BATH MURDER CASE
Man Sentenced to Death New York, .May 28. Joint Fiorenza was found guilty of murder in the first degree. The jury deliberated for nearly 21 hours. Apparently the question of his sanity was prominent in the discussion, psychiatrists during the trial having testified that he was .sane and others til t he was insane. Ho will be sentenced to death in the electric chair.
A New York cable on April 10 stated that Mrs. Nancy Titterton. the wel'kuown writer of juvenile stories under the pen name of Nancy Evans, was found brutally murdered in a bath in her apart men! in the exclusive Beekman Place see tion of the city The police declared ibu' she was garrotted with a silk pyjama cord after an attempt bad been made to commit a criminal assault Iler clothes were torn to shreds and the condition ot her apartment furnishings further inilieat ed that she bad put up a terrific struggle for her life. Subsequently the police announced *lie arrest and confession of the perpetrator of the murder —John Fiorenza, aged 21, upholsterer’s assistant.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 11
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