New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-25
SUICIDE OF AN ACTRESS.
JEALOUSY DROVE HER TO THE CRIME
MRS. JESSIE DEAN REYNOLDS PUTS A BULLET
IN HER HEART AND FALLS DEAD IN
HER HUSBANDS ARMS


HER HUSBANDS ARMS
Unreasonable Jealousy led Jessie Dean Reynolds,
age twenty eight, to kill herself early yesterday morn
ing I'm her home No 94s Ninth-ave. She had been
an actress from childhood until about two years ago
Her husband, William II. Reynolds, had been an actor
but lately he has been in the employ Of the Automatic
Telegraph Company, at No. 29i Broadway. Ihey
married nearly six years ago, when botn were
the stage. They had two children living Ing
family home in well furnished fiat on the hrst moor VI
the Ninthavc. house About two years ago MIS-
Reynolds began TO exhibit marked Jealousy Of her
husband. although he spent his evenings at nome anu
carefully RETAINED from going to places Of amusement
except in her company.
ON his return from a business trip once he learheu
that She had purchased revolver with the ih'ehton
Of killing herself but the dealer who sold the weapon
had refused 10 LET her have any cartridges Reynolds
hid the revolver but his wife aerward found IT, She
made repeated threats to commit suicide, until her
husband became less disturbed by such talk, believing
that she did not mean what she SAID once Sne
threatened to drown herself at Niagara FAILS ana she
went so far as to buy ticket for the Falls at the
Grand Central station. but she missed the Tram ANU
her husband found her III the waiting'room
Lately her brother Hugh GlassfOrd, has been lWn2
with the family. One day he borrowed a bunch Vi
keys from Reynolds get into the Hat at night ana We
slipped strange key on the ring MIS- hcSn''u'
aferward noticed that key in the bunch and accuseu
her husband Of in1delity.
When Reynolds went home Thursday evening no
found his wife NJ the writing desk she said she was
writing a letter 10 her brother in Railway n j.
After dinner she and her husband ofother Anu a
friend H. Brindenstcn played cards Wui "o''"
midnight. When Glassfori and his FRIEND brahuch~''
had gone 10 their Reynolds won't 20 po"' ou' n
wife said she would sit up little longer 10 90 sumo
mcndlng Reynolds fell asleep. but was aw"holou a.
l n. H. by a noise near the bed. HIS VIE ia"
.b nad
bed and bureau. and had taken out reVo'er "hl''
she had kept there loaded. She was holding VIC
weapon in her hand and was IN the act oil pl"on'S
two letters on the bureau when her husUanu d"
Ho spranC ont Of bed 10 stop her, Dht sue p'"oo "0
muzzlc Of the revolver against her breast anu "fo'
Tx bnlct went close her heart. and she zen Id h'
arms. seusclcss and dying. HIS frantic cries LOT
holm called Hugh Gla,,lord who ran 70 summon DR..
Robinson Of West Fifty eighth'st policeman hcho'n
entered the fiat with the physician DIT. Robinson
examined Nrs Reynolds and snid tha. she was dead.
The policeman. who suspected that WuIe1 n"u a.,
polre sS;on in Vest Forty seventh IT REYNOLDS
look along tho two Ie,tcrs which his %n@ mao WIN
sergeant Chapman opened il and read the ioNo"lhs
You told tonight You would not GTcS' y %' orroW
ITry ne Vim iii. ROBBIE not by him but vim hm;
br, win S' and Je nv Wedding ana ,ttic .iyGr
watch. when they shall become ca 'houL ,rd me IA,
Give susie my desk and ll.h all ~ 200 %C Viii Vouii
Dbl have. II NuIr linlh' N'.'
~, th. children which hcr duty. would iNr w. 20
Ga,' then Nll forgiven. and will soon D.
t,ood-hy forever. ~, .
The other letter addressed 10 Mts. Key hou-
father. andrew Gla--fori. who i've IN hnn"a4, -,
rho sergeant instantly sent Reynolds ana "i3''i"i'l
home Ecynold, srid that he never had t',n ~, VIC
thet he would le glad when -hc was dctd iit a..
ted hat there never hal been any cause TOT h'r ILL.,
sane jealousy. - ,,h,o. - An.
rr,,r t;f,---ord -he NounE Wh'h SW'
lcf, ,hn stage that she never gained the same U'
a,rcai reputation some of the other incmocr' oil
her family IS child and mp to the Tine 81 h'r
marriage She was known a. Jessie ,lh-'i",n ana
- r,.r~ia-. "A, Ic-ric Dean. Her -l-t"r. l.lli'
LOGAN H. I'm one 81 the travelling LNc"uin c"ini -
aud her brothers are also well known among u"hti
Dal nCor,lo Her father is remembered hN many To-
r,r DoftU the actor, II what f. known as inc "ll
.rbool~ a., tho leading man ~ som" a" me th'''i, ''
t. ,ty many v,ar- ago. IT, rs ,tlll or me sag
,, i r.'tiou b, less prominent. as hc did nor ,".
t-r, -, newer methods lu acting and could not b"Ii
hi. place with younger men. The family nome j. 30
Railway, y. J.