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SATURDAY MORNING. ally mmes. hat issfsaisr it Watson Says the Wives He Killed BLUEBEARD CALMLY TELLS ff Were Usually the Poor Ones; Admits Few Lived Long. li i "Til ITli wife OF OF MURDER MARRIAGES. Providing county authorities, now searching, find th.

body of Nina Lee Deloney at the place Indicated by Watson, the multibig- 5 amist probably will be on hi. way to San Quentln by net Friday, It wftji Raid vesterdav tha T11 of AnMav' mn n. Says He Has Done Most of His Killing Since the War Started; Claims Chivalry Toward Women. 1 v-. uii.u.

yruuc dure probably will be as follows: i Indictment of Watson, the Bluebeard bigamist, on Monday by th. county grand Jury, Arraignment In th. Superior Court on a murder charge Tuesday, Entry of plea, which, it is understood, will be guilty of flrat-? degree murder, Wednesday. Pronouncement of sentence Thursday, the District Attorney rec hit i ommending life imprisonment. Watson will be taken to San court gives him life imprisonment.

Quentln. providing the as to have something to bold te. Little by little I worked it way up the Bide, whore the water runs over the Hand and leave, a level spot of sand, and I burled it there. I first left the car with everything covered up, up clone ax 1 could net it in this gulch, and walked up and found the place I thought would be all right to put It, aud then came back and got the body. I remember wait All these condition, presuppose that the body will be found, thus bearing out th.

confession of Watson. The body, It was said, must be found In order to prove the corpus delicti, or the body of the crime that la, that a crime was Committed. The confession In Itself would not etand. It was said. of th.

Parties I know are miaslngmy memory, it aoDear. as I have but sometimes I will believe I hav. don. a thing for soma time, and then It comes again that something tells mi that I didn't do a thing, but I am telling as I remember it. Farther than that I don't know what my motive could have been for taking Miss Goodnlck or Miss Ludvlgaon, for neither of them had any meana to speak of.

In fact. Mis. Goodnlck had a llttle.and I bought It for hsrjtfjd her she didn't need a chaperon. the Deloney woman? have been driving It around. I hav.

it her. In th. city. Tou mean the Sheriff ia In possession of It? Tes. Q.i Now, cant you fig your mind upon any other woman that you did away with CANT REMEMBER.

A-t 1 cannot now. I have oft-tlmea I. have said thia to myself: 1 hav. trouble remembering or figuring who I was. I don't remember the names of some of my most Intimate friends that I have been away, you might say, a year, whom I hava known for quite a while.

Now, can't, you fix your mind on some other woman that you have done away with, by remembering Incidents? I don't believe I can now. Of course, I am awful tired tonight. If I was to study a while, because at times my mind is Just a blank, and at night I will lay sometimes for hours, and often since I have been arrested, I find myself nfttlmes In a trance, and I imagine that I am not arrested, I am just dreaming I am under arrest, and I go on for hours that way. Now. can you recall in numbers how many women you have been married to? No.

I don't know. Sometimes I try to figure it out myself. It Isn't any number like they hnve glv. en out. thnt is certain.

Sometimes I figure so many and again I can't remember at all. Would you "eay It waa twenty? OR TWELVE." No. no; I should say not. I should say ten or twelve, something like that, I judge. Have you ever gotten a divorce from anybody? No.

1 have not I have no divorce from anybody. I don't know If anybody got a divorce fron me that I can remember of. Do you remember the first woman you ever married? The trouble of It is, owing to the blank in my life, I don't know whether I do or not. I think Catherine Wilson was the first. And where did you marry her? In- Canada.

Do you know where In Canada? It is somewhere in Central on mT acoount, but I did not kill 4ui or tnem. i warn to as a MR. Dorani Hera ara a few here. Ton read off there, and oftentimes I cant remember name, at all. MR.

Woolwlne: By what names were you known when you married Mra. Peloney? Charles Harvey. Charles NeTton Harvey? I helievo the license was to Charles- I am not At any rate, it was Charles Harvey Charles Harvey. IVov, whera did you marry Bertha Uerdnirk In Washington. 1 GOODNICK ACCIDENT.

rld you do away with her? Honestly I did not. We were in a boat on I-aJte Washington, and the engine stopped, one of these Uttla boats. A gasoline engine? Tes, that ha one of those little things fastened to the back of the boat, Evinrtide. Q. And what occured? Well, thore come up qute a squall, and the boat being good sized was, you might, say, almost Impossible to row against the waves, and she got scared, being In the opposite end, when the water splashed up over it and started to go down towards the center or more further, as she done so, she went over.

