NEW YORK CRIME.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 7

NEW YORK CRIME.

SCULPTOR’S CONFESSION. CHICAGO, June 27. Robert Irwin, a sculptor, wanted in collection with the murder of Mrs Mary Gedeon, aged 54, her daughter Veronica, aged 20, and a lodger, Frank Brynes, aged 35, entered a newspaper office and announced his identity. Tlje police were summoned, whereupon Irwin surrendered, and confessed readily. Palo and tired, he said Ins conscience had been troubling him. He insisted that he did not want to kill Veronica, Gedeon, her mother, and the hoarder, but only Ethel, Veronica’s sister. He explained that he was forced to kill the others because they came homo while he was waiting for Ethel. , ■ . . He said that the murders occurred m the following order:—Mrs Gedeon, Veronica, and Byrnes. Irwin shrieked hysterically at times during his narrative, but was never incoherent. He expressed amusement at the fact that the New York police thad been unable to find him.

Mrs Gedeon, her daughter Veronica, *nd Byrnes, were murdered mysteriously on the fourth floor of an apartment houso in New York on March 28. The daughter was a well-known artist’s and tiie diflicult’cs of the police were partially due to the fact that she had a wide circle ot acquaintances. Finally suspicion fed on Irwin, a former boarder at the Gedcons, and at one time an inmate of an asylum.