New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-05
Expert Reports Finding ENOUGH
Morphine in Stomach to
Cause Death. =
WOMAN SW0ONS IN COURT
Utica Physician Met Emma
Krill at LyingIn Hospital
Here While He Was a
Member of Staff.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune 7

Utica, y. Y. Aug. Miss Emma Eliza
beth Krll was arraigned i'm the City Cour,
, here to-day following her arrest at Corn.
WALTON Hudcor on the charge Of murder
in the first degree. Her apprehension 70.
suited from the District Attorneys inves.
| tigation of four weeks into the death NJ
DR. Stanley T.. Iron, a Harvard graduate
formerly on the medical staff OF the
| Lying-In Hospital, Of New York. on Sun.
day afternoon, June q. at No. CT
Blocker street where he and Miss Krip
| lived as man and wife
In the City Court all the defendants
rights were reserved pending the arrival
of her attorney, ABE" Morris, OF New
York, tomorrow.
Morphine sufficient to cause death was
found in the stomach OF Or. Iron, a.
cording TO thereport OF the analysis made
! by A. n. Hamilton, an expert Of Auburn.
Whether the state VIII be able 10 prove
that Miss Krill administered the poison
with deliberate and premeditated design
remains 20 be seen. Miss Krill AZ the
time of the death OF DR.. Iron and at the
Coroner's inquest testified TO getting A
morphine and atropine tablet for DR..
Iron, which. she swore. he administered
himself while he lay upon the bed.
The case has been enveloped in mystery
from the first. The arrest OF Miss Krlll.
which was made yesterday afternoon
was brought about through the work q,
Thomas Ferrera. OF the local police force,
who was employed as investigator by the
District Attorneys department and who
spent a month in making inquiries While
the District Attorneys Office has not dis
closed the line OF prosecution. Il IS In
ferred here that the motive that may be
offered was the woman's possible belief
that DR.. Iron was going 10 abandon her
in Utica. Dr. Iron intended 10 return TO
Italy 70 take up the practice OF medicine
there, and as the first step in this direc-
ton had already sent his diploma 10 Al
bany.
The arragnment Of Miss Krill this
morning had it's dramatic moments. AZ
ter listening TO Judge Colgroye as he
read through the information and belief
upon which the warrant was made. Miss
Kril suddenly tainted and fell over back
ward on the floor She did not revive fCr
some time.
Several witnesses were heard. among
| them DR.. Hamilton. Then Judge Col
grove read twenty-five folos OF Miss
! Krilrs testimony given at the inquest
| following the death OF DR.. Iron. At that
time Miss Krill said DR.. Iron had threat
ened her life, If she did not come 10
| Utica and live with him. He said he
would not kill me himself. he had some
/ body else to do that" she testified
When Miss Kriu was asked II that was
the reason she went 10 live with the doc
tor she answered, Well. wasn't afraid
OF him" Later in her testimony she
also swore that while she was living with
Or. Iron In Utica ne had threatened TO
shoot her and shoot himself.
Or. Iron was the son OF a prominent
Presbyterian clergyman IN Italy. He
met Miss Kril, who was a professional
nurse. In the Lying-In Hospital In New
| York. and she said he had promised %
marry her. They lived together, how
ever. before coming here, where Iron
began practice among the Italians. He
met with no great success, and stories
were circulated that he had threatened
20 commit suicide Miss Krill said she
knew OF no reason why Iron should take
! poison, though she was aware that no
| was respondent