The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-07
w Gordon Harie
JEFFERSON & HARVIE

Mrs. Wight Was beaten on tho mead in
her rooming house with hammer.
dying from her wounds The police
report had it that she was robbed OF
$50 by man who came to hire room
from her. whereas spencer says he
got S.35. OF this. s35 was in her
handbag and 500 in her stocking.
After eight hours of unrcmitting OK
animation and crosse examination, in
which Spencer was given the third
degree oy chief OF Detectives John ].
Ha:pn and Assistant States Attorney
Michael f. Sullivan the slayer was
obliged 70 admit that he had nothing
to do with three of the eighteen muir
ders Of which ne had pcrsistently
boasted.
The three victims in whose cases he
admits he was mistaken were:
Policeman Timothy Divine and
Charles Penncll August IL, 1912: Mrs.
Frances Gilmore Thompson, January
|. 1905.
AS TO the fifteen other murders. in
Guiding those of Mildred Allison Rex
roat, Mrs. Anna Belle Wight, girl
he remembers only as Nellie" whom
he lured from New York to Fort Mont
Eomery, y. y; Mamie Bertram and
French girl named Jeanette. whom
he met at Delavan Lake. Wis: n
French Canadian woman from Nova
Scotia. whom he killed at Wallervillc.
Ont: TWO Dowieites, whom he killed
and robbed at Zion City; two girls
whom he killed at Paw Paw Lake, and
Bessie Connors. whom he killed at st.
Joseph. Mich, he strenuously insisted
that his story was true
When a telegram came from Chief of Po-
lice Fleming. OF Delavan. Wis. saying:
story that two women we're murdered
here is false and similar messages came
from Chief Of Police owner OF Detroit
Chief Of Police Fetzer. OF Benton Harbor
and Sheriff Souie. Of Paw Paw. Spencer said
with emphasis and apparent sincerity:
You will find that all these women and
men were murdered Just as say. did
IT with these hands. These country con-
stables don't know anything"
Just then u telegram came from Sheriff
Thompson at 81. Joseph Mich. which was
in regard to his having killed Bessie Con
nors at ST. Joseph. II read:
Woman killed here June II last. at
Beech wood Pond. Body found. but not iden-
t.ned. We have warrant for arrest OF man
answering Spencer's description for about
forty hote. robbcries here and at Paw Paw"
In The light OF new details given by Spen-
Ger, under close questioning, IL became clear
that some OF the queries sent to the police
of New York Paw Paw, Detroit. Dclavan
Wis. and other places were SO vague and
inaccurate that any replies received up to
TO- iSht must not be regarded conclusive.
Helen Gould's Maid.
The alleged murder Of girl referred to as
Helen Goulu'S maid was put In quite "A
different light In the later confession, where
Spencer gave the facts follows:
After being paroied from Joliet in 1910 l
Went "a Sew York City There I became
acquainted with parlor maid at the Hotel
MiIth;, Washington in Twenty-ninth Street.
will not tell You her name We we're mar
ried by Lee NJ Beattie pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Church. told her was travelling
salesman | knew her about three days. and
found out she had certain sum OF money
and then We got married.
81 found she had $500 In the German Bank
| OF the BsonX. I married her on Friday
| night. the fourth day OF our acquaintance.
Look for Farm.
| II told her we would so West and buy a
| farm and live happily. and the next day she
| drew the money from the bank and took
New York Bay Line boat and eot of at
| West Point and hired a rig there and went
driving 10 Fort Montgomery, about five
| miles from West Point.
- took her then about twelve miles on
foot show her some land I told her I
! owned. We left tho road and went into the
woods when I struck her with hammer
| and killed her.
Il had got the $50 before killed her I
stayed in the woods that night and
! took train the next day from Fort Mont
| gomery back to New York