The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-10
Trial of Hrs. Lulu Prince Ken
nedy For Murder, Resumed.
Prisoner Is Pale and Apparent
ly Worn Out.
FREE USE OF DRUGS
Is Indicated by Her Appearance
of DrOwsiness.
State Undertakes to Prove a
Conspiracy Existed.

Kansas City, June 10.-Lulu Prince
Kennedy had recovered sufficiently
from her break down Of Saturday to sit
in court this morning and her trial for
the murder of Philip n. Kennedy was
resumed. The prisoner was pale and
apparently entirely worn out. 1t was
only with great effort that she kept her
eyes open. suffering apparently from
extreme weakness. or the effects of se-
datives given to produce sleep. Attor-
ney Nearing for the defense expressed
the fear that she would not be able to
continue the strain for any length Oc
time.
The first witnesses produced today bv
the state We're examined in an effort to
prove that a conspiracy to kill Kennedy
was Matched and carried out by the WO-
mans father, two brothers and herself.
Jack Caldwell testified to a converse
ton with VIII Prince on the day follow
ing his sisters marriage at the court
house to Kennedy at which ceremony
VIII Prince and his father We're pres
ent. Will had related the scene at tha
court house to witness and told of Ken
nedy's saying when friends congratula-
ted him:
I viii not be a live man three weeks
from today" Prince had retorted. 'tWeu
you have prolonged your life by this
marriage" Prince had also admitted
to witness that the marriage had been
forced upon Kennedy. Then later when
Prince and his father had called at
Kennedy's Office and tried to collect $40
for Mrs Kenndy's board, VIII Prince
related to the witness Kennedy had run
out Of the Office and gone down stairs
head first. He practically admitted that
he and his father We're armed at the
time and that Kennedy was under the
shadow of a gun"
Kennedy had been married but q
month when he was killed. Saturday
it was adduced Bert Prince bad fore
casted the murder
A newspaper reporter told Of Mrs.
Kennedy and her brother VIII coming
to his office after the marriage. Mrs
Kennedy wanted Kennedy roasted in
the paper" and Will had said that the
marriage was forced to prevent Ken
nedy marrying another woman.
f. ]. Curtain testified to a conversa-
tion with c. w Price after the mar
riage. Prince had said:
I was not going to let this man jl.c
my daughter. If things don't go right
you will have a good deal more sensa-
tional thing to write about"
Prince had mistaken Curtain for a re-
porter.
Two witnesses testified to seeing Mrs.
Kennedy and VIII Prince going in the
direction of Kennedy's Office on the ARK
ternoon of the murder. Elizabeth Jack
man told Of the two boarding a car
down town, and of VIII Prince request
ing his sister to do something. Witness
did not catch Wits words, but heard
her answer:
"All right. Will" It is the theory or
the state that Prince furnished the
prisoner the revolver with which she
killed Kennedy and accompanied her to
near the scene of the killing nervine
her to the point OF committing the
crime.
Mrs. Jackman testified that VIII
Prince called on her after the murder.
He believed Miss Jackman would be n
witness in the case and asked her to
testify that she did not see him with
Mrs. Kennedy on the day in question.