Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-01
MURDER CHARGE IS
 PLACED AGAINST THE
 MAN OF MANY WIVES
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iCOntinueQ rom rage I.) -~->~~~~~o->- >~~o- rect motive for their deaths and he had no desire to kill men. chill dren or animals, he was quoted.
 The women Huirt confessed having slain were Nina Lee Deloney and Elizabeth Pryor, the officers said. They quoted Huirt as saying he kill ed the former at Long Beach, Cal, with q hammer and the latter near Plum, Wash, by crushing her head with sledge hammer. The partial confession" according to the officers, related to the deaths of Bertha Goodnich and Alice Lud- vigson. who were said to have mar ried Huirt. Miss Goodrich, the of ficers said. was tipped out of a boat in Lake Washington, near Seattle, and Miss Ludvigson was drowned in river in Idaho. Hurts actual words in connection with the deaths with Mrs Goodnich and Miss Alice Ludvigson, the officers said, were that they were killed "by accident"
 Had Much Property.
 Nina Lee Deloney, whose home was at Eureka, Mont, married Huirt, the officers said. under the name of Charles N. Harvey at San Francis co December 3, 1919. She was last seen at hotel at Santa Monica Janu- ary 19, 1920. She had property val ued at S20,00O. Some of it was found in Hurts possession, the officers declared.
 Bertha A. Goodrich of Spokane, l Wash, married Huirt. they said, un l der the name of H. L. Gordon June Ill, 1919, at North Yakima, Wash. Her body was found near Plum sta i tion, Washington, short time aft erward. Trunks belonging to her ] were located in Van Couver, Wash, ] warehouse.
 ] Alice M. Ludvigson, whose home was in Seattle, married him under the name of Andrew Hilton, the officers said. October 6. 1917, at Port Town send, Wash. Property of hers, va rious papers. her will and other "marriagej' license, they declared, were found in Hurts possession. Elizabeth Pryor was waitress of Wallace. Idaho. and Spokane, Wash l She married Huirt, according to the officers. under the name of Miltor Lewis at Couer D'Alene, Idaho, Marcf 25, 1919. She had little property ] Her picture and some tax receipts 1T her name were among Hurts eff fects when he was arrested, they ad i ded.
 ! More than 25 marriages have beer attributed by the officers to Huirt Seven are listed by the officers al missing. They include beside thu four named in the alleged comics l sion, Mrs. Gertrude Wilson, Seat tic; Beatrice M. Andrews of Can ada and England, and Agnes Will son, Alberta, Canada.
 He said the death of the Goodricl woman came about in this way:
 He was on launch with her ol Lake Washington. The water wa rough and she fell overheard in try ing to go from the stern to the cen ter. Later on. the officers, Huir
 himself referred to this death as |"
 murder"
 E In the Pryor case, the officers sai
 he asserted the woman attacked hir with hat pin in a house at Plur and he. to defend himself showed hel she fell and struck the corner of
 box. He said he thought she wa dead, but to make sure he secure hammer and struck her on tn
 head.
 The Delonev woman, he was quote
 as saying: He killed her at cam they made near Signal Hill, at tn edge of Long Beach. Cal, Jan. 26 las That was the day they had left tn Santa Monica hotel in an automobil
 equipped with camping outfit. | At their first camp, he was quote
 as saying. they quarreled abou
 letters he had received from othe women.
 He added, the officers said, tha he killed her with hammer an
 carried her body to a place near Sa Diego, where he hid it. Hazy on Details. Throughout his statement whic was given at intervals over 8 perio of nearly four hours, from o'cloc
 to nearly midnight, he was hazy as
 details.
 Some of the staying were the It
 suits of violent quarrels, they quote him as Swing.
 He said, they declared, he ha
 killed some women who 'had Il money"
 "Something just told me~to do it.
 he was quoted.
 He told him he obtained certai
 satisfaction in the very act of mul
 der, the officers said. and exporter ced a sense of relief that the woma in each case was dead. Attorney Marmaduke, representa- Huirt, stated at the conclusion c
 the alleged confession that it ha
 been given to the district attorne
 'in the best interests of his client
 Planned Mexican Trip. Louisville, Ky, April 30.-Nina Le |, Deloney has been identified by rels tives as former resident of Hodger