The New York herald., 1922-03-30
KINKEAD'S WIDOW
ASSAILED AT TRIAL
Forced Him Into Marriage
and to Attack on Miss
Stone, Says Lawyer.
HAD NURSE DISMISSED
Reilly Paves Way for Tenn
porary Insanity and I'm
written Law Pleas.

Edward J. Reilly. counsei for MisA
Olivia NJ. p. Stone, in his opening ad-
dress yesterday 10 the jury before JUS
tce Aspinall in the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn. where Miss Stone is on trial
for the murder of Ellis Guy Kinkead.
declared that the woman committed the
crime because Kinkead's treatment Of
her had driven her to such pitch of
desperation that she did not know what
she was doing.
when she finally located him in
Brooklyn said Reilly. ''and was
spurned. she lost all consciousness OF
what had happened and did not know
for several hours that she had killed
him. When she came to she was In
the station house and kinkead was
dead. She. not knowing that she had
killed him. said to detectives: I would
like to go to Hell to shovel Goals on
top OF him."
The lawyer declared that Miss Stons
believed that she was kinkead's wife.
although there had never been a. legal
ceremony, because he told her in At
lantic City that she was. and because
he had introduced her as Mrs. Kinkead.
He described her wanderings over the
United States in search OF Kinkead. but
he denied that she had obtained the re-
volver expressly to kill him.
"She just happened to have Il with
her. said Reilly. having made a prac-
tice of carrying a weapon while going
about at night in her work ss a nurse .
In assailing Kinkesd as a man who
had led double life. Reilly attacked
his widow, who was in court He said
she exercised a baneful influence over
1a Flnn laxr
Miss Marie Gormley, was known in Gin
cinnati as the keeper Of beauty par
lor. he said and Kinkead frequented
this place until this same woman held
him in her octopus grasp and forced him
TO go through a marriage ceremony with
two detectives at their side.
"One day Kinkead and the Gormley
woman went to a lawyers Office In Gin
cinnati after obtaining marriage
license" said Reilly. "They were ac-
companied by two private detectives.
With Kinkead propped UP against the
table and the lawyer mumbling the
words he and the Gormley woman were
married The last they did before leav-
ing Cincinnati was to so to the General
Hospital, where Kinkead told a mean
story about this defendant and had her
name stricken from the nurses list of
the institution"
From the nature OF Mr.. Reilly's ad-
dress to the jury 1t was evident that
the plea of the unwritten law will be
supplanted by that of temporary in
sanity. He told of the defendants re-
lations with Kinkead and declared that
the lawyer was a man of dual personal
;ty in Cincinnati. leader OF the bar in
the day time and a frequenter OF ques-
tionable resorts at night Miss Stone.
lie said met Kinkead in the course OF
her duties in a Cincinnati sanitar.um,
and went with him as his nurse when
his physicians sent him to Atlantic
City.
Reilly told the jury that on this trip
1>!nkesd called the woman his wife
and promised to marry her. Instead
however, he married Miss Gormley.
and Miss Stone felt that she had
been mistreated. She felt, though. that
In she could talk to Kinkead she would
bo able TO reach the spark OF man.
hood that stiIl remained" and II was
for this purpose that she followed him
about the country. She had already
brought suit for divorce. the lawyer
said. and had been denied alimony ane
counsN fees because she could not show
that iegal marriage had taken place
| The majority OF the spectators at the
session Of the trial yesterday were
women. They listened eagerly as Mr.
Reilly declared that Kinlxead had de.
ceived Miss Stone and driven her "a
such lengths that she shot him. The
trial will be continued to-day. when
Miss Stone probably will be a witness