Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-03
A Sensational Trial
Mrs. Lulu Prince-K -Kennedy ON
Trial for the Killing Of
Her Husband.
Case Is One Of the Most Unusual
Ever Tried at Kansas
City.
Bride Of a Month Shoots Hus-
band and Kicks His Pros.
trate Body.

Kansas City, June s.-Mrs. Lulu
Prince-kennedy, a bride of month,
who has been in the county Jail since
Jan. 10 last, held under indictment for
murder in the first degree for delibera-
ately killing her husband, Philip H.
Kennedy, contracting agent for the
Merchants Dispatch Transportation
Company, was brought to trial in the
criminal court here today. The wom-
ans father, c. w. Prince, proprietor of
a billiard hall; Albert Prince, travel
ing musician, who circled the globe on
a concert tour, and William Prince,
young business man, will be tried later
on the charge of conspiring with Mrs.
| Kennedy TO kill her husband. The father
and Albert Prince are out on bond,
while William Prince is in Jail, the rel
atives' canvass for bail having proved
unsuccessf.l
The case ia one of the most unusual5in
| local criminal history and ensations
are promised by the state. Both the
| Kennedy and Prince families have lived
| in Kansas City for years, the Kennedys
being prominent in social and business
| circles. PHILIP H. Kennedy we- % years
Old He had known Lulu Prince for a
| year and in that time had paid her some
attention. In December they We're mar
ried a the court house by local judge.
Kennedy refused to live with his wife,
! and after month brought suit to have
| the marriage annulled, alleging duress.
fIe charged that the woman's father
10, n =,
1.-THE point of revolvers to go before the
judge and be married, threatening him
! with death If he demurred. A few days
| after the suit was filed Mrs. Kennedy
! appeared al her husbands Office and,
| calling him into the hall, shot him five
I times killing him instantly, then kick
/ ing the prostrate body. kennedy's bro
I ther tried to disarm the woman, and
1 While doing 80 was struck down By VIII
/ liam Prince. The latter's presence in
the building and the movements in the
+ vicinity Of the Princes that day led to
4 thel' arrest on charges of being accom-
Il plices in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy.
During her five months in Jail Mrs.
A Kennedy. who is but 90 years old, has
Shown no remorae for her crime. and
frequently enjoyed concerts given in the
cell BY her musician brother. Each side
has worked up their case carefully the
state having summoned 125 witnesses
ard the defense nearly that number.
Terrible Crime in Kansas.
Kansas, June 3.-This town is
4 terrihie ffrnlent over the discovery of q
horrible murder. The dead body of
4 Mrs. W II. kleusmire was found last
night buried in a shallow trench less
than hundred yards from her home,
e,ae mile north Of Holton. The dead wo-
I mans head was found to have been
crushed in as Il she had been struck
Il with club or some heavy blunt instru-
nlent. Il is alleged that she was mur-
darea by her husband who is now in
Texas. 'Ihe crime was committed ON
sunday May ie. on that day the chill
dren Of the family We're away from
home When they returned Kleusmire
+ i9la them their mother had gone to
Texas IN a visit. Later Kleusmire left
4 for leXas Friday the children received
! a Telegram from Elm that their mother
/ Had died dawn there of yellow fever
iand he had buried her. Sleusmire and
his wife have not lived happily together
according TO neighhorhood report. and
/ as far as matters now stand anger and
4 perhaps Jealousy furnished the motive.
~ - IttN tpiUllBu tdik III f1OitDE lhat
] lIleusemire murdered old man Swetiick
for the $S0.0oo Insurance money that he
carried. Paul sweJlick and Mrs. K,euse-
nlii'e We're brother and sister. Mr.. and
I Mrs. kleuseinire were beEeficiaries to
4 Swetiiek's insurance money. The mur-
/ der Of Paul Swetlick occurred in 1892,
and no one was ever tried for it.
y Kidnnpper Confesses.
Benton Harbor Mich. June s.-Isador
Roth. heid here by the local police yes
4 terday afternoon confessed that he b.
ducted Rosie Gelst from her home in
/ New York city. He said that they both
| loved each other ard that they ran
/ away tp avoid her parents. who OBJ
| jected 70 their going together Tho
| prisoner said he was willing to marry
/ the girl and added that he had expected
| TO send TO Buffalo for her in few days.
4 Roth Is restless Yesterday afternoon
4 logged the tficers TO let him out for
/ fresh air. In his confession he claimed
/ that the girl was true TO him and that
/ she was working as a hired girl in
1 Buffalo to save money enough so that
| they could marry when she became of
age. Rosie is 16 years of age and her
/ parents are wealthy society leaders in
New York.
May Result in Lynching.