HOST SHOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 209, 3 September 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOST SHOT.

MILLIONAIRE'S SON. FATAL END TO PARTY. I One of Broadway's greatest marriage romances ended- in tragedy, when Mr. Smith Reynolds, the 20-year-old son of Mr. William N. Reynolds, the tobacco millionaire, was fatally shot in the presence of his wife, who before her marriage a few months ago was Mis's Libby Holman, the famous Broadway singer of melancholy songß. The tragedy occurred at the young couple's home at Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Reynolds had been entertaining some friends. According to one of the guests, Mr. Edward Walker, when the time came for the party to break up Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds went upstairs together. A few moments later Mr. Walker heard Mrs. Reynolds screaming. Bullet in the Head. "I rushed upstairs," Mr. Walker told the police, "and found Reynolds lyingshot." There was a bullet wound in his head, and he died later in hospital. Mr. Reynolds had been twice married. According to an "established report" he threatened to commit srficide last November unless Miss Holman agreed to marry him. That was while he was nt Reno arranging to divorce his first wife, the wealthy Miss Ann Cannon. He is said to have telephoned from Reno to Miss Holman, then in New York, and threatened to jump out of the window unless she promised to become his wife. A subsequent message states that Mrs. Reynolds and Walker have been arrested on a charge of murder.