Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-10-06
Spencer, Slayer Of Tango
Teacher, Claims to Have Put
Quietus on at Least Twenty
Victims.
POLICE BELIEVE HE
Is EXAGGERATING
Unparalleled Confession How
ever Shows Chicago Degen-
crate Has Committed Fright.
full Series Of Crimes.

lIly Leased Wire 10 Evening Iicfald. !
Chicago. oct G.--Whilo fhr police
are satisfied that Harry Spencer is
guilty ~ many murders beside that
OF Mrs. Mildred Allison Rcxroat. they
were forced 60 the conclusion today
that his statement that he murdered
twenty persons ls an oxaggeration.
Spencer is addicted TO the opium
habit. a symptom OF which Is weird
ana grotesque Imagination. Some
years aRo the police had occasion 10
investigate his conduct and learned
that while in prison az Joliet ON IA
charge OF larceny the prison GuthOri-
ties had regarded him as mentally
defective and from time 20 time can
fined him In the infirmary. lie told
fellow prisoners 81 having committed
several murders
Some tiptc VIII be necessary the
police say, before tho truth IN spenc-
7 cr's story cnn bee sifted
some of his stories ure probably
! fiction" said Captain iialpin today
"but IN the whole / believe he is ar
most as great criminal as he claims
/ Co be-"
]
dcrcd near the county hospital wits
shown 10y police records today 4" have
been Mrs. Annabel Wright, who WINS
beaten on the head last December and
robbed of $50 and two diamond rings
and who succumbcd Co her injuries
June 10 last
II was discovered m The police
records this Afternoon that spencer
was in PRISON al Joliet when Fannie
Thompson WAS murdered, January ],
1908. The records show that he went
TO the prison in 1906 and WaS not
paroled until 1910. II rs practically
certain. also. that h. was behind the
bars az Joliet whom Detectives pcn-
nell and Deyine were murdered. Lo-
cal records. which viii be compared
with those a. Joliet. show that Spen-
Ger was IN prison from April l. 1902
until 1903, while the murder of thc
detectives. confessed to in detail, was
committed August %, 1902.
In connection with spenccrs state.
ment that ne killed man under th,
South side elevated railroad struc'
ture. the records show ihut Emmett
McChesney was slan tAcra scptem
Der u. leit.
chic. go. oct 6-The police today
began their investigation OF the al.
most unparalleled confession last
night OF Henry Spencer that he b,
the murderer of more than twenty
persons. Possessing eviG, nee TO sup
pert his admission that he Killed Mrs
I Mildred Allison-RcXroat. the dancini
+ Instructor, on September 20. the uu
thoritios are convinced that They vii
iu short time confirm Spencer
Z SUM as To- many, IL not an. the crime.
. pf his crimson career.
, After his arrest last uisht for IA,
tt&roat murder which WAS made a.
the hotel of "a woman who had mott
s fled the police of his coming. detec
tlyes went TO Spenrer's rooI0. wher,
+ they found the rattan suitcase whicl
. tho tango teacher had taken with ne
3 on hes fatal trip To- Wayne. lil 49,
: morning Spencer had asserted that III
sent the following 20 their graves:
one of two farmers, shot near zioI
? CITY lll, iu The srrIng of 1903. oh
J tanned $500
Policemen Timothy and Charlie
i'NNnfNNf NNhi ~ ANNAnAa ANAHf WIZ
e they surprised Spencer and ma
I named Murphy hreaking into hons'
< Fannie Thompson. body foun
g january T. 1905, Eagged and hound 8
{ he'd IA Michigan avenue roomin
q house Robbed oi diamonds wort
e. $1,000.
Former wife at Walkeryllle, pn
u Beaten Co death and body hurne'
q She was New York widow. nam
q forgotten.
70 Former wife, frst pamo Nellie, non
b Fort Montgomery N. Y. Beaten
I. death ln woods. l,nbbed of $500 an
diamonds worth fsO0. Formor mai
- To Helen Gould
u Aged man IN Wellington Park, idl
3 spring. shot and body thrown ln %
H g0on Got S20O in cash
- Two girls at BOLIVIAN Lake Wis,
y june Killed with hammer and bo,
- ios thrown in lake
Woman Ia house near Cook count