Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1901 — ON TRIAL FOR HER LIFE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ON TRIAL FOR HER LIFE

Mn, Lulu Kennedy Arraigned for Killing Her Husband. CASE IS A SENSATIONAL ONE. It I* Charged That the Woman’* Father and Brother William Compolloa Ken* nedy at the Points of Revolvers to Marry Her. Mrs. Lulu Prince-Kennedy, the bride of a month who has been in the county jail at Kansas City since Jan. 10 last, held under, indictment for murder in the first degree for deliberately killing her husband, Philip H. Kennedy, contracting agent of the Merchants’ Dispatch Transportation company, is on trial in the criminal court. The woman’s father, C. W. Prince, proprietor of a billiard hall; Albert Prince, a traveling musician, who has circled the globe on a concert tour, and William Prince, a young business man, will be tried later on a charge of conspiring with Mrs. Kennedy to kill her husband. The father and Albert Prince are out on bond, while William Prince is in jail, his relatives’ canvass for bail having proved unsuccessful. The case is one of the most unusual in Kansas City’s criminal history and sensations are promised by the state. Both the Kennedy and Prince families have lived in Kansas City for years, the Kennedys being prominent in social and business circles. Philip H. Kennedy was 28 years old. He had known Lulu Prince for a year and in that time had

paid her some attention. In December they were married by a local judge at the court house. Kennedy refused to live with his wife and in a month brought suit to have the marriage annulled, alleging duress. He charged that the woman’s father and brother William compelled him at the point of revolvers to go before the judge and be married, threatening him with death if he demurred. A few days after the suit was filed, on Jan. 10, at 5:30 in the evening, Mrs. Kennedy appeared at her husband’s office in the Ridge building and calling him into the hall shot him five times, killing him Instantly, and kicking bis prostrate body. Kennedy’s brother tried to disarm the woman and while doing so was struck down by William Prince. The latter’s presence in the building and the movements in the vicinity of the Princes that day led to their arrest on charges of being accomplices in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. During her five months' confinement in jail Mrs. Kennedy, who is only 20 years old, has shown no remorse for her crime and has frequently enjoyed concerts given in her cell by her musician brother. Each side has worked up its case carefully, the state having summoned 125 witnesses and the defense nearly that number. That the Kennedy case has attracted more attention than any other in recent years was demonstrated by the answers given by the jurors when questioned. With only one exception every person examined said that he had followed the details of the Kennedy affair since the day the shooting occurred.

SCENES AND CHARACTERS IN KENNEDY MURDER CASE.