New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-02
TWO WILL SAIL SOUTH
TO GET SCH|LDKNECHT
Burns Detective and Represent
alive of District Attorney
Plan Trip to Montevldeo.
CASHIERS FLIGHT DEVIOUS
Uruguay Asked to Hold Man
Accused of Embedding $780,
600 from Washburn-
Crosby Flour Co.

A detective from the Burns agency and
a representative of the District Attorneys
office will sail shortly for Montevideo to
bring back John c. Schildknecht, the
young cashier who is charged with having
embezzled $1,000 OF the Washburn-C Crosby
Flour Company's money, If the expected
cablegram telling Of his arrest is re-
ceived here to-day. They will probably go
on the Lamport & Holt liner Vandyck'
which will take Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt on his South American tour Satur-
day.
Schildknechts movements since his
disappearance and a number Of interest
Ing facts in his previous history were dis
closed by the Burns detective yesterday
The young fellow walked out Of his Office
August % Immediately after a long dis
tance telephone call from the cOmpany's
headquarters In Minneapolis informed the
local Office that their accounts had been
tempered with.
The next day he sped southwark on the
Panama liner Alliance, while detectives
from several agencies searched the city
for him. At Colon he took a train for
Panama and from there sailed for Val
paraiso After spending three days In the
Chilean city he crossed the continent TO
Buenos Ayres and then dropped over to
Montevideo. Uruguay, where he arrived
September % The next day a cable
reached the Burns office in this city say
ing that Schildknecht had been found.
At $40 o'clock last Saturday evening,
two days before his parents confessed in
court that they had heard from him, the
following cablegram was sent TO the chief
Of police at Montevideo by the Burns
agency
Warrant issued here arrest John c.
Schildkneoht Is stopping Hotel Lanata.
Wire us at our expense at once"
The answer came back that the police
there could do nothing unless requested
through diplomatic channels. In the mean
time. however. extradition papers had
been obtained from the District Attorneys
Office and sent 10 Albany for the Gov
errors signature. After they have been
approved by the Secretary Of State they
will be forwarded TO the American Consul
at Montevideo. The consul has already
been advised by cable to demand Schild-
knecht's detention and the news that his
demand has been complied with is ex-
pected to-day.
The trouble with the Washburn Crosby
Company is not the first into which the
ambitious young cashier has fallen. ac-
cording to detectives who have worked
on the case Three years ago, when he
was working for the Schwartz Betting
Company, in Murray street, he made on
with s1.15O, they asserted. on that oc-
casion his aged father mortgaged his
house in CanaTsie 10 pay back the money
and get the young fellow on
The following year he went TO work for
Murray's Line, at No. q Coenties Slip.
There, the detectives said, he was al
lowed TO draw his pay ahead Of time.
After getting into fresh trouble with the
police over an escapade in Brooklyn. he
left his new position owing the firm two
days pay. He told his father that he
owed a full months pay and his father
raised the amount with difficulty, the
detectives asserted. Schildnecht pocketed
the difference, it was said.
The two automobiles which the young
man bought have been found by the de-
tectives and confscated by his creditors,
together with a number OF gowns which
he is said TO have given Effie McMinn
with whom he lived in West Hath street
and at Garden City as his wife. under the
name Of Taylor Among the latter is a
fur coat valued at 5000.
A great deal Of the money, however, Is
said TO have gone to a sister of Mrs. Nc
Minn-Mildred McMinn, in Knoxville,
arp
on that end of the case now, but on ac-
count Of the shrewd method Of transfer
employed by the young cashier IT VIII be
extremely difficult to recover il. II Is said.
Through a tailor from whom he bought a
sumptuous wardrobe. the detectives eX-
planned, Schildknecht obtained an intro
duction to the cashier Of the Chatham
and Phenix National Bank. As he ao-
stracted the money from the flour COM
pany's Golfers in driblets, he took 1t TO
the bank and obtained a cashiers check
for IL. made out TO the order OF Mildred
NcMinn. on other occasions. the de-
tectives said, he obtained the certified
checks of concerns with which he dealt
and sent those on to the girl in Knox
vile.
Fife McMinn has been familiar char
acter in the Tenderloin resorts for sew
eral years, the detectives said. She met
Schildknecht in a Broadway cabaret ana
stuck to him as an easy mark they
averred. There is an order out. return
able tomorrow, for her to show cause
why she should not return all the presents
with which the young cashier showered
A,,~;,,, hrief reign.