The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-15

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co-ticd IN elicitins from hrt Information
whirh may had W. the icleri and Arrest
~ Mrs kinnan's murderer
After repeated queries. Mrs Stenton
stated tn tho drtr,tivra that Mts kihnan
was ett~rtins \ Visitor on tho niRht ~ the
murder She said she had every reason
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rrive from her daughter u large sum "
money Shr -iid tho visitor had received
NJ arinu times considerable sums from
Mrs kinnan whether Mrs. Stsnton d..
vulged tho visitors name to the police,
Capt Price refused TO say. lie alao de.
clined To aay whet hhr he had an arrest
in connection with the ca-e In contrnpla-
tion
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scufle on the porch and he -drrans u her
daughter.
During the afternoon Dr Gibson and
Detective Connolly ~ the Bronx Detective
Bureau continued their exploration of the
house, Two bank books on different sav-
inRs banks and In Mrs. kinnan's name were
found These showed that the woman had
deposits to her credit in the two hanks
amounting To about $7oo and 81 POO respec-
lively. In one of them was an entry show
ing that Mrs. Kinnan had drawn out $50
four or five days before she was beaten to
death. In one of the bureau drawers in
the room which Mrs. kinnan occupied was
found SAC. From the statement Of the
womau's mother, it II surmised that Mrs.
Kinnan may have drawn out the money in
anticipation of the coming Of the visitor on
Friday night and that she had spent the
other 81 in the meantime.
One Of the newspaper reporters who
was prowling about the pile of Junk which
cutters the approach to the rear entrance
Of the old mansion discovered yesterday
a Ratchet with the handle broken of at
a point near the head. 1t was hidden
away under an old wrapper, which was
itself concealed from view by a pile of
brush. On the handle were stains which
may or may not have been human blood.
Coroner Mcdonald tool the Ratchet away
with him and will have a microscopic ex-
animation made of the stains.
The photograph which was found a few
days ago wrapped in a cloth together with a
photograph of the murdered woman and
which, it was thought, might throw some
light upon the identity of Mrs. Kinnan's
assailant was identified yesterday as that
Of Percy Mcllroy, the son Of a former rector
Of st. Georges Episcopal Church, which is
not far distant from the Stenton house. Mrs.
Kinnan used to attend st. Georges Church
became an intimate friend of hers and her
mothers and was a frequent visitor at their
house.
Later. after his father moved to Bellport,
L.. l., where he is now in charge of an Episco.
pal church, young Mcllroy opened a tea and
coffee store at Webster avenue and lsOth
street. He kept up his acquaintance with
Mrs. Kinnan and her mother. He gave up
the tea store about W years ago and is now
living in Manhattan. He is well known in
readily identified yesterday by half a dozen
neighbors, who ridiculed the possibility of
his having anything to do with the tragedy.
SO far the detectives and Mr.. Gibson in
their search of the house nave brought to
light half a dozen hank books, which would
indicate that the murdered woman had
deposited in different savings banks in this
city close to $4,000. All of the bank books
were in the daughters name.
Some years ago Mrs. Kinnan and her
mother used to nay all their servants and
the tradesmen with whom they had dealings
in gold. OF late years, it is said, they gave
up using gold with which to pay their bills,
and many of the bills had gone entirely
unpaid. The police do not believe, how
ever, that the crime was committed by an
angry creditor, though Mrs. Stenton and
her daughter often received visits from
creditors who went away angry and unpaid.