New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-18


d,ned on Monday night. and he said that he got
his dinner at his horae at New-Dorp wheh ne
reached there at o'clock Tuesday morn
inc He WAS asked II he had not dned before
he went home, and he said no; he had some
lunch with him Kennedy was a commuter on
the Staten Island road. and train waits at ST
George for the 1925 a. m. boat from the Bat
terry. Kennedy said however. that he DID not
take This train but walked over the hills TO
the trolley road
KENNEDY TOLD A NEW TALE.
Yesterday" continued Captain McClusky
Kennedy made another statement concerning
his movements on Monday night, which con-
tradcts the one he made TO Captain Price. lie
said that he let his Office at . or O'Clock
and went to the furnishing goods store. got the
underwear and ;hen went 10 the cigar store lor
a cigar. Then. he alleges, he went 10 saloon
nearby and had a drink. after which he re-
turned TO his Office and put the new suit or
underwear leaving the old ones hehind. iheii
h. went to Proctor's. He says that ne ooZed
while the performance was going on ana that
all he could rem inber of the performance WAS
that occasionally he would wake up ana near
sing. He claims that he was III sort
OF daZed state all the evening. ana remember
only going through Twenty hrd-st. after The
performance and boarding a cable
car He says he slept all the way downtown
but awoke at The Battery ana entered the
Staten Island serry-housc. He went 10 sleep on
the boat and didn't remember anything more
until he put off az Clifton. he fulther
said that he wanted to take a trohey-car Tor
-Dorp but could not find any and walked
all the way nome He was completely e%-
hausted when he arrived home. and when he
woke up in the morning he found his clothes IN
q sOiled state and his trousers and shoes COW
cred with dust.
EVERYTHING POINTS TO THE PRISONER
,ba hay OH "A <
far" remarked Captain McCusky. finally
everything points to Kennedy as the murderer
He has told two stories concerning his move
ments or Monday night. and he contradicts him
self badly He has yet to prove his statements
as to his actions on that night and until lues
day morning He claims now that his MIND Is
in a dazed state. and that he cannot aCcoui,t
for what happened on Monday night. lie al
mitted TO me that he was in the hablt or using
Choral and be says that he might nave taken
some unconsciously on Monday. He also said
that he Spel a bottle OF ChlOral on MONDAY
afternoon and that the fumes Of +. might have
gone to his head and produced the dazed condi-
ton In which he was all Monday night.
Kennedy was taken from the West Thirtieth-
ST station to the West Side Police Court yester-
day morning. where Captain Price charged him
with homicide. The prisoner was taken TO the
court in the pa.rol-wason The clothes which he
wore when he was arrested had been taken from
him but h. appeared neatly dressed In a blue
serge coat black waistcoat. gray trousers and a
negligee shirt. He appeared unconceihed
HELD WITHOUT BAIL.
Kennedy evidently expected that some Of his
relatives would be present at the court, as he
asked the court officer 10 call for his father
There was no response Nor was the prisoner
represented by counsel The District Attorneys
office was represented by Assistan; Distric'-At-
torney Daniel OReily. who was working on the
case on Tuesday. Kennedy was the nrst prs
SimmS
the charge Of homicide 10 him he replied In low
Voice Il have nothing to say"
The Magistrate announced that ne would hoih
the prisoner without bal! for examination To-
morrow in the same court. Mr.. OReilly asked
that Kennedy be remanded in the custody Of the
Coroner but the request was refused. The prs
oner was then taken back 10 Police Headquar-
ters where he underwent another rigid exami-
nation Later on Captain McClusky made his
statement TO the reporters.
Captain Price went to Police Headquarters
soon after Kennedy arrived there. taking with
him Kennedys checkbook and two pasteboard
boxes filed with letters and papers he had
found in the dentists office lie took them into
Captain MoClusky's room. All he would say as
he entered was: Good evidence here"
Frederick b House. Of the law firm of Friend.
House & Grossman. called 10 see tho prisoner in
the afternoon and hkd a long conference with
Kennedy. He said afterward taht he had been
retained by kennedy's fathe-. but h" had moth
ing TO say except that his client was in
most trying position. and that he IMr House,
would call on him again 20 day.
GRAND JURY MAY ACT TO-DAY
1t is expected that the viii be taken
before the Grand Jury this morning The dia-
monGe which the murd a~ed woman wore when
she entered the hotel have not We. been rec)v-
cred. Concerning the other reported robbery In
the hotel that Of Chief Of Police Vail. Of At
lanta. Ga who says that $50 We're stolen from
under his pillow. the police are somewhat scep-
tical Captain McClusky said Yesterday, with
smile, that he thought Mr. Vail might have lost
his money in some other way.
! was said yesterday that the section Of cleo
trio cable with which the murder was committed
was similar 10 the cable which the Block Elec-
trio Gable Company is placing on Staten Island
New-Dorp is included in the district which is
being furnished with power and light
The broker Maurice y. Mendham. whose pane
has been closely connected with that Of the
murdered woman. was not at his office No 20
Broad-st. yesterday II said there that
he was at Long Branch. and would not return
10 town for several days. The police have
learned that before Mendham and the dead
woman became acquainted the same relations
existed between her and Kennedy Afterward
when he could no longer afford T. support her
he introduced her 10 Mendham
Mr.. Mendham gained considerable notoriety in
March. lS33. when Alice Cozzens was found
dead in the Coleman House The young woman
had committed suicide At the time Mendham
denied that he had been acquainted with her
but later said that he had often met her in the
vicinity of Madison Square
Captain Price said late last night that there
had been no new developments in the case since
Captain McClusky's statement was given ont