The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-23
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MclIonallis on1cr tnmta hirs and hat
tRliona ~ sln fpahpu,ing kplakrrs cnnladed
him AMI squads ~ Newspaper fiptd hce
artists amhnslifsi him. Ne submitted With.
otrt apparent annUyanUr 10 tho piCtnre
taking campaign
When h. was callcd into tho Cnrnnet'a
omcr he took " supreme Court a,enog.
npherr In with him First he lena nded
that he ie qles, ioned In open court and IN.
sisted that The public and reporters be nd.
mitted, Mr. Cardolu and tho Coroner re-
FUSED to grant his request holding that tho
very nature of u preliminary examination
dena secrecy. Gibson entered legal
exception. Then he asked that the two
stenoRrapi,crs be admitted and allowed
To take notes of his testimony. Coroner
Mcdonald said that an official stenogra-
pher had been provided and that no ot theirs
were necessary. Gibson made anot her eX-
oeption and submitted to questioning.
Mr.. Cardozo, who has refused To give
any information to the newsra pers, de-
clined 10 say what Gibson testified to. Coro-
ner Mcdonald who has held that the public
II entitled 10 straight informal ton gave
the substance OF the lawyers deposition.
The first important question put TO Glib
son. " said McDona Id, was:
Where were you on the night Mrs.
Kinnan was murdered2'
He told in detail where he had been that
night. He said he left his Office at 1l8
Nassau street at about 8 O'Clock. He went
TO a "a loon and sta yed there until s:45,
after which he tool a trolley car over the
Brooklyn Bridge to the Imperial restaurant
at Fulton street and Red Hook lane. where
he took dinner. He stayed there until
about 10 O'Clock, he said, and then walked
TO the Kings County Democracy clubhouse.
There, he said. he met and talked with
Senator Patrick H. McCarren, a politician
named Quinn and others whom he named.
He left the clubhouse at about 1890 O'Clock
and went straight home to bed.
He said In answer to questioning about
tIl6 Ildlul6 VI III IeldtlOis VIII hTS ''teItOn
and Mrs. Kinnan that they had been very
friendly; that in all the litigation over
Shadyside, Mrs. Stenton's old house, both
women had been perfectly satisfied as to
his conduct.
He said that he was at the house or the
morning and on the night before the MUIR
der, discussing with Mrs. Stenton the terms
OF the sale Of the house. He remained
- II l. n Tl..--
day night, June T."
Coroner Mcdonald said that there was
nothing in Gibson's testimony which was
helpful in reaching a definite conclusion as
to who killed Mrs. Kinnan. Nothing was
brought out. said the Coroner, which would
lead himself and Acting Captain Price to
change their original theory. They were
no further advanced when Gibson left the
room than when he went in.
After the examination, Gibson dictated
a statement to the morning newspapers,
most of which was devoted to defending
his conduct of Mrs. Stenton's legal business.
Along in the spring Of 1901" the state
ment ran, "a 30 called squatter proceeding
was instituted against Mrs. Stenton to
dispossess or remove her from the premises
at ls9th street and Washington avenue
by certain persons who claimed to own
the property in question and in whom,
as a matter of fact, record title to the
property was at that time vested. At the
time / was first retained by Mrs. Stenton
to defend her in the proceeding a trial
had been had and the proceeding had
virtually gone by default against Mrs.
Stenton and a marshal's warrant to dis
possess her from the premises would have
been issued in a udy or two. She retained
ME by contingent fee basis under written
retainer, agreeing to pay me as fee and in
compensation for my services a sum eqaul
to 40 per cent. of the value Of the property.
Gibson had the squatter proceedings
reopened and the proceedings dragged
through the courts for about q year, Mrs.
Stenton finally winning title. Then Gibson
entered suit to have the title adjudicated,
DID encumbrances, amounting to several
thousand dollars, disposed of and the prop
erty sold for division of cash among owners
and lienors. When that suit was settled
favorably, Gibson says, Mrs. Stenton's
share was very small. so small that Gibson
and w. X. Astin, who had also been re-
tanned by Mrs. Stenton, returned several
thousand dollars to her.
so that" said Glib son, although Mrs.
Stenton was practically penniless five years
ago, when l took charge of her affairs, she
has now a substantial estate, amounting to
the value of several thousand dollars"
Il have always been on friendly and
amicable terms with both Mrs. Kinnan and
Mrs. Stenton," he said. Never had any
quarrel whatsoever with them, and in fact
in some respects my relations with them
were even more confidential than that
which ordinarily exists between attorney |
and client. No fault has been found by
either Of them against me for fees charged
by me, nor ha We they ever stated to me
that they considered my fees exorbita mt. |
On the contrary, they have both con-
graduated me upon the extreme success Of
the extensive and complicated litigation
which | have conducted for them, and ha We
stated verbally and in writing that l have
earned every dollar that have charged
them"
Lawyer Robert H. Flaherty Of ieo Broad
way, who was called into the Stenton estate
litigation, testified previously to Gibson.
He was unable to show, said Coroner Nc
Donald. that Gibson's connection with the
affairs Of the women was otherwise than
legal and legitimate.