NEW YORK BLUEBEAED
FOUR MURDERS CONFESSED. OVER THIRTY “MARRIAGES.” (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian ami N-Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, April 30. (Received May 2, 5.5 pan.) The Bluebeard Huirt has confessed to killing four of his proved sixteen wives. The list of his marriages will probably run beyond thirty. lie informed the police he killed two women wu'ih a hammer, and knocked two others overboard from a rowing bout. He married each woman under a different alias, and made a speciality of ..widows with estates from previous husbands. He maintained correspondence with hia deceased “wives’ ” relatives by typewritten letters, but when he wished them to disappear from the ken of their relatives he closed the correspondence, announcing the eve of their departure for Honolulu or Australia.
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Southland Times, Issue 18811, 3 May 1920, Page 5
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