Arizona republican., 1909-12-31
WAS IN THE HANDS
 Of HIS FRIENDS ROBBERY OF GEORGE RElNKE YESTERDAY MORNING. Three Men Who Were Piloting the
 Victim About.

One of the most sensational hold ups in Mesa's criminal records took place Wednesday night after midnight. when George Reinke, who has been working for five months at Roosevelt, was robbed of $l25. He came in on the stage Wednesday evening and spent his money freely, imbibing a quantity or liquor. which soon put him in an in toxicated condition, according to his friends When the saloon, The White House, closed he was taken in charge by Harry O. M. Burch and George Seebe, and they started to the Alhambra hotel with him. He said he had engaged room there. 1t is re- ported. but the management refused to allow him to come in.
 While standing in front of the hotel debating if some other hotel would take him. a man came along and talked to Reinke for few minutes. then sang out that he would take him 10 his rooms. He started up toward Main street. and when he reached the corner of Main and Mcdonald he turned north. taking Reinke up past the Drew lumber yard. Yesterday morning Burch stated that he and Seebe followed at a distance and final ly heard an outcry and found that Reinke had been thrown down. and was being trampled upon and hurt. He stated that the man who did it was a stranger. tall. light complexioned and that he did not know him.
 At any rate the disturbance awoke some of the officers. who came up and the injured man was attended to, all though one of his friends said he would see he was put to bed. In the morning Seebe left with Warren Shrine to do some assessment work on some mines in the Goldfield district. some twenty miles from Mesa Burch maintained that he knew nothing of the crime. and the officers found that Reinke accused a George Edwards, a Swede who has been in the city short time. Marshal Peterson went to Edwards and he de- nied his guilt, saving he could prove that he left the saloon before the oth- CTS did, and could prove what time he had reached his room.
 In the meantime some of the men who were talking over the case point
 
 him how the blood came to be on his coat. He explained it by saving he had cut his finger, but the finger was on his left hand. and the stains on the cuff of his left sleeve. Along in the afternoon, Reinke seemed to be in a serious condition. and still re- iterated his statement that it was Ed wards. so Marshal Peterson arrested him. also Burch. After he had Burch in jail for a short time. he got a con fession from him. stating that it was Edwards who had done the job. Up to a late hour Edwards had not been told, but it is the sentiment of the off cers that he is the guilty man.
 Reinke is of German extraction and was in no condition to talk of any thing yesterday. He spent about $75 during the night before. and it was known that he had some s29O when he arrived in Mesa, so it is suUnised that Edwards got about s125 Burch does not say that Edwards took the money. simply that he beat him up. but as Reinke had the money in the saloon, and did not have it after his unmerciful beating. the inference is obvious. Reinke's head and face are badly battered. and it is stated that Edwards stamped his heels in the Ger mans face after he had him down. His head is badly bruised and a long cut extends across his face under the eyes. . Constable Burton has arranged a cot in the city jail and is having doctor in attendance, so that all medical at- tention possible is being given him If his injuries prove serious SC will be sent to the county hospital