Young, brazen and perhaps not exactly challenged by his responsibilities as researcher at The New York Daily News ['New York's Picture Newspaper'], Ted wrote, typeset and ran just under 1,000 copies of the Daily News with the headline 'Iron Widow Loose' before being caught by a graveyard shift janitor [Elmer Dills of Brooklyn]. The 'Iron Widow' was of course Ruth Snyder, who at the time was awaiting trial for the murder of her husband Albert. Weeks after the stunt, Snyder was found guilty by a jury of her peers. On January 22, 1928 Snyder was electrocuted at Sing Sing. A picture of her hooded, dead body, ran in the Daily News the next day. In a letter to esteemed photographer Paul Aubin, Ted wrote, 'I'm certain you've seen the Widow image. And to think, I get shitcanned [sic] for a prank and those monsters are free to print a snapshot unfit even for Charon's bill fold - America is truly coming undone.'