The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-07
Counsel for Defendant Says She
She Became Demented.
DEED OF A NOVEL CRAzED BOY
KILLED SISTER AND BROTHER AND
SHOT AND CREMATED HIMSELF.
Suicide of the Late Mr.. GIadstone's
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of an
Ohio Business Man.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 6.-Lulu
Prince-Kennedy listened to-day TO half
dozen witnesses recite the details of her
killing of her husband. Phil II. Kennedy,
hardly moving a muscle or showing a par
ticle of emotion. Later, without apparent
cause, she bowed her head and cried but
only for few moments. In stating it's side
OF the case Attorney Nearing, for the
defense. after tracing the atten-
Ntons paid by Kennedy the murdered man,
10 the defendant. declaring that they had
become engaged to be married and the
cate of the wedding set. asserted that Ken
nedy postponed the wedding. and finally.
under guise of the engagement, betrayed
her. Then when her condition became deli
cate he paid her expenses to leave the city.
On this visit, Mr.. Nearing said, she met
Case Patten. the baseball player, whose
lame later became mentioned with that Of
the prisoner. Kennedy had he said, been
familiar with all her actions during this
time. In securing the advice of a physi-
clan she had, he asserted. been persuaded
by Kennedy To represent to the doctor that
she was the wife of Patten. Her condition
became dangerous and her parents COM
PEELED her to make known the cause. The
courthouse wedding, at which Kennedy
later. in his suit for annulment. asserted
he compelled by threats on his life by
Miss Princes father and brother, followed
kennedy's refusal TO live with her, her
hroodings over her condition, his i'll treat
ment. brought her TO an end of hysteria
bordering on insanity. Insanity was preva-
lent in the womans family and the pris-
oner partook of this diseases, which finally
suicide. The final act OF Kennedy bringing
suit TO have their marriage set aside was
the motive, and the only motive, that
prompted the act of murder. They would
show positively that the wOmans father
and brothers had absolutely no part in the
murder, knowing of the womanS act only
after IL had been committed.
Prosecutor Hadley, answering in rebuttal
declared the State would show that Ken
nedy was not responsible for the woman s
ruin, that Mrs. Kennedy had sustained i'm
proper relations with other men long be-
fore she met Kennedy and almost up TO the
time OF their forced marriage.
The States first witnesses proved i'm
rortant. Frederick Bullene reporter. and
Capt. Wade Munford. assistant city editor
OF the Star. told of Mrs. Kennedy and her
of that paper and requesting the publica-
ton OF a certain story regarding her mar
rage TO Kennedy. Both admitted that the
marriage had been forced on the dead
man, VIII Prince going so far as to say
that Kennedy had been given the alterna-
tive OF marrying or being killed. He had
requested that this fact be not published, "as
IL would annul the marriage"
Roland Butler, a stenographer in Ken
nedy office, told of the prisoners father
and brother Will demanding that he pay
her board bill. and when he refused threat
oning him and chasing him from his office.
aud Kennedy seeking the protection of a
policeman. Then he described infinitely
the scene at the Office on the day of the
murder when Mrs. Kennedy appeared and,
after receiving his refusal to live with her,
shot him five times. She had kicked Ken
nedys face as he lay PROSTATE, and ap-
peared perfectly cool the while Butler said
Will Prince struck Kennedy's brother down
as the latter tried to disarm the woman.
Several witnesses corroborated the scene
at Kennedy's office at the time of the kill
ing each testfying to the fact that Mrs.
Kennedy appeared perfectly cool as she
faced her husband. She told one man who
holding her brother: Let him go; L
did the shooting and then, when a police
man arrived and was holding her hand she
exclaimed. according TO a witness: Let
go my hands, ! want TO fix my hair" An
other witness said that the defendants two
brothers and her father were in different
parts of the building at the time.
X. j. Costello, a county employe, told Of
meeting c. w Prince. the father, at the
entrance of the building a moment after
the shooting took place and of remarking
to the latter: Your daughter upstairs is
shooting her husband, You could have pre-
vented this If you had wanted to-