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DETECTIVES IN OUEST FORY. SLAYER1^0 wo.Vii:\ i;k\ti-;\ axi;IA.\ KATAIXY STAI)ltKIIV M A VHATTAX.$I]NEW YORK, March 2f) jl)etectives searched today lor a playt^; who chose Easter morninp jio beat and strangle a professional nflodel and her mother and fatally stab a man roomer in theii apartment in the fashionable Heekman Hill section of Manhat tan.The naked body of 20-year-olcVeronica Gedeon was found H#/aw led across her bed. Hei throat bore the marks of the kill Jm*’s finders. Beneath the bod lax ■ .'ilt; r attractive middle-aged moth |. r, Mrs. Mary Gedeon, 54. She loo. had been choked.In his adjoining bedroom la) Frank Byrnes, 35, a waiter am barteiider who had been employ ed at the exclusive Racquet am Tennis Club. Attired only in underwear, his body was stretched on tlie floor. He had been stabbec half a dozen times on the left sidt of his face and head.The police, abandoning a theory of double murder and suicidi after a search of the five-rooirIj apartment failed to reveal an\ weapon which could have inflict-led Byrnes’ w*ounds, believed that the killer attacked his victims as |:they went to their rooms, r A preliminary medical exami-I nation showed that Mrs. Gedeon, jwho was said by neighbors to , have appeared youthful and at- f ^ tractive, had been criminally as-|i Uauited, but the daughter had not I Scene of the slayings was a , bloek and a halt from the apart* jment where Nancy Evans Titter-ton, authoress, was murdered on Good Friday morning, April 10 1936. Mrs. Titterton was criminally assaulted, strangled and her body thrown into a bath tub. John Fiorenza, upholsterer’s assistant, died in the electric chair at Sin? Sing for the crime.The slayings were discovered at Jn3:10 p ni. yesterday when Jo-seph Gedeon, estranged husband of Mrs. Gedeon, and another daughter, Mre. Ethel Kudner, and her husband, Joseph Kudner, arrived for Easter dinner. Although |m they had not been living togethei in recent yea-s, Gedeon’s relations with his wife were amicable.ut4 » lt;9un
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Waxahachie Daily Light
Waxahachie, Texas, US
Mon, Mar 29, 1937
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