Slayer Kelly to Die Next Month
Item
- Title
- Slayer Kelly to Die Next Month
- Source
- Evening World
- Date
- 9-Jan-20
- page
- 10
- Identifier
- Image 10 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), January 9, 1920, (Final Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- Black man, court
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged murderer
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Court
- Length of story
- 199 words
- Description
- Frank Kelly, the negro who was convicted of the murder of Catharine Dunn in the robbery of the home of C. Perry Clark in Brooklyn two weeks ago, was sentenced by Judge Kapper in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn today to die in the electric chair in the week of Feb 16. Through his lawyer, EJ Reilly, Kelly asked to be sentenced on some other day. He revived his contention that his crimes were the result of superstitious credulity by asserting that he believed his efforts to appeal would be hoodooed by a Friday sentence. Distric Attorney Lewis bitterly opposed Mr. Reilly's motion, saying that the woman murdered by Kelly had not been consulted as to the day of her death. Justice Kapper said he would not impose on the Sheriff the keeping of Kelly in a county jail any longer than was absolutely necessary and added that the verdict of conviction was in accordance with the facts and the Justice's own views.
