NEW YORK CRIME

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 121, 23 April 1936, Page 2

NEW YORK CRIME

CONFESSION OBTAINED.’

'United Press Association —By Electrio

telegraph —Copyright.) Received April 22, 1.55 p.m! . NEvV YORK. April 21

The police have announced the arrest and confession of the perpetrator of the murder oi* Mrs Nancy litterton, the well-known writer or juvenile stories under the pen-name of Nancy Evans, who was found brutally murdered in abath in her apartment in the exclusive Beekman Place section of the city. John Fiorenza, aged 24, an upholsterer’s assistant who, having called tor a chair for reupholstering the day before, again called at the residence tlte next morning after committing the crime,- calmly returned to the workshop, where -he finished repairing the chair. Then, with liis employer, lie delivered it ana 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.

The latter, who was engaged to be married, had been arrested four times previously for various offences, including grand larceny, and was out on parole. The police had early fixed tlieir suspicions upon him, and he and other members of the upholsterer’s shop were constantly under surveillance, bub the authorities succeeded in diverting suspicion, giving prominence in the Press to fictitious cluts while secretly working on the true ones.