In Re Levan

This is the most gruesome case ever before me. At twelve-thirteen A.M. on September 19th, 1935, the police headquarters telephone operator in Newark received a call and heard a voice say, "I have just killed three men at 938 South Twentieth street, come and get me," or words to that effect. Within seven minutes a half-score of policemen, detectives and physicians were breaking down the door of a second floor apartment at that address, where they found four men shot to death. Three of them were sprawled on the kitchen floor and the fourth, the murderer of the other three, was lying on a couch…