Seize 'Skyscraper Burglar' on Con Game Charge
Melville Reeves, known as the skyscraper burglar, was locked up in the Evanston jail last night on a confidence game charge. Evanston police arrested him at his home in Glenview on a warrant obtained by Miss Gertrude Kroger of the Kroger furriers, 701 Main street, Evanston, charging that he had defrauded the house of $62.50. Reeves is alleged to have put 1 $100 government bond as security for a cleaning bill. Returning the next day, he took the bond to get it cashed, saying he would return, but he did not keep his word, police said. [Chicago Daily Tribune, March 2, 1933, pg. 11 - Submitted by source #96]

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