The age-herald., 1901-06-11
KENNEDY TRIAL
 NEARING ITS END
State Completed the Taking of
 Testimony Yesterday
PRISONER LOOKING WELL
She Laughed When the States Strong est Witness Took the Stand-De- fense Trying to Prove Insanity
 Caused By Bad Treatment.

Kansas City, Mo, June 10-The State in the case of Lulu Prince Kennedy, on trial for murdering her husband, rested this afternoon. Today the state adduced additional evidence to prove its claim that Kennedy was forced to marry Lulu Prince at the point of a revolver; that Will Prince furnished the weapon and nerved her up to committing the crime; that Prince conspired to kill Kennedy ana that the womans claim that she was In I a delicate condition and shot her hus- band in fit of temporary insanity pro- duced by this condition was untrue.
 Tomorrow the defense will begin its tes- timony to show that Mrs. Kennedy in- herited insanity; that Kennedy had ruined her, and that his refusal to acknowledge her as his wife temporarily deprived her of her reason. Following this the state will offer evidence to show that she was not good woman before she met Philip Kennedy.
 Mrs. Kennedy was pale when she en- tered court this morning, showing plain ly the suffering she had endured since her collapse on Saturday In the afternoon her condition seemed to improve. She prompted several questions asked by her attorneys and when Police Matron Moore who proved one of the states strongest witnesses, took the stand the prisoner laughed.
 Conspiracy Theory. The first witnesses brought forward today by the State were examined in an effort to prove that a conspiracy to kill Kennedy was matched and carried out by the woman's father, two brothers and herself.
 Jack Caldwell testified to a conversa- tion with Will Prince following his sis ters marriage at the court house to Kennedy, at which ceremony Will Prince and his father were present Will had related the scene at the court house to witness and told of Kennedy's saying when friends congratulated him: T will not be a live man three weeks from today"
 Prince had retorted: "Well, you have prolonged your life by this marriage"
 Prince had almost admitted to witness that the marriage had been almost forced upon Kennedy. Later when Prince and his father had called at Kennedy's office there to collect $40 for Mrs. Kennedy's board, Will Prince re- lated to the witness that Kennedy ran out of the office and had gone down stairs. He practically admitted that he and his father were armed at the time. and that Kennedy was under shadow of a gun.
 Kennedy had been married but month when he was killed. Saturday it was ad- ducedithat Bert Prince had forecasted the murder. e.
 A newspaper reported told of Mrs. Ken- nedy and her brother Will 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 Kennedy from marry ing another woman.
 D. J. Curtain testified to conversation with W. T. Prince. the father, after the marriage. Prince had said
 T was not going to let this man jilt my daughter. If things do not go right you will have a good deal more sensa- tional thing to write about"
 Prince had mistaken Curtain for re- porter.
 Two witnesses testified to seeing Mrs. Kennedy and Will Prince going in the direction of Kennedy's office on the after noon of the murder.
 Elizabeth Jackman told of the two boarding a car for down town and of Will Prince requiring his sister to do something. Witness did not catch Wills words, but heard her answer, All right. I will
 It is the theory of the state that Prince furnished the prisoner with the re- volver with which she killed Kennedy and accompanied her to near the scene of the killing, nerving her to the point for committing the crime.