The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10
A WIDOW MURDERED
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN MANSION
 IN BRONX.
Woman Was wealthy But No Robbery Motive Was Apparent--skuII
 Fractured With Blow of Blcrns Weapon.

New York. June e.--Early today a score of policemen and detectives were searching the grounds around stanton Mansion in the Bronx. where Mrs. Alice Kinnan. a wealthy widow, forty years of age was mysteriousIy murdered last night
 The yard is thick with. bushes and trees and flower beds
 The police. by the aid of lanterns succeeded in tracing the footprints of the murderer. It Is evident that he approached the house from the rear and came from the direction of what is known as Belmont Village Muddy footprints were quite visible from the steps of the veranda to the front door.
 The police started in to round up every. suspicious locking man in the vicinity of the house but all that were heid up and examined proved ccneius- ivelv that they were not near the house at the time the crime was commit ted.
 An examination of the clothing on the body of Mrs Kinnan failed to show that any attempt had been made to rob the woman of what jewelry she wore at the time.
 The fact that no possible motive is suggested and the peculiarity of tho attack leads to the belief that the mur- der may lave been committed by a nadman 4
 Mrs. Kinnan, who has been widow for four years and who had no chill dren was reading In the library of - her home at 2463 Washington Avenue when the front door bell rang. With her at the time was her mother, Mrs. Louis NJ stanton. who is nearly s5 years old
 Mrs Kinnan went to the door and opened it. Her mother remained in the library and says she heard a mans voice say:
 Good evening madame"
 At the same time. SO the aged wo- man says. she heard her daughter
 well, what do you want"
 Mrs. stanton says she heard nothing further in the way of words, but in a moment there was a sound like that of a body falling. Hurrying to the door, she found her daughter stretched out on the veranda unconscious and dying from a wound on the head that had covered her face with blood. The po- lice were notified and Mrs. Kinnan was removed to a hospital, where she soon died, without regaining consciousness The surgeon who attended her said the woman skull had heen fright fully crushed with some sort of blunt instrument such as an iron bar
 The identity of the murderer of Mrs Alice Kinnan. who was struck down on the stoop of her home in tho Borough of the Bronx last night was stiIl a mystery to the police today. The motive which promoted the mur- der was also unsolved. but the police were at work upon a theory that it might have been jealousy
 Mrs, Kinnan lived with her rnother Mrs. Louis M Stanton aged s5. fin m old and decaylng mansion surrounded by lawns and shrubbery at Washing ton Avenue and 1s9th street in tba Bronx. At o'clock last night. she was called to the door by an unknown person who without word struck her a fatal blow on the head
 The murderer then disappeared. but left a piece of gas pipe with which tha murder was donN
 Mrs Stanton. the victims mother. is so aged and so much shocked by the crime as to be of little service in Io- eating the murderer.
 That jealousy or revenge may have been the motive which prompted tha assault was suggested to the police bv the discovery that a contractor nannad Clinchy died in Mrs Kinnan's horne while calling on her two weeks ago and also that Mrs Kinnan had ero ployed a lawyer to bring suit for di- yorce from her husband from whono she had separated eight years ago.
 The police today were trying to find a man who Is said to have been a rre- ouent caller on Mrs Kinnan during tbe last two months. II was said todo,, that Clinchy had been a visitor at Mrs Kinnans home for five years against the wishes of her fmily
 The mystery in which the case Is hidden Is deepened by the fact that tba Whereabouts of Mrs. Kinnan's husbanS Is unknown. After trying in vain for two wears to find him and bring suit against him. Mrs. Kinnan believed hin, to be dead untl three weeks ago, when he was reported to be in Brooklyn. The search for him was renewed hy Mrs Kinnans lawyer, hut without TO-