gays before his arrest and registered at the
imperial Hotel. Pawn tickets In his nos
session showed that he had pawned his
watch. some ;ewelry and wearing apparel
that Reinach told him he had been drawn
INTO the scheme By Dillon. but had backed
out "hen ne lound what 10 really WAS
AT the time he was arrested he was sending
a Telegram to Dillon at Chicago In a code
which Chief Operator Murray at Union
station Is unable to solve. Retnach was
taken 10 Chicago to answer q charge OF
conspiracy.
DILLON TAKEN TO STORM LAKE.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Chicago, Ill, July 10. p, Dillon. who
confessed that he was the man who robbed
me sale OF the American Express ONCE at
storm Lake. Ia, three weeks ago. and
VINO was arrested in Chicago, was taken
pack to Iowa yesterday. Before leaving, Dill
ION made another confession, In which he
said that M. Masteller was the leader Of a
gang OF telegraph operators scattered ali
over the United States, who are expert
tnieves Dillon said that Masteller and
Eowaid Bryner have held I'd trains In
Southern cities and towns.