OCR Text |
Show HUH R EVEALS FIFTH MURDER IN CONFESSION Bigamist Held Prisoner At Los ! Angeles Makes Second ! Statement CHOKED WOMAN AND PUSHED FROM BOAT j Evidence of Marriage to St. Louis Girl Reported by Her Father. LOS ANGELES. Cal. May 3. In a second alleged confession, which officers of-ficers were checking today, Walter Andrew Watson, alias James R. Hulrt, admitted killing a woman he had married but whose name he could not remember, according to Thomas Lee Woolwlne, district attorney, who said tho "confession" was made to himi yesterday. This made five women the' man was declared to have admitted 3laying. The district attorney said Watson! toll him lie had nVarrJe.d .the woman T Jn TcpmavlVnshiaiidtVjat he Choked j ' j her and pushed her" overboard, while ', I they were boating on Lake Washing- ( ton, near Seattle. Ho was quoted as saying he then rowed ashore leaving the woman's body in the water. Tells Nobody "Naturally I told no one about It," the distrldt attorney quoted him. Woolwlne said his Investigations ; I showed that Watson married Mrs.; Beatrice Andrcwuthn, a Canadian in 1 Tacoma on February 5, 1919, and that sho was said to be missing. Ho said he had advised Washington authorities authori-ties of Watson's statement. -Was In St. liouls ST. LOUIS. Mo.. May '2. Walter Andrew Watson, alias James Hulrt, operated a collection agency here about nine years ago under tho name of Lawrenco Harris and married a St. Louis girl, It was said tonight by C. E. Frecmon. of this city, father of the girl. Identification was established by ( a picture of Watson, he' said. Freemon said that his daughter ob- 1 tained a divorce after Harris became I involved in business difficulties and left the city. Nothing had been heard of him since that timo, Freemon said. 1 oo |