Dorothy
Rainey
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 27 October 1921, page 4
Miss Dorothy Rainey, 28, daughter of Dr. Louise Rainey, 11 E Sixth st. Newport, who died Tuesday in a fall from the fifth story of the LaFayette Hotel, Lexington, after a talk with Carl Wiedemann, Newport, was buried in Evergreen Cemetery Thursday afternoon. Prior to the burial, services were held at the home. Rev Edmund T Jillson, pastor of the St Paul Episcopal Church officiating.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 8 November 1921, page 1
An investigation into the circumstances of the death of Miss Dorothy Rainey, 30, of Newport, daughter of Dr. Louise Rainey, was being made Tuesday by the Fayette co. grand jury in Lexington, where the girl met her death. Miss Rainey was killed about midnight Oct 24 by a fall from a window on the fifth floor of Lafayette Hotel in Lexington, where she was staying. She had gone to Lexington with Carl Wiedemann of Newport to attend the races.
According to dispatches from Lexington, witnesses of the circumstances of Miss Rainey's death appeared before the grand jury Monday at the Courthouse, in answer to summons. The foreman of the jury, the county attorney and other court officials refused to make any statement regarding the investigation.
Immediately after the death a coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death. It had previously been reported the girl had jumped from the window. According to Wiedemann, Miss Rainey and himself and a party of friends had been at dinner in the hotel dining room until after 11 pm the night of Miss Rainey's death. Following the meal, he and J B Richardson, Lexington representative of the Wiedemann Brewing Co. went to Wiedemann's room on the eleventh floor to get their coats and hats, preparatory to driving James Youtsey to the Idle Hour Farm, it is said.
Wiedemann said he stopped at Miss Rainey's door to bid her goodnight. She was sitting in the open window, he said and just as he was leaving fell outward, plunging the five stories to death on the sidewalk below.