Leads police to body of woman he thinks he killed

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · October 3, 1950

James P. Cronin, 29, of Boston, Mass., shields his face as he is led to the desk in West 30th Street police station, after he had walked up to a policeman on W. 34th Street last night, saying, "I think I have killed a woman." Then police found the body of red-haired Mrs. Jane Brazeau, 42, in her bottle-littered apartment -- just where Cronin said it would be. An autopsy today was to determine the cause of death of the woman. Meanwhile, Cronin was held on a charge of vagrancy pending the medical examiner's report.