The sun., 1906-06-22
NEWSIORY OgENAGH MURDER
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seclred wv Cotouer NciIonHd and Assistant
tBsifct AttHfhey Cafiogo Yesterday ~ The
ttsUpItstv examination ~ dstsffnlne the
ise,s ne IN the murder Mira Shippos depo.
s,tjon ca,pa NJ y surpfise ~ The Cotouef and
tho police, slncr she hal told ~ leaa' one
utterly dlhefent story In tho hfpt days oft The
invest iaa2,1n Her statement yesterday
vas substantially ~ foll eva
Tho n,aht hefurc tho murder. ThuTrday
niahi she vas IN the Zig front yard ~ the
stsr,on houes and saw man enter ihe
yard Apparently when he was eeen by
Mra Shlppo he tried 70 get behind tree
Later on the same night, Mrs. ehlppo told
tho Coroner and the Assistant District At
torney, she heard loud volces In the upper
Iart Of the house. II sounded like quar-
rellinR.
The next morning, according 70 Mrs.
Shippos revised story. Mrs, Kinnan looked
pale and sick. Mrs. Shippo asked hor what
was IN. matter. Mrs. Kinnan replied that
sh, wasn't III. she was worried.
L have had 30 much trouble with q
lawyer Mrs. Shippo declares sfe sAld,
y thought he would want only 500 and he
wants thousands
MrA Shippo thought no more about
~ araF ~ nd
remark until the next night. She was out
at the we'll in the front yard getting water
she said, when she heard fall on the porch
AMI Immediately afterward heard Mrs.
kinnan call out: 'Oh, OH
Mrs Shppo went upstairs at onos. she
says, and ths first thing she saw was old
Mrs Stenton standing on the porch with
lamp in her hand. Mrs Stenton ordered
her of the porch, Mrs. Shippo says. but the
Italian woman, seeing Mrs. Nnnan lying
there, went to Mrs knnan and bent over,
asking her II she know who was speaking
TO her.
YES, you are Mary Mrs. Kinnan
moaned.
Who did this'' Mrs. shippo says she
asked.
1T was that lawyer answered Mrs
hinnan fatntly.
Mrs. Shippo says she tried to get Mrs.
Kinnan TO speak again and knelt at her
side for several minutes. asking question
after question, but 1t wasn't any use. Mrs.
Kinnan was too far gone and couldn't sum-
mon up strength enough to talk.
Then, she says, man named Kennedy
ran into the yard In answer to Mrs. shippo's
cries for help. Mrs. Stenton was still on
the porch and, the Italian woman declares,
ordered Kennedy to leave. Kennedy left.
and Mrs. Stenton took the clippers Mrs.
Kinnan had worn and side co NIB which
had fallen from her daughters hair and
went back into the house.
Coroner Mcdonald and Assistant District
Attorney Cardozo pressed Mrs. Shippo Is
to why she hadn't told this story before,
calling her attention to the story she told
the police Immediately after the murder.
Mrs. Shippo said then that when she went
to Mrs Kinnans side and begged the dying
woman TO tell who 1t was that had struck
her, Mrs. Kinnan moaned, hit me!
- hit mel and that 1t was absolutely i'm
possible to make out whether Mrs, Kinnan
meant man or q woman.
Mrs Shippo explained that within a few
days after the murder she went to Catholic
church in The Bronx and told what she knew
to priest, repeating what Mrs Kinnan had
said about that lawyer" The priest told
her, she said, to keep her mouth shut until
the right time came to tell her story to the
authorities, and then to tell the straight
truth.
Where was the church?' asked Mr. Car
dozo.
Mrs Shippo sail she couldn't tell just
where it was Maybe 1t was in Arthur
avenue, maybe it was a'church near la0th
street and Webster avenue. she couldn't
be sure. As for the priest she didn't know
him and hadn't heard his name
Tns Coroner and Mr. Cardozo were
puzzled by Mrs. Shippos story. They ques-
toned her thor oughly and she stuck to it
varying little from thu first telling After
the close of the examination she was sent
home with Detective Repett. 1t was not
considered necessary to send her to tn,
House of Detention. She will be taken by
detectives to a number of Catholic churches
in The Bronx to see il she can pick out the
priest who advised her.
Acting Captain Price, in charge Of The
Bronx Detective Bureau, has been work =
ing on a theory entirely different from one
which might be suggested by the Italian
woman's story. He doesn't place credence
in what she says now. He points out that
several days elapsed before she saw the
priest days in which she was closely ques-
toned by himself and his men, and GER
tainly, he believes, would have told the
story Of "that lawyer" II it were then in her
mind.
The preliminary examination started In
Coroner McDonald's Office at 10 O'Clock
yesterday morning. 1t closed for the day
at few minutes before o'clock, thirty
five or forty witnesses having been ex-
smi ned.
When the Coroner and Cardozo got ready
for work the reporters wanted permission
to hear the testimony. Coroner Mcdonald
said he was willing that two men. to be
selected by the other reporters, should cit
In the examination room and hear all that
was going on. Cardozo interposed an OBJ
lection. He didn't want newspaper men
there and said so without waste Of words.
The Coroner deferred to Cardozo and the
reporters were barred. At the close of the
examination the Assistant District Attor-
ney declined to talk to the newspaper men,
saying it wasn't his habit. Coroner McDon-
sld repeated such statements as he thought
important.