Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1901 — THE KENNEDY MURDER CASE [ARTICLE]

THE KENNEDY MURDER CASE

Defense Triea Alibis for Two of the Alleged Accomplice*. Kansas City, Mo., June 12.—The defense in the case of Mrs. Kennedy, on trial for killing her husband, was begun yesterday and twenty witnesses were examined. The bulk of the testimony was brought out in an attempt to prove alilds for Bert and C. W. Prince, tlie brother and father of th* prisoner, whom the state had tried to prove were watching the entrances to the Ridge building at the time of Lu* murder to prevent Kennedy's escape. Although the defense tried to prov* ibat they had left tlie elder Prince** pool room after the shooting occurred, the time given by tlie witnesses varied from 5:15 to 5:45. The shooting took place at 5.40. and the state’s theory I* that the woman was nerved to her deed by the mesmeric influence of her brother Will, who was tlie principal witness yesterday. He denied that h* had ever exercised mesmeric power* over any one or ttiat he accompanied his sister down town on the day of th* murder, and said that the revolver used in the killing was not his. H* knew of tlie murder only after it had been committed.