MURDERER OF WIVES.
GRUESOME CRIME IN AMERICA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 11, 7.30 p.m. New York, May 10. "Bluebeard" Huirt was sentenced to imprisonment for life for murdering his wivesUnder an arrangement with the police that they would not ask for his execution if he confessed, Huirt admitted that besides seven correct wives, be killed several others of the twenty-six he married, who were now missing. The police testified that it vrauld have been impossible to convict of murder if Huirt had declined to confess.
The judge, in sentencing him, declared it was the most heinous crime in his-tory.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1920, Page 5
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102MURDERER OF WIVES. Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1920, Page 5
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