New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-17
MURDER AT THE GRAND.
WOMAN BEATEN TO DEATH AND
ROBBED IN HER ROOM
THE WEAPON. PIECE OF LEAD COVERED
CABLE TIE CHIEF CI.Ew TO HER SLAYER
"A DENTIST ARRESTED on susPl-
CIoN AND IDENTIFIED BY
THE HOTEL EMPLOYEES.

THE HOTEL EMPLOYEES
The most sensational murder with which the
police Of this city have had 10 deal Ior
MANY months occurred yesterday. Elizapeth Z
REYNOLDS twenty years old who is said 10 nave
been studying for the stage. was found win her
head crushed in a room of the Grand Hotel
at broadway and Thu ty-frst-st.. early yester-
dav morning One arrest has already peeh
made but the case is a mysterious one, ana the
police are making use Of all their resources III
order TO fix the crime on the guilty person.
The man arrested or suspicion Is DR. Sainue'
T Kennedy. young dentist; Of No. 10 west
Twenty second-st
There is little doubt about the motive io'
the murder. Miss Reynolds was Killed SO i@'
as is known at present, for the sum oi CIV
which she drew out Of the bank on MONDAY anu
which was missing when the BODY was ioui'N'
The crime was apparently preMeol'ateu anu
carefully planned The weapon WIN WIN"
tho murderer killed his victim was found few
feet from the body. II looked Ike piece
Of lead pipe and was al first so reeardeu ny
the police. but more careful examination sHo"eN
that it was a short section of lead-covered wire
cable Of the kind used in underground eiec'i'0"'
WORK One end was wound with Insulating
tame which nnenlen use in making joints ana
was bent in order to form handle lbs Is
taken bv the police to prove that the crime was
planned beforehand. and was not the result
like the horrible Hawley case of last week OF
sudden anger or lunacy.
Miss REYNOLDS occupied a fla NJ NO. so west
Fiftv-eighth-st She known TO her frlenos
as "Dollie." Her mother is Mrs Chris'i''d
REYNOLDS of Mount Vernon. Mrs. Reynoios ue-
clared Yesterday that her daughter hao peen
studying for the stage for two years her
father is Edward Reynolds a contractor Oh
Mount Vernon.
REGISTERED FOR A COMPANION
The girl went to the Grand Hotel a little
after noon on Monday. She was alone but
registered as e Maxwell and wife, BrooK-
lvn." She was assigned to room No 81 on the
fourth floor At about . o'clock she took
luncheon in the dining room of the hotel Inc
charge for the meal was put to her account, anu
she went out of the hotel She returned al y
o'clock in the evening, accompanied oy man
about thirty-fve years old. He wore oarK
blue serge suit and straw nat ana hau d
dark mustache He was of medium height the
pair took dinner. and then went out.
Returning at about II 30 o'clock. the man
and woman went TO Miss Reynoldss room
Soon afterward they ordered bottle OF chaih-
pagne which was carried TO them by one or the
hotel bellboys a colored boy named Davis
When the womans body was found the empty
hottie and two glasses were on tapIe near
her One of the glasses was half-hlleo Win 'iie
wine and this Is supposed by the police 10 point
10 the suddenness and unexpecteohess VI ''7
attack on her Lenahan the elevator man, saw
Miss Reynolds's companion going out al ABOUT
pa m "Sneaking out, Lenahan caileo It, ou'
~ he Ciy
at the time. vsy =
AT few minutes before 10 O'CLOCK YESTERDAY
morning Mary Higgins, a chambermaid OF the
hotel when making the round Of the rooms IN
her charge tried the door Of No. ~. and found
I, onen This in her own words. Is what she
saw: plur ID,
THE door gave when pushed on IT, ana l
walked into the room ! saw the woman lying
on her back. with her arm outstretched'
,houch, az first that she either asleep or
merely unconscious but as soon as l looked at
her face and saw the awful wound III her heao
] knew she murdered
DETECTIVES SOON ON THE SCENE.
In a few moments all was confusion IN the
hotel The chambermaid ran downstairs as fast
as her legs could carry her. and, hall fainting'
told the clerks in the office what she had seen.
PROPRIETOR
hannened 70 he in the office He at once sent a
messenger to the West Thirtieth-st ponce s'a-
ton. and told the clerks of the hotel to allow
no one but the police In the room "here t"o
woman was murdered
CAPTAIN Price was at the police station When
tho messenger arrived The first thing he did
was 10 inform the Coroners office. Then. win
detective Farley and his other precinct man.
he DeVery
Informed. and Chief of Detectives McClusky'
with several Central Office men, arrived at the
scene Of the murder almost as soon as the OH
GERS OF the West Thirtieth-st. station.
After looking at the body the detectives ex-
anned the employees Of the hotel They learned
wha, has already been told Then they turned
70 the body again Miss Reynolds was found
living at the foot OF the bed, with her rlgnt arm
thrown over her head. the hand lying across
her face She completely dressed ohe
wore a white linen shirt waist. with lace inser-
ton In the middle. plain dark SKIRT ana me
black patent leather shoes. Her straw hat lay
on q chair near the bed Her hair which was
fair. was stained with blood from three wounds
in her head, where the weapon had struck her-
The piece Of cable with which the crime had
been committed lay on the floor about ten rect
From, the hodv. II was sixteen inches long and
about an inch in diameter, with wire ABOUT an
eighth of an inch thick running through II.
FERMENTATION PLAINLY SHOWN
The weapon. carefully prepared as II was
proved to the detectives that they were deailhg
with a case of murder deliberately planned ana
executed with fiendish cunning. Their task was
70 find the name Of the murdered woman the
motive, and the murderer.
The first thing the investigators did was 10
make careful examination OF the woman
clothing and effects. \ locked satchel was
found. the sides Of which had been ripped open.
In e pocket of the skirt was found a pocketbook,
ard in IL a piece of paper on which was