Was her body ever recov-red? Not that I know of. Well, you didn't kill h.r then, or drown her purposely? I did not, and I watch.d the papers and saw nothing of it, and I wa. afraid to report It, naturally, knowing that tender the circumstances I was supposed to be accused of murder. LUDVIGSON CASE. Did you marry Alice M.

Ludvlgaon? I did. Where did you marry her? At some little town, I forget the name, out frcja Seattle. Do you remomber about the time? I can't toll you. Do you remember the year? It was two or three years ago, such a mutter. I couldn't tell vou the month.

Did you make away with her? I did not. W. wer. In a boat on the fit. Joe River.

In what State? Idaho: and as you go down the river they have logs splashed so as to make a protection In carrying the logs ('own th. river to keep them from going Into the bank, or going into the still water, on the side, so they will drift on down. And we were fishing, and we came to a place where their logs didn't come together, leaving space enough for the boat, for us to go In the slult 3 side, and with the logs we couldn't use th. oars very well, and as wo went through the current under the log. twisted or cramped the boat and she pushed hard and was right in the rear end, and I took an oar and pushed over agalnat a log.

and when It broke loose, she w-a. overbalanced, pushing against the log, and she tried to relieve the boat from being cramped and she went under the current and I did my best to get her as she drifted down and I couldn't, being unable to swim at all: I was absolutely helplesa And ahe was drowned? A.t And she was drowned. Waa her body ever recovered? I do not know. Did you ever make any report -of that occurrence to the authorities? I did not, because something told me If I did I would bo held for the murder. Now, Isn't it possible you killed these two women you shav.

Just mentioned, the Goodnlck woman and the Ludvlgson woman, under those Impelling motives that you have heretofore told about here tonight, end not renllre It at this time? A.i It might be, but according to WATSON FOUND. Long Sought by Police, She is Silent When Located. Letter from Her Asks About Slain Woman's Property, Seven Year of Anciminn jeven lears oj Association with Bigamist Revealed. Mrs. Kathryn Kruse Watson, regarded by the authorities as the original and legal wife of Walter Andrew Watson, the confessed mul-tiblamlst and wife-murderer, waa located at Salem, Or, yesterday after Washington and California polio, had been In a quandary aa to her whereabout, for more than two weeks.

Though sh. had told th Chief of Folic there that sh was coming to Los Angeles and had been bunted here dally, uhe Is living In in the home of friends at Salem and declares she will not dime to Los Angeles unless aub- poenaed as a witness in the case, She absolutely declined to mak any statement to newspaper men. but various things said by the ifrienda with whom she is staying would indicate that Mrs. Watson has lived, with the man during all 'the seven years Bince their marriage, minus the time he necessarily de- to marrying some twenty or ment beyond admitting that her marriage to the man had been investigated by officers and had been found to be legal. Her friends, however, said that after her marriage seven years ago she and Watson continued to reside In various parts of Canada until last ChriatmaB, when they removed to Salem.

A few days later Mrs. Watson received a telegram saying hr father had died in the East. She left Immediately to attend the funeral. When she returned to Salem. Wateon had come to this city and It is believed she has not eeen him since.

She declined to answer when asked if Watson frequently wa. absent from his home In Canada. The joint bank account she had with Watson at San Diego, and on which she drew only two days before hla arrest here, was so small, her friends said, that" she will soon hav to seek employment In this con- nectlon. it Is recalled that varlou. sums ef money sent by the man to a K.

Watson in Minnesota, by ex press money order early this year. are supposed to have gone to ner. She said she had no knowledge that her husband was ever in an in sane asylum, aa h. told officers her. some days ago.

Mrs. Watson ia about S5 year, old-pretty, well educated and refln.d ia manner. She dresses modestly and ameng numerous friends at Salera is known as a woman of irreproachable character. AGAIN ARRAIGNED. Two Held on Frand Charges Now A censed of Concealing Documenta.

