Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-05-14
BLUEBEARD NOW
CONFESSES 3 MORE
AGNES WILSON,, ALBERTA, AND
ONE WHOSE NAME HE HAS
FORGOTTEN.
DROWNED WIVES LIKE RATS
deep, Cold Water" Monster cooIIy
Remarks, Seldom Gives Up
Dead--Complete List
of His Victims.

! LOS ANGELES.-Two more brutal
murders have been admitted by
James p Watson, alias HURT, etc,
during closely guarded conference
| in the office of District Attorney
Woolwine. These two confessed
murders make total of seven slay-
ings by Watson, who previously con-
fessed the murder of Nina Lee De-
loney, and who is alleged to have
confessed the murders of four others
of the score or more women he is
said to have married.
One of the victims named by Wat
son was Agnes Wilson of Alberta
province, Canada. He could not re-
member" the name of another woman
whose murder he is alleged to have
admitted
| Each of them, however had been
taken for boat ride on Lake Wash
ington, Seattle, where each was
drowned.
Revised List Of Victims.
The list of murders to which Wat
son either has confessed or is alleged
to have confessed, now stands:
| Nina Lee Deloney of Eureka, Mont,
knocked unconscious with Ratchet
and smothered in blanket
Elizabeth Prior of Spokane, skull
crushed with sledge hammer,
Alice NJ. Ludvigson OF Walla Walla,
drowned in ST. Joe, Idaho.
Bertha Goodnich of Spokane, drown
ed in Lake Washington.
Agnes Wilson of Alberta, Canada,
One whose name he could not re-
member drowned in Lake Wash
ington.
The conference in the district at
torney's office lasted several hours,
beginning in the morning and end
ing late in the afternoon.
Watson is said to have married"
Agnes Wilson under the name of C.
n. Harvey about three years ago, and
she has been missing since shortly
after the ceremony, it is declared.
Sought Deep, Cold Water"
When asked why the body of none
OF them ever was recovered he is
said to have replied coolly that bodies
seldom We're found when death had
taken place in deep, cold water
Officials We're said TO incline to the
belief that the one whose name he
could not remember was either
Mrs. Gertrude Wilson, Mrs. Emily J.
Rose or one known to the officers
only as Eleanor"
Mrs. Gertrude Wilson was widow
with a young son when. in 1917, at
Seattle, Watson was said to have
murdered her. using the name of j.
p. Watson. He left her and the boy
on a farm in the Hood canal region
in July, 1917, but later had them join
him at Seattle, it is alleged. Nothing
further has been heard of either
Admits More.
Eleanor Fraser of Calgary, mar
ried in Seattle. 1919; thrown into the
Spokane river, near Spokane, be-
lieyed by the murderer to have been
carried over the falls and crushed on
the rocks below.
Marie Austin of Calgary, beaten
with rock and drowned in Lake
Occur d'Alene.
Mrs. NJ. Watt, box 1893, Winnipeg.
Canada, drowned in Lake Occur
d'Alene.
Tells His Life Story
In telling his history to the dis
trict attorney, the modern blue
beard said he was the son OF John
Gillian, farmer, supposed to be liv-
ing now near Paris, Kan He said
he believed he had been christened
Joseph, but the first name he could
remember being called with Dan Hol-
den. He explained his father and
mother separated and he took the
name of the man his mother later
married
A tota lof nine murders of his
wives had been confessed by the
man who. under the name of James
7. Watson, was sentenced recently
to serve life term in San Quentin
prison for the Staying OF Nina Lee
Deloney.
Three of the alleged wife murders
became known Monday They were
the Staying of Mrs. w. A. Watt.
Winnipeg. Canada, and Marie Austin
and Eleanor Fraser, both of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. The first two were
drowned in Lake Occur d'Alene, Ida.
no. and the latter in the Spokane
river at Spokane, it was said.
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