Show iE EOS J 51 PlOT LT rrt MA rt Y DAY ASSASSIN PAT A l BADES A LOft lifE Of HIME Admits Killing 4 vV Wives ves of 28 Wedded Cant Can't arit jE Remember Remembert All Tells L Location of f Gra Graves v S ANGELES ANGELES Ca Cal Cal April CO- CO Charles Newton Harvey bluebeard murderer of four foul wives according to to his own confession will wilt plead guilty to first degree murder it was officially announced today Accompanying the guilty plea of th thi arch murderer will be the recommendation elation dation of the district attorney that sentence b be placed at t life imprison imprison- ment Chief Deputy District Attorney W. W C C. Dot Doran an made the foregoing statement Confession confession confes following Harveys Harvey's amazing sion sion of four murders T L. L OS ANGELES April 30 30 1 Lj j Sheriffs and other authorities authorities ties tie h here heie re me ai are digging ing with picks and shovels today at a point be- be tV San Di Diego Digo go and Iid Borego valley yaney In an effort to q o unearth t the 1 body of Nina Lee DeJ Deloney ney of San Fr Francisco Franciso n named med by Ch Charles CharlesN rleS' rleS N Harvey Harvey Haryey Har Har- multi vey alleged eged and murderer In In Ina a c complete confes e eh en h he is said to have made late lathurs Thursday Thurs Thurs- day night ff ADMITS ADMITS' FOUR S. S Harvey Is declared to have confessed con essed that he the Deloney girl girland girland girland and buried the body at the point he designated Harvey Harve Harver Sr r Richard Bichard as he was also known th the Bluebeard said to hayend ha less Jess than twenty eight wives I aK ll ln r o declared In his confession that he t had murdered three more of th them m Two he beat to death deat with hammer hammers according to his statement while two were were drowned while boating with him CANT CAN'T REMEMBER ALL He admitted that there may be more women on his murder list that he can not remember The three victims victims named he named in ad addition addition ad- ad to the Deloney girl s-Irl were Bertha Bettha Bet Ber tha A A. of lot Seattle Alice AIIce M M. Ludvigson o of Spokane Wash and Betty Prior Prior- of Seattle SeattIe He gave details of each crime Th The authorities believe that he murdered at least others of his wives DELONEY DEATH Nina Lee Del Deloney ney whose home waat was wa wasat afat at Eureka 1 Mont married ch the hI officers said under the name pf pt Charles Chares N N. Harvey at San Francisco I December 5 1919 She Shet was last seen at a hotel at Santa Monica Cal Cal Jan Jan- luary 26 19 1920 O. O She had head prop property valued valued val val- u d at 2000 Some of it was found in lit HU possession the officers de declared de- de BERTHA A. A Bertha A A. of of Spokane Wash married they said URd under UR- UR un Un- d der r the name of H HL Ii Gordon June 11 1919 at t North Korth orth Yakima Wash Her HerI b body bod dy- dy was found near Plum Station Wash F a short time afterwards Trun Trunks 8 belonging to her were wern located in a Vancouver Wash warehouse ALICE ALICEM M. M LUDVIGSON A Alice Aice M M. L Ludvigson whose hon home was in In S Seattle married him under the he name of br Andrew Hilton the officers officers' rs said October 6 6 1 1917 17 at Port To h send Wash sh Property of n hers rs various vanous papers apers her will and their marriage lI license ese th they y declared were found In possession I I BETTY PRYOR Betty Pr Pryor Pryo ot was a waitress w of or W Wal Wallace lI lI l- l I I lace lae lape Idaho and Spokane Wash She ac according to to the officers off oUi- 1 f cers rs under the name of ot Milton 1 f rewis ewis at Coeur d Alene dAlene dAlene Idaho March 1919 She had bad a little property H Hai I picture and some ta ta receipts In lit he her he- n name me w were re among s err effects when he was arrested they added Se Senen Sten en of or Huitt's wives are 1 seu seuI I I by the the officers as missing The They in include in- in elude dude beside the Hie four named in tJ c i a- a confession Mrs Irs Gertrude U Wi- Wi 1 1 MI n eaUl Sattl Beatrice M M. Andrews of or Canada and England and and Agnes Asnes Willson Wilson Wilson Wil Will son t of if f Albert Canada FI FIRST ST TO DIE The first to die according to the alleged confession was Miss Ludvigson Ludvig Ludvig- son was quoted quote as saying he ha was Avas In a boat with her fishing in a river iver in in- Idaho HIs memory wa was wag weak as to the exact time and location loca loca- tion The boat he stated Jammed against logs which were lashed to the bank of the river and he and Miss Ludvigson shoved shored with their arms arm to lo free tree the raft When they broke away Continued on page 10 I BLUEBEARD rV J J Continued from page 1 1 he narrated ted the woman lost lost her balance balance bal bal- ance ance and fell ell Into the river and was was' drowned DROWNED IN LAKE He lie sa the death of the woman woman came caine about in this way He was on a launch with her on Lake Washington Th The water was rough and she fell overboard In tryIng tryIng try try- Ing to go from the stern to the center Later on