Arizona republican., 1918-10-23
MAN PARADED AS BOND S[ACKER
 NOW IN ASYLUM
Charles Reas, Whose Face
 Was Painted Yellow, His
 Hands Tied and Neck In a Moose Picked Up

Charles Reas, the Arizona Eastern | carpenter, who on Tuesday of last week was paraded through the busl- ness streets of Phoenix as bond stacker, face painted yellow. a rope around his neck, hands tied and with a sign on his breast which read With This Exception We Are 100 Per Cent" yesterday was committed to the state hospital for the insane by order of Judge R. c. Stanford of the Maricopa county superior court.
 Discovered by a motorist wandering aimlessly on the Yuma road nine miles from this city. Reas yesterday was brought by the motorist to town and turned over to the police. No Food Three Days l During his occasional semi-rational moments. Reas had told the motorist, whose name the police did not learn, that he had been without food for three days and that he had been fired upon several times. He also said that they had tried to hang him in Phoenix" | When searched at the police station, the man was found to have check for | S90.99, a railroad ticket to Los Angeles and other articles of value. | According to the police. the motorist asked Reas if he would like to have him take him back to Phoenix where | the police could give him the best of care. The man at first hesitated. they said, and then replied that he believed it would be best, as "the police had saved him last week from being hanged"
 Declared Insane
 Reas evidently referred to the dem
 onstration in the streets last Tuesday H. f~ hands of the crowd when the parade
 had reached Third street and the rail-
 road tracks and placed him in jail for
 safe keeping.
 After an examination by Dr. A. B.
 Nichols, county physician, Reas was
 declared to be insane, and a commit
 ment was signed by Judge Stanford,
 the man being at once taken to the
 state hospital east of the city.
 Dr. Nichols stated last night that he
 did not hold the recent treatment ac-
 corded Reas last week as bond
 slaker when he was paraded through
 the streets as responsible for his pres
 ent condition. He stated that there
 was no doubt that Reas had been in-
 sane for some time and an acute outbreak might be expected at any
 time from a man in his condition. but
 
 him at present
 Once Before in Asylum At least once before this, Reas has been confined in an insane asylum. When taken in charge last week by the police, Reas admitted that he had
 been in an insane asylum and while confined there, his alleged friends had taken all his property. For that reason, he said, he was suspicious of all invest ments which he declared was the req son he had not invested in any Liberty bonds, in spite of all urgent pleading. When taken to the police station last week, Reas was found to have nearly $500 in cash in his pockets. The affair was supposed to have been ended after the man finally had bought s10O bond. The Liberty loan committee, af- ter Investigating the case, had secured his return to his former position with the Arizona Eastern railroad company Wouldn't Buy Bond The demonstration last Tuesday fol- lowed the. refusal of Reas. who is a single man, to buy a Liberty bond, al though every other employe of that railroad had done so and the shops were, with that exception, in the 10C per cent class.
 As quitting time arrived last Tues | Qdy evening, hedS was WdlleQ upon Dy committee which informed him that
 they were going to make an example | of such a stacker. Reas then said that | he would have bought a bond if he had known that this thing was to come off"
 With face painted a bright yellow | his hands tied. a rope around his necl | and a sign on his breast. the man wa. paraded through the streets and fol. lowed by scores of men and hootinl boys.
 Not Held Responsible Reas apparently cared little or noth = ing about the proceedings and made nt objections to any of them. it is said h The demonstration ended when the DO n lice took charge of Reas and placed g him in the city jail
 e While there was some talk last nigh
 of an investigation into the affair witl
 possible arrests as consequence. thes
 probably will come to naught after tn
 statement by Dr. Nichols that Req
 had been insane for some time an,
 that ne did not hold the recent treat
 ment accorded him as responsible flo = his present condition.