The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-19
Kenneally Arrested for
Murder OF, Mrs. Day.
Declared She Was His Wife
" and Boxed Her Ears.
When Told She Was Dead He De-
pied Having Made Admission.

New York, March l9--David Kenncally
was arrested yesterday charged. with hav-
ing beaten Mrs. Kate Day to death in her
fiat, at No. 2053 Eighth avenue. The
prisoner admitted when arrested that he
slapped Mrs. Day last Sunday night, but
after he learned that she was dead he de-
MED that he had made the admission.
Mrs. Day was about forty years old, q
woman of refined tastes and fine looking.
and the letters found by the police in her
flat indicate that some of her patrons were
her warm personal friends. She was "a
member OF the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union and "a patron of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
henncally was an Irish peasant boy
when he left his home TO come TO this
country four years ago. He has been
employed as man of all work in gro
cery store and assistant 10 fiat house
janitors. He is very illiterate. He told
the police that the woman he is charged
with killing was his wife. Her neighbors
say Kenneally often beat her. The autopsy
showed that there were thirty bruises on
her body and that some of them were
several days old.
Captain Devery and IL men of his pre-
tiutt NpIhtu All fllknl W unu htDHtdlil.
When he was taken into custody he told
Detectives Gallagher, Kennedy and
bowling, who captured him, that he
boxed Mrs. Days ears Sunday night.
She had fit of Mysteries, he said,
land cuffed her few times 10 bring
her out OF it, That's the way to cure her
when she gets that way. She charged mo
with being attentive 10 another woman,
and then she had the fit. 4"
kenncally boarded with Mrs. Day until
no procured his present. position. He
then told her that he had TO sleep in the
flat house i'm which he worked. He spent
one day with her each week.
Mrs. Day likes me and like her, "
he said when brought before Captain
Devery. II do not believe she charges me
with teating her. Twill say no more about
IL until hear what she says. / won't
contradict her no matter what she says.
He was then told that she was dead,
and he appeared 10 be deeply affected. He
insisted upon eaing her body and was
taken 10 the morgue of Manhattan
Hospital There he broke down, wept and
said nc hut loved tho woman.
kenneally was arraigncd in the Harlem
police court on charge of homicide and
remanded Go await tho action of the cor
oner. Detectives took him before Coroner
Dobbs, who questioned him. He denied
that he ever struck the woman.
IF this woman Is your wife where is
the marriage certifcategn asked Detective
Gallagher.
There is no certificate There was an
arrangement between us, and there was
"a reason for II" was the reply.
Captain Devery said that he had been
unable To learn anything more about
Mrs. Day, than that she lived i'm Wash
ington, ID. c., until few years ago;
that her maiden name was Lord and that
her neighbors considered that she was "A
devout Christian. Papers found in her
flat show that she literally supplied
man named Lord believed by the police
To be her father, with money.
The body of Mrs. Day was removed
from theManhattan Hospital and the house
surgeon was unable 20 tell the police who
took il awny, Captain Devcry was i'm
dignant and told the hospital authorities
that they should not have permitted the
body of a person who had been probably
murdered to be removed without knowing
where 1t had been taken 10.