OCR Text |
Show SPENCER ADDS j i TO CRIME EIST j Claims Distinction as Gliou) Obtains Body By Ruse Steals Valuables. Chicago, Oct Vi Harry Spencer having practically convinced the po- i lice that he Is at leas: uince a murderer, mur-derer, and the perpetrator oi Innumerable Innum-erable robberies. Halmd added distinction dis-tinction as a ghoul today He said that at the time of the ' 1 Iroquois theatre fire In Chicago, iu which 600 Uvea were lost, he was among the first on the scene and assisted as-sisted in carrying bodies from the I place Ono woman whom he bore out was richly gowned, but burned beyond I recognition. atcntulness of the police po-lice prevented him from robbing th bddy at the time but that night, probably prob-ably the most profoundly sad in t!if city's history, he obtained a woman accomplice, vent to one of the numerous nu-merous temporary morgues and 'identified" 'iden-tified" the body as that of the accomplice's accom-plice's sister. ' Nellie Skarupa. " Ska-niia Ska-niia being one of the aliases of Spencer Spen-cer I By this ruse they obtained possession posses-sion oi the body and had It buried W'c get $1500 worth of jewelry and $1100 In ca9h off her." said Spencer. "I guess she's still buried uuder that name ' |