The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
MRS. KENNEDY.
DIR. West May Be i'm the Position of a
Bigamist.

In remote part of the city. and housed
in very humble cottage, lives woman
who could tell much about the past life of
Eugene F. West, the accused physician.
1t is Mrs. Kennedy who lived with him
as his wife for a number of years, and who
was the mother Of his child. She is not
known by the name of Kennedy now, and
perhaps but few of her friends know that
she was once the owner of the Hotel de
Redwood. and at a later date was known
as Mrs. West
''Oh yes. l know the man." she ex-
claimed TO CALL reporter last night
after she has been persuaded to disclose
her identity. ''He brought more trouble
and bitterness into my life than falls to the
lot of most women.
After my husband left me. when we
had the hotel, 1 managed the place for a
year by myself, and then West came there
to rest and regain his health, as be said
He stayed for while, and at last began TO
help me manage the work about the place.
Then, when he had got the best of me, we
lived there for some time still, until l sold
the hotel and ranch to a Mr.. Woodbridge.
II sacrificed the place and got but little
money out of it, and we came TO the city.
Then my trouble began and no one will
ever know what L suffered from that man.
He neglected me and carried on shame
fully with other women. and at last
could stand it no longer and 1 left him.
Then | went out to work for myself and
to support his child and mine by my own
daily toll. and during all that time he
never gave me q penny, and when the
little girl died. though he had gold piled
up in the bank, got nothing from him.
1T was when he was in the medical
college that life became so unbearable to
me oph hn n rNt "a
control her emotion, and 1t seemed as if
she would shut out the very memories of
those days.
cit almost makes me crazy mad to think
of what those poor women suffered who
came to him there to be treated, and how
we used to work on them 10 bring them
out alive"
And was DR.. West doing the same
work then that he is accused of now in
connection with the Gilmour case?" was
asked of Mrs. Kennedy
"Oh, you should have seen the women
who came to him, and l can never tell you
what passed through while l was living
with him them"
did DR.. West ever have any cases in
those days. and did some of his patients
die 90 inquired the visitor
"Oh, you mustn't talk about that.
can't tell YOU" exclaimed Mrs. Kennedy.
II have left him now and l must not talk
about those dreadful things"
The wOman's whole bearing was that Of
a person who was full of some subject, yet
about which they did not care to talk, and
there can be no doubt but that she could
tell Of many another case for which DIR.
West might be justly punished.
Mrs. Kennedy has visited Dr.. West since
his Imprisonment. and it was in this way
that CALL reporters attention was first
called to her. But the object of her visit
to the prison could not be learned.
1t was also learned that Vests ATTORNEYS
were trying to make some sort of negotia-
tiOns with Mrs. Kennedy, but she said she
did not know what they wished. By his
contract marriage with Annie Staley West
has laid himself liable for bigamy in ad-
dition to his other crime, for while he
may never have been formally married to
Mrs. Kennedy, yet in the eyes of the law
she is his wife, and it would probably be
very satisfactory to the doctor il she can
be persuaded to remain silent.