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Daily News from New York, New York • 3

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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3
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"DAILY NEWS. MONDAY, JULY 1971965 3 Mthr Fwm Bsb By RICHARD HENRY A married, 21-year-old hospital porter was turned in to Staten Island police by his mother last night as the sniper who early yesterday killed a 19- year-om nigh school student JNew Brighton. Police said the suspect, Russell Walton of 21 Brook New Brighton, had returned from a Brooklyn party with two friends at 3 A.M., took a .22 caliber rifle from the rear of the trio's car and said: "You're eo'mz to see f- some snooting Firing from a distance of about 1,200 feet, police said, he loosed three shots. One entered ttie left the police station, where he turned himself in, escorted by his mother. Edna said her husband had worked at the hospital for a.

year and four months and had never been In trouble before. She said she didn't know where the rifle Pmijwm mm I lillliSIll LA arm and body of Peter Gordzelewski, 19, of 63 New Port Richmond, S.I., who was out for a stroll with a chum. Gordzelewski fell to the ground. He was pronounced dead on arrival in Staten Island Hospital, where the suspect works. i -A -v came from.

Walton's two friends who witnessed the shooting spree were not held by police. Walton was booked on a homicide charge at 1:25 this morning. Friend Is Unhurt Gordzelewski's pal, Thomas Wilson, 17, of 147 Benziger New Brighton, who was unhurt, told St. George precinct police that he and Gordzelewski were walking on Westervelt Ave. near Victory Blvd.

when they heard what sounded like a burst of fire-? Thomas Wilson Peter Gordzelewcki Gunned down In Staten Island Walton went to the home of his mother, Mrs. Jean Walton, at 193 York New Brighton. After talking with her son, Mrs. Walton called police. Walton's young wife, Edna, mother of their 6-week-old daughter, Lisa, joined her husband at "We were told that Peter was in an accident and that his body was in the Bellevue morgue crackers.

Suddenly the older youth crumpled. A sister, Loretta Gordzelewski, 31, was critical of police who waited ZVz hours before notifying the family at 7 A.M. (XRWS foto by Jim Romano) Police and doctor try to aid fallen Peter Gordzelewski. (Continued on page 10, col. 3) Cenlb Park for I (Mf a Poll By WILLIAM TRAVERS Queens auxiliary police were called into the search for missing; Edmund Crimmins Jr.

yesterday and, with regular cops, combed wooded areas of Cunningham Park for a trace of the 5-year-old who vanished with his sister Alice, 4, from their Kew Gardens Hills home early Wednesday. Th body of the blonde, blue- eyed girl was found about a half be a huge discarded, blond-haired homt at 150-22 j0n ErrsiH' A VVi if5' 72d Drive Wednesday after noon. But, although the cops beat two thirds of the park's wooded section yesterday, there was still no indication of the boys fate. Deputy Chief Inspector John Greene, in charge of Queens detec Vf I J4 Meanwhile, detectives continued questioning persons who might have a connection with the case. Some interviews were the result of tips on a specal police phone AX 7-3641 set up to receive confidential information on the tragedy.

Hundreds Questioned So far, hundreds of persons have been quizzed but police say they have uncovered no tangible clues. At 3:40 P.M. a detective walked into Fresh Meadow precinct with a blue comforter dec Edmund Crimmins Jr. INKVVS loto by UloranJlno Edmund Crimmins 5. Auxiliary cops comb Cunningham Park for trace of orated with red and white flowersf under his arm.

But police would not say whether it had any connection with the case. -The two children disappeared tives, asked the Queens auxiliary unit, under Col. Mortimer Kashinsky, to join the search at noon yesterday. The operation was ended by heavy rains at 3:15 P.M. The men, who have private jobs, will resume probing the park tonight.

At one point the auxiliaries came upon what they thought to be a body, but it turned out to Fabian Exit at Party Proves a Smasheroo girl died of suffocation. She was buried Saturday after a Mass of the Angels at St. Raymond's Church, Castle Hill and E. Tre-mont Bronx. The children's mother and their father, Edmund, 29, estranged about a year and a half, have been reunited by the from their ground floor apartment while their mother, attractive red-haired Mrs.

Alice Crimmins, 26, slept in the adjacent room. She said she heard no noise. An autopsy showed tha little Head in Bucket, Btsby Brows By PATRICK DOYLE A 2-year-old boy was drowned yesterday when his head became stuck in a small plastic bucket in the family kitchen in Brooklyn His mother had put seven inch-f Hollywood, July 18 (UPI) Singer-actor Fabian suffered several cuts on his right arm early today when he walked through a glass door at a party. The 22-year-old teen-age idol was taken to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital where his doctor stitched up the wounds. Witnesses said the singer walked through the glass door from the house to the patio.

They said someone apparently closed the door during the evening and Fabian did not realize it had been closed.1 1 rt 1 4 es of water into the pail after living room to watch TV with her husband, Donald, 29. The family lives at 591 Van Buren St. She's Called to Kitchen It was probably the first death resulting directly from an accident in the campaign to save water, according to Detective Chester Doris of the Ralph Ave. station. kitchen by Roy.

The child pulled his mother to a space behind the washing machine. Mrs. Wrenn saw Ronald's head in the pail, which was 18 inches deep and 12 inches in diameter. She pulled the child from the pail, and applied mo ith-to-mouth breathing, but could not revive him. Neither could police when they arrived.

The boy was pronounced dead on arrival at Wyckoff Heights Hospital. i a -a using the water once in a port' able washing machine. In accordance with the city's conservation program, she intended to reuse the water in washing the kitchen floor, i- The child, Ronald Wrenn, died minutes after his mother, Emma, 29, had left him at play with his twin brother, Roy, and sister, Ruth, 3, and had gone into the yjfy 0, ei Fabian j-iK- Mrs. Wrenn was called to the.

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