The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-10

do not believe that Robert Irwin, unstable sculptor, actually perpe- trated the massacre of Ronnie Gedeon, her mother and the lodg- CT His confession means little since he'd been Respondent due to illustration of his love life, his art, and his attempt to join the divin- ity. The notoriety of the confess sion might have compensated him slightly and given him the fame, though questionable and short lived, that he had never been able to achieve through normal suc- cess in his profession Remem- Der the news pictures? He was nat tily attired, smiling and flamboyant. Yet he had been discharged twice from insane asylums as legally sane.
 You sometimes wonder about jury trials. Jury recommended mercy for the monster who roamed loV- CTS rendezvous. Clarence Hill, an ex-serviceman, admitted to killing Vincenzo Tonzillo, Mary Mystovich, Frank J. Casper, Mrs. Katherine Werner, L. J. KovacS, and Mrs Caroline Monconi on Duck Island, a barren stretch of land between the Delaware River and the Raritan Canal in N. J. Hill is now serv- ing life at hard labor. He got mercy!!l
 The sex-slaying of little 15-year old Ruth Wheeler by the 18-year old degenerate Albert Wolter on March A, 1910, was not only sen- sational case based almost entirely on circumstantial evidence. The revelations in tn etrial brought about an amendment in the Gen. eral Business Law of the State, which now protects every girl sent out in search of employment any, where in the State Ruth Wheel CT got into the clutches of this fiend by going to an address for a job given her by her business school. The law reads: No licensed person shall send out any female appli- cant for employment without mak- ing reasonable effort to investigate the employer"
 Although convicted of murder in the first degree, alias Lord Fred erick Seymour Harrington (through some mysterious means) had his sentence commuted to life imprison- ment and through other mysterious methods wSa a free man ten years later His crimes ranged from theft to bigamy to murder, and he (when deported to his England in 191D was found to be no Lord but an English crook named Frederick George Barton The initials he always used in America for his as- stunned name of F. Seymour Bar rington were "S. B., and he cer- tainly was
 Jack the Ripper, it is agreed, is the most celebrated murderer in the world Yet no one knows his name, who or how many he killed, or why he killed, what fin ally happened to him or, for that matter whether Jack Ca name in- vented by a London newspaperman) was & man or a woman. Why were Jack the Ripper's victims all women of the worst degraded sort? Were they all his crimes?
 The famous St. Valentines Mas sacre in Chicago (where the vic- tins were lined up again a garage wall and shot down in cold blooO followed almost to the letter the instructions presented in Satur- day Evening Post short story writ ten by Charles Francis Coe .. :. Verifying again the genius that was oscar Wilde, who had said: Mature often initiates art"
 "She hadn't eaten any dinner and she'd been with me up to g |P. M" This sentence alone was enough to point the finger of guilt on Dewey Parker as the murderer of his two-timing wife, Dolly |. That's all the great old-school de- tective Ed Mulrooney needed to sub- stantiate his other theories The medical examiner proved in his report that Mrs. Parker had eaten substantial meal, even list ing what the meal contained, and Mulrooney figured if the clean-cut husband would lie in this, he prob ably lied in other phases of his story. Mulrooney was right.
 J. Edgar Hoover has said: The courtroom is the criminals easiest avenue of escape" In the case of the murder of a doctor in New Eng land years ago, after an exhaustive investigation, it was discovered that the murder of the doctor and his beautiful secretary was arranged by his second wife, who paid off $5,- GOO to three boys to handle the killing. In the subsequent trial two of the boys were convicted, while the third was set free for his help to the State . And the wife? She was acquitted by an all-male jury. Being gorgeous and classy dish, of course.
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