New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-06
One girl at Lake Delavan. Wis, last

one girl at Lake Delavan. WIS, last
summer.
One woman at Belle Island. Mich. last
summer.
One man shot In Chicago this fall.
One old man shot in a South Side park
two months ago
One woman shot and burned on the
northwest side of Chicago late last sum-
mer.
One woman killed near the COOK county
Hospital a few days ago.
The police cannot account for all OF the
victims Spencer claims to have SIAM the
only one he was able to name was fannie
c.. Thompson. who probably is the woman
he said ne killed before he started on his
alleged career of murder
Human c. Mann, the son of wealthy
family here. was tried six years ago TOT
the murder of the Thompson woman ana
was acquitted after long ana sehsa-
tional trial. The evidence against young
Mann was circumstantial. spencer gave
q clear account Of the way he claimed 10
have tied UP the Thompson woman at the
time of the killing. and his recital CON
formed TO the evidence that was brought
out at Mann's trial.
The police are in doubt as to the posi-
bility of establishing Spencer's connection
with any of the other murders he claims
to have committed. He said he had MOTH
ing to do with the killing by hammer
blows of Mrs Emma Kraft in hotel
here two years ago.
Never Drank or Smoked.
Spencer told his gruesome story calmly
TO Captain Halpin and a room fulI OF
detectives and newspaper men. lie SAID
he never drank nor smoked, but that lie
chewed tobacco and smoked opium.
i've been thief all my life," he de-
clared. II killed all these women to get
their money. found it was the easiest
way TO live. II cost me 800 or 500
week 10 enjoy myself the way | wanted
to in these cabarets and dives and the
easiest and quickest way to get the
money was to get some girl of by her-
self and kill her.
Mrs. Rexroat was easy. She thought
she was working me the same way she
worked the farmer. She thought ] was
a farmer. like her husband. and could
work me the same way. l let her think
So At first / was going to take her to
Michigan and kill her there. but finally
decided ii would be less trouble to take
her a little way out on the car line and
get it over In businesslike way. She
thought we were going TO be married.
She came along Just as l told her.
when we got out at the station II
was nearly O'Clock We turned around
and walked down the track until we got
where it 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 ] took what few dollars she had and
her diamond ring. l opened her suitcase
and dumped her stuff out of it and
brought ii back to Chicago with me. l
took the next train back about ten min
utes after l shot her.
Never Pawned Things.
Il didn't want the ring. | never go TO
that's the way people get
caught. | gave the ring TO a girl-just a
common girl | net on the street. She
went TO New York Tuesday or Wednes-
day"
Spencer said he had married four
women, killing the first one at West Point
\. Y, he dida't know exactly how many
years ago. One wife Is living in Detroit
he said. and another IN Chicago.
Spencer gave details Of his alleged muir
ders at the Wisconsin and Michigan re-
sorts. where. he said. he had spent most
of the sumner as a hotel thief, commit
ting an occasional murder.
81 killed the two girls at Paw Paw Lake
for their money and rings" he said. "One
Of them one time let me see she had some
money with her, so | shot her and sunk
her body in the lake. The other girl |
killed the same way, but she didn't have
much money. The girl at Delavan Lake
! shot with the same gun with which l
killed Mrs. Rexroat.
when I got back to Chicago | met a
man one night who looked as if he had
South Side levee He didn't have much
money. but enough for me TO go to
hotel for a few days, and there ] met
another man, an old fellow. who said he
was a broker. We got friendly and he
let on to have a fine business and lot OF
money. He looked like money.
81 was disappointed in that fellow.
got him TO take walk with me late one
afternoon in Jackson Park and shot him
there and went through him lie told
me he had lot more money than I
found. ] rolled him into a swampy place.
where they were dumping. The papers
had lot about IT, and called IT a case of
suicide"