Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-10
MAN ACCUSED OF $10O,0OO SWINDLE
 HELD IN KANSAS
Burt Reynolds Called Most Audacious Operator in
 West

Hutchinson, Kan, April 8.--Spe- cial agents for railroad and express companies have captured what they believe is one of the most audacious and successful swindlers who has operated in the middlewest in the last decade. He is accused of hay ing embezzeled approximately $10O,- 000 in the last few years.
 Burt H. Reynolds, as he is known here, is one of the mans many names. He is in the Reno county jail in default of s20,000 bond Key holds is wanted in dozen cities in three states by both state and fed eral authorities on embezzlement charges, officers say Seven war rants have been issued from as many places for the prisoner, who has gone under at least six aliases.
 Reynolds. although the Reno county officials are determined to hold him, is likely to be removed from the jurisdiction of the Reno district court by an order from the federal court at Wichita
 He was arrested at Mountain View, Okla, last week by c. P. Futile, spe- cial agent for the American Railway Express company, and has been ar raigned in Reno district court on two warrants. The bond was fixed at $10,0O0 on each warrant. Hutchinson officers say they will try him there oTf at least two more charges of the same kind and demand $1O,O0O bond in each case, so that the prisoner will be under $20,000 additional bond. They are following this course so that it will be impossible for him to obtain bond.
 Posed as Railroad Agent.
 The accused man is described by officers as appearing at small, out lying stations where the agent acts jointly for the railroad and the ex- press company He carried forged credentials which proclaimed that he had been sent as relief man. The regular agent would leave his charge to Reynolds, who would disappear after he had time to collect sufficient money for his purpose. Reynolds has entered no plea to either of his arraignments.
 Although q federal grand jury in Texas has returned an indictment against the prisoner for alleged em- bczzlement from the railroad ad- ministration, Reno county court of ficials declare they will honor no papers for his removal, even from al superior court. unless on direct or der from the United States district court.
 T am confident we will find many more places in which the man has operated said Martin AalmorA deputy prosecuting attorney. "Il think we have merely scratched the surface of his record.'
 One of the arraignments was onl charges filed against him by the ex- press company and the Missouri Pa cific railroad. The fact that the man is alleged to have operated dur ing the period of railroad adminis- tration makes possible the filingi against him of federal charges, and makes an even more serious affair
 Operated at Many Places. \
 Special Agent Futile arrested Reynolds, then acting as relief agent the name of Paul Phillips, just in, time to save $1,000 in railroad and express funds, it is said.
 Listed among the railroads which fell victim to the alleged swindlingI game arc the Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, Santa Fe and Missouri, Kan -sab and Texas. When Futile arrested him. Reynolds is alleged to have had trickets and $1,000 in cash ready to leave. Seven hundred dol lafs of the money was taken from him at once. and $500 is said to have been found later in his shoes.
 Intervention from the Wichita federal court will come either from application from the Texas federal court, or from the making of case out of the alleged robbery from the railroad administration at Turon, Kan.