SIXTEEN WIVES

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160641, 3 May 1920, Page 10

SIXTEEN WIVES

BLUEBEARD HUIRT’S CONFESSION

NEW YORE, May 1

Blubeard Huirt has confessed to killing four of his proved sixteen wives. The likb of marriages will probably run beyond thirty. He informed the 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 previous husbands. He maintained correspondence with _ deceased wives’ relatives by type-written letters, but when he wished them to disappear from the ken of relatives ho closed the correspondence by announcing that he was on the eve of departure for Honolulu or Australia.