Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1919 — BROOK SOLDIER UNDER ARREST [ARTICLE]

BROOK SOLDIER UNDER ARREST

In Seattle for Theft of <3OO in Chicago, Says Tribune. 1 Beryl, alias "Billy” Reed, a 24-year-old ex-soldier, has aspirations to shine as an actor in musical comedies and has even gone so far as to plaster his black hair down with vaseline and receive his mall , under a name similar to that of 1 a well-known (musical comedy actor. Due to these traits he Is now in Jail at Seattle, Wash,, awaiting extradition to Chicago to answer a charge of stealing S3OO from the Trenier hotel, 407 Oakwood boulevard, on July 3. L. A. Reinert, proprietor of the hotel, signed the fugitive warrant yesterday, which was procured by the William J. Bums Detective agency, which located Reed in the coast city. Detective Sergeant Johnson left last night to bring him back. • According to the detective agency, Reed got out of the army in June and secured a job as night clerk in the hotel. He received word from his' family that a reunion would be held at the family home at Brook, Ind., on July 4, and the hotel alleges "Billy” walked .away from his job and took S3OO to finance his trip back home. He didn’t come back. — Sunday’s Chicago Tribune.