The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-05-14
: ..BI[UEBEARD" NOW
CONFESSES z MORE
AGNES WILSON, ALBERTA, AND
ONE WHOSE NAME HE HAS
FORGOTTEN.
DROWNED WIVES LIKE RATS
"Deep, Cold Water" Monster coolIy
I. Remarks, Seldom Gives Up
Dead-Complete List
of His Victims.

LOS ANGELES.-Twom more brutal
murders have been admitted by
James p. Watson, alias HURT, ETC.,
during a closely guarded conference
in the office of District Attorney
Woolwine. These two confessed
murders make a total of seven STAY
ings by Watson, who previously con-
fessed the murder of Nina Lee DeS
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
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 a Ratchet
and smothered in a blanket.
Elizabeth Prior of Spokane, skull
crushed with a sledge hammer
Alice M. Ludvigson of Walla Walla,
drowned in st. Joe, Idaho.
Bertha Goodnich of Spokane, drown
ed in Lake Washington.
Agnes Wilson of Alberta, Canada,
| q 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 were found when death had
taken place in deep, cold water
Officials were said to incline to the
belief that the one whose name he
could not remember" was either
Mrs. Gertrude Wilson, Mrs. Emily
only as Eleanor"
Mrs. Gertrude Wilson was a widow
with young son when, in 1917, al
Seattle, Watson was said to have
murdered her, using the name of
P. Watson. He left her and the boy
on a farm in the Hood canal region
in July, 1917, but later had them joiI
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 thu
Spokane river, near Spokane, be
lieved by the murderer to have beef
carried over the falls and crushed OF
the rocks below.
Marie Austin of Calgary, heater
with rock and drowned in LAX,
Occur d'Alene.
Mrs. M. Watt, box 1893, Winnipeg
Canada, drowned in Lake Coeu
d'Alene.
l
Tells His Life. Story.
| In telling his history to the dis
trict attorney, the modern blue
beard" said he was the son of Johl
Gillian, a farmer, supposed to be liv
ing now near Paris, Kan. He sal,
he believed he had been christene
Joseph, but the first name he coul
remember being called with Dan Ho
den. He explained his father an
mother separated and he took tn
name of the man his mother late
married.
Il A tota lof nine murders of hi
J wives had been confessed by tn
man who, under the name of Jane
P. Watson, was sentenced recent
to serve life term in San Quenti
, prison for the Staying of Nina LIE
/ Deloney.
II Three of the alleged wife murder
: became known Monday. They wer
the Staying of Mrs. w. A.. Wat
Winnipeg, Canada, and Marie Austi
and Eleanor Fraser, both of Calgar,
Alberta, Canada. The first two wer
, drowned in Lake Occur d'Alene, Id,
, no, and the latter in the Spokan
, river at Spokane, it was said.