Evening star., 1937-06-26
IRWIN ESCAPES
CLEVELAND HOTEL
F|ees When Kitchen Girl,
19, Questions Alias After
Seeing Picture.
BACKGROUND

Easter Sunday, in their Beck
man Hill apartment, in Ne1D York,
Veronica Gedeon. pretty model, her
mother. Mrs. Mary Gedeon. and a
roomer Uere slain Assistant Chief
Inspector John A. Lyons OF the
Netp York police named Robert
F'Ctn as the slayer early in April.
Joseph Gedeon. 81, the murdered
9ris father, has been under close
Surveillance. Yesterday ne pleaded
guilty to hauing an unlicensed re-
roluer and 1ciH be sentenced July2.
By the Associated Press,
CLEVELAND, June 26.-An artist
who police said definitely" was Rob-
ert Irwin fed his shabby. dim lighted
room and left only slender trail to-
day for authorities seeking him for
| New York City's famous Gedeon mur-
ders.
A kitchen girl, clerk and half
dozen other employees at leading
downtown hotel identified a bar boy
there as the sculptor divinity student
charged with Staying last March %
pretty Veronica Gedeon, her mother
and man who roomed at their East
Side fiat.
The man definitely is Irwin" de-
clared Detective Lieut. Stephen Tozzer
as widespread hunt was started for
the fugitive few hours after he van
ished from this Lake Erie city.
The kitchen girl, attractive. chubby.
dark-haired Henrietta kosianski, 10.
started police on an intensive search
of the former insane asylum inmate,
accused OF murder in triplicate.
Sees Resemblance in Picture.
She recognized, as she thumbed
through detective story magazine
Wednesday night, resemblance be-
tween the 2e-year-old man named as
the killer Of arts good-time girl, and
the bar boy who had worked at the
hotel for month and half
Miss Kosianski, who said Il didn't
tell police because it occurred to me
only as a coincidence" asked him
playfully last night:
Say, Bob, what is your real name,
anyhow"
Robert Murray, why?" she said was
the reply.
Then I said did you ever hear Of
Robert Irwin and he turned his back
to me and said 'no'-sounding kind Of
Indifferent. I didn't see the express
sion on his face He turned and
walked out of the hotel Kitchen and
that was the last I ever saw OF him"
She took the picture TO other hotel
employees and all remarked of the
close resemblance. Three hours later,
she said. nobody knew where he was. ~
Il hadn't thought of him as a muir
derer. 1t was only after he was gone
that 1 realized he must have been
Irwin
Registered as Murdock.
Detective squads, piqued at the time
elapsed between his disappearance
and when it was reported several
hours later, hurried to q cheap hotel
There they found no trace of the
man, whom they were told had reg
istered April under the name of
Jack Murdock, and had informed the
hotel on June IL that the name Mur-
dock was mistake, and that his
name really was James Murray.
In the apartment. Tozzer said, were
found a dozen New York papers.
Several of them referred to the
Gedeon murders, and parts of each
story had been clipped out.
Also left behind was a shabby pair
OF low-heeled black shoes which had
been half-soled. Inside was the name
of a firm ending with the family
decipherable letters Ltd This,
Tozzer said, correSponded with a
police circular showing Irwin owned
a pair of Canadian-made shoes.
He was positively identified" by
Miss Koscianski, a clerk, Manuel
Meridas, and at least a half dozen
other hotel employees. There is no