Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1920-05-07 | Page 8 | Watson Given Life Sentence

WATSON GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE Admits Murdering Nine Women, Yet Escapes Death Penalty. Los Angeles. A total of nine murders mur-ders of women he had married has been confessed by the man who, under un-der the name of James P. Watson, was sentenced on May 10 to life imprisonment im-prisonment for the murder of Xina Lee Peloney, according to Thomas Lee Woolwine, district attorney. . The alleged confessions, according to the district attorney, accounted for nil those missing among the twenty or more women the man was said to have married. In addition the man asserted his true name was Dan Ilolden, and that lie had been born of a "respectable" family in Arkansas, where he was reared. Like the original "Bluebeard," Watson, Wat-son, or Ilolden. took one wife too many and through her was turned over to the authorities. She was Mrs. Kath-ryn Kath-ryn Wombacher, formerly of Tacoma, Wash., whom he married last November Novem-ber in Seattle, under the name of Walter Andrews.