Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-11-23
PITZEL CASE.
Lawyer HSGs Arrives From St Louis and
is Released On Bail---Ars PitzerS Letter
Publishod-.-Kah, Durkell is Not Dead.

PHILADELPHIA, Novers Der 22.- Presi-
dent Fouse called on Mrs. itIel ana her
daughter at the Central sta ION anu re-
ceived information from the SusuVer III
reference to her father. The Gaughlet
said that she remem bered- while y aiA'ns :
with her father one Sunday afterncNi III
Chicago the latter had said 10
her: "lf you ever hCat
through the newspapers, or "a
any other way, that l have been found
dead, do not believe il. will be all right"
Later, while in Boston, she read the story
of her fathers death In tue newspapers.
MIR. Fouse also had a talk with Mrs. Pit
eel. she said she remembered receiving
a letter from her daughter Alice, the ono
who assisted in the Identification Of
PitZels body, in which she related
her experience while going East for the
purpose Of Identifying the body. Alice In
her letter stated that Howe and Holmes
accompanied her and were sociaole on the
trip East This sets at rest the claim OF
Howe that he never met Holmes until in
troduced 10 him by President Fouse on his
arrival in this city.
Omaha.-Mss Kate Durkee was not
murdered in Chicago. She is living ia this
city with her brother and was surprised 10
learn that Holmes was in trouble.
ST. Joseph-Joseph Pitzel was former
resident Of this city. While here he and
John Carpenter conducted detective
agency and made number OF important
captures, one notable case being that OF
working up and securing the arrest Of
noted criminals who fired buildings at
Garden Grove, Ia, and shot an officer
while escaping.
PHILADELPHIA, November 22-Jeptha
d. Howe, tho young st. Louis lawyer who.
in connection with H. II. Holmes, is
charged with defraudiug local insurance
company out OF $4,000, reached Philadel-
phia to-day. He was met at the depot by
Marshal r. Mcdonald, of St. Louis. who
is the law partner Of young Howe's broth
er, and together they went 10 the Office OF
Superintendent of Police Linden, where he
surrendered himself.
Lawyer Mcdonald said: This arch
consDirator, H. n. Holmes, or II. M. Nor
gan, the name he was known by IN ST.
Louis, came TO the Office while ! was absent
in Colorado and proposed the case saying
that Mrs. Pitzel wanted some one 70 repre-
sent her. II was the first case the boy had
ever been offered, and he jumped right into
il with all the ardor and enthusiasm Of
youth. He did not wait for US TO return,
and the result was that this slick crook i'm
posed upoE him. My young friend may
have been indiscreet, but be is no Grim
inal.n
Howe was released under 81, 800 bail
ISDIANAPOLIs, IuD., Novem Der 22.-The
insurance company which INSURED and paid
tue $4,000 policy on the life OF Pitzel, on
September a. few days afterward re-
ceiyed a letter from Mrs. Pitzel thanking
them for tnelr promptness and expressing
gratitude for the consideration shown her
ana her children. The letter was copied
and scattered broadcast as an advertise
ment by the company The letter is pro-
duced verbatim and is preceded by the
company's statement that satisfactory evil
dence Of Piizel's death had been secured.