The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-09
REILLY HELD
 FOR A THIEF SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR FOR PROSECUTOR CHARGED WITH
 STEALING LETTERS. Mail of Attorney General Wlckersham Had Been Stolen and Sold to
 Cosmopolitan Magazine
 for Publication.

New York. Jan. S.-Thomas P Reil- ly, "a special investigator for the in- terstate commerce commission, was arrested here late this afternoon and locked up, charged with the theft of a letter from United States Attorney General Wickersham to Henry A. Wise, United States district attorney, from Mr Wises office in the federal building.
 The letter subsequently appeared in the Cosmopolitan Magazine and it was known yesterday that the long search for the man who stole it had at last resulted in the return of an in- dictment by the federal grand jury.
 Whether other indictments will fol low, MT. Wise would not say tonight, but they are expected.
 The specific charge against Reilly in the indictment is the taking and publishing of letters and private pa pers without authority" in violation of the United States revised statutes and of he New York penal law. The acts complained of are said. to have been committed on July 1. 1909, when MT Wise was abroad.
 In addition to the Wickersham let a1e nl,r the files of the district attorneys of. flee two lettrs from c. R. Heike, sec retary of the American Sugar Refin- ing Company, to John E. Parsons, counsel for the company, anG the min. utes of the board of directors Of the company for the meeting held at the house of the late Theodore Havemeyer in December 1900.
 Abel | Smith. assistant United States district attrney, worked up the case against Reilly.
 News of the arrest caused a sensa- thon in the federal building, where Reilly was known as protege of Henry L. Stimson, how special coun- sci for the government in it's prose cution of thes ugar cases and for merly United States district attorney
 It was information furnished tc Reil- ly that the government prosecuted with success the New York Central. Rock Island, Chicago, Milwaukee ana St. Paul, Central Vermont Western TrsnsA- Company and other railroad and transit companies for giving re- hates on sugar shipments.
 The railroads on pleas of guilty were heavily fneds
 George Won Utassey. business man. ager of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and Perrigon Maxwell, managed edi- tor, have both testified before the grand jury as ao the price they paid for the letter, but this information has not yet been made public. The text of the Wickersham letter follows:
 Washington, Sunday, June 27, 1909 My Dear Wise Senator Root has sent me the proof of petition signed by Bowers, Milburn and Guthrie in support of their contention that the statute of limitations has run in favor of Messrs. Parsons, Kissel and Har- ned If the only overt acts done to carry out the objects of the unlawful conspiracy were those referred to in the briefs, I should think they were insufficient to save the bar of the statute
 "A strong effort will be made to- morrow to persuade the president to interfere in some was tol prevent the indictments
 But, aside from that. no indict- ments should he returned against any one if there is no reasonable ground to believe they can be sustained, if fer instance. the offenses charged are clearly barred by the statute, need hardly say this to you
 What l want to impress upon you Is that if you have any reasonable