New-York tribune., 1906-07-14
MRS. STENT0N. ON RACK.
KINN4N MURDER INQUEST
GibsoF Says He Can Proue Com
plefe 4Iib;.

ni5Gsfrs stentcn testified yesterday at the In
.-as* into the death Of her murdered daughter.
- Alice Kinnan. Her memory was very
ss-isy ana most. Of ber. answers incoherent and
-s.tling To question by Coroner Mcdonald
:, .he thought Mrs. Kinnan's husband killed her.
~ replied:
ne might have; he was good for nothing.
p54ahless. drunken fellow"
assistant District Attorney Caraozo asked
,rrs. Stenton. point blank. IL Mr. Gibson. the
4vver, killed her daughter. 70 which she replied
snss she had no reason for suspecting him.
Gibson was in court az the hearing and while
.be old woman was testifying he never took his
eyes from her.
Coroner Mcdonald said last night that Mon
DAYS session would be largely devoted to Glib
son's testimony. According 70 a friend, the
lawyer hes an alibi, and declares he can PROVE
sbat he was with party OF i've in a Nassau
street restaurant until o'clock the night OF the
murder. after which he was az the Kings County
Dsmocratc Club in Brooklyn.
Mrs Stenton told the old story OF Mrs Kim
nan going to the door when the dOorbelI rang,
against the old woman's warning She said that
ef,er finding her daughter on the porch she sent
sor Mrs Shippo. whom she dia not hear ask Mrs
Kianan any questions
The old woman could not recall IL any one
called the night before the murder. She said
that her daughter did not receive visitors. She
could not recall when she originally met Gibson,
who. she said. was her lawyer for three years.
she declared he bought and sold stocks for her,
and could not tell what made her lose faith in
him She thought him honest until recently.
Mrs Stenton was shown the iron pipe found
on The porch and the blood stained hammer.
she said she had seen them before, but could
not explain how the hammer was found behind
her bureau. unless some one put It there. The
Old woman was exhausted when her examination
was finished.
Several other witnesses were called in the ses-
SION that lasted all day.
Gibson denounced to a reporter the testimony
OF Mrs Scippo Thursday.
AS soon as this inquest is over intend to go
before the grand jury and have this scippo
woman indicted for perjury" said Gibson. "She
lied al the way through yesterday in her state
nents affecting me, and propose 10 see that she
IS punished for il. never offered her money
10 go away TO so back TO Italy. never sent
any Italian named Mike scutO to her to make
her q proposition OF that sort. don't know any
such man
The only money I ever offered Her was $40
in the municipal court when dispossess proceed
tngs were pending against her. 1 did this simply
10 help her with the expense Of moving out Of
the Stenton house.
Finally, she said that she talked with me In
The Bronx on the Fourth Of July. I am pre-
cared TO prove that didn't leave my home in
Brooklyn on that day"
Coroner Mcdonald said that IL would not make
any material difference in the course or result
OF the inquest IL Mr.. Gibson declined TO take the
stand. He already had fun record OF Gibson's
story At the preliminary proceedings Gibson
gave testimony which covered 40 typewritten
pages in the official transcript. 1t Is an inter
esting fact that at the preliminary inquiry the !
first question put TO Gibson was:
@DO you realize that you are suspected In this /
aass9"
Gibson replied: 'T realize that very fully, but /
an prepared TO show that had nothing to do /
Ni.h the crime"
Mstt Kennedy. a plumber, who lives opposite ]
fhs old Stenton home. testified that he was sit |
ting On his porch when he heard three screams |
and q long moan. he. with his brother, ran
orer. He did not hear an iron bar fall TO the |
pU7ch. He found Mrs. Stenton end Mrs ScippO /
itEA Kennedy said that Mrs stenton tried
. put him on the porch He teIephoned for
sa ambulance He saw no weapon lying on |
the porch. When ne asked Mrs. stenton why
she did not get pillow for her daughter she
turned to go in the house. but the door was |
locked
@AAo- mary Lee WHOSE uu5D1llls Joseph, Keeps /
hotel at No. 476s Third avenue, told OF talks |
which she had with Mary Scippo after the muir
der The Italian woman called at the hotel on
he following day. The witness testified:
7 asked her Il Mrs. Kinnan talked to her. She
answered Yes. she said. - hit me: - lift
me- Mary I said Did you say, he hit me.
o. she hit me? Didn't she mention any name?'
She replied, I can't tell you that. can only
tel the Judge or the priest"
Mrs. Lee told how Mrs. lScippo called up Mr..
Gibson on the telephone after she showed her
how use it. The Italian woman said she
wanted TO talk to the lawyer about chickens.
but instead asked him 10 come up. Mrs. Lee
ssid she had known the s4ipp0 sFonlan for seven
years, and that she always knew her to be a
hard working woman.
DR.. Joseph A. MulhOlland testified that Mrs.
scppo told him lawyer downtown offered her
kOO 10 leave the country. Mike Scippo testified
nat he was asleep at the time Of the murder,
nut that he heard voices and wrangling the