Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-06

times aud had killed two of his wives.
He always mutilated his victims so
that they could not be Identified.
IT married Helen Gould's maid in
New York" said Spencer. ~ took
her to Fort Montgomery and killed
her in the woods nearby She had
about $500 and $500 in diamonds"
Killed Wife While ON Honeymoon.
Did you have any other women
in New York;" asked Captain Hal
pin.
Eyes, there was a widow | mar
ried. We were coming to chicago
and stopped off at Detroit. We went
to Belle Isle, or Windsor. We walked
down one of the walks in the park
and I shot her. / got $500 and a
diamond"
Spencer said he killed three persons
with the revolver found in his room.
Shortly after the murder of Fannie
Thompson he said he was arrested
for robbery and pleaded guilty to one
of eighty-two charges. The last Job"
he did was few nights ago when he
robbed the Aston Cafe, block from
the detective bureau. He said he ran
down the alley past detective head
quarters.
Chief of Police McWeeney believes
when Pennell and Devine were
shot I was lieutenant at the detec-
tive bureau and worked on the case"
the chief said. 81 talked to him about
1t for half an hour and we went over
the story in a way that makes me
think he Is telling the truth. I'VE
have not been able to trip him up in
his statements" Captain Halpin as
serted, and many things stamp his
confession as the truth"
One of the victims was an uniden-
tilted man who accidentally brushed
against him at Indiana avenue and
East Forty-second street and whom
he followed, robbed and shot dead.
He dragged the body into an alley
and fled. This was last spring.
Two months ago he says he en-
tere a saloon where he was formerly
employed as a porter and killed a
bartender with a hammer. He did
not give the bartender's name, but
said he robbed the man of several
hundred dollars.
Pleads for Sleep.
After questioning for fourteen
hours, during which he confessed to
having committed more than twenty
murders, Spencer, exhausted by the
ordeal was allowed to retire In a
cell at the Central police station
shortly after 8 O'Clock this morning
for a few hours sleep
He had been questioned without
interruption by Captain Halpin and
Assistant States Attorney Sullivan
i nregard to the details of his Grim
inal career ever since his arrest at
6 o'clock Sunday night After the
long siege he put his hands to his
head and said:
Il am too tired to remember any
more just now. I got to have some
sleep. Maybe when I am rested I
can remember some more. The truth
of the matter is that ] killed so many
| can't remember all of them"
From an unofficial source it was
| learned that Spencer had amplified
his story of the murder of one of
his wives. He said the woman's name
was Nellie, but refused to give heA
surname.
Married Helen Gould's Maid.
"I was in New York six years ago
and one day ] visited the art gallery
which Helen Gould has installed in
the Martha Washington Hotel for
women" said Spencer. There met
Nellie, Miss Gould's maid. We were
married three days later. | had told
her l was wealthy travelling sales
man.
zone day we took ride up the
Hudson river to West Point and from
there went by bus to Ft. Montgomery.
In a secluded spot / struck her twice
! with hammer, killing her instant
! ly. 1 took $500 from her clothing and
returned to Chicago.
"A few days later 1 robbed cloth
ing store of forty-five suits. which
sold. Then for a while l stole BIZ
cycles, getting about 1870 of them.
The police finally made 1t SO hot for
me that I beat it out of town"
Spencer this morning told his in
| terragators of two more victims, one
| of whom he said he had shot and
killed, the other he said he struck
| down with a hammer