J. P. Hunt freight claim agent ef the Salt Lake, and IL V. Craig of the I ft V. Craig Company, machinist and repair men, who wer arrested some days ago on the charge of defrauding the government and held in bondsof 2S00 each.

Which they furnished, were before United State. Commissioner Long yesterday an a. charge that certain document, and papers, supposed to be en Ia their offices or places of are missing. In the second cai the bond in each instance was f.ied and up to last evening they had not been able to furnish ft The eharge of the government, a outlined in a report made by Special Agent Hall, Is that both were engaged In defraudirg the gv ernment In the way of fa's charge for damrd freight, at various time, from 1t September until ths roads were taken ever r-v their owners. In March.

Craig, as a machinist. various time, it ma did vd' for Hunt In esses whee la a shipment ef awti-msar for xsjcrrsd repair, ta be jna-da. (if 1 rh it 1 pi'- I heart, of hers, and w. separated, and ahe went with an Australian boy, went away with him, and ahe said that ah. didn't want her folk, to see her any more, and I told her I would writ, her folk, and make them think ah.

waa alive, and then later I wrote and told her folks about her keeping up or in other words, immediately after we were married, her favorite sweetheart, who was In Victoria, wrote her a letter! in fact, she wrote him, and when he congratulated her, she kept up the oorrespondenc. and showed me th letters, and he knew I was going to take a trip, and he wante? to oome over and call once and sea her alone. iinu iruume over it. ana nor sui ter wa. aware of it, and her sister snowea ner what it would lead to.

That was patched up and so we came to Washington and met one of the Australian boys, and I found her, when I went out for a few days, I found her mixed up with him, and she went away with him or he said he was from Australia and she wanted me to never tell because her sister waa very strict, and I made them think by writing she waa still with me, until at the last I wrote and told them about her taking up with that man again like she did immediately after we were married. Then what occurred with relation to her? As far aa I know, she la with that fellow, or someone else. And you never made away With her? Bh. was Intimate with him, which she acknowledged. Now, did you ever marry Mrs.

Goldsmith? I did. And' where did you marry her? In Tacoma, Wash. And do you know whea that was? It was, I think I don't remember, and there Is the woman who is worth quite a little, and she sent me S50 while I was sick. I was sick after I waa married a few days, and she told me aa quick as she went home she would send mo this money if I needed it. You have related that Tan needn't relate it again.

Did you marrv a woman the name of Anna Merrill? don't know anything about that. Now, did you over marry Elizabeth J. Prior? Elizabeth Prior In Idaho. What Is the town out from Spokane, the first town out there of aome Bize Coeur d'Alene. lou mean you married Elizabeth Prior at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho? Coeur d'Alene.

Idaho. And when did you marry her? It was some tlm. last spring. Did you do away with her? I did. but I Will tell vou hna A It happened.

Yes, and where and when. We were drlvlne from Port land to Seattle, and when we got quite a little ways out we kept having trouble with one wheel, the front wheel of the car. It seemed that the lock nut was not working, and It would soon get loose, and we stopped a couple of places, and they were not able to fix it apparently they thought they were, but immediately after starting out again the trouble started again, and we had quit, a little word, over this Hudson car. Q.i Do you recall the number? I can't tell vou th nnmx-. the car.

Whose it ratx.s in? A.I It waa Lewis. car In Portland. I bought the What wa. the first name? Tou say Lewis. Now, what was the given name that It waa registered under? Let me seat tt waa H.

or I forget which. It waa under the nam of Lewis. And what color was the ear? A.s Why, It waa rather poorly painted. It wa kind of a dark color. Q.i From whom did you buy it? A Mr.

GUI. And what place? Portland. Is h. In th. axitoraohil.

business? No. h. Is In th. City Hall H. has some official position whereby he looks after th cars In some way.

Q. Dd you know his first naive? It is R. OHL Q.t Now, what did you evsr do with that car? HOW SHE WAS KILLED. A. Wo came on quite a way.

and at hu the car got pretty bad. and I had to stop again, and a fel-l kw cnw uung ana I got either a monkey-wrench or screw drUer, I forget which, and he told me when I got through, to lay it up against a telegraph polo or a telephone pole, rather, that Was right opposite where we stopped the oar, and as he cnjne on hook later he would etnp there and get It We went a lit tie farther and the wheel tMM-ftn to l(WM Miraf .1 (Continued from First Page,) Now, 1 will ask you tht. be-for. you get away from Mrs. De-loney.

