People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — Minister Turns Thief. [ARTICLE]

Minister Turns Thief.

Portland, Ore., Feb. 7.—Shortly after noon yesterday a man entered the First National Bank of East Portland and presenting a revolver called on Cashier E. T. Holgate, who was alone In the bank, to throw up his hands. The cashier complied. The Intruder bound and gagged him and then began tc empty coin trays into a sack. He was seen from the outside and captured The thief was identified as Rev. J. S Reid, a Baptist minister. After his arrest Reid said he had nothing to con ceal and asserts that desperation drove him to the commission of the crime.