The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-31
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 Meanwhile, Joseph Gedeon, who found the bodies of his estranged wife, his daughter and Frank Byrnes, the boarder, on Sunday, was kept under constant surveillance by two detectives. The upholsterer, whose room is filled with photo- graphs of nude women, spent the entire night at bowling alley with detectives and tried to attack a photographer who took picture. I'm not a murderer" he screamed, flinging a glass of beer at the cemeraman.
 Gedeon found the bodies of his wife and daughter and the boarder, Frank Byrnes, 35-year-old bartender, Sunday, when he went to their apartment. He said he had spent Saturday night and early Sunday at a bowling alley and produced witnesses who verified his state ments.
 k Gedeon was taken to the East 51st Street Police Station today for questioning. District Attorney Will liam 0. Dodge took a hand in the questioning, his first personal ap- pearance in the case.
 Fingerprints Found
 The fingerprints were found on a glass panel in the bathroom of the artists models home and the palm prints were on a corset stripped from her mother, Mary, 54, and on the bedspread that covered the roomer, Frank Byrnes, 35, barten- der. The prints were not found un- til almost 48 hours after Miss Gedeon's father, Joseph Gedeon, stumbled upon the three bodies Easter afternoon. Earlier detec- tives had seen the gray hair under the finger nails of the naked body of the attractive young model. She and her mother had been strangled and Byrnes had been stabbed Il times with a sharp instrument, probably an ice pick. Authorities still were confused as to whether the girl and her mither had been assaulted criminally before they were slain. Medical examiners said that findings on that point were "incon- clusive''.
 Bloody Prints Checked
 The bloody prints found in the apartment were checked against criminal files here and the records of the federal bureau of investiga- tion in Washington. Meantime po- lice claimed they had one man ''un- der constant surveillance" although they had released all suspects in the case. One of those cleared was James Fitten, 35, former appraise, for the Home Owners Loan Cor poration. Detectives said that Miss Gedeon and her mother had been witnesses against him when he was accused of accepting illegal fees from loan applicants. Inspector Francis J. Rear said that Fitten was "just unfortunately brought into the case"
 | Another Dismissed
 Another dismissed by police was George (Big Frenchy) Gueret, for mer roomer at the Gedeon home. He was questioned for 30 hours.
 He told police that he had five witnesses to prove he was not near Miss Gedeons' apartment at the time that authorities figure the three were killed.
 Authorities began a routine check on all names and addresses listed in a small black book that belonged: to the ash-blonde model.
 Most of the names were those of illustrators for whom Miss Gedeon posed, frequently naked or draped by flimsy wells.
 Detectives declined to make pub lie the names and claimed that Miss Gedeons' handwriting was SC poor that many of them were bare fly legible.
 Police placed little credence in a report by Miss Gedeon's father that she recently had had disagree ment with a Boston millionaire who had offered her an apartment, an automobile and money to have an affair with him." Gedeon, himself was questioned closely concerning his story of the finding of the bodies. He claimed that he came upon them when he found the apartment door open as he called to have an Easter dinner with his daughter and Mrs. Gedeon, from whom he was estranged.
 Funeral Expenses
 The bodies of the two women were released to Gedeon. He said that his other daughter, Ethel, and her husband, Joseph Kudner, in- tended to pay funeral expenses.
 The Kudners were with Gideon when he called at his daughters