Williams news., 1920-02-27
WILLOBY WAS THE NOT
 ( ED LEHMAN FLY OF COAST
Detective Gives Mrs. Reinhart
 Credit for Locating Car.

It develops that the man, Will liby, who sold a stolen car here last September. was the man who performed the marvellous feats of climbing. the sides of brick buildings in a number of cities along the coast. and won the cognomen, E'The Human Fly" He was a confidence man and crook of the first wa ter, from information that has been gathered about him, but his downfall seems assured. Ac- cording to a letter written by the detective working on the case, Mrs. G. H. Reinhart de- serves first credit for securing information which led to the identification of the car and it's owner.
 Willoby, with the woman whom he introduced as his wife, arrived in Williams on the 24th of September-three days after the car was stolen from Bakersfield. The woman was unconscious from the effects of opium, upon the arrival of the couple in Williams. Dr. Melick who was called to administer to the woman, states that he'-. condition was such thatthe task of bringing her back to life seemed almost hopeless. How ever, after two days of careful attention given her at the Rine7 har hospital, she recovered and appeared to regain almost nor mai health. Williby stated that the woman was given an hypo- dermic injection at Se1igman by the physician there, and that she finally lost consciousness at Supai. This explanation is con sidered impossible by Dr. Mel ick, as such an injection must >nave taken effect much more promptly. The suggested so- lution of an overdose of opium taken with suicidal intent seems far more reasonable. At any rate the woman was nearly dead when she was brought to Williams.
 Pleading for his wife who lay i'll at the hospital. and claiming ownership of the car and other property, WiHoby won both sympathy and credit :: first from Mrs. Renihart and Dr. Melick and subsequently, } from MT. Spellmire and other business men about town. Tax ing advantage of this favorable wind, he ran bills at a number of stores claiming that he would soon have funds to settle all of these. Working on the sympa- thies of G. H. Spellmire, he fin ally secured five hundred and fifty dollars on the security of the car, which he asserted he would soon return to claim. With this money he paid off most all of his bills about town with the exception ofhisbill at the hospital. This he managed to evade while promising to re- turn in a week or ten days ] to settle. He also made a number of additional purchases about town so that in the end most of the five hundred and fifty re- mained in Williams.
 3 When the seven days had lapsed, with no return of Will -loby, Mrs. Reinhart, who had put herself out in a thousand ways to aid this 3c oupIe=w had won her sympathies, began to look about for the payment ot her bill. She called upn MT Spellmire and asked him to set. tie it on the strength of the SC. curity which he held in the car MT. Spellnnire insisted that no4 he but Willoby, owed this bill and asserted that. he had. al. ready advanced all the car was worth.
 Mrs. Reinhart then set about { to see if Willoby had really owned the car. She went tc California and consulted witT the police in Los Angeles ano with the Automobile Associa ton. At last, in a pair of. over
 alls left at the hospital by Will Ioby, she found receipt giver him in Bakersfield. This she turned over to the officers ane soon it was learned that z
 Chandler car had been stolen il Dc 1r,acG oIL H.. .4 G.