TRIPLE MURDER IN NEW YORK
Mother, Daughter and Lodger Slain in Mysterious Affair
- (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 28. A mysterious triple murder was committed today in a fourth floor
apartment in New York. The victims were: Mrs Mary Gedeon, aged 54, her daughter Veronica, aged 20, and a lodger, Frstnk Byrnes, aged 50. The women had been beaten and then strangled and Byrnes had been stabbed six times in the headand face with an ice pick or a stiletto. The mother’s body was found on the floor beside 1 a bed on which the body of her daughter lay.
Byrnes was found on the floor in
another bedroom. The clothing of the women was torn and scattered about. The theory of the police is that the mother was » alone when she was attached, that Byrnes arrived next, retired unaware of the crime and was slain in his sleep* and that the girl, Vcrohica, was then waylaid and dragged into tlie bedroom. Veronica was an artist’s model and Byrnes was a waiter who formerly lived in England,
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Northern Advocate, 30 March 1937, Page 6
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