A PIECE OF STRING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 110, 22 April 1936, Page 7

A PIECE OF STRING

Clue That Led to Arrest of Murderer NEW YORK CONFESSION (By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright.) IReceived 22, 1.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 21. The police announced the arrest and confession of tho perpetrator of th* Titterton murder on April 10. He is John Fiorenza, aged 24, an upholsterer’s assistant. Having called for a chair lor reupholstering the day before tho murder, he again called at the litterton residence the next morning and, after committing the crime, calmly returned to his workshop, where he finished repairing the chair and then, with hi s employer, delivered it. ft 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. The latter, who was engaged to marry, had been arrested four times previously for various offences, including grand larceny, and wa s out on parole. The police had early fixed their suspicions upon him, and he and other members of the upholsterer’s shop were constantly under surveillance; but the authorities succeeded in diverting suspicion, giving prominence in the Press to fictitious clues while secretly working on the true ones.