ANOTHER BLUE BEARD

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11470, 26 October 1931, Page 4

ANOTHER BLUE BEARD

FIVE VICTIMS

NEW YORK, Sept. 3,

; Five victims now lie to the account of Harry Powers, the racketeer, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, wbo has confessed to the crimes.

In th® place whore Mrs. Asta, Richer and . her three children were found buried the police hav© discovered the body of another woman. When informed of hor discovery Powers said: "Sho is a Chicago woman, • but I don't know her name* That is the last one; there are no more out there..’’

As - angry crowds .gathered outside the , gaol ylamourincr for his death, the marriage broker cried: "Put me in a safe cell.” . Powers said he took - his victims to the basement of his garage, which had two dark rooms. He locked the women in one arid the children In the other l and loft them for days. Then, he strangled them. "I had read stories of. French and German 'Bluebeard/ ” be said, "and : decided 40 pattern my life on theirs,” / In advertisement. letters he * sent out, Powers., described himself as: "Civil engineer, college education, worth £30,00(1 or more, with income up to £6OO a month.” "Women' are the sweetest, purest, and 1 most unselfish part of 'the human race,” *he would rhapsodise. "They sing a • melody. of human life.”