Evening star., 1932-07-11
REYNOLDS FRIEND
UPHELD IN PROBE
Actress Backs Walkers
Story-Fifth Person Found
to Have Been in Home.
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ran out on the balcony, inside the
house, and saw Walker run upstairs
from the reception room.
Unofficial reports said Walker testi-
fed Mrs. Reynolds was at the head OF
the stairs near her bed room adjoining
the sleeping porch when he ran up
the steps. He said she was "hollering."
Walker is reported to have said Miss
Yurka helped him carry Reynolds from
the sleeping porch. but her testimony
was quoted rs being that Walker
brought the body from the porch to the
interior balcony and that she helped
him from that point
Meanwhile all occupants of the house
were f1ngerprinted for comparison with
marks found on bath room door Of
the house.
Romance Is Probed.
Authorities delved today into the ro-
nance of Reynolds and Miss Holman
and his history for the past several
years. searching some clue to the mys-
terry surrounding his death.
Ore story was that Reynolds had a
narrow escape from death by shooting
| on Long Island outing almost year
to the day he was found slain
Sheriff Scott said he was informed a
bullet pierced Reynolds shirt on that
occasion.
Out of the inquiry into the romance
came for the first time the details Of
their marriage.
They were married at Monroe, Mich,
November %. 1881, by a justice Of the
peace. They announced their marriage
in New York last May and it was re-
ported then they were married in Ha-
waii as Reynolds, an aviation enthusiast.
was returning from trip by plane and
boat around the world.
Six DAYS After Divorce.
The date of the marriage was Just
six days after Reynolds first wife.
Rnne Cannon, secured a divorce in
Reno
Miss Holman revealed the date and
place OF the marriage at the first ses-
sion Of secret inquest held by Coroner
w. N. Dalton, behind closed doors at
Reynolda.
The inquest was to be resumed this
afternoon
So far as has been made public. about
all that has been disclosed by the in
vestigation here has been these salient
points:
l. Reynolds was shot about ! am.
Wednesday morning while on a sleeping
porch adjoining his wife's bed room.
He was carried to a hospital uncon-
scious and died there at dawn without
making statement.
2. In the house at the time besides
THE household servants we're Mrs. Rey-
nolds, Blanche Yurka, New York act
ress who was visiting Mrs. Reynolds
and coaching her for. new play; Al
bert (Ab) Walker of winston-Salem,
lifelong friend of Reynolds and his
secretary, and Raymond Kramer of
Flushing, Long Island, who was Rey-
nolds' tutor.
Had Given Party.
8. The night before Reynolds had
given party in celebration of the
2lst birthday anniversary of G. G. Hill,
a Winston-Salem friend, and his guests
did not leave until midnight.
4. A towel. apparently stained with
adjoining : RS. Reynolds room. Bloody
fngerprints were on the bath room
floor.
S. A pistol from which one shot
had been fired was on the floor of the
sleeping porch.
Mrs. Reynolds told the jury her mind
was blank in respect to the time from
Monday about IL pm. until late We'd
nesday except for flash" in which
she saw Reynolds with the pistol to
his head. heard him call her name
and saw him fall.
| She gave no explanation for this
lapse OF memory.
As a result Of the evidence presented
it, the coroner,s jury ordered Walker
and Mrs. Reynolds held as material wit
nesses. He was lodged in Jail and she
has been under guard in her apart
ment in Reynolda. Miss Yurka was re-
quested not to leave Winston-Salem.
Suicide Motive Puzzles.
As it faced the case today, the coro-
ner's jury, as well as could be gath
cred from officials, was without any
particular reason to believe Reynolds
death was other than suicide, but has
been unable to learn any reason why
Reynolds, young and apparently with
out any cares, should have taken his
life.
After the death of her husband, Mrs.
Reynolds was reported to have collapsed
but was said to be considerably i'm
proved today. Her mother and father,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Holman of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, are at Reynolda, but since
the coroner's jury ordered her held as
witness have not been able to talk TO
her. officials said, except in the presence
Of deputy sheriff.
Others now at the Reynolds home are
Smith Reynolds two sisters, Mrs.
Charles Babcock and Mrs. Henry Walk
er Bagley, both of New York
Richard j. (Dick) Reynolds, jr, eld-
est son of the Late r. j. Reynolds, who
built from tobacco the fortune of $780,
100000 to which his four children are
heirs, is expected to arrive in New York
Friday. He was cruising in his yacht
OF the coast of East Africa when noti-