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0 tiklhYtityM AVtel3iMAYljEY', 5 i Pwmi uilhir mhsses Amies' 2 in. Astoria By JOHN MALLON and SIDNEY KLINE A 48-year-old ex-convict, paroled only last June 2 after serving 17 years in prison for murder, confessed last night that he was the slayer of two elderly men killed in their modest bungalow at 27-20 Hoyt Ave. South, Astoria, Queens, last week. Thinking About Staying Around jrr- sr ff IV is ST4 1 "I tk dio station in Elmira, N. Y.

An employe remembered a murder committed in Elmira in 1942 by Wood, and phoned the Associated Press in New York. AP contacted police. Wood already was in custody. He was taken tothe Astoria station house for questioning and, Leggett said, confessed and told this story: Thursday afternoon, panhandling in Times Square, Wood got into a conversation with Rescigno. They became friendly.

Rescigno bought a bottle of wine, and the friendship grew. Because Wood was homeless, Rescigno invited him to the Astoria bungalow. More drinking followed and there came a quarrel. Wood told police he hit Rescigno on the head with a beer bottle. Rescigno fell onto his bed.

The beer bottle broke. Wood said he cut bis victim's throat with the jagged edge. Emptied His Pockets Next, Wood rifled his pockets, finding $2 and some change. He stripped the dead man of his clothing and covered the nude body with the garments. He went through the kitchen into Sess's bedroom.

It was 'Wood's first knowledge that another man was in the The admission came fromT Frederick Wood, 48, no home, picked up Sunday on the Bowery as a parole violator. The men he said he killed, found dead Monday night, were John Rescigno 62, and Frederick Sess, 78, World War I pensioners. By his own words, Wood killed Rescigno Thursday after the latter had befriended him in Times Square and invited him home to share a bottle. Sess was mur- (NEWS foto) Frederick Wood at Astoria police station. dered, Wood said, just-because he happened to be around.

Deputy Inspector Harry Connor said early today that Wood calmly reported he had killed two other persons even before the slaying for which he was imprisoned in 1943. Poisoned Girl, He Says In 1926, at 15, Wood said, he put arsenic in a cream puff of a girl friend in Hornell, N. because her affection for him seemed to be waning. Wood identified her as Cynthia Longo, and said she died. Wood said, also, that on impulse he followed a woman named Pearl Robinson in "Elmira in 1933, bludgeoned her and stabbed her nearly 150 times.

The clue which led to the murderer, Chief of Detectives James B. Leggett said, came from a ra I 1 L-ivfih Li (NEWS foto by Bob CosteIlo Elizabeth Nam mack and her present husband, Michael Nammack, carry her daughter, Stacey, from court yesterday. Her Move ito Mexico Costs! daughters By ALFRED ALBELLI "Mrs. Cynthia James Coffey, daughter of writer Marquis James, yesterday lost custody of her two teenage daughters by her former husband because she assert-edly abandoned them when she moved to Yucatan in Mexi student at New York University-Bellevue Medical School, he and his ex-wife, Elizabeth, a brunette, were divorced last February in Alabama. Jail Me, She Tells Court I Si She now is living at 382 Bleecker St.

with her second husband, Michael Nammack, an advertising executive. Mrs. Nammack, who produced the child in response to a writ of habeas corpus, was warned by Justice Jblynn that he would jail her if she failed to comply with his order. "You can start in right now," she said determinedly. house.

Sess, who had been sleeping, stirred restlessly on Wood's entrance. Wood said he battered his head in with the beer bottle. Returning to the kitchen, wrote two notes. One message said the murders were "a dirty shame" and he was "so-o-o sorry." The second said, "God bless the parole board. They're real intelligent people." Then Wood fled, had a drink in a neighborhood tavern and returned to New York, to be picked up three days later.

Beat Man to Death In 1942, possessor of a record of 19 arrests for offenses ranging from auto theft to assault, Wood beat to death John E. Lowman, 42, in Elmira. At a woman's home, he struck Lowman on the head with a beer bottle, slashed him with a knife, and stuffed the body under a couch. The judge who sentenced him in March, 1943, to 20 years to life recommended he serve the full term. 22, 1958, and suspended without pay for two months.

