New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Thomas Reynolds Arrested
After Detective Loses
SIG a Minute
Women Used to Lure
Players Into Game
Roulette Wheel in 68th
Street House Alleged
To Be "Crooked'

as worshippers emerged from the even
ing services in the Christian Science
Church. at Sixty-eighth Street and Gen.
trail Park West 1t came from one of
the row Of staid, ultra respectable look
ing houses about half way down the
block, chiefly remarkable for being Of
Indiana limestone and having a bay
window, while its still more conserva-
tive neighbors were rectangular and of
brownstone.
The shattered glass was that of the
bay window. Could the churchgoers
have peeped inside they would have
been amazed to see man after man
swing himself over from the high stoop
to the window sill and enter the house.
In the front room on the second floor
well-built man in evening clothes
was pointing a revolver at a distin-
guishedlooking man similarly attired,
but of more advanced years. The elder
man, whose arms were raised above his
9shead, was being addressed in confden-
tial tones by the man with the revolver.
Armed Man a Detective
''Now, I wouldn't try for a getaway"
said he. "You see, I've got you COW
cred and there's something else that
you haven't SEEN"
AS he spoke the quiet young man
tipped back the lapel of his dinner
Jacket with his left hand and exhibited
the gold shield of Central Office man.
At about that time other intruders en-
tered t-:e room. fhey were detectives.
The cool young man with the revolver
was Sergeant Bernard McQuade.
At the West Slxtyelghth Street
police station the prisoner said he was
Thomas Reynolds, ffty-one years old,
OF 80 West Sixty-eighth Street. The
house was owned by his sister, he said.
lie was charged with operating gam
bling house, and District ATTORNEY
smith, came uD to interrogiate him, for
smith, game up to lnterroglate hsm. for
ne Is alleged to be the biggest fish of
his particular school.
1t is alleged by Inspector Costigan
that wealthy visitors to New York
dropped thousands of dollars in the
demure, bay-windowed house of Indiana
limestone; that the proprietor of that
house employed as "cappers" women
whose fawless gowns and demeanor
won them the unquestioned freedom of
the most luxurious hotels in the CITY.
Through these women and by other
: methods, it is asserted, men of means
were lured TO the mouse, generally
alone Or with one or two friends, and
there parted from their wealth by
means of Crooked" roulette wheel
$3.50 Lost in Is Minutes
The wheel was in the second floor
room where the interesting tableau
was staged while the Christian Scieht-
lists were going home from church. 1t
was inspected with some care by Ina
spector Costigan when McQuadc in
formed him that in fifteen minutes
OF which $3.50 is said to have been
marked in precisely the way that Nc
Quade's money was marked was found
IN Reynolds's pocket
After examining the wheel and it's
appurtenances the detectives said that
man who undertook to operate it
with bank roll of 81 would be run
ming practically no risk. Wiges led
from the wheel to a closet, and in the
closet were two boxes, each OF which
contained battery of thirty-six cells.
The current thus communicated to the
wheel, Costigan said, and controlled
by its operator made the heavy con-
trivance Of polished wood a most docile
money gctter.
deposited $4,000 Day
The police likewise discovered, they
asserted, that deposits averaging from
$o,oeo TO $4,000 day had been made in
various banks for several weeks in the
name Oh Thomas Reynolds. There was
$sssationery engraved with the name
senator Thomas L. Reynolds, 35 West
sixty- eighth Street." and there was a
prospectus Of the Panuco and Gulf
M Company, 55 West SixtI-eighth
erect, Thomas l.. Reynolds, president
Inc company, according 10 the prospec-
sus. was incorporated under the laws
ot Arizona and capitalized at S5. .OO0. 600.
II each. ' Va
Xhe furnishing of the house was ap
pasentiy most costly. The first floor
~. ~ hpng with heavy tapestries and
n paintings which, according to
1eynotds, are insured for $3.50, 900. The
J. t.ys1alns, which we're the only protec-
s.vn AZ the windows, are Of expensive
Many photographs Of women Of cx.
ta.oEdihary beauty were found, and
.s8 ssav1s we're no less than dozen OF a
sIsn whose resemblance TO the prison-
- VS. striking. In every instance he
~ IN an officers Uniform and gen
Nn5y nw5,y Was on horseback.
uHeH the raid WIS made the onSy
n gsS IS tupAntS Of the house we're Reynolds.
s%1Sae, 8 man who gave his name
e usorGs Mack, Of rs West Seventy
yansn street, and q negro "doorkeeper.
tssx and the negro also were taken
- tee station house.