An Alibi For Dr. Kennedy
Item
- Title
- An Alibi For Dr. Kennedy
- Source
- Evening World
- Date
- 31-May-00
- page
- 4
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1900-05-31/ed-1/?sp=4&q=murder&r=0.014,0.132,0.541,0.251,0
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- Murder, testimony
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged murderer
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Court
- Length of story
- 380 words
- Description
- Justice Fursman, in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court this morning, heard the testimony of the new witnesses by whom counsel expect to get a new trial for Dr. Samuel J Kennedy, now awaitinf the death penalty for the murder of Dolly Reynolds in the Grand Hotel two years ago. Lawyer Cantwell briefly reviewed for Justuce Fursman's benefit the story of the murder. "We will prove," Mr. Cantwell said, "that at the time Dr. Kennedy was supposed to be in the Grand Hotel he was on his way to his home on Staten Island. Thomas J. Fenley swore that he had met Dr. KEnnedy at a bowling club reception some months before the murder. "When did you first hear of the murder of Dolly Reynolds?" Mr. McIntyre asked. "The day Dr Kennedy was arrested," replied Fenley. "Why didnt you come forward then?" "I thought the man was guilty," Fenley replied. Alfred Wagner, also a St. George S.I cab driver , swore he had seen the condemned man get off the 12.45 AM boat on Aug, 16. He described the clothes Dr. Kennedy wore that morning and the color of his eyes. He was more positive than Fenley. Andrew Seguine, a cab driver, of 448 Amsterdam avenue, this city, stated that on the afternoon proceeding the murder he drove Dolly Reynolds was not with Dr. Kennedy. John P. Purcell, a plumber, of New Dorp, was called to prove that the lead pipe in Dr. KEnnedy's house was one inch in diameter and not three quarter inch, as was testified to ipon the trial. Justice Fursman refused to hear him. Mrs. Ella B McKelvey, wife of a drugger at New Dorp, swore she saw Dr. Kennedy from her house at 2.45 o'clock the morning of the day Dolly Reynold's body was found. Justice Fursman reserved decision on the motion.
