Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-25
THE KENNEDY MURDER TRIAL.
The Witnesses Have Some Difficulty ia ldenti
lying the Prisoner.

New York, March 24.-The trial Of
Samuel j. Kennedy, the dentist. who IS
Charged with the murder of Dolly Rey
nolds at the Grand Hotel August II
last, was continued. today. before JUS
,ice Williams and large number of
witnesses were examined. Among
these We're number of employees OF the
Grand Hotel who testified to having
seen Dolly Reynolds a the hotel on the
night in question. accompanied by a
man who very much reSembled Ken
nedy Kennedy was picked out in the
court. today. by several of the Witness
es. none of whom. however, We're alb
solutely positive in the identification.
Thu iron pipe bludgeon with which
Miss Reynolds was killed was exhibited
in court and Kennedy himself seemed
| t. view it with interest.
| When the court adjourned the law
yers We're wrangling over the admis-
sion as evidence the statements made
by the prisoner to Police Captain Price
Immediately after his arrest. This
point. on which the defence had declar-
ed it's intention to fight TO the end,
will come up for argument on Monday,
to which day the trial was adjourned.
Before the court proceedings actually
commenced, the identity was re-
vea led of the unknown yelled woman
who has been in attendance in the trial
and who was said to be an important wit
ness. She is Mrs. w. s. Logue. the wife
of IN employee of the Edison Electric co:
She occupied a room in me Grand Hotel
Immediately beneath lnat in which Dolly
Reynolds met her death. The defence
stated, to-day. that they hoped Mrs Losue
would be called to testify: They asserted
that her testimony would help the defence.
They allc"e that there was another man
in Dolly Reynolds room whose identity
has not been divulged:
The first witness called, today, was the
room clerk, Paul Roux. Yesterday, Roux
was unable to positively identity a photo
graph of Miss Reynolds. Today. he was
shown another photograph Of her and
uIickly declared this was a photograph of
The woman who had room 81
James Hawkins the bell boy who
showed Miss Reynolds to her room, then
told Of taking her to room 81 and ideh-
lifted the picture of her.
Charles MeCurry. the head waiter of the
Grand Hotel. testified that on the night
of Aug. IL, he saw man and woman en-
ter the dining room and walk toward the
elevator About an hour later he saw
them coming from the elevator lie idcn-
titled DR.. Kennedy as the man who ac-
companied the young woman.
Patrick j. Lanahan, the night elevator
boy. was the next witness. Young Lana
han said he first saw Miss Reynolds and
her escort on the night of the murder at
10 minutes TO H.
when did you next see this man?
asked Mr.. Mcintyre.
AZ 20 minutes to O'Clock in the morn
ing replied Lanahani H., BE came down "un
after first pulling his hat over his eyes. y
Mr.. Mcintyre asked: Isn't it a fact
! that never until today. have you positive
~ identified this defendant as the man
~. hot al ho pitrht3'
identify him. but he looks very much like
III scntleman ! saw that night.
tined that he saw Miss Reynolds and Il
3,tan II the corridor on the fourth floor
about II O'Clock on Aug. Is. He noticed
that she put the key IN the door of room
Of either the man Of woman. He recalled
| the man HAD on dark suit and straw
hat.
night of Aug. Is. he locked the side door
of he hotel at ! O'Clock A. NJ. and did not
unlock it again that night He gave the
Key 10 JOS. Gregory
at he from; door on the night in ques-
son. He identified Kennedy as the man
nc aaw leaving the hotel on the morning
of Aug. Is between and 3. az5
| Margaret Adams. cOlored. who had lived
with Dolly Reynolds as A domestic for 9
years past. testified that a man known
only as Mr.. Reynolds. paid the rent of the
fiat and was regular caller there. he and
| Miss Reynolds brother being the only
callers that she knew of. Mr.. Friend
then asked Kennedy to stand up and
asked the witness If he was Mr. Rey-
nptds She shook her head. saying that
she had never seen him before coming to
he court room.
t,oroners Physician O'Hanlon, who
performed the autopsy, testified that the
Reynolds woman died from two blows on
the top of the head. He identified a check
that the coroner had found on the wo-i
man. 10 the order of "Emehne Reynolds
! and endorsed by ''S. J. Kennedy