New Britain herald., 1927-09-28
REYNOLDS FOUND
 IN DINING BOOTH
Missing Heir to Tobacco Millions
 in St. Louis

St, Louis, Sept. 2s lP The search for Richard J. Reynolds
 one Of the heirs 10 the Reynolds Tobacco millions, ended here last
 night in q quiet booth of a Grand avenue restaurant.
 Private detectives found Key holds dining with q pretty young
 woman companion who later van iShed, and with man who id.n- liiied himself an Fanshaw Jones.
 IT vas Jones, a racetrack acquain- tance Of Reynolds, who tipped ;he Hargraye detective agency 10 Roy holds whereabouts. Earlier in the day Jones offered to produce Rey- holds for 5000 The agency, after E"tting in touch with the trustee Of inc Reynolds estate. agreed 10 pay h" money.
 The finding Of young Reynolds rlosed 2 search which had spread rom New York to Chicago, St. Louis, southern Illinois and 10 Flor ida, At first, when one of the de t"ctives asked him if he were not in" missing president of the Rey- holds AlrWays, Inc, Reynolds made dcnals. When the qucstioner per sisted. Reynolds acknowledged his identity. He said he merely had been on vacation and had been liv- ing under an assumed name to pre- vent being "botherol"
 After being qr stoned al the of fec Of the detective agency, Rey- holds left in an automobile with such speed that pursuing news paperman's car vas easily outdis- tanccd. He said he was leaving for New York today.
 T told Capt. ManvilIe Davis where l was going he expostulatcd. T haven't done anything criminal. If the man in New York whom I told where l was going had merely delivered q message, this wouldn't have happened" He seemed per turbed over the publicity his vaca- ton was drawing.
 Reynolds, who is q years old, ex- plalned that he had gone to Chicago 10 see the Tunney- Dempsey fight From there he came 10 St. Louis, whcr" he registered under the name of "ile"r' at the Claridge hotel. Then followed afternoons at the Failmount race track near here and evenings at the dog races.
 He denied that he had s5.onD when he left New York, explaining that while he had drawn that amount from the bank, all hut s70n was given 10 John $. Graham a business associate living at Winston Salem, x. C., tho scat of the Key holds Tobacco plants.
 This continued for II days, he said, until yesterday morning he woke lip to find his disappearance In th" headlines of q St. Louis morning newspaper.
 The end of the search came after pay the s3,000 10 their informant who negotiated with them over the A promissory note for he amount was mad" out last night but C. (. Huston, manager of the agency Said some more invcStigat- i ing must bc done" before it would l be turned over 10 the man he called ! ''FanshaW Jones'"
 Jones tol"phonod the agency at . 0:@0 last night but hung mp the re- l rclVer before the detectives could . talk 10 him. Calling again he direct : nd the detectives to the Grand Inn . where he said they would find Rev holds "on the left sida in the fifth ,ooth." Driving 10 the restaurant, he detectives confronted Reynolds with the question::
 This is MT. Ecynolds?"
 Reyn olds at first said h" was John '. Graham. but readily admitted his IWn Identity after learning that the detectives knew that Ora ham was a business associate. By this time his woman companion, described as 24 cars old, blonde and well dressed, iad slipped from the circle of de- cctives and reporters. Her name vas not learned.