The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-17
A MYSTERIOUS MURDER
YOUNG WOMAN BEATEN TO DEATH
IN NEW YORK HOTEL
Piece of Gas Pipe Used as Club-Her
Money Stolen and Diamond Ear
rings Torn from Her Ears.

NEW YORK. Aug. ia woman was
murdered last night in the Grand Hotel, at
Thirty-first street and Broadway. The body
was found in room this morning. The
head had been beaten in, apparently by a
piece of a lead pipe. The woman was iden-
titled as Miss E. c. Reynolds; of this city,
1t appears that Miss Reynolds went to the
MOTEL at 1880 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
In the registry she wrote "E. Maxwell and
Wife,, and room was assigned to her. Be-
tween and o'clock she was seen walking
through the dining room with man appar-
emily about thirty-five years of age. The
couple left the MOTEL about O'Clock, but
the time of their return is not known. Some
time after they had returned a bottle of
wine was ordered to be sent to their room.
At 9:45 o'clock this morning a chambermaid
found the woman lying dead on the floor
The man was gone. BY the body of the
woman lay a blood-stained piece of lead
pipe, sixteen inches long and one and
half inches thick. One end of the pipe had
a piece of cloth wrapped around it as ham
die. AS yet the police have obtained no
trace of the man.
Miss Reynolds lived with her father. Ed
ward Reynolds. a contractor and builder,
and mother. sisters and brothers. When
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ter's death she exclaimed They have MUIR
oered my child for her money! She after
ward said her daughter had intended to
visit dentist yesterday. and had gone to
bank and drawn some money Mrs Rey-
nolds said her daughter had drawn not less
than $500. Miss Reynolds according to her
mothers statement, was only twenty years
DID, While Mrs. Reynolds was talking a
telegram came, addressed to the murdered
girl. 1t read: will call tonight Have
been very busy The telegram was signed
M. Il. M" and had been sent from No. 20
Broad street. where there is cable office
Mrs. Reynolds did not know from whom the
telegram came.
Theodore Vail, chief Of police Of Atlanta,
Ga, who arrived in this city yesterday.
occupied a room adjoining that of the MUIR
dered woman. Chief Vail says that before
retiring last night he pinned $3.50 in bills
under his pillow to the mattress. When he
awoke this morning the money was gone
When the woman came to the hotel she
wore handsome pair of diamond earrings,
supposed to have been worth $3.50. These
were missing when the body was found
and had evidently been torn violently from
the ears In her pocket only 60 cents were
found.
All autopsy OH the DOQy showed tndt the
woman's death had been caused by a dslo-
cation of the spinal vertebrae. The skull
was not fractured as at first supposed. On
another search of the clothing of the woman
check on the Garfield National Bank for
$l3, coo was found made out to Emma Rey-
nolds'' and signed by Dudley Johnson
AT the bank it was said that the check was
not good. Nine dollars in bills was found
under the woman's corset. One of the dia-
mond earrings was found, but the right ear
showed that the other earring had been
roughly torn away.
After some hours of investigation, and
upon statements given by the mother of
the dead girl, DR.. Samuel j. Kennedy,
young dentist of this city, was arrested and
is being held upon suspicion of the muir
der. The fact that not only the murdered
woman was robbed. but another robbery
committed on the same floor. incline the po-
lice to the belief that the woman was killed
in an attempt to prevent robbery.