The sun., 1904-11-24
REOHR PLANS HIS VENGEANCE
HIIL SPEND MONEY TO PUNISH
DETECTIVE M'IVOR.
No Evidence That Young Insurance Man
Snatched Diamond-EIis story Corrob.
orated--TenderIoin station Reyeia.
iiOns--His BOndsman scared on.

orated-Tenderloin station Reyeia.
iIons-His Bondsman scared on.
Detective Stnson McIvor of the Ten
derloin police station, who arrested Charles
D. Reohr, assistant secretary OF the Traders
Union Life Insurance Company on Tuesday y
afternoon and led him in chains to the
station house as thief, is going to be a
busy man unless Mr.. Reohr changes his
mind. When Reohr was honorably dis
charged in the jefferson Market court
Yesterday morning he went to his Office at
81 Union Square and thought out schemes
for redress and revenge. Before night he
had resolved on these four;
A suit gainst the city for false arrest.
4 suit against McIvor for false arrest.
A charge of perjury on McIvors part, to
be laid before the District Attorney.
4 charge against McIvor of misconduct.
10 be- laid before the Police Commissioner.
incidentally. Mr.. Reohr says that he
thinks McIvor was drunk, that he does
no, believe any robbery was committed
and that the cells in the Tenderloin station
are disgrace to civilization.
When the insurance man was arraigned
before Magistrate Whitman he had many
tTIsnlS ana relatives III court ana was
represented by Attorney John NJ. Gorham.
Detective McIvor testified that he was
at the corner of Sixth avenue and Eighth
street when he saw an old man with gray
mustache get on a northbound car. Four
men were on the platform.
They josted the old man and then l
saw the defendant put his hand on the old
mans shirt bosom and take his stud, said
the sleuh.
Where's your complainant" asked the
mag i-trate.
McIvor confessed that he wasn't In court.
lid you speak to the complainant at all,
or cid he charge the defendant In your
hearing with this theft?"
NO" sail the detective.
Gan YOU swear that the defendant
touched the old man at all?"
McIvor hesitated moment and then ad-
mitted that he couldn't.
Reohr told his story, saying that he ran
across Sixth avenue in front Of a north
bound car in order to board it. He said
L had just come from the stairs OF the
elevated station at Eighth street after
seeing my sister Elizabeth to train. She
and had been in fur store on Eighth
street"
This part Of Reohr's defence was corrob-
GRATED by Miss Reohr and by an employee
Of the fur store. Reohr continued:
At about Tenth street NcIvor got in
and putting his face close to mine, said,
You know me, don't you? ] told him
didn't. ! smelled liquor on his breath
and, believing that to be the cause Of his
actions, told him TO mind his own business
Then he accused me of stealing a diamond
rin and said that my picture was in the
rogues gallery. When he said he would
arrest me demanded is authority, and he
took his shield out Of his pocket At Thir-
,ieth street he Inundated me by putting
chain handcufT on me and then dragged
me through the crowded car ! never even
saw the car in which he said the theft was
oommitted."
Charles Chatterton, the conductor OF the
car in question. who was called as a witness
hv Mclvor, said he did not remember seeing
Raohr at all He did remember the gray
haired man.
Policeman Tagg of the Mercer street
station said that an old man complained to
him OF the loss of 2 diamond stud valued
at $3.50
He refused to make a complaint or tell
m" his name" said the cop. He said he
lad been sheriff in Nevada OF California
for ten years, and the folks out West would
laugh at him if they heard he was robbed.
! didn't soc what happened on the car"
Mclvor said that he couldn't get any
more witnesses and didn't hope to find the
complainant, so Magistrate Whitman dis
charged Reohr
Reohr remarked as he passed McIvor
on his way from court Il think you'll get
more publicity out of this
The insurance man. who is also a law
vcr rad more 10 say about the case yester-
day afternoon. announcing his fourfold
campaign against McIvor and the city.
I'm willing to spend all the money I
have and all | can get he said, TO pu I
Mclvor whG-e he can't do any more wrong
Of this kind. | would not feel 90 bitter
toward him If he had been W illing to admit
ol'hcr at the police station or in court.
that there was possibility of his beng
mistaken; hut he insisted up TO the end
that he saw me steal this pin. 1t Is my
own opinion that there was no robbery at ALL
Is II reasonable to think that a man who
has lost a pin worth $3.50 will stay awav
from court when ? man accused OF the theft
Is being tried?"
sponslble When | protested against going
TO the station house he said. IN put
rope around your neck and drag you there
He told the sergeant that he saw me steal
the pin and the sergeant could do nothing
hut lock me up under the circumstances
Capt Cottrell was courteous enough.
1T cost me si75 to send messages to my
friends and to keep from freezing in my cell.
hadto pay rs cents for food that W ould not
cost Is cents in an ordinary beanery.
II cost me 81 so to keep warm. The money
went as fees to the warden. want to say
'ha, that cell vas the coldest, most dis
agreeable place | ever saw
Mr. Reohr was asked why Thomas Adams,
the chewing gum man, decided not to give
hail for him on Tuesday night.
Because Mclvor talked TO him and made
me out a deliberate thief said Reohr.
Ne told Mr.. Adams that he knew OF a
similar, case in which the accused man
jumped his bond
Detective Mclvor was asked last night IL
ne expected to find the mysterious scom-
plalnant, He seemed to have little hope
OF II Capt. Cottrell suggested that il
might lie a stranger in the city who would