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RAYNOLDS FLEES THE TOWN NOW AT THE HOME BASE Collusion and Conspiracy and Every Device Known to the "System" Employed to Keep Raynolds Afloat Until a Blanket Arrived. Second Force of Experts Now Uncovering Evidence, and its Some Mess. has been panned out by the second With the passing of Sheriff Harp set of experts now at work. as his custodian last Friday night, Among the many sidelights that L. M. Reynolds, who was a prisoner have been thrown on the Reynolds in his custody on a criminal charge, system of banking is the fact that dug up the bonds necessary to guarozed out the last few days that a antee his appearance at court-and certain bookkeeper in town was used hit the high places for the home as a stool pigeon against whom was plate in Albuquerque-where the ice was not so thin and the warrants not steered loan prospects-and applicants for loans at the bank were reso thick. ferred to him as the local Solomonso many questionable and crooked in fact he has made loans and dug up deals were found by the examiner coin that would rival the capers of and his deputies in the first examin Death Valley Scotty and yet Dunn's ation-and the many startling dis or Bradstreet's or the corner grocery closures and discrepancies-and the do not have him picked for a "sure whole flock of skeletons that were shot" risk. brought to light from out the dark Mystery and deficits and bum I o recesses of the empty vaults have U's and criminal complaints are still led to a second examination which is the top liners in theHolbrook branch now in progress-and it is generally believed that when all the various of the Raynolds system of bankingand L. M. is safely back to the home trails are blazed by this examination base where a family reunion is probthere will be a good sized job for ably being held to celebrate the "rethe prosecutor and grand jury. turn of the prodigal." It is generally believed by those The Raynolds system expose has who have made an effort to keep tab probably caused more interest in on the case-and by the documents banking circles in the southwest now on file at the court house, that there will be enough incriminating than any financial bustup for many years. evidence hung upagainst the home The News has been besieged for inoffice of the Reynolds system, the formation by banks and financiers First National of Albuquerque, to ask from every quarter of Arizona, New for a requisition on the governor of Mexico, Texas, Colorado and OklaNew Mexico for certain men in that homa-and you can take the tip right state that connived with this bank to here-they'll get an ear full before the last echoes of the Holbrook esloot the Holbrook depositors. pose has been effaced from the balThe case has not taken any new ance sheets of the receiver and the angles this week and will not until criminal docket of the superior court of Navajo county. the whole reeking mess of conspiracy
