Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1914 — NEW YORK TREASURER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK TREASURER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

John J. Kennedy, State Official, Cut His Throat—Summons Before Grand Jury the Cause. At Buffalo, N. Y., shortly after noon Sunday, John J. Kennedy, state treasurer of New Ybrk, committed suicide by cutting his throat. The act was committed at the Markeen hotel. Graft charges which required his presence before the grand jury probably prompted the act. He attended high mass at the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in •company with his son. After his return he greeted his wife and daughter and then said that he would lie down a few minutes before luncheon. Instead he stepped into a lavatory off the hotel ball room and with a razor, which was found at his side, he slashed his throat, cutting the jugular vein.