Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-06-16
TEN YEARS IN PRISON
FOR MRS, KENNEDY
Kansas City Woman Who
Killed Her Husband.
SECOND DEGREE MURDER

Jury Fixed the Punishment - After
She Heard Verdict Read, the MUIR
deress Collapsed and Cried Aloud.
How Jury Stood.
KANSAS CITY, June l5-The jury in
the Kennedy murder case this morning
brought in verdict of guilty of murder
in the second degree and fixing Mrs.
Kennedy's punishment at 10 years i'll
the penitentiary.
Judge Wofford entered the courtroom
at 9:45 and Immediately sent for the
prisoner. Mrs. Kennedy was brought
IN a few minutes later, accompanied by
her father and her married sister, Mrs.
Leon. A moment later the jury filed
into the courtroom.
When the judge asked the foreman
of the jury if verdict had been reached,
he handed slip of paper TO the clerk.
Mrs. Kennedy heard its contents read
calmly. A moment later she sunk into
chair and covered her eyes with her
arms and cried aloud.
The jury took six ballots. The first
stood 10 to 2 for conviction. They re-
mealned that way until the last ballot.
The defense gave notice of an appeal
Story of the Crime.
The murder of Kennedy occurred at
5:40 o'clock in the evening of Feb. 10,
in the new Ridge building, III the CEN
ter of the business district. Kennedy,
who was contracting agent of the Mer
chants Transportation company, was
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called by DR.. Gross, the woman's physi-
clan. Mrs. Kennedy followed the ply
sician closely, asked her husband if he
intended to live with her, and receiving
a negative answer, began shooting. She
fired five shots, all of which took effect
and any of which would have proved
fatal. Kennedy died almost instantly,
the only words escaping his lips being:
sit wasn't her gun.
Before taken away by the police, tho
woman kicked the prostrate man in the
face, renarking:
''YOu will never seduce another girl. "
Thomas Kennedy, a brother of the
murdered man, tried to wrest the re-
volver from Mrs. Kennedy hand, when
he was struck down by her brother,
Will Prince.
The couple were married III the cir
cult court on Feb. 4, and two days be-
fore Kennedy was killed he brought
suit to have the marriage set aside, al.
leging duress and charging w. @.
Prince, the girls father, and Will
Prince with forcing him to marry her
at the point of a revolver.
The three Princes are now awaiting
trial on a charge of conspiring to kill
Kennedy.
Mrs. Kennedy is 20 years old and
Kennedy was @8.
The prisoners father showed no more
emotion than if the verdict had been so
many words pertaining to matter of
small Importance to the family.
The Other Gases Called.
This case disposed of, Judge Wofford
asked if both sides were ready for the
trial of @. w. Prince, Bert and Will
Prince, father and brothers, respective
ly, of Mrs. Kennedy, on the charge of
conspiracy to kill Kennedy.
The state was ready, but the defense
asked postponement until Monday.
Judge Wofford said he wished to call
another Judge to sit in the case. II am
not satisfied, :" he said, ''that Bert Prince
and the old man were at the Ridge
building at the time Of the killing"
This seemed to interest the father
more than the verdict just rendered,
and the prisoner raised her head and
listened intently to the talk about her
relatives.
When Mrs. Kennedy was led back
to her cell she had entirely recovered
her composure and resumed her usual
manner.