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LIFE SENTENCE FOR IRWIN NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 28. Robert Irwin, 31, former sculptor who slew three persons here on Easter Sunday of 1937, today was sentenced to serve 139 years to life in the penitentiary. Sentence was pronounced by general sessions judge James G. Wallace I before whom Irwin, recently pleaded guilty to second degree murder. His plea was entered only in the death of Frank Byrnes, a boarder in the home of Ronnie Gedeon, an artists model, although he also slew both Ronnie and her mother, Mrs. Mary Gedeon.