That is th. person that wi killed hero in Lo Angeles county. 1. not? Yea. And where ia her body? Well, pardon me.

It where I carried it all night and practically all day In the car, over or the valley toward. El Ccntro. Where did you etart from when you took this body? Started from Signal Hill, out there, camp near this artesian well, not far from dairy. Now. wait a minute, Mr.

Watson. Prom what point did you earnr this body bow, If you can explain I want down toward. Santa Ana, I guaea, and then took the road right down to San Diego. From what part did you etart to Le. Angelea county? Santa Monica.

Well, you started then this woman, Mr. Deloney, who wa. opposed to be married to you and wa. your wife at th. time, that la, ou had gon.

through a ceremony with her? Yes, air. And you went through the reremony, a. I understand, in Ban Francisco? Yes, air. Now, when you started with her then from Santa Monica she was alive; is that right? Tes. sir.

And then you proceeded to Signal Hill near Long Beach, didn't you? How far from Signal Hill? Near where this artesian well is. Tt hard for me to describe It. There is an artesian well along- aide of the road. About how far from the Alamltos sugar factory was it? Not a great1 ways. I don't remember Just how close all those thirds are.

I remember it was close to the artesian well, Q.i When you arrived at this point near the Alamltos sugar fae-f fory what did you do? Now, Just tell what yon did there. Well, made a camp. Q. Tea; your idea was to camp with her? A.i Camp there with a camp out-, ft In the car; had a regular camp-. tug outfit.

Whut wa. the occasion of your act there Well. I had some letter. from one of th. women I wa.

mar- Had to. Do you remember what woman A. Mrs. Williamson. And where did she Sacramento.

And did you go through a ceremony there with her i Sacramento? i A.t I married hor In And is she still alive? A- She was yesterday. Sh was here to see me. Tou were. In other word going tinder the name of Williamson when you went through a marriage ceremony in Washington? Jfo' Her name was Williamson. Tou had letters from her at im wre down ner near th.

Alamltos sugar factory camping. In the same of Williamson or Lewis? Lewis. Q.t I see. And who had th. Ph.

got hold of them. Q.J That is. vou moan Mr. n. airs.

Deloney got hold of arm. And is that where the trouble terted? Started right then and Is that the first time she told you that she had these letters? The first time she got them, there. They fell out of mv pocket. Q.I And she picked them up? She picked them up. Was thia in the daytime or Wefore dark.

What did ah say to you? She was going to have me arrested Did she say for what? A.t Because I was married to em one else. Q.t For bigamy? A.r She didn't use the word bigamy. She said, "I am golnr to have you arrested because you are married to some one else." Then what did yim do? HE KICL8 HER. Aa I wrapped her op after I hit her several time, I Q-s Iid yon hit her several times In th. head with a hammer A.

i I did. Q.I And did ytm kill her there I kilted her there, That ia, you killed her at this camp near Alamltos auger factory and near Signal Hill on what day? A i I don't remember the day Q.i Weil, what month? Weil, It la, I auppoa, about two months ago. Q.t Now, after you were 'aim wa dead, what did you do with the hammer? A hammer or a hatchet, I put It In the car. What did you do with the sody? A.I I wrapped it op with part of her own clothe, and took a blanket the blood wouldn't show. When I got through, put It In the car.

Q.t And (hen what did you do? I packed up everything and I drove during the night on to San tiego. and then I went across the mountains, taking what they call the orth road to El Centro. You mean the road that runs screes the rocky mountains there; that Is. I mean, the mountains that are rery rocky, t. El Centro; is that A.

TTell. I think tt I. th. new read, which la th. lower, I think, then the other one.

because I cam. Bc lb way. But at any rat. when you gnt a ie you Hid tne COfly With leu there? This side of El Centro. Q.t How far this side of El Centro? BCP.IES BODT.

