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Show HKR SILLED it 1 lUWp AX Demented Man Confesses to Murder of Aged Prospector. BOVX.PER. Coio., Aug. 7. Oeorfte ! Spencer is dead at Spr'.r-e Gulch, near Ward. Colo., and Arthur Taecart is in Jail here, the cor.feEsel slayer of the 62-year-old prospector, in one of the most peculiar muriers ever bro :eht to the at- j tent Ion of io. a: sheriff'? officers. Tartar: walked Into the sheriff's office j iast n.cht and told Deputy W-.lham Stretcher. "I killed a rran at Wari. ar.i have corne to give myself up." lie said the man's name was i-pence. i Inquirv at Ward brought the statement ; from Strs. Iuei a G:bU-n. the pos'rris-trc-s. th.: G oriie Spencer undautecily u the man 'ihwvart nioant and sae h.d seen h;m :n town last ni;':.t. Tc:art was locked up a insane, but mor.th-s aco. Pr-er.cer hai " :r.c in the vlcmitv of T"irc year?. Shert Robert Leslie Keiso have fior.e :o V.'ir; t te. Ward officers continued t heir inve-t:f a-t:o!i a-t:o!i today and fou"d Spencer's txdy in his cabin near the h,:.os n;ir.e. SvC' yaais frvm T .i -r w: a r t " s cabin. Spencer's head had be-;n sr'.lt oren w'.Th, an ax. Tactjxir ; sai i h,e comni : : te I the murder early yesterday niorrdr.gr and waked the twenty-two miles from Ward to surrender. "I hae either had a drcm or I have killed someone." he said when Informed early to-lay that Sr-' T.'er was ft en ia-t ntcht ftllvo, He ha.s not been informed that S p e n c t r " Lkv1 y has been f o u : . d . Sheriff's ofricers sa- Taccar; is demented de-mented nr.d that the confessed slayer insists in-sists spirits haunted th.e mi nine recicn wiu re the two men had their cahins. Tasuart lived in lVnver until two |