Evening star., 1898-08-19
THE REYNOLDS MURDER MYSTERY.
New York Police Confident They Can
Prove Dentist Kennedy GuiIty.

The New York city police are satisfied
tnat they have so tangled up DIR. Samuel
j. Kennedy. whom they charge with the
murder of Emeline Reynolds at the Grand
Hotel that escape is impossible for him.
The facts will be presented to the Sep
tember grand jury, which will be asked to
find tru> bill against him.
the police theory of the murder, as 1t
mas been set up with the assistance of
the district attorney, dismisses the robbery
motive. The murderer did not in their hs-
lief, Kill the woman TO get her jewelry:
probably he did not mean TO XIII her AT All
he came to the hotel to get possession of
th4 evidence of forgery and fraud which
she held in the shape ef the forged check
for $4,000
Kennedy WIS desperately hard up. the
police say, and had been playing a dan
gerous game. He had got money from Miss
Reynolds on pretense of putting it into
race gambling in which he had a sure
thing. The very day OF the murder he was
TO get $500 from her. 1t was necessary for
MIN TO show good results from previous
operations, they say, and he hit upon the
idea of writing check in the name Of
Dudley Gideon, hoping to convey the inn
preston that he was Dave Gideon, the
horSeman, and SO back UP his assertion
tnat he had pull of the first order He
did write out the check, and 1t worked as
desired But the fraud would be discovered
as soon as the check was presented, and
then the game would be up
he went to the hotel, the police say, pre-
pared TO get Ii by force, If need be. Wheth-
er he dosed the woman with choral or
struck her down first, he failed to find what
he was after. He thought she had tina
check upon her person, and she did. but
SO tucked away in her clothing thai only
when the clothing was removed for the
autopsy was its hiding place revealed.
Furious with disappointment he killed her
ana SO closed her mouth. The jewelry she
wore he took aftarfhpnpht 1ad
They have half a DOZEN witnesses who
saw Kennedy with her. He denies that he
was there. and gets himself tangled up in
dozen contradictory stories. They have
tne eva dence or his underclothfng streaked
with lead, which they say was stained by
the lead pipe with which the woman was
Killed. The marks are not to be mistaken,
they say.
There is still another piece of evidence
Wbicn the police consider final and con-
elusive. 1t is a torn scrap of paper found
IN the room where thu murdered woman
lay. The detectives picked it up and pasted
IL up with various other little scraps found
in the room.
When put together they were found TO
make leaf from prescription pad, con
tanning the printed words, Milk of Mas.
Eesla: One scrap was missing. 1t was
lound on the fire escape, just outside the
room.
When all the pieces were put between
panes of glass and the whole turned over
upon the back of it was the name, in bis
handwriting, E. Maxwell and wife"
II was the name agreed upon by the two
for the hotel registry that day Evidently
they had been in the habit of sending each
other word, using such odds and ends of
paper as came to hand.
Ihe detectives went to his office and
found the pad from which the leaf had
been torn. The pad and the leaf complete
the chain of evidence that Kennedy was
In the hotel with the woman.