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Show LAW TO TAKI3 A LIKE. THE CONVICTION OP DR. SAMUBL KENNEDY, 111 ilia AtroHoai flnrder of I relly Dolly llejni.111 Hi. M,,rr f Mar-tier Mar-tier tin.. Wl.l.li ntrunilr ll...n,klrl Hi. U.lfl rlfsl I .Mtl lift. n vrtjlr. When tbe Jury In the caea of the Hate of .Now tork ver.ua Ur Hamuei J Kennedy returned a verdlit ot lour der in tbe lirat degree against me prisoner, another vie ory u scored fur clrcunuiantlal evidence There have been few eaaea more replete with Interesting and tenaatlonal details thin that ot the murder of Dolly Ilty nolda, for which Kenned) was convicted con-victed and will. In all probability W the death penalty Ihe New ork police had purely elnumstantlal cvl denee to work with but Ihcy add d detail to detail until the finished cv. deuce was damning In the complete-nous, complete-nous, Tnose who have ft 'lowed tho enso will recollect the striking resem bianco It boro to tho famous Pearl Iloan murder the vl-tlm In bath ciaea being originally beautiful country glils ind the murderer of bo h being dentists den-tists To add to the peculiarity Ken-ncdy, Ken-ncdy, tho murderer of Dolly Iteynoldl was n 1 hyalenl prototype of Fcoll Jackson the facial resemblance particularly par-ticularly being remarkable Tho whole atory of the dee rendt like one of Poe most fascinating de-tectlvo de-tectlvo slorlee Dolly ltrynnlds was n country girl who until n few )ears ago, lived with her mother In the vll lige of North Vernon N Y Combined with brilliant benuty of face nml Og lire, he possessed n sweet voice nnd nn engaging disposition Tiring of th quiet life of the home she quitted It to plunge Into tho fascinating gnjctpa of tho metropolis She began as n book ngenl mid ber benuty and powers ot conversation wcro so great that she boasted she could sell books to tho busiest man In New Wk at his busiest moments In the pursuit of this vocation voca-tion she was brought much In contact with Wall street brokers, nnd tho Inevitable In-evitable camo lo past only too toon Tho money that Dolly sent home amazed her old mother, but It waa nil explained plausibly enough It wna while leading this Ufa that Dolly lleynolds met Dr Kennedy Ilotb wero Interested In racing, nnd she was In the habit ot giving the dentist money to bet for her Ken ncdy explained to her thnt he was the Inventor of a device, which, If used properly, would enable tliem to win thousands ot dollars from tho bookmakers book-makers It was an electrical nppll-anco nppll-anco which could be concealed by tho Jockey and would enable him to In-crtato In-crtato greatly tbe speed ot his horse Kennedy had no such devlco at all, but used this Idea to procuro monoy from his fair friend On tho slrcnalh of this sho lent him 1S0O. which he promised to bet for ber Tho monoy was used by blm for various purposes, but ho concealed this frum her, telling her Instead that ho had won K0 000 and that sho waa entitled to half, Dolly asked him for the money, but ho kept putting her oft from time to tlmo with many different excuses. Finally tho became desperato and threatened to cxposo nil to Kennedy a wife Kennedy, on tho spur of tho moment, forged a check for $13 000 on a Now ork bank, signed by Dudley a OWiwu end Indorsed by blmiolt Tho penally for thua forging a check In New York stato Is ton year In tbo penitentiary. Moreover, Kennedy had represented It as coming from ' Davo ' Gideon, tho well-known turfman Miss Roynoldi grew suspicious ot tho check and demanded that Kennedy pay her In bank notes, at tho lamo tlmo repeating re-peating tho threat to cxposo all to his vlfc On tbo lSth of August, Dolly rleynolds and a man (later Identified is Kennedy) wero registered nt tho Urand hotel , "." Maxwell and nlto" Dn s j. ki:nnkdy. About 2.30 0 clock In the morning a man waa seen by a bell-boy slipping out