The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-12
VIII Prince Positive i'm Declaring He
Did Not Give His Sister Revolt
yer on the Day of the Crime.
SAYS HE WAS NOT WITH HER
AND DID NOT ACCOMPANY HER TO
THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY.
Mrs. Kennedy Prompts Her Attorneys
for Murder without Delay.

KANSAS CITY, June 1.-THE defense in
the case of Lulu Prince-Kennedy, on trial
for killing her husband, was begun to-day,
and twenty witnesses were examined.
When court adjourned the prisoners attor-
neys announced their side would not be fin
ished before Thursday noon. The bulk of
the testimony was brought out in an at
tempt to prove alibis for Bert and c. w.
Prince, the brother and father of the pris
oner. whom the State had tried to prove
were watching the entrances TO the Ridge
building al the time of the murder to pre-
vent kennedys escape. Although the de-
fense tried to prove they had left the elder
Princes poolroom after the shooting oc
Cured the time given by the witnesses
varied from Sis to 5:45. The shooting took
place at $40.
Will Prince was taken from his cell to
testify, and his entrance into the courtroom
caused buzz among the spectators, who
craned their necks to get glimpse of the
man whom the State is trying to prove was
the chief actor in the alleged conspiracy
to kill Kennedy. The prisoner frightened
perceptiby at the entrance of her brother,
whose testimony she followed closely. She
appeared perfectly well to-day. Prince de-
MED that he had ever exercised mesmeric
powers over any one, denied that he ac-
companied his sister down town on the day
of the killing, and said that the revolver
used was not his. He knew of the killing
only after it had been done. AS he testified in
defense of his sister, Mrs. c. w. Prince the
mother, burst into tears, which broke forth
afresh as he detailed the different chapters
in the affair."
Thomas II. Ridge, the first witness, told
of the scene in the Ridge building at the
time of the murder. He had come upon the
scene soon after a policeman arrived. Mrs
Kennedy had requested the officer TO let
loose the hold on her hands, and when the
doctor said Kennedy was dead she kicked
the PROSTATE form, exclaiming: Your
never seduce another girl"
Through T. j. Noble the defense en-
deavored to prove that the time of the
murder as set by the States witnesses was
incorrect. but his statements in this re-
spect did not differ materially from the evil
dence already adduced. The witness said
the defendant appeared very excited, but
on cross-examination admitted that she
had requested the officer to release her
hands so she might arrange her hair, and
that she had remarked she was not going
TO run away.
The States witnesses testified that the
prisoner acted perfectly cool when ar
rested and when led away remarked that
the murder had not caused much excite
ment. During the cross-questoning the
prisoner kept patting the floor with her foot
constantly and was nervous
Then Will Prince took the stand. He is a
man of thirty. He resembles his sister in
features. and looked at her constantly while
giving his evidence. He kissed his mother
and married sister, Mrs. Leon, he passed
them and patted the prisoner on the
shoulder. Will Prince. according to a
theory of the prosecution. a profes-
commit the murder Of Kennedy. exercised
his hypnotic power Mrs. Kennedy.
Prince denied he was a mesmerist. and said
he never had been a prize fighter, as had
been alleged Prince detailed his where
abouts the day of the murder He had
been with his patent attorneys during the
morning, he said, talking over a patent he
intended placing on the market and went
home about noon, remaining there until
about $780, when he returned to town alone
He went to his fathers place of business,
and at o'clock Mrs. Kennedy followed He
denied having accompanied Mrs. Kennedy
to town a few hours before the murder
when she was supposed TO have been en-
route TO kennedys office. The State tried
TO show that Prince left home with his
sister the afternoon of the murder fur
nishing her with a revolver en- route and
instructing her in what she should do when
she went to her husbands office.
At the afternoon session Mrs. Kennedy
continued TO prompt her attorneys TAX
ing a lively interest in every point brought
out. Her condition had improved, and
when court adjourned for the day she was
able 10 walk from the room without aid
Most of the witnesses examined in the
afternoon were questioned with a view
to showing the exact time that Bert Prince
and his father left the latter's poolroom
for the scene OF the killing on Jan. 10.
The shooting took place at $40 In the
evening, in the Ridge building, five blocks
distant from Princes place. OF the half
dozen witnesses who testified on this point
from Sis TO 5:45. The State endeavored
to prove that all of the Princes were in
the Ridge building before the shooting
began and the defenses effort 10 show
that they were at the elder Princes place
until after the shooting not clearly
proven Two witnesses testified 10 Prince
leaving his place alone. and one said that
the father and son had departed together.
One witness stated that Bert Prince had
called his father from the poolroom al
about $50, or ten minutes before the shoot
ing.
a hair dresser who had a room in the
Ridge building two stories above Kennedy {
office told OF Bert Prince running up 70
her place Immediately after the shoot
ing saving: Lulu has shot Kennedy. "
and urging her 10 keep his mandolin She
had refused. fearing. she said. that she
would become implicated in the case.
Miss Morrison to He Tried Again.