Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-16
kICkY KRISTEN,
 MASTER MIND IN BOND THEFTs, HELD
Dodger D0dges Way to Office of the District Attor-
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New York, May 15.-Jules W tNicky) Arnstein reputed master mind' of New York's s5.o00, ,000 bond theft plot, was arrested here today in the district attorneys office when he appered there with his wife. Fan nie Brice, the actress.
 Arnstein told reporters he had been in Pittsburg all the time the police have been looking for him. The elusive "Nicky" for whom the police from coast to coast and even the Canadian authorities have been serching since last February in S finally fulfilling his oft-repeated promise to surrender himself. appear , cd at the district attorneys office bright and early.
 Business his wife. he was accom- panied by William J. Fallon, his law yer. They patiently waited for at taches of the office to arrive.
 Five minutes after their arrival Detectives Edward Ravens walked up to Arnstein and, by order of Assist ant District Attorney Rorke, placed < him under arrest.
 "Nicky" retained his reputation as < successful dodger of police until s the last.
 Taken to Ravens office, he de scribed to newspaper men an en- trance into the city undetected by him for months.
 According to his story, he arrived at the Pennsylvania terminal from Pittsburgh at o'clock this morning and went directly to Columbus ave nue and 9Oth street, where, by pre- arrangement, he was met by his wife in her automobile. He used hel machine, he said, because the police had listed the number of his owr : car.
 Finding Miss Brice and MT. Fallor awaiting him. he entered the machine and drove down Fifth avenue with them in broad daylight Despite the fact that his pictures, with ad. vertisements offering a reward fol his arrest have appered in newspa rers all over the continent he sped down the thoroughfare unrecognized
 Just to heighten the effect, "Nicky' ran into his police pursuers, thou sands strong, forming for the an nual New York police parade.
 The Arnstein car was held up fol several minutes as the blue coats fel III line anu when ne COHtIuucu OH Hls way to the criminal courts building "Nicky" passed mile after mile o1 policemen, reviewing them from hi: machine, as it were.
 Bail for Arnstein was fixed a # S75.O0O and he was sent to the Tombs in immediate default of bail.
 The indictment against Arnsteir specifically charges him with crim inallv receiving s42,000 worth oi CTucible steel stock certificates stol en from Clark Childs and company last October.
 Arnstein admitted it was touch ant go at one moment when the machine passed the grandstand erected for tht police parade. He arose from hi. seat and mock;ngly lifted his hat tt the high officials of the New Yorl police force. Fearing he would b. recognized, Miss Price pulled he, husband down into his seat and som' of the police misinterpreting thu scene, concluded it must be figh and started toward the machine, bu swere reassured by the three passen gers and returned to the parade.
 A score of detectives were leaving the criminal courts building when thu Arnstein machine arrived there. Jus to make spectacular finish, Arm stein had the car driven around tn building several times.
 An elevator operator and not detective. was the first to recogniz the elusive "Nicky."