Evening star., 1913-10-06

sore on the world. My own Ike ooesn
amount to much and nobody's mo mas
meant much to me-
The proceeds of Spencers crimes have
amounted to more than $1O.UuO IN tne
last year. He has spent the money Oh
women in the ed street district.
I killed Mrs. Rexroat because sne was
| trying to make a sucker out or me, ne
said. She told me was responsiple LOT
her condition and how badly she needed
$500. didn't murder her for. the ring.
took it just because it was there.
| II intended to kill Mrs. A. j. Scofield,
the proprietor Of the rooming house where
| have been living Spencer said. II
hadn't been arrested at just this time
would have killed her.
Eleven Of Victims Women.
Eleven Of Spencer's victims we're WON.
en-. Two, he said, came from New York
He said he married four times and had
killed two Of his wives. He always
mutilated his victims SO that they could
not be identified.
II married Helen Geuld's maid in New
York. said Spencer. " took her to Forl
Montgomery and killed her in the woods
nearby She had about $500 and $500 in
diamonds
Did you have any other women In
New York;" asked Capt. Halpin.
Yes: there was a widow I married
/
Off at Detroit. We went to Walkerville
| Ontario. We walked down one OF the
walks in the par'z and I shot her. l go'
5000 and a diam nd"
with the revolver found in his room
llShortly after the murder Of Fannie
Thompson, he said, he was arrested FOL
robbery and pleaded guilty to one OF tht
eighty-two charges. The last lob he
did was few nights ago, when n. he
lYnhheN6 hA OF Nofa q
detective bureau. He said he ran down
the alley past detective headquarters.
Chief Of Police McWeeny believes that
Spencer IL telling the truth, at least In
part.
when Pennell and Devine were mur-
dered was lieutenant at the detective
bureau and worked on the case," the
chief said. II talkeo to him about II
for half an hour and we went over
he Is telling the truth"
Thief All His Life.
'I've been q thief all my life," Spen-
Ger declared. 81 killed all these women
to get their money. I found 1t was
the easiest way to live. 1t cost me
four or Ave hundred dollars a week tC
enjoy myself the way I wanted, to in
these cabarets and dives, and the
easiest and quickest way to realize
money was to get some girl off by
herself and kill her.
Mrs Rexroat was easy. She thought
she was working me the same way she
worked the farmer. She thought
was farmer like her husband and she
could work me the same way. l lei
her think so. At first / was going tc
| take her to Michigan and kill hel
there, but finally decided 1T would be
less trouble to take her a little way
out on the car line and get it over In
a businesslike way. She thought we
| were going to be married. She came
along just as told her.
When we got out at the station Il
around and walked down the track un-
TIL we got where 1t was dark. took
her by the right arm. pulled out my
gun and shot her through the head
Then laid her on the railroad track
SO she would be tore up 1 took what
few dollars she had and her diamond
ring opened her suit case and
dumped her stuff out Of 1t and brought
1t back to Chicago with me. l took
the next train back about ten minutes
after I shot her.
Never Pawns Jewelry.
-I didn't want the ring. I never go to
pawnshops; that's the way people get
caught I gave the ring to girl, just a
common girl I met on the street. She
went to New York Tuesday or Wednes-
day.
Spencer said he had married four wom-
en-. killing two Of them. One wife Is
living in Detroit, he said. and another
In Chicago.
Spencer gave details of his alleged mur-
ders at the Wisconsin and Michigan re-
sorts, where. he said, he had spent most
of the summer as a hotel thief. commit
ting an occasional murder,
al killed the two girls at Delavan lake
for their money and rings" he said.
Zone of them one time let me see she
had some money with her, so l shot her
other girl / killed the same way, but
she didn't have much money.
when got back to Chicago l met a
man one night who looked as II he had
money. shot him In an alley in the
| south side levee. He didn't have much
money. but enough for me to go to a
hotel for few days. and there I met
another man, an old fellow. who said he
was broker. VIE got friendly and he
let on to have a fine business and a lot
Of money. He looked like money. 1 was
| disappointed in that fellow. I got him
to take walk with me late one after
noon In Washington Park, and / shot him
there and went through him. He told
me he had lot more than I found.
rolled him into a swampy place where
tiCs WSAO AoMPiho. AbO PoQSAo h0o q
lot about it and called it a case Of sui
eide.
Hammer Favorite Weapon.
Another case the police called suicide
was a woman I killed on the Northwest
| Side. / killed her with a hammer, tore
+ up her clothes and set fire to them. The
last woman killed was a few days ago
| two blocks west of the county hospital.
beat her to death with a hammer. She
had two rings and 500. This murder
was done with the hammer the police
| found wrapped up in a towel by the rail-
road track. They thought the hammer
| had something to do with the Rexroat
| murder" >
| He claimed to have held up many of
| the restaurants which recently have been
| robbed by highwaymen here.
| Charley Vests last week" he said. "It
costs a lot of money to hold up your end
| in these cabarets. average two jobs a
week all the time am out Of jail"
Spencer said that none Of the jewelry
| he had taken from his victims ever would
| be recovered. II never go into a pawn
| shop" he said. when / sell any of it
| 1t is to some private person. maybe on
| the street. don't know their names. A
lot Of 1t gave to girls
At Liberty on Parole.
His coldly planned murder Of the dane