Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1913 — CHICAGO MAN SAYS HE KILLED TWENTY [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO MAN SAYS HE KILLED TWENTY

Henry Spencer, Held as Slayer of Dancing Teacher, Confesses to Many Crimes. Chicago has another terrible murder case to deal with. The finding of the body of Mrs. Mildred Rexroat, a dancing teacher, on Sept. 25th, led to the arrest of Henry Spencer, an opium victim, who has confessed to the murder of twenty people. It is believed by the officers, however, that opium has given Spencer a vivid imaginatioh and that his number of victims is not nearly so great as he claims. Several of the crimes, however, he has evidently comnjitted, and every murder was for the purpose of robbery.' ' Spencer’s story of the killing of Mrs. Rexroat practically had been confirmed and He had been indicted for the crime by the grand* jury. Seach of police records in many cities has revealed that many of the crimes confessed by Spencer had never been committed, or if they had the bodies of the victims had never been found. Persons listed as victims by Spencer in his confession have been found alive, so a great sharq of the “confessed” killings lie only in Spencer’s opium distorted brain.