The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-01-17
Philip Kennedy Shot and Kill
ed by Woman From Whom
He Was Seeking
Divorce.
KICKED THE LIFELESS BODY
Lulu Kennedy Went to Her Husband 5
Office. Called Him Out and Put
Five Bullets Into his Body.

Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 10.-This
afternoon at $50 o clock Lulu Prince
Kennedy called her husband, PE'lp
Fl. Kennedy, agentfor the Merchants
Dispatch transportation Company,
to the door Of his office in the New
Ridge building and deliberately put
five bullets into his body. Death
resulted without the man being heard
to utter a sound other than a shrek
of pain. Before being unprecedented,
the exasperated woman fiercely kick
ed the fallen and by that time dead
man full in the face, saying, in a
burst of passion:
You will never ruin, never wrong
another girl
The pair were married less than a
month ago, but onthe night of the
wedding the husband left the wife.
nor since had he spoken to her. He
had spoken of her, however, and in
uniriendly terms. Last Thursday
the bride learned he had instituted
divorce proceedings, alleging in his
petition that he had been forced to
marry the woman who to-day took
his life. The allegation was colored
by current reports that Kennedy
said he had been obliged to marry
at the point OF pistol in the hands
of her father.
This broke the girls heart, and
the passion of her wrongs, real or
fancied, sprang up in her, and finally
took form in the passion for revenge,
Mrs. Kennedy telephoned to her
husband early this afternoon that |
she wanted to see him, and evidently |
it was planned that she was to call |
at his office to see him. At 5:30 she |
entered the building and after leav |
ing the elevator she walked rapidly |
and with n firm step to his office
door. Either she then knocked or
else he saw her through the glass
door and came out to see her for the |
interview they had planned. As he
opened the door she stepped back II
few steps with a smiling request that
he follow her to IA secluded spot in
the hallway IL few steps away.
INTENDED TO KILL HIM.
Once there she turned like lightning
and then for the first time he saw
the flashing eyes and the CLEAN OF
her revolver. Whether she spoke to
throughout the building there rang
the sharp reports of two shots fired
almost as one. and as men in their
offices arose wonderingly. there rang
out four more shots The dead man 5
brother, L. f. Kennedy, who happen
ed to be in the office at the time, was
the first to reach the side of his
brothers body, and he saw the wife
standing there with the smoking
pistol in her hand. He sprang for
ward and grasped her. She made no
resistance. He tore the pistol from
her hand and began to speak to her.
She made no answer. but a second
later she sprang loose from his grasp
and over the dead body OF her hus-
band.
Before Il hand could reach her,
though by that time several were
there, she kicked the whitening face
savagelv on the cheek.
You will never wrong another
girl, broke from her lips passion
atelv. Then hands were laid on her
strongly and she was led 10 one
side
\ crowd was gathering and q po-
lice officer arrived. Suddenly She |
cried:
"oh, take me away, I can't bear it
any longer
1t no time did she offer any resist
ance or attempt to escape. butt pas
sively gave herself up Ia those who
held her after the one outburst Of
passionate bitterness to the dead
oue lying before her Police officer
Crane told her She was under arrest
and led her away "a the police sta
talon. where she was PLACED in cell |
ON the charge IF having killed her
husband, Il
P6iGO II Kennedy ina Head man