MODERN BLUEBEARD.
GAOLED FOR LIFE. “MOST HEINOUS CRIME IN HISTORY.” (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams .) NEW YORK, Tuesday. Huirt, the modern “Bluebeard,” was sentenced to imprisonment for life for murdering his wives. Under an* arrangement with tlie 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 twenty-six he married, and are now" missing. The police testified that it would have been impossible to convict him of murder if Huirt liad declined to confess. ' The judge, in sentencing him, declared that it was the most heinous crime in history*. (The latest “Bluebeard,” who w'ent under several names, specialised in weddings and murders. Several of the brides are missing, and it is supposed that they* were murdered for the sake of their insurance, which was apparently “Bluebeard’s” speciality*. He operated in most of the .big American and Canadian cities, and the wives soldom saw him after the honeymoon. On two occasions Huirt attempted to take his own life.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14118, 12 May 1920, Page 5
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172MODERN BLUEBEARD. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14118, 12 May 1920, Page 5
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