The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-10-08

twelve years ago, he said he killed
to escape being arrested.
81 intended to kill Mrs. A. ]. SEQ
field, the proprietor of the rooming
house where have been living" he
said. ''If | hadn't been arrested at
just this time would have killed
her.
A woman, with whom Spencer is
said formerly to have lived. told the
police that on the night of Septem-
Der 26 Spencer came to her house.
His shoes were covered with dust,
and he showed diamond ring re-
sembling the one worn by Mrs. Rex
roat. He also took revolver from
his pocket and removed an empty
shell, which he threw from the
window.
II met Mrs. Rexroat two months
ago at a dance hall" Spencer said
in his written confession, right af-
ter she got divorce from her first
husband. ! got acquainted without
any throuble, nobody introducing
us. | took her home that night and
we decided to be good friends.
After that night I saw her three
or four nights week for several
weeks. She thought I was farmer
end would be easy pickings. so I
tried to keep that impression with
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 worn me the
same way. | let her think so. At
first | was going to take her to
Michigan and kill her there. but fl
nally | decided it would be less
trouble to take her a little way out
On the car line and get it over in a
! business-like way. She came along
just as | told her
When we got out at the station
it was nearly o'clock. We turn
ed 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 tie head. Then | laid her
OF the railroGd track so she would
be "tCre up"
81 took what few dollars she had
and her diamond ring opened
her suitcase and dumped her stuff
OUT OF it and brought it back to Chi
cago with me. | took the next train
back about ten minutes after | shot
her.
Il didn't want the ring. never
so to pawnshops. That's the way
people get caught. ! gave the ring
to a girl-just a common girl | met
on the street. She went to New
York Tuesday or Wednesday,"
Spencer said he had married four
women. Filling 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 alleg-
ed murders at the Wisconsin and
Michigan resorts, where he said he
had spent most of the summer as a
hotel thief. committing an OCCASION
al murder.
just II Dream of Crime.
Chicago, Oct. cor the fourteen
murders Henry Spencer, slayer of
Mrs Mildred Allison Rexroat, swore
he committed, the police tonight,
after investigating his alleged
crimes in various cities, were able to
fix upon him only one murder, pos
sibly two.
Captain Halpin, chief of detective
bureau, announced he is convinced
that Spencer, in giving his long cir
cumstantial confession of fiendish
crimes, was consummate falsifer
Four murders he says he COM
mitted. were perpetrated while Spen-
Ger was in the Illinois State prison
at Joliet. The police here and other
cities have no record of the twelve
alleged murders.
Captain lIalpin said Spencers
imagination. stimulated by drugs,
poured out one of the most fantas-
tic tales of murder that has ever
come from a mind given to dreams
of crime.
Captain Halpin declared tonight
he has completed proof that Spen-
Ger murdered Mrs Rexroat, and IL
almost equally confident he murder
ed Mrs. Annabelle Wight, whose
home was robbed December 4. 1912.
She was so badly beaten with a ham
mer that she died July 10. 1913.
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