The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-22
kURDERER TELLS
Of HIS PLOT TO
ROB MRS. palmer
HI Try Spencer Declares he Shadowed
Chicago Society Leader For
Ten Days.
T, ALLIED HER TO NEW YORK
WHERE SHE TOOK STEAMER

'h'cago, Oct. 21-Mrs. Potter
p mer escaped robbery and perhaps
wtcse by a margin of hours, ac-
co ling to story in the Wheaton
ia Yesterday by Henry Spencer. the
"l.smmor murderer" of Mildred
Al ison Rexroat.
spencer says he trailed Mrs. Pot
te, Palmer for ten days, from the
ti..e of her arrival in Chicago on
November last year, during the
W IL she stayed in Chicago and
evtn the three days after, during
ia, trip to New York and to the
ct. smship which carried her to Eur
op".
The diamond chain of Mrs. Potter
Pa mer, made Of forty-two perfectly
matched. fawless stones, worth
co,shined as necklace more than
S110 .00G, and as a mere collection
OF stones salable at the rate of about
81 900 a stone, was the prize for
WI ich Spencer played.
-he sorry of his plan for securing
tn Palmer diamonds came from
Sp lcer yesterday during conversa-
tic with Shvr II A. A. Kuhn and
Fi.ft Deputy John IIesterman of DI-
Pare Copnty.
Watched Society Columns.
There is just one thing ! am
sorry atou.' Is the way In which
Sr lcer opened the conversation,
What is that" queriod Sheriff
Kuhn
wanted to get one woman"
answered Spencer. Il wanted to get
Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago.
co III have made $4,000 from the
dis mond chain she wears.
why, | read in the papers early
in November last Fall that she was
corning to Chicago for visit.
knNw about the diamond necklace.
y tchcd the society columns closely
an when she got off the train
wa right on her trail. | followed
her in a taXica5 up Lake Shore
dri TO her home and stuck around
al The time that she was in the
hose. Whenever she went out
fol wed her, waiting for just half
lance to get that necklace and
ma sc a clean escape. There was al
WIS too many people around.
For week she never had a
ch, nee to go anywhere without my
be & right after her. Finally she
bo, ght a ticket for New York She
tor a drawing room and there was
nj q vacant birth left in her car
Th saved her on the journey.
Bought Steamer Ticket.
n New York she went TO tho
Ri | thought | had her pretty
VIZ watched, but she slipped away
ar bought steamer ticket Before
] ,ew it she was on the way to
Eu ope. Then | gave up the at
ter 1T for the time, thinking that
sh would return to Chicago, and
tht ] would have a chance to get
hel still on the ground that | knew
in aaking my escape. She didn't
COZ back to Chicago. but went tt
FL ida on her return from Europe
] t-uldn't have reached her in Flor
ida
he calendar of Mrs. Potter Pal
mt 8 movements last Fall show that
sh arrived in Chicago November 3.
lei New. 10, and sailed on the l4th
fro New York for Europe, where
shs spent a month before return ng
TO New York and then to her Winter
hcgIe in Florida.
Spencer yesterday employed Anton
Zel an as his attorney and the two
he ! a three-hour conference in Bo-
he lian, while Sheriff Kuhnsstood by
wi out chance to understand
At 2reny Zeman said that the de-
fen Sc of Spencer would not be de-
cid d until later, but that the fact
tha. several of Spencer's family
have been in insane asylums. that
oth ers have committed suicide and
tn t Spencer himself tried at to kill
hii self at Joliet, may furnish
gre unds for an insanity plea.
Spencer has declared, however
that ne will insist either on absolute
ace Initial or hanging" concluded
Attorney Zeman.