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Show SPENCER TELLS OF MORECRIMES Forged Checks in Many Cities Killed Negro With a Hammer. Chicago. Oct 14 Henry Spencer,! who ha confessed to a score of mur- ; I ders, today added the ndmission of' j another killing to his long list in Chicago, St Louis and other citie.v Spencer was asked if he had ever knied a negro. He rcplieil Yes I angej one on the head with a hammer in an alley hack of a saloon at South Statp and WoM Polk streets n couple of years ago." The prisoner told the police that in robbing a house he always looked 1 foi a bank or check book as he retarded re-tarded them as valuable assets in his j line of buslnesr. "I used to cash a lot of checks.' he j snln "I would go into the best store in town, make a small purchase and give one of thesp checks in payment and pocket the change 1 cashed I lot of these checks in Chicago, St. I Louis and other cities ' |