Evening star., 1927-09-28
REYNOLDS AND GIRL
COMP PAN|0N FOUND
Missing Heir to Millions Dis.
covered in St. Louis Cafe.
Woman Disappears.

by the Ass0Hl2ted Press.
ST. LOUIS. Mo. September @S.--
The search for Richard ]. Reynolds,
one OF the heirs to the Reynolds to-
hacco millions, ended here last night
in n quiet booth of a Grand avenue
restaurant.
Private detectives found REYNOLDS
dining with Il pretty young woman
companion, who later vanished, and
with a man who identified himself as
f'anshaw Jones.
1t was Jones. Il race track acquaint-
anCe of Reynolds, who tipped the Har-
grave Detective Agency to Reynolds
Whereabouts Earlier in the day Jones
offered to produce Reynolds for $4,000.
The agency. after getting in touch
with the trustee of the Reynolds
estate, agreed to pay the money.
Admits His Identity.
The finding of young Reynolds
closed a search which had spread from
New York TO Chicago. St. Louis. south
ern Illinois and to Florida. At first.
when one of the detectives asked him
ii he were not the missing president
of the Reynolds Airways. Inc, Rey-
nolds made denial When the ques-
TONER persisted Reynolds acknowledG-
ed his identity. He said he merely
had been on vacation and had been
living under an assumed name to pre-
vent being bothered"
After being questioned at the office
Of the detective agency. Reynolds left
in an automobile with such speed that
4 pursuing newspaper mans car was
easily outdistanced. He said he was
leaving for New York today.
Il told Capt, Manville Davis where
was going" he eXpostulated. Il
haven't done anything criminal If
the man in New York whom ] told
where ! was going had merely deliv-
cred a message, this wouldn't have
happened" He seemed perturbed over
the publicity his vacation was draw
ing
Attended Prize Fight.
Reynolds. who is Il years old. OK
planned that he had gone to Chicago
to see the Tunney Dempsey fight.
From there he came to St. Louis.
where he registered under the name
of Fleet" at the Claridge Hotel.
Then followed afternoons at the Fair
mount race track near here and eve
ningS a the dog races. He denied
that he had $4,000 when he left New
York, explaining that while he had
drawn that amount from the bank. all
but 500 was given to John =. Gra-
ham, a business associate living at
Winston-S Salem, \. G., the scat OF the
Reynolds tobacco plants.
The end of the search came after
the detective agency had agreed TO
pay the $4,000 to their informant, who
negotiated with them over the tele
phone. A promissory note for the
amount was made out last night, but
c. c. Ruston, manager of the agency,
said ''some more investigating must
be done" before it would he turned
over to the man he called "Fanshaw
Jones'"
Jones telephoned the agency at $50
last night, but hung up the receiver
before the detectives could talk to
him. Calling again, he directed the
said they would find Reynolds ION the
left side in the fifth BOOTH" Driving
to the restaurant, the detectives con-
fronted Reynolds with the question:
This is Mr.. Reynolds"
Woman Disappears.
Reynolds at first said he was
John S. Graham, but readily admit
ted his own identity after learning
that the detectives knew that Graham
was a business associate. BY this
time his woman companion de-
scribed as "a years old. blonde and
we'll dressed. had slipped from the
circle of detectives and reporters. Her
name was not learned.