Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
MUST DIE FOR MURDER.
Dr. Kennedy Sentenced for Killing
Dolly Reynolds.

New York, April DIR. Samuel ]
Kennedy, convicted of the murder of
Dolly Reynolds, was sentenced yester-
day to die during the week beginning
May %.
The woman for whose murder Ken
nedy is convicted was the beautiful 20
year-old daughter of Edward R. Reyn-
ODDS, well-to-do builder of Mount
vernon. The village belle from the
tlme she was in her teens, she sighed
for wealth and admiration, and came
to New York to get them. She started
as book agent. The girl soon began
to wear diamonds. She had several
bank accounts, for she saved every
penny she could get together To her
parents she told the story that she
derived her income from selling
books, from specializing, from clerking
in bank. Kennedy was a dentist
with an Office on West rwenty-second
street. How he met Dolly Reynolds
is not clear. The police said he knew
of her savings and that he started out
to swindle her by telling her that he
was allied with men who cheated
poolrooms by tapping the wires.
Dolly, they said, gave money to Ken
needy, with which he claimed to have
won large sums. Dolly Reynolds
went to the Grand hotel on Aug. Is.
That evening she returned with a
man. At 2:50 next morning the man
S1n Yly Of hn
that showed he wished to escape OBJ
servation, and at 10 a. N. a chamber
maid found Dolly Reynolds, lying,
full dressed, dead upon the floor. Her
head was beaten in with a bludgeon
fashioned of lead and iron pipe. Hotel
employees testified that DR.. Kennedy
was the man who called on her at the
hotel as "E. Maxwell" Under the
| corset cover on her dead body was
| found a check for S13, 900, drawn ON
| the Garfield National bank and bear
| ing the signature of S. j. Kennedy
| The check was worthless. The iron
| pipe found near the body of the dead
girl encased piece of lead pipe. A
| still larger piece covered one end Of
| the pipes, and all were joined in a
| solid head by solder. This soldering
was found to be new, it having been
freshly applied by the man who did the
job. 1t was not at the prisoners dent
al office, but at his Staten Island home,
that the new solder was discovered
The evidence showed that the solder
used in cementing the pipes came from
| the identical piece of metal discovered
in the prisoners house.
| Assistant District Attorney Mcintyre
said of the motives Kennedy had for
| the murder: The evidence shows
that Kennedy and Dolly Reynolds
were associated for some
time previous to the tragedy; that she
had about $4,000 in New York city
| banks; that week or two before her
death Kennedy unfolded his device for
beating the horse races; that he had
an electric appliance to be placed un-
| der the saddle which would make a
| doubtful horse run and thus win the
purse. That the doctor might place
MS bets Dolly gave him $500. Ken
nedy lost it. But he said nothing Of
| his bad luck. On the contrary, he de-
| clared that had won $40, 000-one-half
of it to be hers. But she was never
| given the money. Finally under re
peated demands, Kennedy gave her the
$4,000 check, saying it was from the
| bOOkmaker. The fraudulent check.
with the forgery, has a penalty of ten
years. When Kennedy indorsed that
check the crime was brought home TO
him. No Dudley Gideon had dollar
in the bank on which it was drawn
Now, when Dolly grew suspicious OF
the check and threatened to prosecute
| Kennedy and also expose his relations
with Dolly to his wife, it was neces-
sary for Kennedy to save himself "
AND here Mr.. Mcintyre claimed was the
| motive for the crime. The girl had
| the check under her corsets before she
was killed and, Notwithstanding the
| dentist persuaded her to register as
&c. Maxwell and wife" at the Grand
| hotel and although witnesses identi-
| fed him as the man Maxwell, he failed
| to find the check. Il believe" says
Mr.. Mcintyre, that the dentists pur-
pose in going to the hotel was to get
| that bogus check and keep it from be-
ing presented at the bank the next
morning, exposing the forgery and the
crime