The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-31
LAST DAY OF THE TRIAL,
Kennedy's Lawyer Makes Strong Plea
For an AcquttaI.

Kennedy's Lawyer Makes Strong Plea
For an AcqlttaI.
New York, March 30.-The trial of DR..
Samuel ]. Kennedy, the Staten Island
dentist, for the murder of Dolly" Rey-
nolds, at the Grand Union Hotel, in
this city, on the night of Aug. Is, was
concluded before Judge Williams to-
night. The jury in the case retired
at 1.43, after Judge Williams had de-
livered lengthy charge. The prose-
cution did not submit as much evidence
in the case as had been expected, the
its testimony before the court. This
afternoon was occupied in the sum-
ming up by the counsel.
The evidence submitted by the prose-
cution was in all respects circumstan-
tial, while the efforts of the defense
We're directed entirely to proving an
alibi and in establishing DIR. Kennedy's
good character. Judge Williams him
self in charging the jury devoted his
attention to dealing with the merits of
circumstantial evidence and necessity
of establishing a motive for the crime.
A pathetic incident in the trial was
when the defendants two-year-old son
broke the silence of the court with his
cry for Papa" At another time the
defendants wife bake down and re-
fused to leave her husband.
At the morning session the principal
efforts of the defense were directed to
establishing an alibi
Mrs. Julia Stayton testified that she
had seen DR.. Kennedy on a Staten Isl
and ferryboat on the night of the
murder of Dolly" Reynolds.
Mrs Margaret Kennedy, mother Of
the accused, told Of his leaving home
Aug. Is.
Mrs Marion S. Kennedy, the ae-
cuseds wife, denied that her husband
had signed the Dudley Gideon check.
She said the undershiI-t found in Ken
nedy's office was a garment of her
own.
The accused sat unmoved and the
cynosure of every eye as Mr.. House be-
gan his summing up for the defense.
The prisoner and his relatives wept
while Mr.. House pleaded eloquently.
Mr.. House commended that the evil
dence adduced by the prosecution to
sustain the charge of murder in the
first degree was not sufficient to war
rant conviction. "The theory Of the
prosecution" he said, lis that. this de-
tendant somewhere and at some time
gave Dolly Reynolds spurious
check and that, in order to hide and
dissipate forever the evidence of that
crime, he committed the higher and
more horrible crime of murder in the
first degree. Where is there any evil
dence that this defendant and that
woman had any relations until the time
the life went out of her body, where is
there, any evidence that he had given
her that check?"
He contrasted the evidence of Mar
garet Adams, Dolly" REYNOLDS col
ored servant, with the employees of
the Grand Hotel. Margaret Adams
testified that her mistress was in the
fat in West 5Sth street at $40 on the
evening of Aug. Is Now, gentlemen
Of the jury" exclaimed Mr.. House, lin
the name of God Almighty, can you tell
me how it was possible for Dolly Rey-
nolds to be in the Grand Hotel at the
same time and in company of this de-
fendant?"
Mr. Mcintyre, in his summing I'D for
the prosecution, contended that the
dentist had had a fair trial, and de-
claimed against the appeal for sympa-
thy on account Of family ties as made
by Mr. House. Mr. MCINTYRE laid
much stress upon the testimony of ex-
perts and others, tending to show that
the handwriting on the Gideon check
was that Of Kennedy.
Mr. Mcintyre took up the undercloth-
ing and pointed out to the Jury the
stains upon it, and said that kennedy
tefore going to the hotel, had placed
the bludgeon inside Of his trousers and
when he got to the room, had concealed
it in closet until the opportunity to
use it.