Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-06
Lures Woman to Wayne
With Love Promises and
Gets Diamonds.
ROBBERY AS A MOTIVE
Fiend, Jailed at Chicago, Cody
Describes a List of Crimes
Committed.


ing which he confessed having COM
mitted more than twenty murders,
Henry Spencer, exhausted by the Or
deal, was allowed to retire in cell at
Central station at s o'clock this morn
ing for a few hours rest After the
long siege Spencer said: 81 am too
tired to remember any more just now.
have got to sleep. Maybe when rest
ed l can remember some more. The
truth is l killed so many l cannot re-
member all of them"
Police Captain Halpin said: "Spen-
Ger has confessed to more than twen-
ty murders"
Ten of Spencer's victims were wo-
men. Two were from New York. He
said he was married four times. He
killed two wives and always mutilated
his victims so they could not be iden-
titled. Captain Halpin said the con.
fession was the most wonderful ever
made in the United States. Unable
to trap Spencer, he said that 1t would
| be several days before the truth OF
falsity would be established.
Spencer's confession to the killing
of Mrs. Mildred Allison-Rexroat, made
last night to the police, follows:
POSED AS INEXPERIENCED MAN.
About two months ago l met Mrs
Rexroat at the Sans Souci dance hall
East Sixty-first street and Cottage
Grove avenue, right after she got &
divorce from her first husband. an
not a bashfuf sort of man and / 90
acquainted with her without any trou
BILE, nobody introducing us. l took hel
home tkat night.
I'VE got pretty friendly that night
and as she liked my company and
liked hers, we decided to be good anC
fast friends together.
after that night saw he
three or four nights every week a
various places, Sans Souci dance hal
being the most The more we saw o
each other the more friendly we go
and she told her troubles to me and
told her mine.
"She first thought that l was a sor
of farmer and that l would be prett.
easy picking, so tried to keep the i'm
preston with her, dancing kind o
awkwardly and letting my manner
show that had not had much training
. in social life.
"All the time was keeping in min,
that she was trying to make sucke
out of me and / wasn't going to lie
her.
Several weeks ago the Felicia clu
on East Thirty-first street, opened u
and Mrs. Rexroat told me that she wa
going down there to teach the tango
new-fangled sort of a dance, she e1
plaired. So she wanted me to shoy
up down there and be in on the goo
goings.
LEAR,IEID TO DANCE THE TANGO.
81 went down there on the Monda
night preceding the murder. / met he
there and we danced around most c
tho evening. She tried to show m
how to dance the tango and /, easin
d off, tried to keep up appeal
I ances of being farmer on the dane
r floor. | certainly did SO.
a II took her home that night and tol
e her l would be down there the ne'
, night, Tuesday night.
J. 81 met her again Tuesday night dow
s there and she continued to show N
e how to dance the tango and variou
4 other dances. ] continued to show u
o better on the dance floor.
l. after taking her home again Tue
e day night | made arrangements I
n meet her there Thursday night. TT
, following night, Wednesday, WEI
over to Dreamland dance hall at We
Van Buren and South PauIina stree
and made quite few friends there"
CSpencer refers to the Wednesda
following the killing)
. Yes, you were over there at Drear
n land, because myself and Sergean
. Trant and Keefe got there few mi
utes after you left" said Captain H;
J. pin. interrupting here We were Pre-
k ty hot on your trail that night. havii
u been after you for a week.
I'VE would have taken you that mig
and missed you but a few minute
having learned that you had left 4
place 10 minutes before we arriv
from people who saw you there th
night"
The prisoner resumed:
] Il was 10 pay her $50 lesson I
these tango lessons, but / fixed 1t
,r with her and winked at everybody,
3 it didn't cost me anything. The nc
N night, Thursday night, went over a
n met her at the Felicia club again.
T. HAD 80 THOUGHT OF KILLING.
"Up until this time had no thoue