of tho hotel with a straw hat pulled down over his head, as If anxious anx-ious to avoid observation Tho next morning Dolly Iteynoldl was found In her room, dead, with two ghastly wounds In her head, evidently made by n pleco of gss pipe loaded with solder, which wai lying near by Her rings and diamond pin had been torn from her body at If to fix robbery at the motive Inilde her corset was found tho telltale tell-tale $13 000 check with S J Kennedy as Indorter, The room waa In confusion, confu-sion, as It a tevere struggle bad taken place After tho dbie 11 y of the check tho police l-ai.dlatwy arreted Kennedy," '.train! it, -ico- herent stc ' b had Lcen on th -ifchtof a us 15. i Irs that ho wd not t mw ' for hlmaelf during une t!"i of l cvnlne owing to a ,apo mn-t.i TLi ,.' .as stianuoudly dtnled by 'T, Hon ever Ills father, a wealthy . , svnfti.il .- - i physician, engaged eminent legal tn! ent, with Lawyer Hmanucl trlend nt their head and both sides preparei for a desperate battle In court The trill begin Tuesday. March St and bad from tbe nrst the aspect of a fort-gone fort-gone conclnalon Tbe state proved all Kennedy a relation with Dolly Key nolda an I showed that tbe check wat a worthlcx nne although the cashhr Identlflcl Kcnnid) a algnature as gen 11 ne 1 l-c d rk of the hotel who wat on dutv 1 he night of the murder testl tied tha I Maxwell wore a straw hat The atnt tli-n produced tha man who had Ihe same day soli' 1 straw hat and a s-olf rap to Kennedy both of which were found In his apartments Perhipi one of the strongest hits of evidence brought forward by the state was tbe positive Identification of Kennedy Ken-nedy by a bell hny named Irfnabsn is the man who had gone unstalrs with Mtsa lleynolds and later had tried to slip mil unnotlcet The drith-dealing Instrument which Kennedy had iied waa another atrong link In the convicting chain It wat n long piece o g-M pipe Inclosing tv piece nf lead pipe closed at ono en I with wilder and wound it tho other with bicycle tap- It waa shown on iyfFji DOLLY ItrNOLD the itand by the evidence of tho prisoner's pris-oner's own father that ho and hit son bad been working tho d-iy of tho murder mur-der rcpilrlng n kitchen sink, during which Ihcy wed solder, lead and gat pipe The prisoner's father also admitted ad-mitted Hint his eon rodo n bicycle, and thnt bo had often seen him with bicycle, bi-cycle, tape The Importance of tbe admission as to the soldor will be seen when It It known that tho solder on the murderers weapon wat fresh, and, according tn plumbers, had been melte I on that day Many other Itttlo bltt of evidence wcro brought out by the stnto at the trial, which, combined with the more Important points, addod strengthening threads to tbo web thai entangled Kennedy The defenso did not caro to put Kennedy Ken-nedy nn tho wltnem stand for bit own defense, at previous to tbe trial ho had made such conflicting statements as to his wherrabouta and actlona on the eventful night that It waa believed tho cross eiarali allon by tbo state In which theso would bo Introduced woold hurt his caso very much It was sought to be shown Hint Kennedy wai not at the hotel on tho night of Aug 16, but the alibi broko down In vital points, and tha record of previous good behavior be-havior which tho defense brought forward for-ward counted for nothing Tho defenso de-fenso then had to content Itself with picking flaws In tho evldcnco of the various witnesses for tbe prosecution. Somo of tho scenes ot Ibo trial wen quite dramatic, notably when the father of tho accused was forced to, admit certain telling circumstances Tbe Jury wat not long out, and wai unanimous for conviction when polled Thus circumstantial evldenco. Indirect but strong, hat scored another victory, and tho electric chair will toon claim another victim, unless tbo governor In terferos. |