POLICE BAFFLED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 64, 2 April 1937, Page 5

POLICE BAFFLED

Own Correspondent.)

/' ' • • • ■ Queer Features to American Murder FATHER'S BEHAVIOUR

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(Eeceived 2, 1.45 p.m.j 0 NEW ¥ORK,' April 1. Apparently baffled by the murder of Mrs. Mary Gedeon, her daughter Veronica, and a tenant, Frank Byrnes, the police have begun a relentless questioning of the fathejr, declaring that they are unsatisfied with apparent alibis. A strange touch was added at the funeral, when an angry mob of a thousand broke through the police lines and attacked the father, a shninken little u, who has been actlng most strangely since the murder. He. has been spending his nights bowling, Detec* tives pushed hioi into an automobile screaming and women leaped on to the rnnning board and attempted to seizO him. The mob was dispersed with difficulty by mounted police. The murder continues to be a ninedays' newspaper wonder. Mrs. Mary Gedeon aged 54, her daughter Veronica, aged 20, and the tenant of one of their rooms, Frank Byrnes, aged 35, were aiurdered in a fOurth-floor apartment. The women were beaten and str&ngled and Byrnes stabbed six times in the head and face with an ke pick or stiletto. The mother 's body was lying on the floor beside the bed on which was the body of her daughter. Byrnes was on the floor in another bedroom.