New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-30
'SCH|LDKNECHT IN CELL;
TURNS ON GIRL WIFE"
Young Cashier, Charged with
Stealing $4,000, Learns
She Was Gang Member.
RETURNS OF OWN ACCORD
S18-a-Week Employe of the
Washburn- Crosby Flour Go.
May Implicate Others in
Gay Life Robbery.

John C.. Schidknecht. the twenty-three-
year-od bookkeeper and cashier who
disappeared from his sls-a-week desk In
the Washburn-Crosby Flour Company's
office August %. about the time the con-
Germ found a shortage Of $500 was
committed TO the Tombs last night on a
bench warrant issued after an indict-
ment charging embczzlement was handed
down against him, I'm default of the $4,000
bail set by Judge Malone. He proba bly,
will be arraigned In Part I Of General
Sessions to-day.
Schildknecht war taken from room
ing house in Bergen street, near Third
averue. Brooklyn, a little after midnight
yesterday by William D.. Dickson, man
aCer Of the Burns Detective Agency, and
brought TO an uptown hotel in this Dor
ouEh. Detective Leigh. of the District
Attorneys staff arrested him at the hotel
yesterday afternoon.
While waiting for the county detective,
Schildknecht said he was through with
the crooked life" and wanted to tell
everything. His story he said. would
show that the greater part of the money
taken by him found its way into the
hands Of the girl with whom he lived
as man and wife in West 1l4th street
and at the Garden City Hotel. and Of the
gang with which she was associated.
The gangs meeting place. he said. was
Nick" Nacarrellis pool room I'm West
ll6th street. He also said that Nacar-
reli helped him to escape to Montevideo.
Get the girl" schildknecht told the
detectives You keep "A watch over her
and az soon as I've talked to my lawyer
I'll give you enough on her to send her
away for the rest OF her life"
The bookkeeper came back from Mon
tevideo on board the Lamport & Holt
liner Voltaire Monday with IA tender feel
Ing I'm his heart for Efiie McMinn. the
girl who posed as his wife in his wild
career along Broadway and At Garden
City. But when the detectives todd him
OF her afiiliation with the crowd which
got the money he stole, he turned against
her in a fash.
Miss McMinn testified in the bankruptcy
proceedings brought against Schildknecht
after his fight that she gave him back all
OF the $1,000 worth OF jewelry which he
gave 10 her. and that she also sent him
back 500 In cash by Il messenger the day
he left.
schildknecht told the detectives yester-
day that his embezzements from the -four
company would not total more than So
CO. II more than that was missing. he
maintained. IT went into other pockets
II was said By William Lesser, attorney
for the company last night that the
accountants who went over the books
figured the losses at more than 5000
The former bookkeeper intlmated that nc
might be able to give the company clew
as 10 where the other $1,000 went.
According 10 the young mans story. he
left this city on the Southern Railway in
the early morning OF August 30 in com
pany with man who had stolen 500
in Atlantic City, to whom Nick" Nacar-
relll introduced him. At New Orleans
he received $50 from the gang and
boarded a ship for Colon whence he went
To Panama and then to Valparaiso.
From Valparaiso he sent a cablegram
20 a man named Fredlander in Nacar-
rellrs pooroom and another 10 Nacar-
relli himself, asking If "Ehie' was com
ing, and requesting them 10 forward 500
Both these messages were ignored, as
were those ne sent later 10 his family.
Schildknecht lived ostentatlously at the
Lanata Hotel I'm Montovideo, and his
name appeared on the register but two
removed from that Of the American con-
sui Messages from the Burns agency,
| sent to the Uruguay police, asking Tor
Schildknechts arrest. failed TO arouse
action. II was said
Schlldknecht was unable TO find for
mer embezzler whom the Nacarrelli gang
advised him TO meet in Montevideo. ac-
cording 70 his story, and, believing the
gang had deserted him, he made up his
mind TO come home.