Word: titterton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...psychiatrist, he said, can solve the "nuclear problem" of impulsive murder: why a murderer kills with slight provocation, and why he chooses a certain victim, often a complete stranger, at a given moment. He told of the case of the Manhattan upholsterer, John Fiorenza, who killed Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years ago. Mrs. Titterton had called Fiorenza to repair a loveseat, had urged him to return it as quickly as possible. Fiorenza had a long-standing abnormal relationship to his mother which produced in his split personality powerful desires to commit cruel acts. His temporary...
...Lawyer Liebowitz it is all in the day's work. Routed from his bed at 3 a. m. last year with an offer to defend the Nancy Titterton bathtub murderer he refused with a snort of outraged morality. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It's a dirty, nasty affair. The man is a beast. The public is strongly against him. As a matter of fact that guy is sitting in the electric chair right...
...Fortnight ago the Mirror began a six-part daily feature called "Fiorenza's Own Amazing Story." Authorship was credited to "John Fiorenza, as told to David B. Charnay, Mirror staff correspondent." Gist was that the upholsterer's assistant had nourished an unrequited but undiscouraged love for Mrs. Titterton, who had previously rejected his advances, but, as an aspiring writer, had not hesitated to "pump" him for "copy...
...swore they had told the Mirror nothing. The prison psychiatrist was quoted as saying that Fiorenza told him: "I never gave an interview to anybody from a paper." Thundered the Post: "How many prospective veniremen for the Fiorenza trial have absorbed the Mirror's vile insinuations that Mrs. Titterton led Fiorenza on; that she encouraged him to spend time with her while she probed for literary material; that she permitted him to visit her several times; that she forgave him for an attempted attack, told no one about it, and permitted him to enter her apartment again...
...this phony autobiography Hearst slackens the reputation of the dead Mrs. Titterton-a woman who, during her lifetime, was respected by all who knew...