Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — KENNEDY IS FREE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KENNEDY IS FREE.

The Doctor Whose Trials Cost New York SIOO,OOO. Dr. Samuel J. Kennedy, the New York dentist who has been tried three times for the murder of Dolly Reynolds, with

a conviction at first, which was set aside by the Court of Appeals and two jury disagreements later, is free, and it is understood that a nolle prosse will be entered by District Attorney Phil bin, so that he will not be tried again. The case was one of the most per-

plexing the New York authorities have had to deal with and also one of the most costly. The cost of the prosecutions of Kennedy will come very close to SIOO,OOO, and it may exceed that sum. The cost to the county of th& first trial was $15,000; the expense of the second ran up to $25,000. The third trial was the most costly. Ten exports were called in all. The district attorney offered to see that the defense's experts were paid. Ten at SSO per day for thirty days aggregate SIS,(MX). The stenographers’ fees will be fully $5,000. Salaries and witnesses' and jurors’ fees and other expenditures will bring the amount up to $40,000. Dr. Kennedy mortgaged his house on Staten Island and borrowed what money he could to defray the expenses of his first trial. At the end of that trial every dollar he had or could borrow had been spent. Then some of his neighbors on Staten Island and a few friends in New York raised a small sum of money to take the case to the Court of Appeals and got the Court of General Sessions to assign Cantwell & Moore to take charge of the case on appeal and to try the case a second time.

DR. KENNEDY.