Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-07-29

He also knew nobody else woult
be in the house that night.
He knew the way up a dark'ant
winding stairway.
If he entered the house before
Mr.. Renaker did, he found &
ready hiding place in a large clos
ct in the bedroom.
He knew how to leave through
different exit from the entrance
he used, and he knew how to turn
off the lights at the rear switch
Mrs. Hazel Philips, wife OF
VIM. Phillips, proprietor Of an
automobile agency and garage
Friday reitedated her story OF
hearing a scream about l o'clock
Tuesday morning,
A cry for help" Mrs. Phillips
says, was followed by some
words she could not understand
and which since have haunted her
She tried in vain since yesterday
to recall the words she heard
while hall asleep, and which seem
ed to her at that time only a
Dire am.
She was awakened by the cry
and woke her husband. she said
lie looked from the window anG
seeing no disturbance, told her
there was nothing to worry about.
She remained awake more than
an hour. Because Of the heat,
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillips had sept
with their heads at the foot of the
bed and Mrs. Phillips was lying
with her forehead against the
window sill.
The bedroom of the RenaKer
home in which Mr.. Renaker was
slain, extends from the back part
# the home. Mrs. Phillips not
ed that this room was lighted
before the cry was heard. Shortly
afterward, the light, she said, was
out.
The arc lights on Lexington av-
enue are lighted all night, while
those ON Potomac avenue, run
hing behind the Renaker home,
are out after 10 o'clock. The en-
ire yard back of the residence on
Lexington avenue was lighted TN
Ill any person passing through
the rear Of the house could have
cen almost as plainly as in the
ay.
No one was seen to leave and
O other sound was heard, Mrs.
'hillips declared.
This leads to the belief that the
murderer of Mr.. Renaker remain
d in the house for a long time
.fter the killing, probably in the
darkness.
In connection with the cries,
which weer heard, County Alter
ey Moore said last night that
bruised places upon the neck of
dr. Renaker's body showed plain
Y that he had been choked after
he blow from the pipe, which
would have been fatal.
Caught unaware of any danger,
either while reading a newspape'
or after asleep, startled by flash
light thrown into his face, the
victim sustained the death blow
and then, as he uttered the cries
heard by Mrs. Phillips, in his fiaa
agony was choked to prevent fur
the outcry.
That Mrs. Phillips may recall
the words which followed the cry
for hep seems beyond possibility
She was not fully awake at the
time and the cries evidently were
but muttered groans.
In Speculat1ng upon the poSslDll
ity of a motive, the investigators
have almost exhausted every line
of reasoning.
Al scoff at the possibility of
for motive, since the
valuables in the room were un-
touched, and while part of the
cash Mr.. Renaker was said to
have had on his person has not
yet been found and may have
been taken td divert suspicion. one
seeking money would not have
left a job SO carefully executed
from the start without collecting
the spoils of his crime.
AS to business difficulties or
any disagreement of long stand
ing, Barrie Renaker said today
there was no possibility of this.