Show A SUICIDES TERRIBLE JUMP I Ail ExAuditor of the L S Treusiiry Tuiccs ills Life in a Fearful I ITlJiiiiicr I ST Louis June 2R M Reynolds late First Auditor of the United States Treasury killed himself this morning at the Southern Hotel There is an air shaft in the hotel over the rotunda which cuts through the different floors At about five minutes to C oclock Reynolds either jumped or fell over the railing on the third story into the air shaft He struck the marble floor of the rotunda with a report heard all over the hotel He was picked up dead in front of the office clerk His skull was fractured and one of his legs shattered I A visit made Reynolds room disclosed II the fact that it was full of gas although the stopcock was turned hence tho theory is held in the hotel that it must be suicide and that after the failure to asphyxiate himself he took the terrible dive to the marble floor below Reynolds had made careful toilet He had been in St Louis since Saturday stopping stop-ping with C H Albers but left that gentle I mans house and put up at the I hotel last night He was in excellent I excel-lent spirits when last seen alive and no motive can be suggested for the self I killhi He was on his way to Kansas to United Trea buy land He left the States I only a couple of weeks ago He was sury about GO years of age and a finelooking I healthy man |