Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-10-06

Fannle thompson, whose body wa
found January /, 1908, gagged an
bound in bed in Michigan avenu
rooming house. Robbed of diamond
worth $1,000.
Former wife, at Walkerville, Ont
Beaten to death and body burned
She was a New York widow, nam,
forgotten.
Former wife, first name Nellie, neal
Fort Montgomery, N. Y. Beaten t
death in Woods. Robbed of $500 an(
diamond worth $500.
| Former maid to Helen Gould.
Aged man in Washington Park las
spring. Shot and body thown in la
COON Got 5000 in cash.
Two girls at Delavan Lake, Wis.
in June. Killed with hammer, and
bodies thrown into lake.
Woman in house near Cook coun,
ty hospital Used hammer and murn.
ed clothes. Got $140 and rings.
Woman in house at Fulton and Hal
stead streets, about eight months ago.
Used hammer and burned clothing.
Robbed house.
saloonkeeper on Van Burent street,
near Aberdeen. Shot man and wound
ed wife while robbing saloon.
Man shot and killed in alley under
South Side elevated about GEAR
ago.
Mrs. Mildred AIlison-Rexroat, shot
near Wayne, September 25, and body
placed on railroad tracks.
Ida Oliver, killed with hammer No
vembers 8, 1912. Body thrown into
canal and recovered May 29,
1918.
Unknown man and wife at Fox
Lake, H., in September, 1911, and
bodies thrown in lake.
Unknown man who brushed against
him at Forty-second street and
Indiana avenue, last spring. Shot,
body dragged into alley and robbed.
Saloonkeeper in Park Row killed
about two months ago and robbed.
Mrs. Corners, killed at st. Joseph,
Mich.
The man who's claims this almost
record is a Chicago pro
duct He does not know his real
name and the first he remembers he
was in the Home for the Friendless,
located within block of the scene
Of his arrest last night. He has spent
half Of his 80 years IN the state peni
tentiary at Joliet He was sentenced
twice for, robbery and was returned
twice following violation Of paroles
He is short, weighs about 145
pounds, wears glasses and has the
of a clerk, whose, life has
known little excitement. He has been
a worshipper at the prayer meetings
ST the Emmanuel Baptist church and
attended the wedding OF its pastors
daughter three nights before he &C.
companied Mrs. Rexroat on a train
near Wayne and killed her.
The proceeds of spencer's crimes
cave amounted to more than $4,000
u the last year, according to his con
'ession. He has spent the money in
Lhe Twenty-second street district,
where he said he had been big
spender in the cafes.
q killed Mrs. Rexroat because she
was trying to make a sucker out of
me- he said. She told me was
for her condition and how
oadly she needed $500 We intended
going east to be married but | decided
light then to put her out Of the way
md save all that trouble I didn't
murder her for the ring took it
because it was there.
Ten Of spencer's victims were wom-
N.
Spencer gave further details OF
he murder Of Policemen Deyine and
'ennell in August, 1912. at West
congress street and South Ashland
venue
Il and pal named Murphy
Eere on a back porch of a house
lown there preparing to enter the
place. said Spencer Murphy
over a tub and we hid in a
ward nearby Then the police came
and Murphy and I emptied our re.
golvers at them and ran
The prisoner told the police Of kill
ing two girls at Lake Delavan. Wis.
last October He said he shot one
and killed the other by hitting her on
The head with hammer He said
10th bodies were thrown into the lake.
Spencer said he robbed nearly every
room in the leading hotels at Delayan
Lake before committing the murders