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Show Mail Order Romeo Who Slew Five Is Sane, Says Expert;! Creek Is Dragged For Additional Addi-tional Bodies; Insanity-Defense Insanity-Defense Likely. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Aug. 31 a:.H The insanity defense, for which police claim Harry F. Powers, Pow-ers, matrimonial agent accused of slaying two women and three children, chil-dren, and his counsel were preparing, prepar-ing, was believed shattered with a noted psychiatrist's announcement today that Powers "knew right from wrong." Search For Bodies As the state prepared to bring the former soldier and ex-salesman to trial for the quintet of killings, belief grew stronger that at least one more body lay at the bottom of a well 30 feet from the garage where the others were believed "executed" "ex-ecuted" on an improvised gallows. Powers admitted today, police said, that the fifth victim, whose body was recovered Saturday night, was Mrs. Dorothy Pressler L'emke, 45, Worcester, Mass. The other victims were Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher and her three children, Gretna, 14; Harry, 12, and Anabel, 9. Elk Creek, which flows near the garage, was being dragged in search for bodies of others of the 115 women who police said were infatuated in-fatuated with the pudgy but dapper mail order Romeo. I CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Aug.1 Zl iU.r.) Mrs. Bluebeard furnished the money to build the slaughterhouse slaughter-house where her husband says he killed five persons. It cost $70G, which the wife of' Harry F. Powers, alias Cornelius C. Pierson, earned in a little store she and her unmarried sister, Belle Strother, inherited from their mother. The store is next to the house where Powers lived with his wife and sister-in-law. They have run it for 20 years. At home in her small frame house, Mrs. Powers told a story of wifely devotion in their life to-'r get her. "I love him.' 'she mourned. "lie ' was good and kind to me. I love him from the bottom of my heart."! 1 15 Nihv Letters 1 1 Fifteen new letters from matri-monial matri-monial prospects have been col-. lected from his lock box at the pos toff ice since his arrest Thurs-:, day. r One of the most pathetic exhibits, ' is the last letter he received from'' the woman who apparently had ' been niarked as his next victim Bessie Storrs, Olcan, N. Y., whomj' : he was to go to see next Friday.. : This letter, dated Aug. 24, raved' 1 on for eight pages about the Jiappi-: ' ness of the writer because "they ' !; soon would be together." i H ' |
