The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-25
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SrENTON ~ NrHDER CASE,

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CoFcner Mopunald and Assistant District
Attorney CafIuso viii hflna together to-day
Mn, tsRiiae Maluolm Htentun and burton
" Olhsun, the lawyer Win has a large
interest In Mr., Stenton'a homestead,
ind Ut who killed Mrs Alice g. n. klnnan,
N he falls the lnve-tl cation, "a tho Coroner
admits, will 20 " pieces.
Mrp, atentun gave her lndulsitoFp a Rad
ecven hour Saturday and told nothing Nhe
did not desire Ia. In seventy. eight Pages
n her testimony there IL not one fact of
value IN the Investigations,
Mr.. Gibson was examined last Friday
and while apparently he answered quen.
ions freely the net RESULT was m trihinR "
In Mira Stenton'a examination. II IL UNDER
stood that the trend os the questioning
to-day will I've on the litigation connected
with Mn. Stenton's property. Mrs. STEM
toms declaration on Saturday that she be-
lieved herself to he the owner Of S~hadyside
and hadn't any idea that the property had
been sold amazed the Coroner and the
Assistant District Attorney. The investi-
gators want to find out what Mn. Kinnan's
attitude was tow ird the sale Of the property.
An official connected with the Coroner's
office said yesterday that IN effort may be
made to have Mr.. Gibson produce in Coro-
ner's court the records of his connection
with the Stenton estate 30 hat Mrs. Stenton
be questioned on them With the ex-
ception Of the mother OF Mrs. Kinnan and
Gibson there are no other witnesses Of inn
portance to examine except John X. Astin,
a lawyer who assisted in the litigation.
An official who has had a part in the work
said yesterday;
1T isn't generally known, but when Mrs.
Kinnan was taken to Fordham Hospital in an
ambulance she was not unconscious. She
was dying but she could talk and was able
to think. She kept saying to the ambulance
surgeon
MY headl My headl 1t hurts me ter
ribly."
mo detective or even patrolman went
in that ambulance with Mrs. Kinnan. II
one had gone he would have been able to
obtain, without much doubt, at least the
sex of the murderer, probably the name
and other facts. 1t isn't the business Of an
surgeon to question his patients,
particularly when life is plainly running
out, so the young doctor confined himself to
making Mrs. Kinnan as comfortable as
possible
Some interesting details Of Mrs. STEM
tons conduct and talk during the inquisi-
ton on Saturday came out yesterday.
An official who was present described the
old mist ress of Shadyside in this way:
"She behaved, except for certain mo-
ments of anger as unpleasant questions
forced her to, as any other well educated
old woman would have done, She used the
best of English and made her replies ex-
actly to the point-when replies were OBJ
tanned at all. Her appearance and con
duct were a surprise to those who saw her
Immediately after the murder in the squalor
of the old house. She seemed to revert to
the days when conditions at Shadyside
were far different.
Occasionally her contempt for the whole
proceedings got the better of her. Once
she turned to one of her inquisitors and
said grimly:
~ take pride in saying that l am smarter
han all your detectives and lawyers: l
dealt fifty years with lawyers with
out learning a few of their tricks
Very often she came back sharply at
them when their questions annoyed her.
= Weren't you a smuggler at one timer
She was asked.
That's a fool question: said the old
woman.
We're you ever a oounterfeiterY
"'You ought to know better than to ask
such a question. as that, she replied
when the inquisitors went to the Miller
home on Saturday evening to question her
she got very tired Of the persistent
Why don't they send somebody up here
that knows something's she remarked
tartlv.
That remark discounted the amateur
and they went away"
Mrs. Stenton passed the day quietly
yesterday, spending most Of the time on
the veranda of the Miller house at Brig gs
venue and tooth street. She appeared
quite ready to face her inquisitors again.
They made no effort to obtain information
her. They kept up the sleuthing
the old Stenton house with no result.
of people visited the gloomy
Did place, coming in trolley cars, by the ele-
veted, in hired hacks and wen in automo-
piles and private carriages. The policeman
IN guard had a good deal Of trouble in re-
their curiosity. They wanted
Coroner Mcdonald went to Brooklyn
Yesterday afternoon to make an investiRa-
OF his own along certain ines de-
by the testimony in the preliminary