DOCTOR'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 225, 20 September 1913, Page 17

DOCTOR'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

A mysterious tragedy, involving the death of a young physician, Dr. Stanley Tron, and the arrest of Miss Emma Krill, a trained nurse, a very beautiful young woman, who poeed as Hie doctor's wife, is now attracting mueli attention in New York. Krill wae charged with murder, and evidence was given .that morphine in sufficient quantity to cause death •was found in the doctor's stomach. The scene in the court-room when the nurse was arraigned was dramatic. After snffering the ordeal for half-an-hour the young woman feinted and fell prostrate directly in front of the judge's bench.

Evidence was given that Dr. Tron was physically strong aud cheerful on the day of his death, and apparently had no intention of committing suicide. Krill stated that Tron brought her from her home to Utica, many miles from New York, in the same State, under a promise of marriage.

"After arriving in Utica he said he -would get a license in a few days, and we would be married. He kept putting it off until three months passed, and one day I asked him, 'Do you Intend to marry me?' He said, "You go home for a while, and I will think it over.' I went home for six weeks, when he wrote and told mc to come back. He' gave mc a wedding ring, but we have never been married."

The day before he died, defendant declared, tlie doctor, seemed very depressed. Ho mentioned that people seemed to know too mu«_i nowadays to take medicine. The only job left was to persuade people to have the appendix removed. On the day of his death he asked her to get some atropliine and morphine, wiiic_s she gave Hm in the doses prescribed, and tney were not poisonous doses. He. also took some amyl nitrate. Then she left the room, and the bolt on the inner side of the door closed accidentally, so that she was -unable to reenter for fifteen minutes. Then the doctor was dead. Later in her testimony she swore that while living -with Tron as hiswife he threatened to shoot her and shoot himself.