The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-07
UNcONQuERA6LE PASSION FOR EACH OTHER AND LOVE OF
 MONEY, GIVEN AS EXCUSE.
WATSON POISONED HIS WIFE
Then Later Grained Husband Of His Paramour With an Axe, and Con fessed When Confronted With
 the Woman's Story.

shreveport, La, Sept. b.-Their un- conquerabe passion, besides a joint desire to obtain and enjoy the prop erty accumulated by her husband, led Mrs. c. C. Bailey, 27, and A l.. Wat son, 45. to decree the death of Bailey, Metcalf. La, logging contractor and sawmiR operator, and Mrs. Watson, three months later, when they met and loved at Flannigan, Texas, ac- cording to the written confession Of both, who are in jail here
 Watson, the confession says, carried out his part of the murder plot by poisoning his wife, and Mrs. Bailey. her confession says, tried to adminis- ter drugs to her husbands
 The woman failed. Watson. who meantime had secured employment from Bailey, ordered her to leave Bailey. She obeyed, and that night, Monday of this week, Bailey, as he lay asleep, was braned with an axe.
 The coroner investigated. Watson told a lurid story of a strange in- truder killing Bailey, and attacking
 him when he tried to go to BaiIeys
 rescue, and the coroner caused Wat sons arrest.
 Testimony as to domestic infelicity between the Baileys because of the
 wife's social attitude toward Watson.
 led to her arrest.
 Sternly questioned by Sheriff U P. Flournoy, she broke down and con fessed, and Watson, confronted with her story, weakened, told conflicting
 stories. and ffnaf1y admitted all. inci dentally bringing out the poisoning Of his wife. which story conforms to that of Mrs. Bailey. Sheriff Flour noy has the confession in writing. With two murders chargeable to her influence over the self-confessed murderer A. l.. Watson. is Mrs. Bailey, the woman in the case, in any way responsible for the death of another, a murder as foul as either of the two rct tently revealed.
 1nis is the question which today stirred the authorities to make further investigations.
 Another unwrltten chapter in ths loves of Mrs. Bailey was unfolded tonight In sheriff Flournoy's office was told a story closely connected with the intercourse of the Bailey and the Watson families that indicates still third murder.
 To Jailer Gamblin, @Diclx" Wilcox. a timer, who has lived here three years, came at 6 o'clock tonight at the request of Sheriff Flournoy and told the following story:
 -ay wife, myself. Bailey and his daughter were the only ones in the room when Bailey's first wife died. She had been sick about three weeks. was 'puny' and had been taking medi- cine
 She was taking suddenly worse one evening" and said to my wife, shortly before she died: Ada. do something for me. l am dying. Char ley has poisoned me Then she turn ed to Bailey and gasped: Charley, you have poisoned me and I'm going to die
 Bailey stood still He never said a word, but grinned dryly. He did not deny the accusation.
 This was at Myrtis camp when we were working for the Black Bayeu Lumber company had known Bailey for many years. The next Jay as my wife vas cleaning up the bed on which Mrs. Bailey had died, she found in the bed clothing a half filled three ounce vial of chloroform, hidden In the mattress, she found another small bottle labeled poison.
 Nothing was done about t at the time, but everyone ehere believed in their hearts that Bailey had murder ed his wife
 It was not three weeks after he buried his first wife that he married Eva Walls They had known each other about two years before the first Mrs. Bailey died ?
 wilcox told other incidents of the death of eight years ago that makes |is almost certainty that Bailey kill- ed his first wife in order that he might marry the present Mrs Bailey. hut the tale tod above is briefly the story he told tonight. NOW Bailey Is dead and the girl he married is in prison for her part in two more recent murders. If she chooses to unseal her lips about the other death. she coulI likely tell the first chapter of what has now de- yeicYed into the murder sensation sf lthe day.