THE AMERICAN BLUEBEARD.
CONFESSES TO MURDERS. sentenceiTfor LIFE. New York, May 10. Bluebeard Huirt was sentenced to imprisonment for life for murdering his wives. Under an arrangement with the police that they would not ask for his execution if he confessed, Huirt admitted that besides seven correct wives he killed several others of the twentysix he married and who are now missing. The police testified that it would have been impossible to convict him of murder if Huirt had declined to confess. The judge in sentencing him declared that he was the most heinous criminal in history.—(Reuter.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 126, 12 May 1920, Page 5
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