The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-16
SAW TEE WOMAN ESCAPING
Witnesses in the kep.
more HoteI Tragedy.

r % Take Cha -e-c of the EcG2a : MS
The Police Think They VIII Soon
BE III a Position 10 5InI&e Arrests
I Arrests in the Kenmore Hotel murder
case MY be made this afternoon or to
night. The detectives have learned that
several persons. other than those whose
statements were quoted yesterday, claim
II have seen q woman descend the fire
escape from the room Of James s. Ayers,
jr-, the young man shot to death IN the
hosiery carly yesterday morning.
T Coroner hewitt rcasserts his opinion
that Ayers wounds could not have been
/ scIf-infIcted, and q careful examination
of them discloses the fact that the man
was probably in reclining position at the
time they were inflicted.
James Seymour Ayers. the father If The
. Ge-,J man, arrived in the city this after
noon, and Will take charge of the re-
mains of his son tomorrow morning, after
the Coz Gner-S jury has been sworn in it
is the purpose Of Coroner hewitt to hold
/ the inquest tomorrow morning at Il
o'clock at the New jersey Avenue police
station. but If the Developments in the
meantime warrant it, he viii indefinitely
postpone the inquest after securing the
jurors
From the statement of one of the fire
/ men al the truck house opposite the Ho-
tel Kenmore. it appears that Someone may
have escaped from the building shortly
/ after the shooting. as he heard what ne
I 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 a mi
CrOSCOpiCaI and minute examination of the
supposed blood marks about the building
and in several places wall paper that was
supposed TO have been smeared with blood,
has been cut out 10 be used as evidence.
The Government officials. from the Po-
lice Department TO those in the Office Of
the District Attorney, are exerting every
effort to fathOm the mystery and their
reports are most encourage Photo
graphs of all the important blood marks
and every point Of interest have been ia
ken and VIII be preserved for future ref
erence.
Yesterday evening an eighteen-year-oId
girl, whose name Is said TO be Agnes Mar
cey, Of 50 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 he
had been quite intimate with her and he
+ had confided in her in regard TO many Of
his affairs. Hiss Marcy said Ayers had
told her that since his mothers death his
home had not been q pleasant one, par
ticularIy since his fathers second mar
rage She said she saw Ayers Saturday
before last and wanted him to promise
that he would take Ier 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.
Z c. Mueller. on Fourteenth Street near p
/ Street. He had talked to her of nearly
all of his affairs. she said, and had
sured her that he drank and was not
good boy He had never spoken Of any
( acquaintance at the hotel, the girl de-
-clares-
William Wolf. fourteen years old. who
sleeps in a second-story room at 227 North
Capitol Street told the detectives this
morning that he had seen a woman de
scend the fre-esca0e. 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 wom-
an. dressed in black, leave the window Of
a room on the fourth floor Of the Kenmore
Hotel and descend the fre-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 parl0r 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 st0ry-of the boy is confirmed by
other occupants OF the house TO whom he
tod Of what he had seen before any word
had reached the house as to the finding
OF the body. Several freGen assert that
the boy spoke Of the matter to them some
tin= before anything was heard Of the
finding Of the body Of. OF the comnotion
at Tie hotel
Earl Ryan. 2 fireman. who was on duty
I 1t The ticker at the truck house oppo-
site the hotel from Iz-i0 TO 2:49 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 chat the reports were those
: of fo-pedaes probably placed on the rail
road tracks Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad just below the hotel. Under the
/ regulation governing tie fire department
! Nj Ryan was not permitted to leave his
/ scat by the ticker. on which alarms are
/ received He thought that he heard loud
+ talking just before the shots were fre5.
/ A few minutes later he heard the sourd
I Of retiring feet, as though some one was
running down the street
/ Chicago with her daughter. occupies the
I second floor front room Of 2n North Cap
I ftol Street. Tuesday night she was una
/ bic q 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 fire-escape- Mrs. Taylor
: was out shopping this afternoon, and it
/ was Impossible 70 verify this statement
/ It 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. Nj Ayers was
/ never known to carry Il revolver how
/ ever, and why he should have left it on
/ the table when ne had finished packing
/ all Of his effects preparatory to leaving
/ the house the following day is another
of the unsolved mysteries. All Of his be-
/ Ionginss were packed in his telescope
/ vaIise which was tightly strapped, OF in
I his trunk. which pas locked and the key
| ia his frpuserr vocEaf