Show A HORRIBLE MURDER A Sensational Killing at the National Na-tional Capital WASHINGTON July 14The most sensa ional murder in Washington since the assassination sassination of President Garfield was committed com-mitted last evening opposite the north eastern end of the Treasury Department building Joseph C Kennedy attorney and real estate agent one of the oldest residents resi-dents of Washington and a personal acquaintance ac-quaintance of many of the most prominent people at the national capital was murdered mur-dered in cold blood apparently without provocation by John Daily a white laborer A few minutes before 5 oclock Kennedy left his office and crossed the street where he mailed several letters and started to take the car When within a few feet of the oar Daily who had been loitering around the corner for several hours walked up behind him and drawing a large keen bladed knife similar to those commonly used by butchers killing hogs ran it into Ken nedys right side near the abdomen with a vicious lunge and then gave it a jerk sidewise A large crowd was on the corner at the time but all were so horrorstricken for the moment that nobody moved Kennedy Ken-nedy fell to the ground after giving a cry of Murder groaned deeply and pointed to the murderer who made no attempt at escape es-cape The knife dropped out of Kennedys side as a physician came up Mason a colored col-ored watchman seized Daily who stood looking on apparently the most uncon corned and selfpossessed mania the crowd Kennedy expired five minutes afterward His body was removed to the police station The excitement rose rapidly and the crowd grew boisterous and threatened to hang the murderer Daily paid little attention and refused to say whv he committed the crime Once when provoked by the crowd ho turned squarely round and said Yes I killed him damn him Ho is a man about 50 years of age apparently a working man At the station house he told a rambling incoherent in-coherent story about tho affair of which the purport was that Kennedy had wronged his father years ago and secured a property worth 4000 for 900 and refused to make restitution The murdered man is about 75 years old of an old Maryland family and one of the most respected citizens of Washington Wash-ington He was the grandson of Ellicott who at the request of President Washington surveyed the ten miles square incorporated as the District of Columbia In 1850 and i 1860 Kenndy was Commissioner of Census He was a prominent politician in earlier days and an ardent adherent of the old Whig party For a long time he edited the Franklin Pennsylvania Intelligencer He was an intimate friend of oxSenator Conk ling Attorney General Garland W W Corcoran Cor-coran and a large number of other people He acted as agent for many of them He loaves an unmarried daughter Sallie Kennedy Ken-nedy a son Joseph Kennedy and one married mar-ried daughter the wife of General Biddle a wealthy Californian Kennedy was a man of considerable property I |