A.I At'Out thirty wiles, or Just yew fun after yon pmm e1i the MoaMalna, and I took i. the aide Ju when you fft tne mountain, I lud itemtnfw snch ter- I carru-d t.te hvi up in tag rvpes aroaod It It It I I If to or a to the I I up ask to you In Hill ber It th British Columbia. other women and killing four Do you know the town? jor more of them. I don't remember it now. If But while she refused to tatk, It wa.

called, I might. she was further linked with tha Did you do away with her? amazing case yesterday when the No, they have been eorre- of Franklin county, Wash-spondlng with people. She is In.lngton, at Pascoe, received a letter Oregon. from Mrs. K.

Watson, 960 Cottag MAT HAVE SLATN MORE. jaireet. Salem, asking In what names four certain lots In Pasco. Mlzht It not De possible that wer( hfiIa InvestlKatlon showed th, you have done away with and killed property is In the name of Bertha other women to whom you were 1 Goodnlck of Spokane, one of the married, or even women to whom; four wives who Watson admits in you were not married, and the oeca- i his confession are dead. Watson slon cannot be recalled by you at married Miss Goodnlck June 11, thU time? two days after the dlsppear- Jt might be possible, because ance of another wife, Elizabeth there are blank spaces In my life I Prior, whom he confeeses he killed cannot remember.

I with a hammer In a deserted hous. I can't figure out years or the. near Olympla, Wash, months, and there are territories in I When found by newspaper men ing until it was dusk, nobody i .,.,,1.1 M.A I I i. i riiu 1 1 1 tt UU natural strength I was able to take It up quite a steep precipice little by little, and buried It where the water would come down aud wash the sand over lu By what means did you remove the sand so as to bury it? I took a shovel. I carry mv shovel In the ca because and also two rolls of heavy canvas on acoount of going across mors or less sandy ennntnr if i taK.

it and also put flown th. can- vaa and pull out; that ia th. reason. Now, Mr. Watson, do you suppose you could tell us a littt.

more definitely Just where this body might be found? Are there any landmarks you could call our attention to? I believe I might possibly tell you, or I could go myself. If was necedsary, right to it. It might be hard to tell so you could find It, How far from the road did you bury the body? Oh, some little distance- Approximately how fart Oh, half or a Quarter of a mile, I suppose. You mean you carried that body all that Under those spells I seem to have the strength of two or three 1'eoplo, and then afterwards, after Is all done, I am weak. Just seem I Just got well.

I know I used I did have a few epileptic fits. I know they used to any what strenKth had. Just seemed I had the strength What would this woman you killed welsh? One hundred and fifty pounds, I expect. How old was she? She was a woman about 40, should Judge. Now, to get haok to the proposition (ft the location of the bouy, you say that you burled it ahout thirty miles this side of El Centre? Just as you go through the mountflins.

It Is on the (right-hand fide of the gulch. In other vords, it is before you get Into that open stretch of country? It la open It Is really where you go It Is open on th. left: there is a bridge. I remember the bridge. It Is Just a little ways beyond the bridge.

You see at the I remember correctly, the mountains extend a little farther on the right hand side of that road than they do on the left hand s'de of It and It Is Just as you come practically the end of where the mountains aro, where the mountains swing off around to the right, there is a gulch going vp to the right. It is the last gulch before you strike the open leading around the mountain, and up that gulch: it separates a time two. but this Is up which I believe Is the mnln or largest gulch, and the one leading to the left as you go up. But all of It being on the right side of the rond? A All on the right rid of the road, How high from the level ground did you climb to deposit this bofly and bury It there? Oh. I should sav maybe a couple of hundred feet, but It Is oulte ways up there.

It Is Just gradual. Sometimes I would have quite a time pull It over some rook or something. It Is remarkable some of contracts are technical things. can draw thlncs that are a puzr.le and deep, but then Benin you can take some most trifling matters and can't either memorize or figure out. which sometimes puzzles me.

For Instance. I could never sing and could never memorize a song, still there are times when I could be alone and I could sit down and make niilte a ereerh of things that would show apparently quite intelligent, and a ealn I would be puzzled and at a loss to do anything tinder the nrdlnrv. and oftentimes found myself, when I am checked a moment from my thought, that during this moment's hesitation, I forget what have been talking about, and repentedlv have to a party what I was talking about renew my eonveriatlon. Now, here the woman mat have Just related as having killed with the hatchet or hammer I.os Aneples county near Signal beside the road there, and whose hody you took to Pan Plego anl throueh the mountains and burled this side of El Centro, Is Miss Nina Delonev? Nina TVlonev. CAN'T RKMEMBER.

