The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-10
AEW STuRT OgBRoNX MURDER


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They were s.ralns an Day ysssssday
Tor RlcFasd Klnnan, thc Aushaad ~ no
narieFvd wosna6. who has bepu living apast
ifom her fos sbov, ten pears, and who
contested ths dlvoecs p~rocepdtnNa whtcb
she hseuaht against him. TRe poliee waaa
10 md osa from Klnnan the story NJ thslf
marital ,soubksa. They found that he wsa
living IN So'ith Osfori street. ~troohiyn,
abou, slgh,err months ago; bu, ~accoeiIna
20 the statement ~ Q letter carrier he was
In The Irons shout a month ago.
The clies which the police have TO vofh
m arr very meagre They had pinned o
good deal ~ faith on what they would b.
able TO get from Mrs.. Louis N. s~tenton,
Mrs. Klnnan's aged mother, who was alone
with Mrs. Kinnan In their apartments
when the latter went out on the veraada
about o O'Clock on Tuesday night. Mrs.
S~tenton, soon after she had discovered the
unconscious form Of her daughter lying on
the veranda, told the police that Mrs.
Kinnan had gone TO the door to answer o
ring Of the bell. Somebody greeted her at
thA door vrtNb n sDnnt 1vaptn0 = Mr.
Kinnan went out and Mrs. Stenton know
nothing more Of what happened until, o
few tributes later. she found her daughter
lying near the end OF the veranda With
several ugly cuts on her head.
Mrs. Stenton told an altogether different
story yesterday to her lawyer. Burton W.
Gibson Of ZIG Nassau street, She was en-
tireIy calm and collected. aud her lawyer
Is nclined to believe that this later version
Is the true account Of what happened.
although the old woman Is q little light
minded.
Il didn't hear my daughter 60 out at
ALL, " said she. "Nor did I see her. She
went out without my knowledge and there
was no ring Of the bell. The first thing
l heard was the crash on the veranda. I
was just getting ready for bed and sup
pOeCu tLdt my uhuBuVdi unoo was tOiuk 10
bed. 1 went to the front door with the
lamp in my hand and called Alice There
was no answer. and then I stepped out and
saw hsr. / bent over her and shook her
by the shoulder. There was no answer:
then I saw the blood and called for help
The only person who say anybody sus-
picious about the Stenton place was an
Italian named Jocko, who boards In the
/ hao.raof ~ tba l,tl<ly-- x;kL NJ NGo~io
Shippo, an Italian woman. Mrs. Shippo
said that she heard a woman scream shortly
after 0 O'Clock and then the sound Of a fall.
She ran out from the basement OF the build
ing, with Jocko. who had also heard ths
noises.
Mrs. Shippo didn't see anybody; but
Jocko says he saw a man running from
the Stenton yard into W%ashington avenue.
The two Italian were too much excited,
however. to be very certain about anything
that they saw, for they discovered the
unconscious woman about the same time
that Mrs. Stenton appeared from the house.
Mrs. Shippo told the police that she bent
down close to Mrs. Kinnan's head and
asked her what had happened. The Wounded
woman groaned. Mrs. Shippo asked;
Don't you know me, Mrs. Kinnan2"
- hit me, - hit me-" the wounded
woman moaned, and those were the last
words she spoke. Mrs. Shippo said she
couldn't tell whether the woman had said
she" or she"
The police believe they nave found the
weapon with which the murder was oom-
mitted. 1t is an iron bar about fifteen
inches long and three-quarters Of an inoh
thick, with a heavy, square nut ON on and.
The other end OF the bar is threaded, and
a firm grip could be got on 1t. The bar
looked as though 1t might have been used
in some heavy steel construction. II was
rusty and made a frightful weapon. IL
was found on the veranda only about two
feet from the spot where the woman lay.
The only thing that puzzles the police about
it is the fact that there isn't the slightest
trace Of blood on 1t. They think that the
woman's heavy hair may have kept 1t from
being stained.
The autopsy supported the belief OF tho
police that the wounds had been inflicted
by this instrument. There were five OF
them. one Oh the top Of the head. two on
the back OF the head and two at the base
Of the skull. Any one Of the blows In the
opinion OF Coroner Mcdonald would have
caused death.
Ihe entre baok OF the Skull was pfactt-
cally crushed in, although the separate
wounds were easily disoernible. 1t would
have been possible to deal a frightful blow
with the bar, weighted with the nut, without
much effort. At the end Of the veranda,
under a flower stand, and near the spot
where the woman lay. there was found also
a good sized piece OF two-inch steam pipe
with a cap on one end. The police took 1t
along with the big bolt, but they dom think
1t was used by the murderer.
The story told by Mrs, Stenton yesterday
was borne out In at least one detail by the
appearance Of Mrs. Kinnan when she was
found on the veranda. She had her shoes
of and had gone out on the veranda In her
stocking feet. This would indicate either
that the woman had started to undreAs for
tho night when she was called out, or else
that she had taken her shoes on In going
out so that her mother would not hear her.
Thu spot on the veranda where abe lay
is about ten feet from the door. There 10
spring lock on the door and Ms. Stenton
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