The Prescott daily news., 1913-10-07

 had money I 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 a few days, and there I met another man, an old fel- low, 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. l '. IS disappoint- ed in that fellow 1 got him to take a walk with me one afternoon, late. in Jackson park, and I shot him and went through him. He didn't have near as much money as he said he had. I rolled him into swampy place, where they were dumping. The papers had lot about it and called it a case of suicide.
 Another case the police called sui eide was a woman killed on the North west side. l killed her with a ham, mer, threw up her clothes and set fire to them. The last woman l killed was a few days ago, few blocks west of the hospital. 1 beat her to death with a hammer. She had two rings and $200. This murder was done with the hammer the police found wrapped up in towel by the railroad track. They thought the hammer had something to do with the Rexroat murder"
 Intended to Kill LandIady.
 The capture of Spencer probably saved the life of the landlady of the rooming house where he was lodging at the time of the Rexroat murder.
 q intended to kill her." Spencer told Capt. Halpin. T was going back there to look at room and would have shot her or beaten her to death while we were talking. I was laying for a chance, as l soon would be out of money Why, 1 spent S700 in two nights in Charley Vests last week It costs a lot of money to hold up your end in those cabarets. l average two jobs a week all the time am out of jail"
 The mans jail record extends from his boyhood. He accounted for his i'm munity from trial for murder by say ing that he would get apprehended for some minor crime and would take a short sentence, and while he was in jail the murder mystery would be shelved and forgotten.
 The Fannie Thompson murder, the killing of the two policemen, the mur- der of an old man in Jackson park, the killing of a woman near the couu- ty hospital and the attempted killing of family of four on the West Side all had been catalogued as mysteries.
 The first 1 remember was in the reform school at Feehanville," he went on. That is my first recollec- tion. They may have a record of my real name. l ran away from the school and never found out. From that time l lived with thieves and bad a good woman in my life.
 "I got my first prison term shortly after running away from the school. A man sold me suit of clothes for a nickel and that's how it started I knew the suit had been stolen, but il didn't impress me as anything seri- ous; that sort of thing was a part of my life. The very next day I walked right into the shop from which it had been stolen, and l was surprised when they arrested me. The prosecution and the judge wanted me to plead guilty and take a sentence of 30 days. but my lawyer said no. He said fight it out and so l pleaded not guilty
 What do you suppose l got? l got 10 years, and if there was any good in me that killed it. Ten years for a suit of clothes.
 "I served the full term. l had about two years good time coming to me, but I attacked a guard and lost it. They strung me up by the arms and starved me; they put me in solitary. too. l think it was the solitary that really got me. When 1 came out l wanted blood; anybody's blood I wanted to kill people and see it run. They gave me $10 when they turned me loose, and SS of that l spent for a revolver. I have been killing people more or less ever since 1 liked it in a way; when I robbed anybody it was sort of satisfaction to clean up the job by shutting up the victims mouth forever"