New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-06
NEW THEORY
IN IRON POISON CASE
Physician Understood to Have
Been Friendly with Other
Young Women.
ONE FROM THIS SECTION
Trial Not Likely to Assume In
ternational Interest - Elk
animation of Emma
Krill Postponed.
tBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune. ]

Utica. y. Y, Aug. determination on
the charge Of murder in the first degree
was postponed to-day till Friday In the
case of Miss Emma Elizabeth Kill, or
Cornwall ION Hudson. who is accused OF
poisoning Or. Stanley T.. Iron. scion OF
a distinguished family In Italy, on June
90, at No. 651 Blocker street this city,
where the two lived as man and wife,
though not married.
There may have been another woman.
or even more than one other woman, TO
whom DR.. Iron was paying attentions
Il was learned to-day. but whether Miss
Krill believed one Of these women might
supplant her in the affections OF the
handsome young physician is theory
that District Attorney Fuller was not
willing TO discuss.
How much importance will be at
tached to the contention that DR. Iron
was friendly with several young
women remains TO be seen. While the
District Attorney was not ready 10 talk
of this phase of the case. IL was under
stood he had heard something of IT. A
young woman of this city and a young
woman OF New York. or some other
Eastern city. Il was said. had received
attentions from the young physician.
The Italian Consul of New York with
whom District Attorney Fuller has con-
ferred, is perfectly satisfied with what
ever is done here by the public prosecu-
tor. 1t is not expected the case will as
sumo international interest such as will
Of IN l.
sui here during the trial. which VIII
probably be held at the October term
with Justice Devendorf presiding.
Miss Krill was visibly affected this
afternoon on her appearance in the city
Court She was asked by Judge O'Con-
nor If she was represented by any coun-
sci. and she replied that her New York
attorney. who is said TO be ABE" Morris.
had not arrived.
VIII you have COUNSEL" she was
asked
Miss Krill thereupon said that Emerson
VI. Willis, a former District Attorney.
would look after her interests.
William r.. Durrenbeck, n former
deputy sheriff. came forward at this
iuncture and said he appeared for MT.
Willis. who was out OF town and would
probably not return for few days. He
asked that the case be put over until Mr..
Willis returned. Judge O'Conner then set
the examination for Friday afternoon AT
o'clock. and Miss Krill was taken back
to jail.
Miss XIII. who is a professional nurse.
and who met DR.. Iron while he was assoc
f.1 In A W
York, absolutely refused 10 discuss the
case. At the police station she turned
her face away from applicants for inter-
views. and gazed with vacant eyes out
of the window at the dingy tenement OPP
poslte.
Il have nothing 10 say" she said, when
a question was put TO her. She flashed
her brown eyes angrlly. but made no an
swer. when asked II she expected any
members Of her family to come to her
aid
Newburgh. y. Y. Aug. Emma +.
Kriu. the trained nurse OF Cornwall ~ho
IS charged with administering poison TO
Or. stanley T. Iron. Of Utica. lived here
for year in the home Of Mrs. John j.
MacDonad and worked in cigar rae
tory. Joseph Krill. father Of Miss hrill'
is employed at a hotel in Cornwall He
knows nothing that would throw light on
the charges against his daughter. nor
had he ever been told by her that she was
the wife Of Or. Iron. She always used
her maiden name. he says.
Miss Krill was born In Mountainville
I'm 1859. She left home when fifteen years
old and was employed at different times
in the Middletown State Hospital and
Hudson Hospital.