The sun., 1903-11-13
GIRL ACCUSED OF SWINDLlNG.
SAID TO HAVE CHARGED GOODS
TO HER FRIENDS FATHER.

Jessie Reynolds. IS Years Old. Arrested
on a Department store Detective's
Conplaint-Says She's Grsnddaugh.
ter OF the Late Oliver Chsriek.
Jessie Reynolds, Is years old, Of 1928 West
Eighty-second street, who said that she
was the granddaughter Of the late Oliver
Charliok, was arraigned before Magistrate
Ommen In the Jefferson Market police
court yesterday on charge OF grand
larceny and held in 81 900 bail for examina-
ton this morning.
The complainant was John F. Larkin, q
special detective for Sixth avenue depart
ment store, and the specific charge was the
larceny of $s7.4O. Larkin told the Magis-
trate that she had defrauded the store Of
$2l7,Ss in all. and that she got about
1850 from another department store.
Larkln said that the girl represented
herself to be the daughter Of DR.. Peter Nj.
Wise Of 40 Neptune avenue, New Rochelle,
and had obtained goods from the store
by charging them to his account
The girl was dressed in a gray tailor
made suit with Norfolk jacket, a black
hat and veil, and patent leather shoes.
She appeared to be we'll bred and Ia good
looking, but acted strangely in court. Her
eyes were fixed and expressionless When
the complaint was being drawn up and she
was giving her pedigree to the clerk, she
and said:
Tell me how to act and what to say.
little girl had an operation performed,
and did not know that 1t was going to hurt
hurting me. / feel the same way now.
! feel numbed, and l can't realize that
I am in this dreadful place" ~ a..
When she was arraigned before the
Magistrate. he said to Dr. Wise:
This girl has been charging things. on
your account, and representing herself to
be. your daughter. Is she your daughter''
mo, she Is not
Then III have to hold her till tomorrow
and this affair be cleared up"
Miss Reynolds refused to make any
statement. DR.. Wise said:
"She had a schoolgirl fondness for my
daughter. and in October spent a week
with her. l know little about her. My
found that my account at the store was 80
| much greater than I expected"
Jessie Reynolds lives with her mother
and brother at the West Eighty-second
street address, which is boarding house.
She is a member Of the Avon Club, which
upper West Side 1t was said that she at
tended private school with Maud Wise,
the daughter Of DR.. Wise. Miss Wise is
now in Philadelphia.
Oliver Charlick was appointed Police
Commissioner on May /, 1873. He resigned
July /, 1874, when some charges were pend
ing against him. Miss Reynolds Is said
to have three brothers, one Of whom is
at Yale and one at Princeton. Miss Reyn-
oldss mother and brother did not know
up to late hour last night why she had
been arrested. They expected Lawyer
j. T. Richardson OF 81 William street, to
furnish bail and liberate her, but he failed
to do SO. Richardson lives in Elizabeth,
n. j. He had promised to have her home
by 0 clook.
Special Officer Larkin said that he was
notified about a week ago by DIR. Wise that
his account was 3217,sS too much He got
description Of a girl who had been charg-
ing things to DR.. Wise's account, represent :
ing herself as his daughter. He managed
to trace her through friends, and saw her and
accused her Of the crime. She admitted
1t, he says.
The detective also says that the girl
nearly tainted when she was arrested, but
that her chief regret seemed to be that
she would have to miss the Yale-Princeton
football game. She explained that she
had plenty Of pretty things. but that she
was going to certain fashionable summer
resort next summer, and that she wished to
make an impression there.