New-York tribune., 1920-10-23
Mrs. Kenyon
Convicted of
Manslaughte,'
Jury Renders Verdict After
Deliberating an Hour and
35 Min; Sentence From
10 to Is Years Imposed
Prisoner Is Unconditional
Husband of Woman Who
killedDr.T .Tetlow Collapses
asJudgment Is Announced
Special Dispatch to The Tribune


NORWICH, Conn, Oct %. - Mrs.
Mabel Kenyon to-day was found guilty
of manslaughter for killing Dr. Her.
bert Tetlow. The jury deliberated an
hour and thirtyfve minutes.
Attended by her eldest son, her
husband and her attorney. Mrs. Ken
yon showed no emotion when the fore
man stepped to the rail and said: eve
find the defendant guilty as charged
Two hours later Justice Hinman
sentenced Mrs. Kenyon to an indie
terminate term of not less than ten
nor more than fifteen years in the
state prison at Wethersheld. Mrs.
Kenyon was taken Immediately to the
county jail at New London, and late
tomorrow will be transferred to the
penitentiary.
Husband Breaks Down
Mrs. Kenyons husband who had re-
mained at her side throughout the
weeks ordeal, broke down when the
verdict was announced. A crowd Of
neighbors and friends from Westerly,
the town in which the Kenyons made
was shot to his death, hurried to the
stricken man and tried to comfort him.
Others went to the side of Mrs Ken
yon and kissed her, extending their
sympathy and words OF encouragement.
Justice Hinman took an hour 20 de-
liver his charge. He warned the Jury
that even if the shooting was accidental,
as had been charged and apparently
proved, the twelve men could still find
clo1, ,ryt,f f0r :,
she was engaged in the commission Of
a crime, or an unlawful act at or just
before the moment of shooting. She
had testified earlier in the week that
she had purposely gone to DR.. Tetlow's
apartment to commit suicide.
Before the courts charge, Mrs. Ken
yon's chief counsel, Herbert Rathbun,
in his summing up, said to the Jury:
"Gentemen, you are married men.
All of you are middled aged. l ask you
to remember the words of the Savior:
He who is without sin among you. let
him cast the first stone at her.
Mr. Rathbun asked the jury to re-
member that the only exact evidence
of the shooting of DR.. Tetlow was fur
nished them by the accused woman and
that the only evidence the state could
offer was as to what happened after
that fatal hour on June IL last. He
begged the men before him not to for
get the CHASTITY mistakes that had been
made" and continued:
Killed in His Own Home
'Dr. Tetlow's death can be traced
directly to his own acts. AS men, ask
you in the course of life, whom do we
find responsible for the wrecked homes
and broken hearts of this world. the
woman or the man."
District Attorney Hull, in closing,
described the case as unusual" and
added: "This case might have found
its parallel in pagan Rome, or in the
decadent nations of Europe in long
past history. 1t was cold -blooded mur-
DER
Dr. Tetlcw was a graduate Of the
Western Reserve University, but never
practiced. He devoted his time to
horticulture in Pawcatuck, across the
river from Westerly, r. l., his native
town. He had known Mrs. Kenyon
from girlhood, and from direct testi-
mony their friendship had been init
mate. She was married three times
the last time thirteen years ago, and
has three children by her third mar
rage.
On June II, DR.. Tetlow was shot
while in his own home. A revolver
which had been discharged four times
was turned over by Mrs. Kenyon to
the police and she admitted firing it