Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-06
SAYS HE WILL WIN BACK IOWA
WIFE WHEN HE SECURES
RELEASE.
MRS. WEBSTER SPEEDILY
DIVORCED At CEDAR RAPIDS
May Send Webster to tho GalIows-
Was Addicted to Drug Habit-Let-
ters Written to Him BY Many Wo-
men May Be Used as Evidence.

Oregon, ILL.,, Oct 6.-Dr. Harry E
" ebster. indicted for the murder OF
his third wife, Bessie Kent Webster
expects to be acquitted.
This was indicated today when he
declared that the action of his second
wife, Zoe Varney Webster in planning
to obtain an immediate divorce.
caused him more pain than his arrest
on the charge of murder
Il love her more than anybody in
the world and will win her back in
fifteen minutes after I am released
from this trouble said the physician
DR.. Webster spent another sleepless
night and was pale and hagSard when
breakfast was served in his cell.
Preparation of the prosecutions case
was practically completed by States
Attorney Emerson today and that Of
fetal will make determined effort to
have the cast set for trial within two
weeks. He will ask for the death pen
atty.
Moose Of Hangnan Seems Near.
The chain of evidence against DR..
Harry F. Webster. self confessed biga-
gether by developments yesterday in
such a manner as to make the coils
CT the hangmans moose appear almost
about the prisoners neck.
Rumors tips and theories that DR..
Webster had accessories in his Blue
Beard" act were swept away yester-
day when new witnesses and more
corroborative facts were brought to
light showing that the slayer-interne
had lured his third wife to death after
deliberately premediating the murder
GUS plot.
Whatever else might have been his
object in freeing himself of Bessie
Webster it is also charged that
the bigamist had another
victim in view as he led Bessie Kent
to her grave.
1t was told yesterday by one who
frequently came in contact with Web
ster, in a professional way. that the
prisoner had proposed to and was ac-
cepted by a young daughter OF a
wealthy Chicago family and that he
anticipated soon to lead another inno-
cent girl to the altar Of biganly and
shame.
This same source of information de-
clared he knew DR.. Webster to be
victim of the drug habit. the clutches
Of which were rapidly getting the bet
ter Of the young inferno. and that the
effects of the use of the drug caused
Webster's medical ambition to wane.
adding complications that set his brain
in turmoil.
That Webster did not use an auto
T, ,obile or had accomplices in Staying
Bessie Kent Webster was shown al
most conclusively yesterday when his
movements practically were traced
from the time he left Chicago until the
discovery Of the body of his wife in
the ravine north of Dixon.
Can Not Prove Aib.
These new facts absolutely swept
away all pretenses of Webster and his
attorneys to an aiibi, the important
facts in the new developments being:
Stanley Baker, owner of the White
Front Restaurant at Dixon, says there
can be no mistake that Webster is the
man who ate supper in his place on
Sept Is and breakfast the following
morning with a woman who he is
equally certain was Bessie Kent-Web-
ster, the slain wife.
George Clark, liveryman. after talk
ing a look at Dr. Webster, declared he
Is the same man who engaged livery
rig of him on the morning of Sept. l6.
Clark says the woman with Webster at
the time was the woman her killed.
Bessie Kent Webster. Clark says there
is no mistaking that fact. because he
saw the woman both before and after
she had been killed. The liveryman
says there was apparently some trouble
between the two, because neither OF
them spoke to the other at the time
they got into the rig.
Harry Bailey. clerk Of the Dixon Inn
the hotel in which Webster and his
dead wife slept the night before she
was killed. declared yesterday there
was no doubt that Webster was the
same man who came to the Inn on the
night of Sept Is and registered under
the name Of III. F. Hayden and wife"
Letters From Many Women.
Chicago. Sept GA bundle Of let
ters written by women to DR.. Harry
E. Webster, confessed wife slayer. was
unearthed by the police today and may
be used as evidence when the physi-
clan is placed on trial for murder in
Oregon. III. The letters were found in
an old trunk In a north side hospital
where Webster was formerly employed
as an inferno.
Miss Alice NJ Trebert, a telephone
operator at the hospital, accused DR..
Webster in one letter Of having stolen
her watch. Another letter is said to
have been from Miss Olga Fletcher, OF
Dixon. Ill. A letter was found from
Mrs. Kittie Kent Newberger, sister
Of Bessie Kent-Webster. upbraiding
the physician for his failure to provide
his wife with money to buy clothes.
MRS. WEBSTER GivEH DIVORCE.
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