The Washington times., 1920-05-07

Los ANGELES. Cal. May 1.-Two
more ''wife" murders have been
brought to "Bluebeard" Harvey's
alias James b. Watson's door today
by the authorities.
They are the murder OF a woman
whom Investigators partly Identified
as Mrs. oliver Roberts" and the
killing Of an unidentified girl who
was choked TO death with a silk
chemise.
"Bluebeard" confronted with the ac-
cusation OF these crimes "ean't re
member" whether he killed them OF
not There were many blank periods
in his career that he knows nothing
OF. he said.
Ideatiaes Harvey.
The Mrs oliver Roberts murder
mystery drew its title from the name
under which the man last seen with
the murdered woman registered al an
Ell Centre hotel. scene OF Nina Lee
Deloney's burial and disclosure py
Harvey In her desert grave.
The body of MRS. oliver Roberts
was found at Lyons Crossing, near
El Centre. January of last year
Harvey has BEEN recognized by one
man as positively the person seen
with the woman the day before her
burned body was found. That man Is
William Stanton, who followed Blue
beard" about while he was At El Cen
tro to afford close observation.
"He is the man sure as fate" STAN
ton said. "The chemise" murder has
been a mystery since its discovery,
months ago. The victim was q young
woman who was found strangled to
death by her own chemise In q local
hotel. Her body was nude. a. were
the burned woman's, and as was Nina
Lee Deloney's and Betty Prior's. of
Plum Station. Wash, both confessed
victims of the arch-monster:
Ts Exanine Prisoner.
with the murders pointing to the
"Bluebeard" as their nendish per-
petrator. District Attorney Thomas
Lee Woolwine will submit the MUIR
derer to another grilling cross-exarn-
ination today In final effort to force
the man to admit his responsibility
for the disappearance of at deast five
more of his twenty-o odd wives" who
are unaccounted for.
to wrench what we believe to be the
truth of other murders done by Blue
beard" Woolwine said. after that
he must face his fate with his crime
on his head"
II Charles Newton Harvey. alias
Watson. modern Bluebeard, who has
confessed to- killing at least five of
more than a score of women he mar
ried. succeeds in cheating the gallows
by his plea Of guilty to the murder of
Nina Lee Deloney, made in superior
court here yesterday. he will do SO
in the face of public opinion aroused
to a high pitch by the revelation OF
his crimes.
Protests from prominent persons
against recommendation Of life SEN
tence are pouring into the office OF
District Attorney Woolwine. and in
dications are the courtroom will be
packed with a hostile audience when
the super bigamist and arch-murderer
is brought before Judge Willis for
sentence at 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing. One newspaper here has printed
more than three columns of inter-
views with prominent men and wom-
en- demanding Harvey be hanged.
May Net Survive Ordeal.
There is a chance, however. that
death may come before the law can
act Harvey is said to have collaps-
ed again when removed to q hospital
for examination as to his sanity by
two physicians appointed by Judge
Willis and to be in a critical condition.
Weakness caused by his two attempts
at suicide. the ordeal Of his journey
into the desert to locate the grave in
which he had buried Nina Deloney.
with the subsequent flight from
threatened lynching at Ell Centre,
Cal, and the almost continuous grill
ing by the police and District Attor-
nsy Woolwine, have so affected the
woman-killer doubts are felt that he
will live to face legal punishment.
That the whole tale of Harvey's
career has not been told: that the
record of the marriages that began
at the altar and ended at early graves
is not complete, and that when all
the facts are known the world will
hear a story unparalleled in horror
since the Bluebeard OF fairy tale lore
is the belief of the authorities here.
They are convinced the admitted
murderer of five has even more
crimes on his conscience.
Proceedings Hurried.
Early today Harvey sent for Wool
wine, telling attendants that he
wished to give additional facts to his
confession. 1t was thought he had
decided to bare more murders, but
when Woolwine arrived at the hos
pital. Harvey said he had experienced