The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-06-12
DOWN TO DEATH.
'x-Aad's"r ~ the Treasury Heyaold. Take.
Header PROM the Third Iioor 10
the H"tania Below andis
Picked ~ "a Corpse.


,, Of X. N. Reynolds, OF Washington n.
ID. e., Firs, Aadtor Of the United States
Treasury. Mr.. Reynolds arrived at the
hotel az about eleven CLOCK last night.
lie was assigned 10 room 272 upon
the third door, ana retired to bed al
most Immediately. The last seen OF
him until this morning was by the bell
boy, who showed him 10 his room.
AT five minutes 10 six this morning the
clerks, bell boys aud early birds Ii the
rotunda OF the hotel were startled
by the dull, heavy sound OF
human body falling from great dis
lance upon the fagstones Of the floor. Ii
was the body OF H. NJ. Reynolds, who had
Jumped or fallen over the railing on the
third moor around the opening over the ro-
tnnda. >. IL. Long. one Of the hotel
lofters, who saw tsr body in Its gvra-
hons through the air, ran 10 Rcynoldss
assistance. He picked him up and seated
him In chair. Dir. Powers. VINO was
Immediately sent for, made hurried ex-
animation, which developed that REYNOLDS
had broken his back, fractured his skull
on The right side, and broken his right
leS AZ the thigh. Rcstoraiiyes were sent
49, oat otlole tueN arrived
RLN>oLDs WAS DEAD
The police were notified, aud an ambu-
lance ratified up TO the door of the hotel
"ilhin short time IN which the body
was conveyed 10 the Morguc
}. ii. Long, who witnessed the fall
from the third story, speaking 10 a re-
porter, said. I'll was sitting IN A chair
directly TO one side OF the openin. over
the rotunda reading paper when heard
rushing, whizzlng sound. Lookin. 10
saw Reynolds body flying through the
air al rapid rate. Al the second story
the body turned a half somersault. in-
creased I'm velocity, aud struck the far-
stones OF the floor horizontally on Ms
right side picked him % ami carried
hiin 70 a chair, doctor was sent for i'm
meNiately. but REYNOLDS expired within
two minutes after b. fell.
~ appearance he was about sixty
years Old, gray and bald with small
Musiache AMI scanty chin whi>kers. He
weighed about two hundred hounds and
was well dressed In rrayish wooden suit
Of wcll-iitting Clothes.
Mr.. II. {, Lewis. the manage Of ,he
hotel. was seen 1t the southern. iinmedi-
ately after his return from the quest Of
Mt REYNOLDS friends "it was iu,f six
2 Clock said ne. .'Whcn he was awak-
ened and told that one "a the quests had
killed himself. went al once "a fhe
room on the third floor where Mr.. Rev
nolds had passed the night and found IL
Inii 81 gas, so fnli that II Wa almost i'm
possible TO breathe in Il. Ihi- was the
more remarkable a. the gas was turned
on N ne room ana was not leaking. the
ped nau pecn sicnt upon ana tic toilet
stand showed that REYNOLDS had washed
lrtf So.
The soap vas still wet | then went and
examined The body There j. an air shift
,r >kylighf which cuts through each floor
y the hotc' ani wnlcn j. carefully rallied.
'lr. Reynolds had either lcanel oyer or
,inDcd over this railing on the Third
100. ind Tell 70 THE rutuuta Pavement.
~ course the shock killed him at once.
The noise Of the tall j. said 10 have been
cry loud. 1t startled the n.rht
Jerk and the nicht watch ana
vas heard by people IN distant
arts 81 The hotel. II was a most hor-
ibie thing medical examination was
naue Dy pr- Powers. who rooms nj the
otei, and Il was found that Mr. Rev
oids' skull was fractured and one Of his
egs badly shattered. II seems that he
ell rather on his side ne must have
lrned 10 the air The base of his skull
'as also badly crushed aud he was bsced-
~ from his ears. he was. ~ course.
licked up NJ once an everything done
DR. him that could DC done, hut lie was
cad.r
You found some letters on his per-
on?-
Yes, but they were turned over to the
oroncr without examination. There
as this address. however, scrubbed on
piece OF paper: q. II. Aihcrs. los n.
bird street | got Mr. AIbcrs' house
idress out Of the Directory and went
at there At once. MIR. Aibers knew X.
|. Reynolds we'll. lie was the First
uditor Of the Unitci States Treasury,
ID his home was In Washington. ID. q.
Z was ia 81 Louis on his way to KAN
-, where nc meant to buy some lands
GLOW old man was hep
ABOUT sixty years, should say.
mt think, under the circumstances,
at II can be suicide As far as we can
u al this hour there would be no rea-
u for Il. lie may have fallen over the
Hing accidentally
MS OFFICIAL POSITION.
Robert VI. Reynolds was First Auditor
the United States Treasury Depart
cnt aud his name was recorded ia the
ne Book Of Federal officers published
1881. He was born In Ohio, and was
pointed from Alabama. Ills salary was
900 year. Inquiry at the Internal
venue Office shows that his name Is
~ familiar with all Internal Revenue
~, as his special duty was 10 audit all
cr checks and all drawbacks.
The place where X. NJ. Reynolds drop
4 70 his death is not fifteen feet away
,m the cigar stand In the front Of the
tcl. lie either fell or jumped through
the southeast corner Of the shaft on
E third floor. The distance which ne
| IL about sixty feet. At seven o'clock