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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irwin Away. For the murder of beauteous, pictureworthy Veronica Gedeon and of her mother and a male boarder in their Manhattan apartment (TIME, April 12, 1937), syphilitic, tuberculous Robert Irwin was sentenced to 139 years in prison. Taken from Manhattan to a padded cell at Sing Sing, where he turned over $500 to prison guards, Sculptor Irwin said famed Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz had given him the money for pleading guilty to three second-degree murders. Lawyer Leibowitz is proud that he has "never lost a client to the electric chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wages of Sin | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Like Murderer Robert Irwin, who telephoned the Herex last year to confess the killing of Manhattan Model Veronica Gedeon, Suspects Kolesiak and Guerrieri got no chance to talk to anyone, even Chicago police, until their statements had been liberally smeared over the newly tabloid pages of the Herex. Staff men spirited them from one hotel room to another, grilled them with the help of a State fire marshal assigned by Governor Horner. Suspect Guerrieri posed for the Herex front page tipping an empty gasoline can over an old towel, to show "How It Was Done." While the Tribune frantically pursued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ring-Around-The-Rosy | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...year-old sons Robert and Lawrence plan for Princeton in September and his daughter Marjory, 11, practices the piano under her musical mother's eye, Lawyer Liebowitz hurried to the defense of his latest notorious client. Sculptor Robert Irwin, accused of the Easter-Sunday murder of beauteous Veronica Gedeon et al. (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Scottsboro Hero | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...midnight Friday, Pantry Maid Koscianski was all atremble. The bar boy had obviously skipped town. His locker was empty. The police had been to his $1.50 a week hotel, found only an old pair of shoes and New York newspapers with stories about the Gedeon murders and the recent death threats against a staff physician at Rockland State Hospital where Irwin had once been a mental patient. "I feel like a nickel now," mumbled Miss Koscianski.-"I didn't call the police because I just thought it was a coincidence. I didn't have the nerve to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Easter Killer | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...large in the U. S. (TIME, April 12), had just telephoned the Chicago Tribune ("Worlds Greatest Newspaper"), offered to surrender for a price, was not believed. So he called the Hearst paper, had his terms accepted, and slouched into their offices to pour out the story of the Gedeon murders in a voluminous, jumbled, sex-loaded signed confession. From late Saturday until Sunday afternoon Hearst writers and cameramen had their prize to themselves. Other papers, writhing as Hearst extra after extra hit the stands, howled to Chicago's police. Detectives searched the Herald & Examiner office in vain. Irwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Easter Killer | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

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