New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-06

luT Iu,NuY D. IABI~rlp of CoiriE WHO
NfIlrn IHrM-rTNr- ~ sAN BuNO.
The mystery of murder aud suicide winch oc-
CURED in q hotel at sau Bruno settlement near
san Francisco. CAL. ON september has been
partly cca Cd up by the discovery of the idcu ity
of the supposed murderer and suicide Jamos Leon
ard REYNOLDS The circumstances of the tragedy
are briefly a. follows: On Friday, September -. a
Young and fa,hionaby dressed man accompanied
bv a handsome and stylish bruLottc. droy" UP to
the hotel m san Bruno and remained over night
They spent money freely and drove away IN the
morning rctuming again urday night. ON sun
day afternoon they ordered some frozen ahsiuthc,
and the woman waa heard 10 say 81 wonder II W."
will turn black after We are dead" She added
" This world aud more aud her companion finished
the sentence with: And then the end
shortly after O'Clock IN the evening wa muliled
reports were heard ia their apartment IL was sup
posed that the noise had been caused by closing a
window hut soon aitcrward the suspicion ot the
hotel proprietor was aroused that things were not
all right IN the room of hs two guests. lie pro-
ceeled with his clerk 10 the room and found II un'
locked. Upon entering they saw by the light OF
a candle. the dead bodies Of the man and woman
living upon the bed with blood saturatinc the pill
lows and dropping down upon the floor The
examination showed that life extinct in both
The woman Law on her left side with her hands
crossed and upon her breast lay the mead oi the
man / he woman had been shot IN the lett ear,
and the man III The right car. In his right hand the
man cutchcd thiIty-two-ca!lbIe revolver. In the
pocket of the man found card WIN
the name upon it of j.. l.. Reynolds. mere mere
was also written IN pencil upon the ear NY
mother saddrcss. Mrs. Is. L. Gould, No. 40, stare
St Broohlvn s. Y" 1t was ascertaned mat
rhe widow was Mrs. Mary McCabe vino lived win
her parents AT No l, 1879. Missl3i-st, San ran ran,
wears ago and none of her friends were aware ot
her acQuautance with Reynolds, or knew any 'hihs
about him He was inferred III Redwood CITY.
A brief associated press dispatch dated Seplem
Der 10Th was published in the papers OF this city,
giving the facts of TIE tragedy, ana me reporters
aud police made inquiries AT No: l'o, Hiai'c-sl.i
Brooklyn, but il denied tnat Mrs. 1ouiu llseu %
there or that the tenants knew anyImhg apouV
such person. 1t is now learned th..' James
ard Reynolds, one of the victims OF tne rageuff,
was a Newark man, and went 10 California ohIy
three wears ago. tie was twenty-ihree years
of age. His mother, who married seconu
time, was the wife of joseph uou.u, no"
deceased. a wholesale tea and coffee merchant
IN Newark Young Reynolds was "a student aU
Princeton College and aferward studIed III IaW II, III
the office of Cortlandt Parker, In Newark ne theh
lived at No. oil Mount Pleasanl-aye Reyholus
was well known and much liked In Newark So
cety He was light complexoned, OF medium
height and always exquisitely dressed. AL tIinee .
ton he took great interest IN rowing anu a1iioso'
and afterward became well known among t,lf ,t lom
ing clubs on the Passaic River course nen ~
went 10 San Francisco he took position Win
Pagot, Upshay 4 Co., and afterwafu was cin
ployed by the California Electric Light COMPANY
His Newark friends heard from him occaslohant,
and his mother was just completing nIans;Ianee
10 90 to San Francisco and take up hef Iesiueneo
with him when she received the news oil his tfasio
death.