th the officers said himself referred to tp this death as a murder In In the Jr or case the officers said he asserted the woman attacked him with a hat pin In a house at Plum 1 and arid he tOI to defend himself shoved her so violently that she fell and struck her 1 head ead against the corner comer of a box I He He believed she was dead he be was said to have declared but to make certain he got a hammer a and nd struck her on the head with It it AT CALIFORNIA NIA CAMP The DeLoney woman he was quoted as saying he killed at a camp they made near Signal Hill at the edge of Long Beach Cal January 26 last That was the day they had left the Santa Monica hotel in an automobile equipped with a camping outfit At their first camp he was quoted as saying they quarreled about letters letters' he lle had received from other ther women He lie add added d the officers said that he killed her with a hammer and car car- carrl car carried rl red ried d her b body dy to to a II place near SanDl San SanDl Dl go where he hid It ft The officers said told them he lle did not know his right name but admitted having used m many ny aliases He said he knew nothing of his 1115 parents but did know he was born somewhere in the South He said he had little education education DESIRE TO KILLA KILLA KILL KILL i iA A desire to kill came over him i iI I acc according to the alleged allege confession i I about four years ago during the war r I He said be lie married first in Canada about that time but had been married mar mar married ried so often otten since that he co could ld n not t I remember names places and dates Throughout his his his' statement which was given at intervals over a period of at nearly four hours from 8 o'clock to ne nearly midnight he was hazy as asto asto asto to details He admitted the the officers said that he had no direct motive In killing his victims Some Somer of ot the slayings were the results of ot vl violent ent quarrels they quoted him as saying He said they declared he had killed s some me women who wh had no money money Something just told me to do it he was quoted as saying GLAD THEY WERE DEAD He old them diem he he obtained a certain satisfaction in the v very ry act ct of ot murder murder murder mur mur- der the officers say and expressed a sense sense of relief that the woman in each case was was dead said he asserted he never nevet had hada a desire to kill men but on on the he contrary contrary contrary con con- was fond of persons of his own sex sex as well as of ot children arid I animals A Attorney torney Marmaduke representing stated d at atthe the the conclusion of ot the I alleged c confession that it h had d been given en to the district attorney in in the best interests of his client Bluebeard Harvey knows know s I today that he fac faces s death on the g gallows for the confessed murder of ot four of his wives Calling for the district at attorney attorney at- at torney toney today to give f further Information Information information tion of his crimes Harvey is said to have told hospital attendants that he Is ready to go goI go I I tried twice to kill myself he is I reported to h have v said so so I dont don't fight the extreme penalty for my my crimes But I must have been Insane I know now I was Insane when I did it District Attorney Wo is out of ot the and could not go to to Harvey Harvey Har Har- vey to receive add added d details detas' of his amazing confession baring the most stupendous wife murders murders' since the gruesome gruesome killings s. s of ot Johann Ho Hoch h of Chicago and rivaling the Bluebeard story for which Harvey alias Watson alias allas has been named LIST OF VICTIMS The list of his known victims follows follows fol tol- fol- fol lows Nina Lee Deloney of Eureka Mont I married to Charles N N. H Harvey December December De De- cember 5 5 1919 murdered Bertha Brtha A Av A. of pf Spokane married to H 11 L L. Gordon June 11 11 1919 murdered Alice M M. LUdvigson of ot Seattle married married married mar mar- ried to Andrew Hilton October 6 1917 murdered Elizabeth Prior of ot w Wallace Idaho married to Milton Lewis March 25 1919 m murdered G Gertrude Wilson n of ot Seattle married I to J 1 P P. Watson in 1917 I 1 Beatrice M M. M Andrewartha of England married Harry M l Lewis February 1919 Mrs H IL L L. Gordon of Winnipeg CanI Canada Canada Can Can- I ada adai married H L L. Gordon April 1 I 1919 1919 Katherine Kruse Kiuse of Nelson B B. C C. married James P P. Watson June 1918 I Mattie Mattle Irene Irene Root San San Francisco married H II L L. Gordon in 1919 Maude 1 E E. Goldensmith of Wallace Idaho married Charles Newt Newton n in January 1919 Mrs Mrs James Creamer of ot Spokane married Creamer October 1918 1913 Mrs l Minnie E E. Bellew of Chicago married Watson in 1919 Mrs 1 Elizabeth F. F Williamson Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento Sac Sac- married the man under the name of Lewis Mrs Kathryn of Seattle married him in 1919 and was was was' living with him in hi Hollywood and st started the which Investigation resulted in his his' ar ar- rest |