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Show IEF 11 IS SPENCER ISJLSIPIEB stic Tales of Fiendish fers Told by Slayer of rs. Rexroat Due to Imagination. VLS COME FROM NUMBER OF CITIES dition to the Dancing her, Only One Other :tim Can Be Traced to Prisoner. IGO, Oct. G. Of the nineteen Henry Spencer, slayer of Mrs. Allison Rexroat , sworo he had ;d, tho police, after investi-is investi-is alleged crimes in various ero able tonight, to fix upon ono murder or possibly two. ii Halpin, chief of tho detcc-cau, detcc-cau, announced his conviction j ncer, in giving his long, cir-ial cir-ial confession of fiendish as a consummate falsifier, f tho murders ho says ho com-rere com-rere perpetrated while Spencer ho Illinois state ponitcntiary t. Of twelve of the alleged the police in this and other vc no record. n ono case- do-)y do-)y Spencor police records show Dily was recovered, but tho de-have de-have as yet established no con-ictwocn con-ictwocn Spencer and tho crime, pt for possibly two murdors, s weird story of killing people icring in their skulls and sinlc-r sinlc-r bodies in lakes seems pure on," said Captain Halpin to-"Jlis to-"Jlis imagination, stimulated 3, poured out one of tho most talcs of murder thai, has over mi a man whose mind is given is of crime." m Victims, u Halpin declared tonight that lomplcte proof that Spencer 1 ilrs. Rexroat, and was al-lally al-lally confident that ho mur-Krs, mur-Krs, Annabel Wight. Mrs. house was robbed December 4, 1 she was beaten so badly that. in the county hospital July "13, oily of Ida Oliver, recovered ! drainage canal May 20, 1912, respond to the foreign woman icnccr said ho lured along tho 1 killed after robbing hor. sr was in the penitentiary! Hceincn Pennell and Devino led August 11, 1002. He also irison in IflOS when Fannio u was killed, and when Era-Gbcbucy Era-Gbcbucy was killod iu Soptem-cords Soptem-cords could be found hero of man, alleged to have been ' Jackson Park Inst spriug, or onian he snid he killed at Ful-Halstcad Ful-Halstcad streets eight mouths 'f a snluon keeper on the west ite Identification, etc identification of Spencer as leror of Mrs. Jtoxroat camo vcral different sources today, lcatst two sections of his con-Worring con-Worring to tho holdups and h woro confirmed by visitors live headquarters. 18 were received today from po-Jontiotf po-Jontiotf in other cities from pcucor boasted that manv of cs had been committed. 0. A. 1 ot Whcalon. 111., identified is tho man wlio had riddon "5. Rexroat on tho seat behind ' Chicago to Wayne, HI., on tho ;9. Rexroat was murdered. 5 vpico was identified as tho I voice that had called up Mjs. h Mrs. Rexroat 's landladv, 5f?h her had mndo tho ongagc-'t ongagc-'t led the dancing teacher to in IJjUpiu asserted that he prob-L'l'd prob-L'l'd lie able to nrovo that tho $4Ktr uV' wuJit was tho work of 'JmmV?J nlt,,0Kh thoro was a dincrep-JCKm..11 dincrep-JCKm..11 "'onth in the date mentioned ljVKni ?r.rs.ns !no limo thut he killed )fiJHtn Police record of the at-pmn at-pmn llcr- 'jjRta Murder. iW'tTiM8)0" Sponccr 'oscribod !jlHfMho ,altl"ntt0ofInuary,,, ho jtWmWrLri PrwHK around Do Kalb JlJBV11, streets about noon whon T ,i$SBfS,Pn ,n tho window, 'Rooms for fifBmm-x 1WoI,t an,1 not a woman MKkT t00k, upstairs and showed VSBffiv?m ,tl,at vacant. ViBw tak n,1tlnl ndllloii. I told her I tKBy w,Ve orn and would be back. SSMMin&L n WnJ,tn'rs 1 etruck her with 3Bta5ln'" rln"1 aud a nlby rhlh' fljBSSjLP1801' "wncr of a saloon which MK QMnaod on Pago Two.) CHIEF 1P1 DDES IT BELIEVE STORY (Continued from Pago One.) Spencer said he had robbed, confirmed that part of the confession today, as did Leo Baselupos. owner of a downtown restaurant, res-taurant, who was held up and robbed. Killing of Mrs. Rexroat. In describing his murder of Mrs. Rexroat. Rex-roat. Spencer said he met her last May. a few days after she had been divorced from Allison. He said he lured her. to Wayne, where he killed her, by tolling her he had a dancing class for her to Instruct out there. "In the afternoon I went out to Wayne and looked over the ground," said Spencer. Spen-cer. "I took along a hammer and placed it beside a telephone pole, where It was subsequently found. Returning to Chicago, Chi-cago, I called up Mrs. Rexroat, told her to meet me at G o'clock. She met me. She had a suitcase with her and we talked a little while In the depot, while waiting wait-ing for the 6:30 train. "I was talking to her about getting married. I told her 1 had a farm out there and that my father left mo pretty well to do. Body Fell on Track. "When we got off the car at Wayne, wo waited until the others passed by and then walked along the road until we got to the track. I told her we were going along the track because that led to the entrance to the farm. Then I turned around and pulled the gun out and shot her. We had not quarreled, only she was trying to work me as she had Rexroat. Rex-roat. She just fell over the track, where she was run over. I took the ring off her hand and her suitcase and then walked back the same way to the depot." On the way back to Chicago, Spencer said, he opened tho suitcase and threw the contonts out of the car window. State's Attorney Charles W. Hadley and Sheriff A. A. Kuhn of Dupage county, coun-ty, in which the Rexroat murder was committed, demanded today that Spencer be turned over to them for trial. Captain Cap-tain Halpin would not surrender the man. however, and said that he would hold him at least until he hud checked up completely on all the killings Spencer had boasted of committing in Chicago. Spencer was subjected to a long examination ex-amination today and toward night showed signs of exhaustion. He was returned re-turned to his cell and it was said he would be allowed to rest all night without with-out Interruption. Police surgeons are watching the man to ascertain to what extent, If any. drugs or congenital Influences Influ-ences have affected his mind. |
