TRIPLE MURDER.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 394, 30 March 1937, Page 3

TRIPLE MURDER.

New York Crime. Press Association —Copyright. New York, March 29. ( Mrs Mary jGedeon, aged 54, her i daughter Veronica, aged 20, and ” a l tenant of <a room, Frank Byrnes, aged ; 35, were mysteriously murdered in a fourth-floor apartment t'o-day. The ' women were beaten and strangled and Byrnes was stabbed six times in | the head and face with an ice pick or stiletto. The mother’s body, partly clothed, was lying on the floor beside the bed an. which wias the nude body of her daughter. Brynes was on the floor in another bedroom. The clothing of the women was torn and scattered. A medical examiner said the mother held been criminally laesaulited but the daughter apparently had not. The police theory is that the mother I was alone% when attacked, that Brynes arrived and retired unaware af the tragedy and w’as slain in his sleep, and that Veronica was next waylaid, just ineide the door and dragged into the bedroom. Veronica was an artist’s model. Byrnes was a waiter and formerly lived in England.