The sun., 1903-12-26
WOMAK'S B0DY m BACK YARD.
SUICIDE, POLICE THINK, hut NO
g. MOTIVE is KNOWN.
Mrs. ReIner Apparently Killed by Fan
From the Roof or the window OF Her
Third Floor Flat--NIarks May Indi-
cate struggie-Ecr LOdgers Held.

Mrs. RtIner Apparently hhieu u! iiai
From the Roof or the window OF Tier
Third Floor Flat-NIarks May Indi-
cate a struggle-Ecr LOdsers heid.
Mrs. Rose Rener little German woman
who made her living by taking in washing
and by keeping some dodgers in her -four
room fiat at 1853 West iOoth street, was found
dead yesterday morning in the small back
ward of the apartment house. The back
OF her head was completely crushed in'
al though from fail The police and the
Coroner worked on the case all day yester-
day, but late last night they were unable
70 say whetherithe woman was murdered,
conmitted suicide orSwas killed through
an accident. The police seemed inclined
more 70 the suicide theory than any other,
but. had little to base it on save vague
staries said to have come from nefglrbors
that she had suffered from severe head
aches of late and seemed depressed.
John Bennett, the ianitor, first saw Mrs
Reners body lying on the rain soaked
Tagging 1t lay face down. with the head
lust a foot beyond deep areaway, that
was directly beneath the window of Ben
rett's fat. Bennett ran hatless and col
larless to the West tooth street police sta
tlOu, ABOUT toI"H NoOlS d"t'' CIV 'S'N
what he had seen.
Policeman Covle hurried to the apart
mont house with Bennett, and after hasty
examination OF the body, which looked as
II It had lain all night where it was found
went upstairs to the Rener fiat.
In one. of the four rooms he found man
and woman fully dressed. They said
they were Patrick and Emily Carney, man
and wife Carney gave his address as loe
% West l03a street. Mrs Carney said that
she was waitress at 1880 Amsterdam ave-
.. nue.. They said they had roomei with
Mrs Reiner until four weeks ago Thurs
day afternoon they returned, and again
engaged room. z
They came in from n Christmas .ceebra-
ton some time after eidnight, they said,
gnd. finding lGir room occupied by an
AhsSsman lay Aew1 Sn Mrs. keiner'a bed
to.~Hit forAer t6-Tetutn. Both fell asleep
at opte, they saitt, and had not wakened
Until the policeman; reused them. Both
denied any hnowledge. OF Mrs. Rciner's
6eath. Ent the policeman arrested them
On suspicion. '.gfatnr after they had been
remanticd 10 tle Coronr. the latter decided
, to hod them, but merely as witnesses:
4 ThA. police also tqok into custody as a
I witness Joseph kloeber, n butcher helper,
and Fred Kemmerlng a wood engraver,
, roth ofSASAfaSkre aiso lodgers Of the dead
sernsr. rlKtoet,Af ~aii the man whom the
I c'arnays, ,ioiliAd4 III thAlr bed. He had come
home sl, a ,on. ohr'stmqs Iacssd sSs
J ke SAN tathing lpis ~ German y oman,
and being .tirfd out with his days work
itnnne diatelp retired.a
Tho 0aneYs woke him up and demanded
his bed, he said, but he slept like top and
heard ffe, sound OF anyesort.
kemmeriihs, the ther ledger. was locked
up when he came to thc fiat, several hours
after; w, ;EeineEa.s 1tsdH H.; was r. found He
his story was 50 ta9sbling that he was also
Carness and kloebef On 500 bail each
Kemmerlng- was unahlet TO get bail and was
sent t0 the,HouEe of Detention.
Everything in the dead woman's fat
arrived, sSdy there was not the slightest
: -eFideAee- 3ef-~a stFnggle.--Ihe -tWa-~ rear
windows, one of which was almost over
the spot Yhere her body was picked up,
were cloxsd and this led, to the theory that
the~Smsn hadson to the roof and thrown
The fsct that Kloeber found the door
unlocked strengt hened this belief, although
the wotnan's body bore slight injuries for
go long faik Coroner Scholer was un-
able ,s tS andss, any S bones s were s broken h eE
Coroner did. find, however, peculiar red
marks ON the woman's arms and wrists,
which he said might have been the result
Of a struggle. Tenants of the adjoining
, apart msnts, howerFt. said, as did the Car
neys and Kloeber, that they had heard no
unusual sounds in htrs. Reiner's fat.
Mrs. Bennett, the janitor's wife is the
last person. who saw Mrs. Reiner alive.
She met the little German woman going
upstairs to her fla about 5 o clock on Thurs
day .aftdrnpot: The jani'ors wife also is
who heard the woman's body fail.
Mrs. Bennett was rocking her baby to
sleep near back window about 7;3O o'clock
the sar4fn evening when she heard a sound
as Of soR5, heavy 'ellng falling. At the
Same instant her child cried out sharply
s9a NJ aas ssnnt 1as Dss" at freS ssy
10 undesststxl the ehild's action until Mrs.
Reiner,s J, hady va. found YESTERDAY. Then
OF the,body 'ftash past The window.
= Mrs. >Rensrohad about $50 tucked in her
Sas @ % a ohor 6o ,enants 20 nue said add
they knew NegN4littls, oi the dead woman
she had any friends and nonc came to claim
her body or TO, tell CT her history. Her
husband died Some years ago, and she
also had child, but lost it after her hus-
band death. II or the tHo years thai she
Had lived in ,W4s, Tooth street almost her
sole companion has been large gray
ard white cat, which she, called her "hoy."
She was very fcnd Of this cat; and tenants
on the top, foor OF too adjoining house,
1ro. said that they had often heard her
on the ,roaf p tls evening calling it from
4 very lt6elyE she light have gone up there
Christmas 'eve, become confused in the
storm and tumbled or been blown over the
eaee. ..-.'
On Sept. 30 two Young men. Mart in j.
Eebar Of * East kenney street and Harry
raun cf 4ai Mulberry sueet. Newark, who
hsd rconed in Mrs. Reiners fat for several
Gays. We're arres;ed on her complaint, ,
charged with rohb ing her of clot hing
worsb e6s Debsr admitted being the thief,
and was sent 10 the island for six mont hs.
cor A CROOK ~ WALL STREET.