Estranged wife slain

Associated Press · January 3, 1958

Stephen Gaydos, 43, enters police station yesterday for questioning in connection with the slaying of his estranged wife, Mrs. Mary Gaydos, 36, whose body was found earlier yesterday in a park near the edge of Newark Bay. Her throat was cut. Police say Robert Gaydos, 15, a son, has alternately denied, confessed, denied and confessed again that he killed his mother. Both the boy and his father are being held while police try to unravel the slaying.