Now, where did you marry Mra. Deloney? In Frisco. I don't remem the date. About when was I honestly cannot tell you. Tou hav.

the paper showing the man-lag. To be frank, I don't remember the date of a single marriage. 4.: Well, It was this year, was not? Tt was this yea Q. Now, listen to me: I asked you sometime ago, when you out to ni about onrT' how lnnJr women you made away with, and you started to tea me, and you said you could tea me by name. Now you rteat the names and I will take them up in order, and ask you In detail after you have told me the names.

I will tell you all I can remember now, and might be some blanks or some things I can't remember, because sometimes seem mon'h passes, and I cannot re- mem'ier a thing that has taken Place In it. and I have an awful time. In fact, tf I as trying to prove an alibi by showing where I was. and iproitmatly the dates for the past several months I would b. absolutely at a because I don remember the dates Now, conf.n.

yourself to names. Just one second, don't remember the da'ea tier the month Iv yoti v-ant the names now? Tee I wra -give ytr. th. corses barred from getting out the door, and her head struck the cor ner of a bunk that is built up about, I should say, eighteen Inches from the q.i That is, in th. ear? In this house.

Q.t That is, you mean la the deserted house? Th deserted house. Q.t Tou had already ton Into th. deserted nous, before th final climax came? Tea. That waa early In th afternoon where we had a little lunch. In pushing her I didn't at the tins mean to Injur her, but simply make certain that I shoved hlr nard ennugh to shove her down it rv an I could get out, but it waa very clear when she struck this corner of this bunk, by the way she waa breathing, that the fall was fatal, because the points were sharp and apparently cut the Now, did you strike her again? HIT HER MANY TIMES.

I looked at her for a minute to see really if she waa hurt had, and apparently thore was so much blood and the out looked so bad I felt confident she was killed, and the first thought was I wonld be accused I of killing her. Of course, sue acted as though she was going to die, and then my only though waa to protect waa to make sure she was dead, so I her several times until I waa certain that alio tvaa dead. What did you strike her with? I ran out right quick to the ear and got one of the tools, because I had nothing with me at the time. Q.t Do you know what that tool was? It waa a hammer, I believe. Now.

you mean you went back with the hammer In the deserted house and struck her several times with the hammer? A.t With the hammer. The car was Just a short distance across the road. Things appeared to mo that she would die and everything was to try to cover up things if I could. I see. And you struck her several times with the hammer after you returned to the house? Tes.

hut she acted as thongh she wa. practically dead when I got back with th. hammer. But there was some life, waa there, in her? Well, I can't say whether there waa or not because It waa hard to tell whether she was breathing because she was deathly still, because that fall struck her there and the posits were sharp. Now, the way that sh eut her head, then, was you shoved her down against thia bunk? I shoved her hard because she had grabbed tht.

pin and kept me from the door. Now, when you struck her with the hammer what part of her body did you strike? I atruck her on the head. And did you break her skull? I don't know, because, apparently, she didn't move any more after I got back. Q.t What did you do with her body? BURIES BODT. At Th body lay In the house all afternoon on the floor and I stayed around the car to see no one came In, and then along Just a little before dark a fellow coma along, I believe there was two men and a woman, and were going to camp, and, of course, I knew I mustn't let them stay in the house, and I told them I waa going to stay there for the night and they went on.

After night I wondered and planned and kept planning what to do, or what to do with the body. At last when I had been walking around Just before night, I noticed kind of a hole where a tree or a stump had been taken out some little distance from the car, near the edge of where the brush had been out and I dug a hole a beat I could. With what? I used the aama outfit that I carry to get myself out ef tha sand, and I burled the body there. Q.i What did you dig th. hole with, a BURNS HOUSE.

At Let mo see bow, let me see. I had a HtUo stove shovel I be- ILerre It waa a Utile atove shovel I used that time. I nad a regular camping outfit you oeo. And then I thought It all over and I said to myself. 'Now, there Is all kinds of Mood In that house and that will be and I set this Old, deserted 'house on tiro, and then drove the car on down toJet', see to wirmpia) I drove the oar on down there.

