The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
CORONERLOCKS~ MRS.SHIPPOUP
,K1yNAN MURDER WITNESS SAYS
y FREE TRIP WAS OFFERED HER.
strange story OF Dark far Acting for .
Lawyer Who would Pay for Visit to
UaIy-Mrs. Stenton Sheds Tears ~
\ Her Thing Are Taken From Old Home.

, strange story OF DARK MAN ACtinE Tor q
Lawyer Who Would Pay for Visit to
JtaIy-Mrs. Stenton Sheds Tears a.
Her Things Are Taken From Old Home.
. Though Mrs. Alice Kinnan was murdered
on the porch Of her home at Washington
avenue and ls9th street just q month ago
to-day, it was only yesterday that the first
, arrest in the case was made. Coroner
Mcdonald became scared lest Mrs. Maria
Shlppo, the Italian woman who had rooms
in the basement Of Shady side, should not be
within reach when she Ia wanted az q wit
ness at the inquest into the death of Mrs.
Kirnan, which Is to be held some time this
week, probably Thursday. He therefore
issued a warrant committing her without
bail to the House OF Detention. She was
taken there yesterday afternoon by Detec-
tive Sergeants Connolly and Heffernah OF
The Bronx Detective Bureau.
Mrs. Shippo, whom Coroner Mcdonald
says he regards as a very important wit
ness, was slated to remove her belonging
yesterday from the old Stenton mansion.
Last Tuesday the Coroner was informed
.by DR.. Joseph A. Mulholland that she had
called at his Office at 1882 Marion avenue.
The Bronx, to have him prescribe for the
four-months-old infant which was turned
over to Mrs. Shippo by a founding asylum.
Mrs, Shippo told DR.. Mulholland that last
Monday she was told that a man wanted
to talk with her on important business.
She met him by appointment in the after
noon in a saloon kept by a friend of hers,
an Italian woman, in East 119th street, near
Avenue A. Mrs. Shippo declared that the
man told her she could have a nice, long
pleasure trip, with all expenses paid, IL she
would consent to leave New York at once,
When Mrs. Shippo asked who would put
up the money the man declared that the
offer came from a lawyer who was very
well known to her. The woman said she
would have to consult her husband first.
Mrs. Shippo told the physician that she
had not seen the mat again, but described
him as a short, dark c~omplexioned man,
an Italian, whom she had seen before. She
did not know his name, however.
Brennan Of the Bathgate avenue station
yesterday morning to be on the lookout
for Mrs. Shlppo and find out where she was
going when she left the old Stenton house.
The captain ent a couple Of his men up
s s. ppe said said that she didn't KNOW know lust lust
where she IA going but that she might
20 to California. When the Coroner heard
this he issued the warrant for Mrs. Shippo
and she was taken much against her wishes
to the House Of Detention in Mulberry
street, where she will be kept until she
has been put on the witness stand at the
inquest; ,,,no ,,s told .. ,..s. b,,, , a-.,
versions Of the details of what happened
on the night of the murder OF Mrs, Kinnan.
what to think of her latest narrative. The
Coroner seemed more at ease last night,
when he knew that Mrs. Shippo was in the
House of Detention. At the inquest he
intends to question her more particularly
about the alleged one to send her away:
O'Rourke, accompanied by Mrs. Shippo,
paid a visit yesterday afternoon to a saloon
at East 18th street and Pleasant avenue,
which is a continuation OF Avenue A. When
: they went back to The Bronx they said
they could get NJ trace Of Mrs. Shippo's
promising dark Italian.
Mrs. Louise Malcolm Stenton, the mother
OF the murdered woman, paid a visit to her
' old home yesterday morning and watched
the workmen take away all her belongings
street. She was accompanied by Mrs.
Arthur E. Miller, at whose home at 2484
Briggs avenue she has been staying since
the Friday after her daughter was killed.
The old woman seemed much affected as
her things were taken out Of the house
and finally broke into tears. sobbing out to
Mrs. Miller: This is the end. My old
home Is gone
All Of Mrs. Stenton's belongings. except
the silverware, were taken to the storage
warehouse. Tho silverware, in the dis
covery of which the detectives thought they
had made a great find. but which proved
to be family plate. was taken to the Miller
house, as Mrs. Stenton did not care to trust
1t out Of her sight. Marshal Erskine and
his four deputies. who were on hand early
yesterday morning to see that the order
Of dispossession against all the tenants on
the premises, granted by Justice Tierney
in the Bronx Municipal Court, was obeyed,
and the policeman detailed by Capt. Brennan
from the Bathgate avenue station had some
little difficulty in getting Jake Carpenter
and Hattie wilkins, negroes, and Dominic
Norfia, an Italian. who occupied the build
ing formerly used as servants headquar-
tiers, to move. Norfla put UP a fight and
threatened to punch Marshal Erskine, and
finally had to be dragged off the grounds.
Mrs. Shippo did not var to go either.
She sent her household effects to a hotel in
the n~eighborhood and would not go with
the detectives to the Coroners' office until
she was assured she could take the child
which she is taking care of along with her.
When it was decided to send Mrs. Shippo
to the House Of Detention the founding
asylum was notified and the authorities
of the institution decided to take the child
back, at least until Mrs Shippo is released.