The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-16
saw TIE WOMAN ESCAPING
Additional Witnesses in the kar-
more HoteI Tragedy.

; 10 Take CIsa=ae of the Remains
The Police Think T-E,ev VIII soon
BE IL, II Position, 10 Make Arrests.
Arrests in the Kenmore Hotel murder
case may be made th5s afternoon or to-
night. The detectives have learned that
several persons other than those whose
, statements were quoted yesterday. claim
To have seen d woman descend the fI-e
escape from the room Of James $. Ayers.
il. the young man shot to death in the
hosiery carly yesterday morning
Coroner hewitt rCasscrtS his opinion
that Ayers wounds could not have been
seIf-inficted, and 4 careful examination
, OF them discloses the fact that the man
was probably in a reclining position at the
time they were inflicted.
, ! James Seymour Ayers. the father of the
J Gcs;i man. arrived in the city this after
noon, and viii take charge Of the re
/ mains Of his son tomorrow morning. after
the Coroner's jury has been sworn in 1t
Is the purpose of Coroner hewitt to hold
/ the inquest tomorrow morning at i
, O'Clock at the New jersey Avenue police
station, but If the developments in the
meantime warrant It, he will indefinitely
postpone the inquest after securing the
; jurors
From the statement of one of the fire
! : men at the JEuck mouse opposite the T1G-
! tel Kenmore. It appears that Someone may
, have escaped from the building shortly
! after the shooting. as he heard what he
believes were footsteps of a person run
, ming. Dr.. Edward NJ. Schaffer. one of the
best-known experts in such matters in the
( country has been engaged to make mi
/ croscopical and minute examination of the
supposed blood marks about the building
and in several places wall paper that was
err-,
has been cut out 10 be used as evidence
The Government officials from the Pc
/ lice Department to those in the office Of
the District Attorney, are exerting every
! effort to fathom the mystery and their
reports are most encouraS ing. Photo
/ graphs Of all the important blood marks
and every point OF interest have been ia
: ken and viii 5e preserved for future ref
, / eTenCe.
! Yesterday evening an eighteen-year-O
girl, whose name IS said 10 be Agnes Mar
cey. of . New York Avenue northeast,
called at the home Of Coroner hewitt
and said that she was extremely DESTROYS
OF seeing the body
She was positive. she declared, that
! Ayers had not committed suicide, as be
; had been quite intimate with her and he
had conGGed in her in regard 10 many Of
his affairs. Miss Marcy said Ayers had
told me- Ll3L since Ms EEnLIltI = ILLiAt HIS
home had not been pleasant one, par
ticuIarIy since his fathers second mar
! rage. She said she saw Ayers Saturday
, before last and wanted him to promise
. that he would take her to a dance last
Saturday, but he replied that he feared
that he might be drinking and refused to
, make an engagement
! Miss Marcy says she first met Ayers in
} March at the dancing school OF Allen D
c Mueller on Fourteenth Street near P
Street He had talked TO her Of nearly
, all Of his affairs. she said, and had as
sured her that he drank and was not a
good boy. He had never spoken Of any
: acquaintance al the hotel, the girl de-
; c!ares.
William Wolf fourteen years old. who
/ sleeps in a secoud-stoTy room at 81 North
/ Capitol Street, told the detectives this
( morning that he had seen a woman C
I sceud the fire-esca9e. He was awakened
by the pistol shots and, jumping out Of
+ bed went TO the window where a few
minutes later he saw the form Of q WON
an. dressed in black. leave the window -
; a room on the fourth floor OF the Kenmore
Hotel and descend the dre-esCapc to the
balcony on the first door, where she en-
tered the second window from the north
end Of the building This window leads
into the public parIOr Of the hotel which
Is rarely occupied at this time OF the
night. and from which access can readily
be had to all parts Of the house without
attracting attention
The story OF the boy is confirmed by
other occupants OF the house, TO whom he
told IF what he had seen before any word
had reached the house as to the finding
Of the body. Several fireTuen assert that
the boy spoke Of the matter TO them some
time before anything was heard Of the
finding Of the body or Of the comTcSticl
at the hotel
. Earl Ryan Z fireman. who was duty
IT the ticker at the truck house oppo-
site the hotel from 12-iJ to 2,40 O'Clock on
the night of the murder. heard two shots
quite distinctly, he says, although the
doors Of the house were closed. He at
first thought that the reports We're those
Of to-pedoes probably placed on the rail-
road tracks Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Just below the hotel Under the
regulation governing TIE fire department
Mr. Ryan was not permitted 20 leave his
seat by the ticker, on which alarms are
received. He thought that he heard loud
talking just before the shots We're fired
A few minutes later he heard the sound
of retiring feet, as though some one was
running down the street
Mrs. Taylor who recently came from
Chicago with her daughter. occupies the
second floor. front room Of 2f North Cap
itoI Street Tuesday night she was una
bic 70 sleep and getting out Of bed sat
by the front window and read for some
time. She says she heard the sound Of
voices followed by three pistol shots. She
is also said to have seen the woman go
ing down the fre-escape. Mrs Taylor
was out shopping this afternoon, and il
was impossible 70 verify this statement
1t is believed by the police that the
pistol with which the deed was committed
was the property Of the dead man Sew
erai persons have testified to having seen
him with such a weapon Mr.. Ayers was
never known to carry a revolver. how
ever. and why he should have left it on
( the table when he had finished packing
/ all Of his effects preparatory to leaving
the house the following Gey is another
of the unsolved mysteries Ali Of his be-
/ lodgings were packed in his telescope
vaIise. which was tightly strapped. or in
his trunk which was locked and the key
/ i'm u fs trousers T,1cLy4f