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...evening of July 5 Zachary Smith Reynolds, eccentric 20-year-old son & heir of the Camel cigaret fortune, gave a small birthday party for a friend at "Reynolda," the family's 600-acre estate at Winston-Salem, N. C. Hostess to a dozen guests was his bride of seven months, 26-year-old Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds, shapely, olive-skinned "torch singer" of Broadway musical shows. Also on hand was Albert ("Ab") Walker, 19, athletic son of a local realtor. Smith Reynolds' friend and "secretary...
Last week it flared up more sensationally than ever when a grand jury at Winston-Salem indicted Libby Reynolds and Ab Walker for murder. Largely re sponsible for the indictment was Sheriff Transou Scott who had amassed secret evidence against the suicide theory. Questions put to the grand jury: How did left-handed Smith Reynolds happen to shoot himself in the right "temple? If he was standing, as his wife said, how did the bullet which traveled downward through his head manage to cut a hole through the porch screen six feet above the floor? Why did detectives fail...
...Holman, fulminating about a "dastardly frame-up ... a piece of savagery" sped to Winston-Salem to fight for his daughter's freedom. But Mrs. Reynolds did not immediately appear to answer the charge. She was. her father said, in seclusion recovering from shock. Four days after her indictment she gave herself up at tiny Wentworth, N. C., 40 mi. from Winston-Salem. On hand to greet her were her attorneys and the State solicitor. She wore a heavy black veil, was accompanied by a nurse. Taken into court, Mrs. Reynolds was released on $25.000 bail with the consent...
Died. Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, youngest son and an heir of the late Richard Joshua Reynolds (tobacco), husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (Little Shows, Three's A Crowd); of "a gunshot wound inflicted by a person or persons unknown;" in Winston-Salem...
Marriage Revealed. Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman, 26, "torch-song" singer (Little Shows, Three's a Crowd); and Smith Reynolds, 20, tobacco scion of Winston-Salem, N. C. His first marriage was in 1929 to Anne L. Cannon of Concord, N. C. at 2 a. m. in York, S. C. with the bride's father (towel tycoon) and a policeman attending. When he becomes 28, Bridegroom Reynolds will receive the $20,000,000 estate of his father, the late Richard Joshua Reynolds...