On January 10, 1901, the life of 30-year-old Philip H. Kennedy came to a violent end in Kansas City, Missouri. A clerk and solicitor who had also worked as a contracting agent, Kennedy had become the center of a sensational local scandal involving a forced marriage and alleged coercion. Just two days prior to his death, he had filed a lawsuit to annul his recent union to Lulu Prince Kennedy, a 23-year-old stenographer. In his legal filing, Kennedy claimed that he had been compelled to marry Lulu
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