SPECIALITY OF WIDOWS.
WAYS OF AMERICAN BLUEBEARD. B? Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received May 2, 55 p.m. New York, April 30. "Bluebeard" Huirt has' confessed to killing four of his proved sixteen wives. The list of marriages will probably run beyond thirty. He informed the police that he 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 his deceased wives' relatives by type-written letters, hut when he wished them to disappear from the kon of relatives ho closed the correspondence, announcing the eve of their departure for Honolulu or Australia. —Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1920, Page 5
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120SPECIALITY OF WIDOWS. Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1920, Page 5
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