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Show ! Activities in Canada and Pa-! Pa-! cific Coast After Three Marriages in East. j LOS ANGELES, Cal.. May 11. ! James P. Watson, under life sentence jfor the murder of his wife, Nina Lee Delonoy. who has confessed the murder mur-der of nino of his wives, is expected,1 it was said today, to begin serving hi3 sentence after Saturday. Watson, in I confessing to having killed the ninth !wlfe also related to tho district attorney at-torney his early life In the mlddlo west. He said he was a son of John Gil-lam, Gil-lam, a farmer supposed to be living now near Paris, Kan. Ho said he had been christened Joseph, but the first name ho could remember being called was Dan Holden. He explained his father and mother separated and ho took the name of the man his mother later married. lie Runs Away Watson or Holden declared he ran away from home when his mother forbade him to go to Sunday school. He worked on farms at Sarcoxle and .Monet, Kan., at Verona, Exeter and I Neosho, Mo., and Eureka Springs, Ark. I Ho told the 'district attorney he traveled with a , medicine show and later obtained a position with a mercantile mer-cantile agency in Chicago. Ho began a mercantile agency of his own and took tho namo of his father, John Glllam. Using this napie ho was married mar-ried for tho first time, he said, about seventeen years ago to Marie Hol-llngsworth Hol-llngsworth of Coffcyvllle, Kan. The marriage was unhappy and they were divorced. Ho traveled 'through Texas, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, Colorado, Kansas and Mlsaoull for a St. Louis stain p and seal company, com-pany, marrying Olive Groenleo and then divorcing her. Ho then married Alice Freeman of St. Louis at Alton, 111. While conducting a mail ordor business he wa3 indicted but boforo he could be arrested ho 'yrcnX to Canada, he said. It was in Mooscjaw, Canada, he said, he took the name of Watson In 1912 and since then his activities Wore confined to western Canada and the"1 Pacific coast states. jj"jjj |