Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Murder Mystery in Washington. [ARTICLE]

Murder Mystery in Washington.

The entire Washington (D. C.) detective force is engaged on a murder case which has all the contradictory and mysterious elements of the Sherlock Holmes stories. An uproar was heard in a family hotel —the Kenmore —Wednesday morning about 2 o’clock; three shots were fired; a voice cried twice for help; a wild commotion ensued; and in the morning the police found in one of the hotel rooms th* dead body of James Seymour Ayres, Jr., 21 years old, of unoffending disposition and apparently unblemished record. He had been shot three time*. The victim was a clerk in the census bureau and was appointed from Michigan. His father, J. S. Ayres, Sr., is an Insurance agent and lives at Grand Rapids.