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Show INSANITY PLEA SAVES A HUSBAND SLAYER Kansas City, Jan. 29. Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy Kramer, on trial a second sec-ond time for the murder In January. 1901, of her first husband, Philip H. Kennedy, was found not guilty by a jury here today. At her first trial she was convicted nnd sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Tho conviction con-viction was reversed on a technicality. During her release on bond last February Feb-ruary she married John Kramer, an attorney, at-torney, who had defended her brother, Will Prince, who later was convicted on a charge of conspiring with the defendant defend-ant to kill Kennedy. Mrs. Kennery killed Kennedy, -who was local agent for the Merchants' Dispatch Dis-patch Transportation company, a month after they had been married. He had refused to live with her. bringing suit to have the marriage annulled on the ground that he had been forced Into It. The verdict of acquittal was found solely on the ground1 that Mrs. Kennedy was Insane when she shot her husband. The jury, however, found that "the defendant de-fendant has since regained, her sanity." which will save her from being sent to an Insane asylum. |