Evening star., 1932-08-05
Parent Speeds to Carolina
to Arrange Bond on
Charge of Murder.
REFUSES TO SURRENDER
DAUGHTER TO OFFICERS
Declares She'll Be Produced cat
Proper Time"-Alleges Indict-
ment Is "Frame-up."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CINCINNATI, August 5.-The spot
light of law, powered by a charge of
husband murder, groped across the
Ohio stage today for Libby Holman,
torch singer.
1t was known that Miss Holman,
widowed when a bullet left young
Smith Reynolds cher husband dying
across a bed in their chamber a month
ago, was at a country retreat" and
that she was i'll, under the care OF
doctors and nurses.
Whether her illness had any rela-
tionship to her tortured cry in a
Winston Salem hospital room a month
ago-the anguished cry of My baby!''
was not known. When her father,
Albert Holman, was asked last night
if approaching motherhood was factor
of her illness, he said only that that
was "a matter of record"
When officers showed him tele-
gram from Winston-Salem asking that
the 26-year-old singer of torch songs
be arrested for the murder Of her hus-
band, he refused to recognize it as a
legal warrant.
At 1.-The proper time" he said. she
would appear to answer the indictment
which charges her and Alb Walker. 49,
year-old friend of young Reynolds,
with numbering the young heir to to-
bacco millions.
Leaves to Seek Bond.
He would say only that she was ill.,
under the care of doctors and nurses,
at country retreat.
Hclman. short and trim, and In af-
fable mood. left for WinSton-Salem last
night by train. In the Southern city
he said he intends to plead for bond so
that his daughter may be spared the
humiliation" Of spending weeks behind
bars while awaiting trial
His affability was new-found, how
ever. Earlier in the day he stormed
that the indictment of his daughter was
a "frsme-up" Still later he turned
away officers who sought to arrest her.
Denying Libby was at sisters home, he
curtly refused information on a frame
up" when officers sought to learn her
whereabo
He pufIed his pipe sngrily and tipped
the pages of his magazine impetuously
as he talked Of the indictment against
his daughter. Again he charged the
sheriff Of Forsythe County, N. c., the
solicitor there and others involved in
keeping alive the investigation of Rey-
nolds' death with "self-seeking" and
with striving to make political capital"
of the case.
Convinced of Her Innocence.
"I am firmly convinced she is inno-
cent" he snapped. IF / had any
thought whatsoever that she had any,
thing to do with the Staying Ct this boy,
1 would, with tears in my eyes, be the
first to ask that she be punished.
Again he asserted that the physical
facts surrounding Reynolds death in
evitably pointed to suicide
Holman denied reports the young
widow was in Delaware, California or
New York. He parried questions as to
whether she was in Ohio.
Earlier he had stoutly maintained she
was not at the home of a sister in
suburban Wyoming, Ohio, where she
took refuge after interrogation at Win
ston-Salem, following Reynolds death
July D.
AS he sped toward North Carolina,
Holmans attitude had changed much
from the afternoon.
We all have our crosses to bear" he
said. This is the greatest I've ever
borne. And my poor little girl. How
this affects her is indeccribable
Holman. who says he Is Libby's only
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