The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-31

CTS, wholesale murderer, convinced police today that as least iib wo- men had become susceptible to tho mnil-orsler matrimonial agents let- ter-wrlting charms. and that some of them may have suffered tho same fate as Mrs Asta Richer. her three children, and Mrs Dorothy Lemke.
 Meanwhile a suggested insanity defense which police believed Pow CTS was attempting to build up. was unofflcially shattered today by the report of q psychiatrist who exam ined the prisoner and found him "capable of knowing right from wrong"
 pr Edwin F. Mayer, university of Plttsburg allenists, who served in the Harry K. Thaw case. inter- viewed Powers at length, and at the conclusion of his organization said he found the man Ion the border line of insanity" but still capable of distinguishing the diff ference between rightful and wrongful actions.
 Powers refused to discuss the five slayings to which he already has confessed, Dr Mayer said, but was not reluctant to talk of other matters not related to the actual killing.
 Powers admitted today, police said, that the fifth victim, whose body was recovered Saturday night, vas Mrs Dorothy A. Pressler Lem ke, 45, Worcester, Mass. The other victims were Mrs Asta Buick Richer and her three children Greta, 14, Harry. 12. and Anabel, l9.
 Mrs Lcmke Drew Money. Worcester, Mass, Aug 31--(UP) Mfrs Dorothy A. Pressler Lemke withdrew $1,533.01 from Wor- cester Mechanics Savings Bank July 28-the day she left North boro with Harry Y. Powers to be "married'-bank officials announce ed today.
 ke's total deposits in the institu- ton.
 Charles Fleming of Northboro. estimated her savings must have totaled between 5000 and $8.000. Mrs Lemke, estranged wife of Albert Lemke of St Paul, MInn., whom she married In 1914 follow | ing c mall -ordcr courtship. was employed at the North Uxbridge estate of James Whitin, wealthy mill man, before leaving with Powers for his Iowa farm" last month.
 Twice this month her sister. Mrs Gertchen Pressler Fleming, received letters purporting to come from Mrs Lemke. The first said her romance with Powers, known to her as Cornelius o. Pierson, was disrupted. The second said she had secured employment as n ladys companion and was going on Hong" trip to Europe. China and other countries. Fleming doubted that Mrs Lemke actually wrote the letters.
 Powers Wrote to Woman Chicago, August 3l -- (UP) - Harry F. Powers wrote to Greta Richer, one of the five victims he confessed murdering, that she was q "sweet and darling" and that he would be proud to have her as his own little girl.
 The letter, written in Clarks- burg, W. Va. May l, was added to- day to tho Park Ridge police head quarters list of correspondence found in the abandoned Eicher home. It was signed c. o. Pier son, the alias Powers then was using. The letter follows: You do not mind for mo to ad- | dress you by your given name You see, your mother has told me so many lovely things about you that 1t would seem So distant for me to be calling you by the formal title of Miss Eicher - and then we are not strangers, arc we dear
 "Your mother always has sc many lovely things to tell me about you - what you do and how well you are getting along IT school - that really, dear, just
 know that you arc n sweet anc darling little girl, and I love you dear, because I believe you are al
 that your mother tells me you are
 1T would be very glad to have you as my own girl. Tell mo -- would you like to have mo as youi daddy -- you could then have evei so many lovely things and we could I uuNc iOtb oA iuu tobSs'N' "~"'' we. dcar?.
 "Will you send me copy ol your grades at school and alst your schedule? I am very anxiou, to see how well you are doing nnd
 by your schedule I would know exactly what you are doing at any timo during school hours - ant
 write me, dear. today sometime | With love-"