Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-19
KENNEDY IN ABAD FIX,
Police Convinced the Dentist Murdered
Miss Eyeline Reynolds.
NEW YORK HOTEL MYSTERY,
botive For the Crime Alleged by the
Authorities to Have Been Rccov.
cry Of Forged Check
For $4,000.

New York, Aug. 19.-The police are
convinced that in DR.. Samuel j. Ken
nedy dentist living at New Dorp, N.
Y, they hold the murderer of Eveline
Reynolds, young and beautiful, who was
found murdered in room 81 at the Grand
hotel Tuesday morning. She had regis
tered about noon Monday, telling the
clerk that she expected her husband
The line she wrote on the hotel book
was "E. Maxwell and wife, Brooklyn"
From the murdered woman's ears had
been torn pair of diamonds, weighing
three carats each and valued at 81, 900.
Two valuable rings We're gone from her
fingers. A chamois bag which she al
ways wore about her waist, containing
her jewels, was missing Her small
black reticule, in which she placed $500,
had been split open with a sharp knife,
and the money was gone.
The weapon used was a piece of lead
pipe, an inch thick, wound with bicycle
tape at one end and curved at the other
to form q convenient handle. 1t was
burglars bludgeon, the cruelest, dead
lest weapon that the police are familiar
with. 1t was not the sort of weapon
usually discovered after hotel murder.
why He Was Arrested.
What caused DR.. Kennedy's arrest
was a worthless check for $4,000 found
on the body. 1t was Endorsed IS. j.
Kennedy" and the handwriting was the
same as the dentists. When Captain
Prices detectives took him to the West
Thirtieth Street station house, long
string of walters, hallboys and elevator
conductors positively identified him as
the man who had spent several hours at
the hotel Monday night with M SIS Reyn-
| olds.
So confident are the police they have
| the right man that they have revealed
| important discoveries that go to form
| their case Dr. Kennedy, they have
learned, was in financial straits. Two
months ago he began to try to raise S3
500 on his property at New Dorp.
1t has been learned that when the de-
| tectives made a search of the room in
the Grand hotel on Tuesday a number
of bits of paper were found in the room
and on the fire escape. These were
gathered up, taken to police headquar-
tiers and pasted on piece of glass. II
was then seen that it was piece OF
dentists pad, On one side of which "E
Maxwell was written in the prisoner
handwriting. A search of kennedy's
office brought forth pad of Similar
| sheets.
Miss Reynolds shirt waist was un.
buttoned and torn, as If a desperate
hurried effort had been made to fint
some object concealed there. The che
so eagerly sought was concealed un 1s1
the waistband of the young woman:
skirt. The murderer's desperate fling r!
had just missed it.
Ripped the Valise Open.
The slit in the black valise has nov
been drawn by the police to the sup
port of their conviction that the recoV
cry of the $4,000 forged check was tn
motive for the murder Dr. Kennedy
first act after the crime of which the!
declare him to be guilty was to cut opel
the valise in the hope Of finding the in
eliminating check.
In the black valise was all OF MI
REYNOLDS jewelry ten rings set witt
diamonds and cther precious stone
and q diamond hr och. These the " uni
woman brought t. tie hotel at Dr. X en-
nedv's request, the police say. Aft
rifiny the valise' Of the valuables l'l
Kennedy, lhe '''''''e N'lN 49, ,..
thesbody on the nNor, tore the amor
earrings from the ears and then rpre
omen her shirt waist in vain hunt I"
the check.
DR. Kennedy spent the night in &c
at police hearGu9 rters. He slept F'fhd
w. like a man WHO has no trcuhl
: his mind If he is guilty, his sell cen
: troll is marvellous. In all tie ordeal
questioning he has never shown IRA
of weakening not even when the t"i
, n,ents of the murdered young Woma
we're stretched out before him
The evidence gait e"cd by the po!lo
will he laid before the grand JURY y
Assistant District Attorney MrIn'yr
An indictment arai~st Dr. ken"edv 70
murder in the fist degree Will pfo'a''