[4] Gedeon appeared at an Illustrators Society show for models which was raided by members of the New York City Police Department on November 8, 1935.
They moved to 316 East 50th Street, where Gedeon's mother, Mary, ran a rooming house until December 5, 1936, when the establishment was turned over to a superintendent.
[2] The family relocated to an apartment at 316 East 50th Street (Beekman Place in the Turtle Bay neighborhood), where Gedeon's mother took in boarders.
In late June 1937 a Cleveland, Ohio, hotel employee recognized Irwin, whose photograph appeared in the periodical True Detective Mysteries.
Having once sculpted a conventional bust of Herbert Hoover, Irwin admitted he wanted to behead Ethel and make a death mask.