Kennedy Murder-1887

KENNEDY

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 4/17/2009 at 10:11:05

Clinton Daily Herald
September 30, 1887

In the case of Barney Kennedy, charged with the murder of his wife, in Dubuque, Kennedy was found guilty of murder in the first degree with the death penalty. His attorney will make application for a new trial. The law provides that he be kept confined for not less than a year nor more than fifteen months in the penitentiary after sentence of death is pronounced. The murder took place on the night of April 22d last, but was not discovered for two days, when the body of the unfortunate woman was found in a field quite a distance from the house, the head and neck literally hacked to pieces by some instrument afterwards shown to be a chisel. Kennedy stoutly denied the crime and sought to fix it on others.