The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24
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fhteo Detectives 1,~v'iouesi The o'd Fo'nnh
al day putting hef thrSiSh . felen'lr'a
end seafi41fn examination
Cofnner NcDpNeid a,id win Sums sh1gfln
last night that shc Appeared ~ u" h'nu"'vl
I'll their eTrrta a. got anything substantial
from her When shr gave them roo'l night
ffum tho vefenda ~ tho MILLER hotne In
Igalfofd Park. where she is staying, She
Savei TO them iovially aud Sas laughing
10 herself.
Ths result ~ the day'a work, from which
10 much was expected Nv Mcdonald, Car
dozo and Price, was 81 u~ninportaht and
trivial that tho Coroner admitted frankly
that unless progress Il % Tomorrow.
when Mrs. stcnton, Burton " Gibson, tho
lawyer who has figured prominently In the
murder case. and another lawyer named
W. X. Astin, who was associated with Glib
son in litigation over the Stenton property,
are questioned aglin, the whole inSestiRa-
ton will fall fiat.
Mcdonald frankly. Cardozo and Price
by diagusted silence mad IL plain that the
investigators are up against It. They have
n few more facts In their possession than
they had the night Mrs. Kinnan was beaten
TO death on the front porch OF the lonely
old house, but not a bit more real, sub
stantial evidence. The Coroner doesn't
hesitate to say that one Of the most re-
markable murder mysteries In the history
of New York will never be cleared up unless
tho police are able TO match the keenness
Of the old mistress Of Shadyside.
Acting Captain Sam Price, with Detective
Sergeant Wines and Chief Clerk Austin OF
the Coroner's office, drove in a carriage to
the Miller home, at Briggs avenue and ac0th
street, yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock to
take Mrs. Stenton to the Coroner's office.
The old woman met them herself and
greeted them with a smile.
We'll, what do you a with me nowr'
abe said.
sThe Coroner wants you to go to bis court
and testify" said Price.
Now, I'll tell you right here said Mrs.
stenton, bridling in a moment. I'm not
going down in a courtroom before a lot of
people. I'm getting too old for that
Price told her the hearing would be private
and she agreed to go at once. She appeared
presently, dressed in her best black, silk
dress, a garment Of excellent material, but
of long obsolete stvle. Onher head she wore
a small black bonnet trimmed with violets
and a black ostrich feather. An old-fash-
toned gold chain was twisted around the
collar OF the dress.
Mrs. Stenton is II years old and appar-
emily of bodily f~eebleness, but she walked
to the carriage unassisted, telling Price and
the others that she guessed she could get
along without help. She stared at the clus-
tering reporters rather grimly and said:
There are the fools again. What do
they want?'
She asked Price to drive by her house,
which was somewhat out Of the way to the
Coroner's office. saying she wanted to have
a good look at the old place and see that
everything was all right. AS the carriage
ratified by the weed grown, unkempt front
yard the old woman turned to Price, say
ing; rho,o,s vhers sb, v,s L,,.d
I'm sure a man did it. Why don't you find
him?'
When the carriage pulled up in front Of
the Coroner's office she stepped out with
some assistance and walked slowly up the
stairs. Kodackers snapped her right and
left, greatly annoying the old woman.
Price hurried her into the private Office Of
Mcdonald, where Cardozo, Capt. Brennan
and Coroner Sc~hwannecke were waiting.
They gave the old woman a chair and took
positions around her.
S~chwannecke produced the gold badge Of
his Coroner's Office and hooked it on his
breast. Mcdonald put On his gold badge.
Capt. Brennan exposed to view his gold
badge. Sam Price opened his coat. threw
out his chest and let the rays of the Gun play
teotive eergeants, let their badges be seen.
Assistant District Attorneys do not sport
gilded badges sc Cardozo shone only by re-
Elected glory.
The impressive display Of insignia didn't
feaze Mrs. Stenton. She looked from one
large badge to the other with interest and
some amusement, smiling to herself. No
doubt she had never seen SO many hand
some badges. Few persons ever do. Then
Cardozo, Mcdonald, Price and sohwan-
piling one on another, seeking to confuse
or to entrap Mrs. Stentop into some inn
portant admission.
She told her name and her age and then,
version of what happened before Mrs. Kin
mans body was found. That evening, she
said, she was lying on the bed in her own
room, and her daughter Alice was reading
to her from a volume OF byrons poems.
About 0 o'clock, the bell Of the front door
rang and Mrs. Kinnan started up to answer
II. Mrs. Stenton said she cautioned Alice
about going to the door, since no visitor
was expected, but Mrs. Kinnan went on out
TO the front porch.
Some minutes elapsed-Mr s Stenton
couldn't say Just how long 1t w~as-hefore
she became nervous over her daughters
long absence from the room But even
tually she got up from bed, took a lamp and
walked out on the front porch. As she went
through the hall she distinctly heard some
body running down the front steps and
of into the yard.
Nothing Cardozo or Price could say
shook her story. It was so dark she couldn't
see, her hand before her, but she was GER
tain somebody had run awav.
The rest Of her story was the same az has
been published frequently, that Is to say
she went back into the house, being fright
ened, and when she returned she found
the porch crowded.
Through the closed and locked door OF
the Coroner's office while Mrs. Stenton was
being subjected to inquisition these aues-
ions rang out sharply:
did you kill your daughter?'
did you do it?"
"Why don't you tell the truth2'
And after every question, repeated in