The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-05-14
MARRIED. Is WOMEN.
esnfesses Four And Says He May
Nave Forgotten Some Others.

s.Bluebeard" Harvey knows that ne
faces death on the gaIlows for the
confessed murder OF four Of his wives.
Calling for the district attorney again
to "give further information Of his
crimes" Harvey is said to have told
hospital attendants that he is ready
TO 60"
Il tried twice to kill myself, SO I
don't fear the extreme penalty for
my confessed crimes. But ! must have
been insane. know now was insane
when did It."
He admitted that he had married
Is women altogether, probably more.
Nine Lee Deloney, whose early
homes were in Montana and Ken
lucky, and Betty Prior, OF Seattle,
were cruelty beaten to death with q
heavy hammer and their bodies
burned, Harvey said In his confess
sion. The latter's body was found
near Plum Station, Olympia, Wash,
recently and positively identified as
enc Of Harvey's numerous wives"
It was said that 1t was the identifi-
cation and the attendant charge
brought against him of murder by
the Washington authorities that
finally brought about his break"
and astounding recital of crime.
Bertha Goodnick and Alice NJ. Lud-
vigson both met death by drowning.
The Goodnick woman fell out Of a
small boat into Lake Washington
when she and Harvey were boating
together, ne said, and he made no eff
fort to save her, but sped away,
leaving her to death.
Alice Ludvigson was drowned in a
river, somewhere In Idaho" Harvey
could not remember exactly where, he
declared. They had been rowing
when the boat became damned in
some logs. He was pushing with his
ears and she with her hands when
she suddenly lost her balance and top
pied into the rapids. He made no eff
fort to save her, but rowed away
hastily
The trail of Harvey was first picked
up in Massachusetts where he began
his operations Is years ago, and end
ed at Los Angeles, where after two
attempts at suicide, he made his re
markabIe confession from a bed in
the county hospital.
One curious characteristic noted
among Harvey's wives still living is
that but few of them are resentful-
toward him. Many of them believes
he loves them still, and several came
here to condole him following his ar
rest.
OF his early life Harvey recalled lit
tie. according to his confession. He
was born in Tennessee or Texas, he
believed.
When too young to recall precisely
Ne was sent to an orphans home
"let out" to various farmers, cruelty
treated and, later in life, gravitated
to Canada, where he thinks, his first
marriage was made. But he is not
BEfe.
He contended that his desire to kill
was an insane blood lust" over
which he had no control, which devel-
Oped since the war His crimes were
committed in mental-blank periods,
and he himself in his confession said
that he may have committed other
murders which he does not recall,
Those who heard the confession be-
lieve "Bluebeard" Harvey has other
crimes to disclose, and that a con-
tinuation of the examination, which
was halted because the man was too
weak to continue, will likely develop
additional wife killings by the most
amazing murder and bigamist in
years.
Harvey's confession was without
promise of immunity of any kind,
the only stipulation being that he
should he tried in Los Angeles county
for the murder of Nina Lee Deloney.
Confronted with his own confession