The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29

tAaAA1AAA4E4 EA0Au GABG ~ to forestall the insanity defense which the youth, twice confined in institutions for the mentally un- balanced, was expected to present. He said he would ask General Ses- sions Judge William Allen for an order authorizing Dr. Perry A. Lich- tenStein of the district attorneys of1ce to examine Irwin in his cell to determine if the prisoner is legal 1y sane.
 Irwin Acts Indifferent
 Irwin, outwardly nonchalant and bored, went through the police line up and arraignment yesterday, ap- parently indifferent to jeering crowds gathered near Tombs prison.
 Earlier, he had told Police Com missioner Lewis J. Valentine and other officers how he had killed Mrs Mary Gedeon, her beautiful 20-year- old artists model daughter, Veron- ica, and her boarder, Frank Byrnes.
 The object of his hatred, Irwin said, was Mrs. Ethel Kudner, Ver- onica's older sister, who had re- jected him and married another man. He went to the Gedeon apart ment, he said, to wait for Mrs. Kud- ner and kill her.
 He strangled Mrs. Gedeon when she ordered him to leave, Irwin said, and then, when she came home at 3 a. m. Easter Sunday, inflicted the same death on Veronica because she recognized him. With an ice pick intended for Mrs. Kudner he stab- bed Byrnes to death in his sleep. Mrs. Kudner Witness Mrs. Kudner was called as witt ness before the grand jury today to tell how Irwin's unrequited love for her turned to bitter hatred after she was married. Joseph Gedeon, grizzled litle upholsterer who was doubly bereaved by the staying of his wife and daughter, was expected to be another witness. Police scan- ned Irwin's story closely for possible leads which would make their case airtight. Valentine sent two men to Philadelphia to search for the ice pick, which Irwin said he discarded in the Pennsylvania city after fleeing from New York.
 Another clue in the possession of police was an alarm clock with an illuminated dial which glows with "cat's eye" green at night. It was found in one of two handbags which Irwin checked in Grand Central Terminal before leaving New York after tn ecrimes. Irwin said he took it from the Gedeon apartment.
 Clock Fascinated Him
 '"The clock was in front of me as I strangled Veronica" an officer quoted Irwin as saying. Its dial shone. It looked like two green eyes. It fascinated me-"
 The clock was the chief tangible clue, police said, proving Irwin's presence in the apartment. Although Dodge hoped to bring the case to an early trial, indications were that there would be delay of at least three weeks. Samuel Lieb- owitZ, noted criminal attorney whom Irwin engaged by wire after he sur rendered in Chicago, will be out of the city early in July.
 Both Irwin and Liebowitz indicat- ed the defense would plead insanity. Irwin appeared pleased at what he seemed to believe were good pros- poets of "a life in the nut house."
 Irwin told officers he had re- mained in New York for nearly week after the killings, going out only at night, so that scratches in- fiicted on his face by Mrs. Gedeon could heal.
 DiScardS Ice Pick
 Then he rode the rods" to Phil adelphia where he discarded the ice pick in an alley. He spent a day there and went on to Washington, thence to Willard, Ohio, and from there to Cleveland.
 In Cleveland he got a job in hotel as dishwasher, then bar boy. A kitchen maid recognized him from a detective magazine photograph and asked him questions which put him to flight again. He went to Chicago and, last Saturday, sur- rendered in the office of a news paper to which, he said yesterday, he had placed himself under con- tract"
 The kitchen maid, 19-year-old Henrietta Koscianski, came to New York yesterday by plane, accompan- jed by her father. Henry, and a de- tective magazine editor who gave her $1,000 for her story.
 She described Irwin as "a perfect gentleman" Miss Koscianski was lodged in a large New York hotel last night and later sang in night club. She said she had aspirations to become an entertainer.
 She was, she said, "very much thrilled by everything"