The suspension will cost him $958 in salary. Birns said Martino was a "dupe" in the back-dating and acted on the orders of his immediate superior, Samuel O. Leider, assistant chief engineer. Charges were filed against Leider, who was allowed to stay on his job pending a hearing. Revealed Last Winter The back-dating incident came to light in the commission investigation last winter.

It produced testimony that the garage was tuilt in the spring of 1958, but that no building permit was obtained for several months. A Staten Island grand jury has cleared Maniscalco of any irregu- 1 arities in connection with the Aliza Gur, Israel's entry in the Miss Universe contest at Miami Beach, is considering a movie contract if she can get the okay to stay in the U.S. The 20-year-old girl from Haifa said Jerry Lewis asked her to make a picture with him. She has already appeared on TV and has a role in an upcoming film. (Sets Beef on I Swge 1 By EDWARD O'NEILL A charge that Marvin Klein, youthful real estate promoter, gave conflicting testimony about how he obtained a building permit for the controversial $2,500 garage he built for Staten Island Borugh President Albert V.

Maniscalso two years ago was given to Dis co with her new husband. "The conduct of the mother in abandoning her children is dis-, graceful," Supreme Court Justice John Flynn said. "She does not deserve to have custody of her daughters Dad Gets Girls, Seeks Sons Custody of the girls, Karen, 16, and Christopher, 15, -was awarded to their father, John H. Norwood, 39, a magazine advertising executive, of 444 E. 52d Through his lawyer, Frank Delaney, Norwood also sought custody of the couple's two sons, Marquis, 11, and John, 12, now reported with their mother and t- stepfather in Progresso, Yucatan.

However, Justice Flynn said he had no juridiction over the boys. 'Divorced in 1956 According to the papers filed by Delaney, Norwood and Cynthia were divorced in 1956, and last March she married Jack Coffey, described by Norwood as a promoter, in Rye. Norwood asserted in the papers that Coffey was arrested two years ago on a charge or raping a girl aboard a boat in Nassau. About three years ago, he asserted, Coffey went berserk at a fishing camp in the Bahamas, and Nassau police had to be flown to the scene to subdue him. Wtfe Defends Coffey However, in a counteraffidavit, Cynthia charged her ex-husband with "irresponsibility" in his charges against Coffey, assert-ing, "There is not a single word of truth" in any of the accusations." Norwoods appeared in court with his present wife, Angela, a tall brunette.

In another action, Justice Flynn granted an application by Allen fiBeldock of 130 Clinton i Brooklyn, counsel for Edward M. Podvell of 312 E. 18th for visitation rights with his daughter, Stacey Elizabeth Podvell, 18 months old. According to Podvell, a medical trict Attorney Hogan yesterday for appropriate action. Buildings Commissioner Peter J.

Reidy forwarded the charge as the result of a three-day departmental hearing last month. Reidy said that in testifying before Deputy Buildings Commissioner Harold Birns, Klein swore that he filed the application for the permit "and that no one else did so for him." Gave Testimony This, Reidy noted, contradicted Klein's testimony last January before the Little Hoover Commission that his architect applied for the permit. Klein testified before Birns in a hearing on misconduct charges against Clarence F. Martino, a clerk in the Buildings Department for 30 years. Martino was found guilty by Birns yesterday of backdating the garage building per Conrad Flies On Minneapolis, Wednesday, July 6 (UPI).

Max Conrad, 57-year-old grandfather, kept flying today in an attempt to double his newly-won light plane closed circuit distance record. The veteran pilot, fighting hunger and fatigue, completed his fifth 865-mile lap of a triangular course from here to Chicago to Des Moines and back here a distance of 4,325 miles at 10:59 P.M. last night. By early today he had flown half again as far as the record 3,038 miles set by a Czech pilot last year. When last contacted by radio, he said: "I want a malted." rn it Marvin Klein Him testimony attache mit from Feb.

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