Q.1 To Olympla? a -in Olvmpia. and had them to MXt t0 flx tha wheel Now, ao far aa you know, did this house burn, wa. it consumed? It did burn, because I could look back and ee It burning. Q.t Now, What other persons hav. you don.

away with? Let's see. some name. I re member. It 1. pretty well finished.

I guess. I know I thought these over ofttimea. I dont remember them. I ef th. ear at all for aome time, and later on I had It painted over near Spokane, not for fear, because my car needed painting.

That was, I Q.t What did you finally do with the car? At Th. ear ta tear men to. arov that ear ever th country enfl drove clear a dawn her. It Is new In storage in Sacramento. In storage in Sacramento where? A the Lwrfie ware'te'n tr ia -m-i da with mm ttrt roa cwx-ii xttsa yes fciVUd the past that I have traveled over (yesterday Mrs.

Kathryn Kruse Wat-In different States and been in many flatly refused to make any state- myself and paid her for it. Mli Ludvlgson had some Savings Stamps, which I knew wore no good to me or anybody else. In other words, so far as you know, there couldn't have been any mercenary motive In their deaths? In their deaths, because th. property of Miss Ludvlgson of any consequence was her War Saving. Stamps, and they were all registered, so no on.

could make any use of them whatever. Now, were yon married to Katherlne Wombacher? I was. Where did that marriage take place? I believe Seattle. And when did that occur, that marriage? I couldn't tell you whether it was It was some time last fall or winter. Now, did you make away with her? A.I I did not.

Q.t Is now alive? She was when I was arrested. Did you marry Elizabeth Williamson? I did. Where did that marriage oo-eur? A.i In some llitlo town out of Spokane. In Washington? "GO RIGHT BACK." A.i Yes. Hero la a funny part, Mr.

Woolwlne, I married her right out of Spokane, and I came buck there and married her where somebody else could see mc. Half of theae women that were married were out of Spokane, and I would go right back where people I had met with tlxMQ different women that have seen me, and I would take some one else and go out again. 'Now, did you mak away with Elizabeth Williamson? 8he Is In the city now, wa yesterday. Oh, I believe you told me that. Did yon marry a person by the name of Katherlne Watson? I did.

cur? ada? A.I Where did that marriage oo- Some years ago in Canada Do you know where in Can- I eouldnt tell you. A Uttl town now, let's see. I can remember those things. Near what place was It? It was In British Columbia- Central British Columbia, and sh it living. Now, did you marry Mrs.

Es-telle A. Snyder? A.i I did not Tou didn't marry anybody who had the first name of Estelle? No. Q. Did you marry Irene Erlck-son I did not Tou see, there wa. lett.

from all kinds ef people I hav. corresponded with, you see, and those things are connected with all that stuff you see. Did you marry a woman by the name of Irene Htckson? I did not A-t son. Q.t Or, rather, Neokson? I did not Mrs. Gertrude Wilson? I don't know Gertrude WU Or Agnes Wilson? Agnes Wilson? I married A.

Agnes Wilson; I don't know why. h. had no money and I knew it and I went and bought her clothea Q. Where dl1 you maiTy her? In Vancouver. British Columbia British Columbia.

And did you make away with Qi A. I Q.i her? OF AONES WILSON. A.I She waa she had been keeping up and Insisting keeping up with other people that had been sweet- Telegram, March It, San Francisco. "Telegram, March II, San Francisco. "April was registered at Davenport Hotel under name of Charlea Newton.

"April 12. letter from Winnipeg, Man. "April It, Reglna, Bask. "April 14, Calgary, Alberta, "March post card. "March port card from Dlvi debet.

Alberta. "March 11. letter from Portland, Or. "Juna 4, letter from Portland. O.

"Jun 19, letter from Tacoma. "Jun SO, letter from Tacoma. "June 2 J. letter, Seattle. "June SO, letter, Vancouver, C.

"July letter. Spokane. Julv Spokane and Seattle Railroad. "August S. letter.

Spokane. "Augift 24, letter Spokane. "'September t. letter Portland. "September 2.

Sacramento, Cat "October Davis. Cat "October I. Portland. "November letter. Seafrte.

