New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-17

tired of the fat in which we lived ana yes'e'-
dav afternoon started out at | O'Clock 70 engage
new APARTMENTS If She could find anF 10 sun
her She must have gone straight TO the Grand
Hotel and engaged a room there linen e'i-
IDENTIFY she returned home. for she was BACK py
o'clock She said she had not been abe 70
find anv nov place 20 live in. She took bath
and dressed carefully. soins away rom 'he
house aean At a5ou, ] o'clock. That is all J
know Of her movements.
Il have no idea Of who could have killed her.
She was lovely woman and a good mistress
Her husband was terribly Jealous of her. but
don't think he could have been guilty II such
a cruel crime that
4 MAN FRIEND IIASTENS TO SURRENDER
A detective remained at Miss Reynolds
fat In the afternoon the woman's mother.
Mrs Christina Reynolds Of Mount Vernon.
called al the Ffty-cighth-st house 20 visit her
daughter When she heard Of the crime she
cried out "They have murdered my child FOR
her money" Mrs. Reynolds aftorward said her
daughter had been studying for the stage under
Professor Stephenson. at Carnegie Hall
While the murdered womans mother was be
ing questioned a telegram arrived at the hat
1t was addressed to Miss Reynolds. and came
from No 20 Broad-st. 1t was as follows
VIII call tonight Have been very busy.
Mrs Reynolds said that the telegram came
from an old friend OF her daughter. Wall-st
broker named Maurice Il. Mendham. who had
ar office at No Go Broad-st. Before they were
able TO find Mendham he turned UP at the
West Thirtieth-st. police station with his at
torney Joseph Moss. Mendham admitted that
he had sent The telegram and that he had
known Miss Reynolds for some time The no.
tel people. however, said he not the man
who accompanied her to the hotel. and Mend
ham convinced the police that he was in no
way concerned in the murder of the young
woman.
THE DENTIST ARRESTED
| Mrs Reynolds was taken to the West
| Thirtieth-st station, where she was detained as
witness. She said that her daughter had
! drawn $500 from the bank Monday, because
dentist whom she knew was going to invest II
for her in a horse race and mad promised her
800 per cent interest. 1T will be a good thing,
she told her mother This Saturday
! She added that she to meet the dentist at
| the Grand Hotel. and asked her mother TO give
her something TO hold $4,000 Mrs Reynolds
| accordingly gave her the satchel with the GU
| rious clasp. which found beside the dead
| woman after the murder
This was the most important piece Of evidence
which in the opinion of the detectives, had up
| 10 then been elected The result OF this. and
| other Information. was that Samuel j Kennedy.
dentist of No. 90 West Twenty second-st-
| who lives at New-Dorp. Staten Island. was ar
| rested.
| CALM UNDER POLICE EXAMINATIONS
Mendham was still the police station when
| DR. Kennedy brought in. The dentist had
| been taken into custody at his Office. He was
calm. and from the start denied everything ex
| bo had He
greeted Mendham whom he said he had met at
| Miss Reynods's fiat famarly. eXclaiming
you've got me into HI of lot OF trouble.
! Mendham did not answer
| Kennedy is twenty five years old. and con
| ducts a prosperous dental business with his
! father. in TWentysecOnd-st. He is married ana
has child He would not say where he had
| been on Monday night, except that II was not at
the Grand Hotel He wore felt hat but his
SUIT of clothing was much like that described
| by persons at the hotel as having been worn by
the man with Miss Reynolds Kennedy said.
however that he had not worn a straw hat for
| years The man who accompanied Miss
! Reynolds straw hat, the hotel people
| said
Within an hour Of the time at which Kennedy
was arrested he had been placed in the rear
| room OF the station with dozen otntr men.
Then all the people at the hotel who had seen
! the man with Miss Reynolds were called IN, one
al a time TO see if they could identity him He
was positively identified by five persons. includ-
ing the chambermad, the waiter, Davis, the
colored bellboy; the elevator man. and John J.
]
sure Kennedy was the he had seen leaving
the hotel after O'Clock in the morning.
Kennedy remained through il all as cool and
! collected as ever insisting that all VINO identi-
fed him were mistaken. The police told him
/ they positive that the Endorsement, s. J.
| X" on the worthless check for $4,000 his,
and Kennedy said nothing. The police asserted
that he could tell a remarkably interesting tale
# he chose and toward midnight II
n1orcd that he was weakening in his denias.
but no responsible police official would confirm
this. - ~ - -
There are two facts in connection with the
murder which the police regard as having the
| greatest importance one is that the muir
dered woman. Immediately before her death.
| was wearing valuable pair Of diamond ear
rings which are missing now. Mrs. Reynolds
| told the detectives about these ornaments. and
| when a second examination Of the body was
made it seen that both ears were torn.
! though the earrings had been jerked violently
! from them II is supposed that the murderer.
| in his haste to get away. snatched the ear
| rings from his victim. and in doing so tore
the skin.
At the request OF Coroner Bausch Dr. OHan-
lon performed an autopsy on the body yester-
| day afternoon. At first II had been supposed
that death was caused by fracture OF the
skull. but a careful examination showed that
this was not the case. but that the spinal YER
! tebrae had been dslocated. DR.. OEanlon
confirmed the discovery Of the police as 10 the
torn ears.
ANOTHER ROBBERY IN THE HOTEL.
The other fact in addition to the discovery
as TO the missing earrings is regarded by the
police as complicating the case to certain
degree The robbery and murder Of Miss
REYNOLDS were not the only crimes committed
in the Grand Hotel on Monday night. Theo-
dore Vail the Chief Of Police Of Atlanta. Ga.
arrived in New York Monday In order TO
arrange for a garbage consuming plant for his
| civ He registered at the Grand Hotel, and
occupied "A room directly opposite Miss Rey-
nods's He had $50 with him in bills. which
he pinned to the mattress under his pillow on
LII, In, hn morning