The Washington times., 1920-05-07
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know II he had slain any other
wives"
'If 1 recall any other names OF
missing women and know what hap
pened to them. I'll send for you At
once he said.
The entire proceedings OF indictink
Harvey taking him into court, re-
eeiving his plea OF guilty and return
ing him TO his cell--from which he
was subsequently removed to a hos
pital for mental examination-occu-
pied less than an hour.
The grand jury convened at 1880
a IN. Five minutes later District At
torney Wooiwine, Deputy District At
torney w, C. Doran, Under Sherins
Bell and couts. who arrested Harvey.
and Coroner's Clerk Aggeier. of San
Diego county, who took Haryey's
testimony at the inquest held over the
body of the slain woman. appeared In
the grand jury room. The confession
OF Harvey to the killing OF the WON
an. his admissions before the cor
onsr's jury. and the fact of the finding
and Identification OF the body were
quickly told the jury. A true bill
charging murder In the first degree
was voted by the nineteen men COM
posing the jury, was signed and re-
ported to the court.
Harvey, who was being held in
readiness In his cell. was brought into
court shortly after IL o'clock. He
wore a gray suit, a white shirt and no
collar. His face was unshaven and
ashy white. Presented at the bay OF
the court. he stood alone. supporting
himself on the railing Of the jury box.
He showed absolutely no emotion
while District Attorney Woolwine
read the indictment to him and passed
him . copy Of II.
Pleads Guilty.
ITO the Indictment. how do you
pleadY" asked the prosecutor.
The one word which doomed the
slayer to either q life term In the
penitentiary or to death op the gal
lows was uttered In . tone scarcely
above q whisper. and his plea had
to be relayed to Judge Willis and TO
the court reporter by his attorney. II
was in 30 faint q whisper II could not
be heard three feet away. In reality
his lips only shaped the word Guilty
Immediately Judge Willis fixed the
time for sentence and announced:
"As there seems to be some doubt as
to this mans sanity. will appoint
two physicians to examine him and
mediately returned to his cell.
When Harvey arrived at the hall OF
justice he faced q battery Of news
paper photographers. He protested
hotly to his attorney against his pic
ture being taken. Mrs. Elizabeth
Williamson. one of his many wives,
looked at him from a window OF tho
sheriffs office rs he was taken into
court.
The appointment of physicians to
examine into Harvey's mental con-
dition was a surprise to the prosecu-
tion, and Woolwine announced he
would fight any attempt of the pris-
oner to escape the penitentiary on An
insanity plea. Harveys attorney re-
piled that the bigamist-slayer Is con-
tent with life imprisonment.
THE plea is guilty" he said land
no effort will be made at this time
to plead insanity. I have been ad-
vised by experts that Harvey Is in
sane, but prefer that he be first sent
to prison and the question of his san
ity determined later"
! without Emotion.
Harvey. in a statement made after
his plea. said:
There are obvious reasons why
desire to be found guilty of murder
in Los Angeles county. l do not
want to go back to Washington.
could never live through that ordeal
Capital punishment is in effect
there now and l might never live to
stand trial. People are more prim.
tive there. California penitentiaries
are run better anyway.
However, / am not emotional
When I have done things, doneaway
with the women, ] can't seem to stir
any sort of emotion concerning them
They just appear a matter of fact
I've tried and failed"