"November IT. letter, Vancouver. "December telegram, Gruber, Cat Ffbti'sry J. Lee Argeles, Hotel these dte may help you I vivjr erch, aemaliv WATSON'S TRAVELS TRACED. towns, and S'vnetlmes I sit down and try to study to myself and when go and take a map and trace the towns: yet.

In my mind I couldn't mention any of the towns unless I had put them to me by aeelng the map. What has been during your mature years, In a general way, your occupation or business? Well, I have been a salesman. Of what? For a flour mill, and commercial work of different kinds, and I have also done office work and, naturally, filing systems, ordinarily quit, complex, things ef that kind. Q.t When Is the last time you have been steadily employed? Well, I have been working up until the last few months. Q.r At what? Well, I was working at several things In Canada, a mercantile agency and for a flour mill, different work.

Tou hav. told me about all the killings bo far aa you can remember? Yes, that I can remember for the time being, and I have worked very hard and I never had any desire to rob. So far as you know, you never robbed anybody or stole any-IfcteC? LOVES CHILDREN. At No, sir. And I dldnt even Ilk to se a chicken fight or dog fight I love children; I girt them and play with them, and at aeem.

aa thongh people I hav. been mixed up with, I apparently lov them. And these things come over me and I do these thing, and I can't account for It But I carried around all these papers: sometimes my pockete wer full. Any woman could reach in and get the paper, showing I was mixed up with other people; carried them right around. Now, I will ask you this: Is ther any evidence to your mind of being a sexual pevert, or anything of the kind? 0 What do you mean by that Mr.

Woolwlne? In ether worda In your relations with women, are you normal and have you been normal? Well. In a way I would say yes. I am not abnormal, I wouldn't think from what I heard from them. In other worda you never indulged In any kind of sexual practice exeent in a normal way? Al Well I am trying to get tha reason for all this. A I m'ght to a certain extent, aa a hoy.

1 nndentard. ef ee'irse, tot r.av have been g-nlty ef setf-abua. 5e a gral many ether revs, bat (CacUased em Third fr4 stopped tn front of or -raiher wl" nd unt n4 I will figure stopiMM bmlde the road, and on the na "irur. to myself and I can't re-oposile or right-hand side was I member. dencrted Tho place was Q.i Now.

what did you do with fenced In, and our ear waa also op- th antomobtla after you had It re-poMte the gate leading Into this' paired? bout, and we had anme lunch, and I A.1 I drer. different places and no bad already had worda two or went different placea with it. I didn't three tinn-s oer which site told nie'make any change In the construction Th. Itinerary of Walter Andrew Watson, bigamist and wife-murderer, during all of last year is given In th. following letter, mailed from Wallace, Idaho, horn of two of Watson's wives, April 19: -Kellogg, Idaho.

"April 20, 120. 'Chief of Police, Spokane, Wash-, "Dear sir: Flease find Inclosed dates and poet-mark, of letter received by me from the man in custody In Jjtm Angeles known by th. nam. of llutr.C I hav. letters dating back to 116, something Ilk.

twelve or more. Am Inclosing this list as It Lmay aid you In tracing the move ments of the man during th. time covered by his crusade against women, beginning with December 14. 11. letter mailed on the St.

P. and M.R.R. east. "Telegram, December Seattle. "Telegram.

January, Fargo. 8. D. "II was In Spokane January 8, IB. in Seattle 11, Tacoma 11, and to th 18th, Olympu.

Hotel under th. name of Charles Newton. "Letters dated from January to February 13 mailed from Vancouver. B. C.

"Fet-ruary 1. Tacoma, Wash. "Veerusry 1 Tacoma. "February it, Seattle. tlegram.

March Saji Francis- It was a no-ai-eount car, and after we liad lunch we got to talking and had word again, and by that time I wa gvttliig rather sore about be ing bored and re-bored abont tbla'auppo. maybe a couple of months car, when I couldn't help it, because site rode In the ear when It waa demonstrated, ami at that time ahe felt pleased and made Bo objections to me purchasing the ear. At lax I got so mad I used aome' little profanity and told her to! hnt ipv and ahe grabbed ont her hat plo and said ahe woM Mick It through any mau tliat would1 rnw her, and tntsr'ly I p4be4 her iOx all axj sulgbt, twoaota ah h4.

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