The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1920, Page 11

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| ' LUSK COMMITTEE TO TAKE UP H.C. L. nyasti- to a public is understood ttee will take up to- ation of high prices to Although the detalls ission were not mado E Attorney General Ber- legal r to the committee, ade It clear that the committee will xo into high oost of commodities. is a misconcaption of the v's functions,” he sald. re Of its existence is to in- causes leading to the present In its report to the Legislature ttee classified these causer. class were justilable causes ust and in the second class wore ted causes. ‘That ts, radicals ‘net upon the first cause and used it ypaganda to thelr cause.” 8 pesston was attended by airman; Senators Mul- ; Asvemblymen rmer Assen a, Stevenson, epe- counsel to the committee. HAD MANY WIVES BEFORE KILLING ONE. BLUEBEARD DECLARES (Continued From Third Page.) ree action. I didn't marry I saw that.” ry considerate for Bluebeard. 1n ada he changed his name to es P. Watson. always wos a good business mun,” he told me with a certalii glin- inering of pride. “I landed in Moose Jaw Saturday night, saw some ousi- again ness men Sunday and started on a} selling | yood job Sunday morning, flour for the Robin Hood Mill Watson rambled on and on with details of his selling flour. In a short time he married again. He didn’t kill this frst Canadian wife cither, he says. He didn’t have the “pulsations” yet, or the Dr. Jekyll and . Hyde impulses to “make away with them.” He travelled over West- j ern Canada selling, then got back into} his old St. Lonis game. He lived in| Calgary. } “Did you know Tommy ola boxing champion, in Ci @ liad a wlothing sto j deen In his store, but I ne Watson unswe “ things don't interest m Apparently nothing | man but his own spe to the scene of his career of crime. It was in Western Canadian towns that Watson started as a woman killer. Here he married them, ana made away with thom, one after another, He was getting money when the great war began. He blames much of his “trouble” on the war. It interfered with business, Running what he called a protec- tive agency In the Birks Building, Vancouver, Watson was cleaning up pretty well. He patriotically in- vested in Canadian Lunds. had a nicé little bank account,” he sald, “and went into a bank and bought a couple of thousand dollars of bonds. Then things went against the Allies and the bottom dropped out of busi- ness. Property had no value. I bought a quarter section of land for $500, I have an equity im it still, Business: went on the rocks, Thous- ands failed. I hung on. “!'d married Katharine Kruse, No, I didn't make away with her. She was in the office part of the time. We had two girls helping. I kept the office open just to keep old business alive. A little money kept coming in. My Edmonton office was still open at the time of my arrest here, with a girl in charge to answer letters. | Katharine Watson attended to most lof the mail “he's in Oregon now. |! was moving around, to Seattle, Van- jcouver, Calgary. I came down to California a year ago, February or ; March, But I was up tbere several times.” | “Business or pleasure?” . | “My mind is not very clear,” di- eressed Watson. “I remember iate | things better, but a year ago, two years ago, TI don't remember things very well, as I told Mr. Woolvine.” It was in this period, when the bot- tom had dropped out of business, that Watson found time for most of his philandering and killing. WAS VERY CAREFUL WITH HIS MURDERS. “You went a long time without be- ing caught,” I said. Watson showed interest, He smiled. “T was very careful,” he said. “They never would have convicted me on any everything. It all started in a ner- vous breakdown. “Dr, Tatham in Edmonton told me pretty plain if 1 didn’t take care of |myseif he didn’t know what would hap- cid Watson nodded. “You were irritable?” all my fault,” said suddenly, “There trice Andrewartha that | married in Tacoma last year as Harry Lewis. We were wi lake, evidence I left if I hadn't told them; THE EVENING. WORLD, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1920. She might h here or | won't live there.’ impulse came over me. | thr her down and held her under the id, 1 won't live | sata, “That was at lake Washing- The | too, We were at Seattle. Wo out near the lake, beside a drive- An impulse came over me to jway water with my hands. | don’t [hit the girl, without any really great remember hitting her. | took a provocation, There were people g0- and pushed the body off into jing up and down the lake In Hitle ep water, The lake is deep. [bouts. It was something about con- They don’t come up.” {th He held her under water with his hands, while: ‘she struggled and} i 0 ¢ ned, for she was not killed first,| aging different plac like some of the others. I looked at} she wanted to go and 6 ‘ataon's hands, hie sinewy, bony, big! didn’t. | got up and took a rock knuckled hands, There wos a feel-; and hit her. \d the bod; back into th There were pe: paths, coming “Something just said to me, “ ahead, and I went ahead, About sunset 4 pulled the body to the water ‘and fastened the end of the rope on the boat to her clothing, and shoved the boat out and rowed some little distance out and just untied it there and let it sink “There was Agnes Wilson that I married in Vancouver. She would j Write letters to certain people, I took "her down to Lake Washington twice he and 1 said to mysolf, ‘IT will finsh it. ing.of horror in the air again, There was that strong odor, not the hos-| pital odor, the pecullar odor, or what-| ever it is that hovers in the air where something incredibly vile and evil Hes. Watson, lying on his bed, stared up at me with wall eyes, eyes like muddy pools that do not even reflect the light. “And there were others,” I sald with an offort. ‘TOWED SECOND BODY OUT INTO LAKE. “There was Bertha Goodnick,” for the best kind. OST IOASTIES are superior corn flakes that possess a crisp body and a flavor that have made them the favorite, and the _ demand is greater than ever When Ordering Corn Flakes ask for PostToasties ington, out from ink there were some words. Made by Postum Cereal Co. Battie-Creek, Mich. MEN’S SUITS Concentrated Values—Saks Values Sixty-five Styles at the One Price. 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