The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-12
Death Of Reynolds
 May Be Pigeonholed
(Continued from Page 1)

rom Page 1)
 her great love for Smith and her confidence in him.
 Slowly and kindly, Solicitor Car lisle Higgins led her through the story of her relations with Smith from the time she met him first in Baltimore during Holy Week of 1890. Then he sought her version of her husbands death.
 Sobbing, she protested that the events of all that day were blank. She could not remember sthat she and Smith had given a gay party at Reynolda that night.
 All I can remember" she sob- bed in the strange, throaty voice that brought her fame and fortune, 'is that vision of Smith with q revolver in his hand; him speaking my name Libby and then that awful crash of all the universe around me; that's all remember, that, and his dear little head in my arms"
 Her crying was pitiful. Her mother, her sister and her father sought to console her. She buried her head on her sisters breast and wept and wept.
 Then, of more import, even as possible evidence of suicide, she told how "six or seven times" he had stood before her with 8 pistol at his temple and threatened to end his life. Always she had disuaded him she said. !, -t1 Libby, "that I just had to be touching him all the time or he would think did not love him." Theirs had been brief and hectic romance. It's ending was heavy with tragedy.
 Then Albert Walker, Smiths closest friend, told his story, in its essentials it was much the same as previous accounts attributed by him. He had been on a lower floor and was summoned by Miss ! Blanche Burka, house guest at Reynolda, who had heard a shot. He dashed to Libby's room and there found Reynolds bleeding up- on the bed. Libby was crying that
 Smith has shot himself" He had carried Smith to an automobile and taken him to the hospital. He protested his loyalty to Smith. He had seldom discussed intimate affairs with young Reynolds he said. Reynolds was not the person for such condolences, 1t was ex- plained. Walker, of slight build, red of face, hair closely clipped; seemed bewildered and groping in his answers at times. But always he finally muddled through. Clear ly he too was under great strain.
 Charles G. Hill, for whom the party was given Tuesday night, told the jurors that Mrs William Vaught, a guest, and Mrs Reynolds had engaged in a drinking contest after the formers boast that she could drink as much wiskey as any man.
 It was 6:30 p. m. before the jury retired, the evidence completed. For half an hour the six jurors conferred on the veranda of the Reynolds Monor house. Then they went to dinner and at S:30 D.. m. resumed their discussion at the county court house.
 They found many problems to worry them. Some had to do with the main story. Others had to do. :. with details.
 There was even the possibility of some person unknown having been on the grounds that night. One witness had told Smith speaking of seeing a strange automobile parked near the house.
 There was the matter of the course of the bullet, which ended Smiths life. It entered the right temple at the hair line, drilled clear through his head coming out below and behind the left ear, passed through 8 screen on the porch and went whizzing away into the gardens, never to be found. There was difficulty in reconcilifg such a course of the bullet with Smiths supposed position at the foot of Libby's bed when the shot was fired.
 There also was the failure to find a bloody trail down the stair way over which Smith, according to the evidence, had been carried. The testimony was that he was bleeding freely. No effort to stop the flow of blood was made. Yet the only blood was in the bedroom, in the automobile and on the hos pital floor.
 Those were just some of the points which puzzled the jurors. Once they called to have the evil dence re-read in part. Then, af- ter Il p. m., they asked for a stenographer and the verdict was written out.
 The jury filed into the court room and stood in semi-circle a. round Assistant Solicitor McMi- chael who himself stood back of the press table. in a clear voice he read the findings. The room was hushed for a moment. then there was a stir and in few min utes 1t was empty.
 Winston Salem. N. C.. July 12- (UP)-Coroner's inquest testimony that Libby Holman Reynolds ex- pected the birth of baby revived speculation today over disposal ot her dead husbands $20,o00,O00 trust fund.
 The trust fund provided that In event of Reynolds death, the fund should 90 to his children living at the tlmo of his death" It pros vided nothing for the wife, thus preventing tho stage star bride or the young heir for receiving any of tho fund.
 Tho courts. therefore. may Do asked. in event a child is born 70 Mrs Reynolds, 70 decide f lt was legally ''ilvine" at the time es Smith neynoIds' death.
 And # the courts should ee ees eide, which is eonsIderea nnlikely, A. ssIa A.a EfaHlA