The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-06

lowed the players. After a few holes
went to New York Tuesday or Wednes-
1 day"
Spencer said he had married four wom-
en-, killing the first one near West Point,
n. Y. He did not 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 summer as a hotel thief committing
an occasional murder.
Killed Two Girls
/ Z killed the two girls at Paw Paw
| Lake for their money and rings, he said
| One of them one time let me see that
she had some money with her and 50 l
shot her and sank her body in the lake.
IsThe 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 killed Mrs. Rexroat
/ When / got back to Chicago | met a
man one night who looked as If lie had
money. | shot HIM in an alley on the
south side levee. He didn't have much
/ money. but enough for me to 20 to a
hotel for few days, and there | met an
other man, an old fellow. who said he
was broker. We got friendly and he let
ON to have IA fine business and a lot Of
money. He looked like money I was
disappointed in that fellow.
! Il got him to take a walk with me late
| one afternoon in jackson park and | shot
him there and went through him He
told me he had a lot more than found.
l rolled him into swampy place where
they We're dumping. The papers had a
/ lot about ii, and called il a case OF sui
eide.
Another case the police called sui
eide was that of woman | killed on
the Northwest side | killed her with a
! hammer, tore up her clothes and set
fire to them. The last woman + killed
was few days ago two blocks west
OF the county hospital put her to death
with Il hammer. She had two rings and
| 500 This murder was done with the
hammer the police found wrapped in
| a towel by the railroad tracks They
thought the hammer had something to do
with the Rexroat murder"
Spencer said he killed three women. in
Guiding Mrs. Rexroat, with the revolver
the police found in his lodgings He said
| ne boguht 1t a month ago, after his
ether weapon refused to work He claimed
to have held up many of the restau-
rants which recently have been robbed
by highwaymen here
Spent 500 in Two Nights
Why I spent s70o in two nights in
| Charley Vests last week." he said cit
costs lot of money to hold up your
END IN these cabarets. | average two jobs
a week all the time I'm out of Jail
/ Spencer said none of the jewelry he
mad taken from his victims ever would
be recovered Il never go into a pawn
shop he said. when | sell any of II
II is to some private person. maybe on
the street. I don't know their names. A
lot of It I gave to girls"
The police doubt that Spencer COM
mitted the large number of murders and
holdups to which he lays claim, but are
convinced he is guilty of many of them
land probably is the most dangerous hom-
icidai maniac ever captured here. The
| mans Jail record extends from his boy
hood. He accounted for his immunity
| from trial for murder by saying that he
would get unprecedented for some minor
charge and would take a short sentence
and while he was in jail the murder
mystery would be sheIved and forgot
ten.
The police tonight believed several MUIR
ders he declared he had committed prob
ably were committed by. Spencer as he
admitted in his confession. The Fannie
| Thompson murder. the Killing of the two
policemen, the murder of an old man in
Jackson park. the killing of a woman
near the county hospital and the at
tempted killing of family of four on
the Westside, all had been catalogued
as mysteries.
One of His Failures"
The attempt to kill the family Spen-
Ger characterized as one of his failures.
An old man and his wife were found
by firemen tied in their beds in their
| apartment four months ago. while two
children were stunned and lying In an
adpjoining room. The flat was on fire
and the occupants were taken out with
| difficulty. The man, 6S years old, had
been shot twice. All recovered.
/ Spencer said he shot the old man when
he was caught robbing the flat and had
| set fire to the place to cover up the
crime. The police had the robbery and
arson on their list of unexplained crimes.
Spencer's account OF it convinced Cap
tain Halpin that he was the man who
did the work.
| The entire list of crimes confessed by
Spencer will be investigated by the po-
lice who viii check up how far the mans
| account is correct.
/ His coldly planned murder of Mrs.
Rexroat and nine other killings of which
he boasts were committed while he was
| on parole from the state penitentiary for
highway robbery. He was paroled to
! Maj. M. A. Messlein of the Volunteers of