NEW YORK FLAT MURDER

Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 9

NEW YORK FLAT MURDER

FIORENZA FOUND GUILTY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, May 28. (Received May 29, at 10 a.m.) Fiorenza was found guilty of firstdegree murder. The jury deliberated for nearly 24 hours, apparently on the question of sanity, prominent psychiatrists during the trial having testified that he was sane, and others that he was insane. He will be sentenced to death in the electric chair. [Mrs Nancy Titterton, the wellknown writer of juvenile stories under the pen-name of Nancy Evans, was found brutally murdered in her bath in her apartment in the exclusive Beckman Place section on April 21. The police declared that she was garroted with a silk pyjama cord after an attempt had been made to commit a criminal assault upon her. Her clothes were torn to shreds, and the condition of the apartment furnishings further indicated that she had put up a terrific struggle for life. The police later announced the arrest and confession of the perpetrator of the murder, John Fiorenza, aged 24, an upholsterer’s assistant, who, having called for a chair for re-upholstering the day tefore, again called at Titterton’ s_ residence nest morning. After committing the crime lie calmly returned to the work-' shop, where he finished repairing the chair. Then, with his employer, he delivered it, and it was they who gave the alarm. A piece of string commonly used by upholsterers and which Fiorenza inadvertently left behind him was the clue on which the police worked, tracing it from the manufacturer into the upholstery shop where Fiorenza worked.]