AMERICAN "BLUEBEARD"
CONFESSES TO KILLING FOUR . • , • . WIVES.', (Eec. May 2, 5,5 p.m.) . ''. • New York, April 30. "Bluebeard" H'.iirt has confessed to killing four of his proved sixteen wives. The list of marriages will probably rim' beyond thirty, 'He informed tho police that ho killed two women with a. hammer and knocked two others overboard from a rowing boat. He married each: woman under a different alias . and made a..speciality of widows with estates from their previous husbands. He maintained correspondence with the deceased wives' relatives by typewritten letters, "but when he wished them to diYfcppear from the ken of their relatives ho closed the correspondence, announcing: the eve of- a doparture for Honolulu or Australia.—Eeuter., [A message, published a few days ago stated that Huirt was in hospital in a serious condition as the result of two attempts to commit suicide.]
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 186, 3 May 1920, Page 5
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141AMERICAN "BLUEBEARD" Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 186, 3 May 1920, Page 5
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