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Daily News from New York, New York • 6

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SUNDAY NEWS, APRIL 5, 1S64 OTIilll i if I1 Got nightly urge to knife Yiomen while wife worked. i 7 as i J' ft I i Is i kids slept, says business machine operator by day Ey HOMER PETERS ONE OF THE savage knife-killers terrorizing- New York women in the city's worst crime wave in history has been caged. Slightly built Winston Moseley, 29, a $100-a-week business machine operator by day and a blood-1 usting prowler by night, sent new shudders through frightened women with his confession cf stabbing two to death and raping at least 10 others. The fast-taiking prisoner startled police by adding the name of a third girl to his death toll 15-year-old Barbara Kralich -whose fatal stabbing with a pair of scissors has been confessed by another. Eishteen-3-ear-old Alvin (The Monster) Mitchell was indicted for the Kralich slaying after he told police he entered her second-floor bedroom in the family's home in Springfield Gardens, Queens, last July during a night of boozing and "looking for girls." Story Doubted Surprised authorities gave the Kralich case an intensive reexamination and were inclined to doubt this part of Moseley 's story.

They believe he may have thrown it into his bloody tale in an attempt to piove insanity. Police Deputy Chief Inspector Frederick M. Lussen said "we have an airtight case against Mitchell." 'The stealthy Moseley reportedly told the cops that in the early morning hours when his wife Elizabeth was at her night job and their two young children were sound asleep "I would sometimes get the urge to rape and kilL" And that is just what he would do. driving about in one of his two cars until he spotted an unescorted woman driving home. He would trail her until she left her car and then strike.

He lived in Queens. The three victims he named all were slain in Queens. An off-beat daytime robbery job led to Moseley's capture five day3 after he admittedly knifed to death pretty Catherine (Kitty) Genovese, 28, a barmaid, in two separate early morning street attacks. The maniacal fury unleashed by Mose-, ley in this knifing and in his admitted slaying of Mrs. Annie May Johnson, 24.

a housewife, a few weeks earlier, quickly led police to question him on the fatal hacking of career girls Janice Wylie, 21, it Catherine (Kitty) Genovese was making a career of tavern owning. and Emily Hoffert, 23, in their midtown apartment last Aug. 28. However, the records of the Raygram Corp. of Mount Vernon, in Westchester, where the prisoner worked, showed that he was cn the job there during the daytime hours when the Vv'ylie and Hoffert girls were bludgeoned and butchered.

It was a gruesome six-page confession that Moseley dictated in an unemotional manner described by one cop as he was talking about the weather." He said he spotted the Genovese girl driving home alone about 2 A.M. and trailed her 10 blocks in his white Corvair. She had worked up to be co-manager of a tavern in Jamaica, Queens. When she left her Fiat sports car behind her home in Kew Gardens, Queens, Moseley said he stabbed her twice. Her screams awakened some neighbors who, among other things, shouted: "'Leave the- girl alone." Xo one called the cops.

"She managed to get away and stumble into the hallway of a house," the killer related. "I found her there and stabbed her 10 more times." Police said he used a bone-handled hunting knife which they found in a tool chest in his home. The neighbors who neglected to call the police did give the cops a good description cf the killer when the bluecoats happened on the case 40 minutes later. An alarm was broadcast for a light com-plexioned Negro driving a white Corvair. Moseley ran into more alert neighbors iv.

i -v saw hip' a TV set from a home in Corona, Queens, in broad daylight. It was several days after the killing of the Genovese girl. Two men who happened to be home next door called the police and then disabled Moseley's white Corvair. He ran when he couldn't start the car, but was captured. Police were quick to notice the re-cemblance of Moseley to the description broadcast of the Genovese girl's flayer.

It didn't take long to get the confession of the two murders ard the rapes. mvri was in credibly savage. She was diivirg home in Queens about 3 A.M. after takirg her husband to work. Moselev trailed her to her house at 141-22 133d South Ozone Park, and nailed her as the i y.r-.' K-d trom ight puncture wounds made by a file or screw driver.

Moseley said he also ihjt her with ru.r. He took S100 and her house keys from her purse. Unlocking the door he dragged the dead woman into her home, ripped off some of her clothes and then set her afire. Her two sisters and a r.iece, vno lived in tn sam house, were awakened by smoke and carried the dead woman outside. Police said the rife and a purse believed to belong to Miss Genovese were found by cops near the Dyer Ave.

IRT station in the Bronx. That is the story of one tf the mad killers keeping New York's women Ttry much on guard and terrified. Criminal Court Judge Bernard Dutin looked at this prisoner and growled "Two girls are dead because of a maniac, a wild animal roaming the streets. My stomach is turning over. Fortunately for the defendant, in New York State you are to be tried by a jury.

The defendant is given every right that he does not give his victims. The more I sit here the more horrible this becomes." Moseley spoke only once during the arraignment. "I would like the court to appoint me a lawyer," he said cocly. Dubin appointed Queens attorney Edward J. Weber and held the prisoner Mrs.

Moseley, who was in court, tcM police that at home her husband would "jmt sit and stare into space." They live at 133-19 Sutter South Ozone Tark. KKYrS Toto hy Tom Gallagher) Winston Moseley steps out of po-lice van at Queens Felony Court. Guilty in Death of 2 Girls "1 'X '1 4 Gunman Executes Tot, 2 Men I other friend, Leonard Iloliins, ZF, a Lorraine Rosenberg (I.) and Elaine Fallik were slain at their office THE TINY 5-year-old girl ran in terror to her mother's arms as the man with a big shotgun strode menacingly into the family's fourth-floor apartment at 1870 Pitkin Brooklyn. Xorene Smith's dark brown eyes bulged wide as she watched the two husky men friends cf her mother, Mrs. Erma Smith, 26, push the intruder from the apartment.

But the man with the gun wasn't through. Frcm the corridor outside be blasted a shot from bis 12-gauge shotgun through the door. It killed Herman Hol-lins, 23, one cf the two friends cf Mrs. Smith. The gunman kicked cpen the door and fked again.

That shot killed the brotner of Herman. Norene cringed deeper in frit ht Snto her mother's protective arms. The man fired again at the mother. That blast killed the terror-stricken little girl. The mother was unharmed.

The gunman didn't wait to check cn that last shot, turning and running from the building. Mrs. Smith's 6-year-cld boy, Carl, ran to the window. He saw the triple-killer flee in a car. Mrs.

Smith knew the assailant well, identifying him to police as Thurroan "Willis, 30, her fornr.er boy friend, a garment center messenger. She had rebuffed his try for a Police quickly located Willis at 409 E. 21st Brooklyn, and airrstcd him on a. heroic charge. was committed to Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, but was judged sane and returned for trial a month ago.

Johnson was reportedly enraged over his dismissal by the firm and his inability to obtain gallery acceptance of his portraits. The victims, Elaine Fallik, 18. and Lcrraine Rosenberg, 21, were employes cf the textile firm. Justice Mitchell D. Schweitzer delayed sentencing.

Johnson could get 20 years to life. AFTER A 13-DAY trial and 13 hours of deliberation, an all-male Supreme Court jury returned a guilty verdict in th edouble killirg cf two young girls in a midtown office. Penell Johnson, 32, a frustrated amateur artist, was found guilty of second-degree murder for shooting the giils with a deer rifle in JJarvin Fairies S5 Madiscn on Feb. 17, 1959. Shortly after the idlings, Johnson.

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