Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-11-23
A !. BAD d RECORD.
Insurance SWindler Holmes
Confesses to a Long List
~ of MisdeedS.
SAYS He. DESERVES HANGING.
His Career as a swindler Be-
gun While a Student in
College.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21.--Arch Con.
Separator n. H. Holmes. accompanied by
Mrs. Pitzel and pretty woman, who
calls herself Mrs. Holmes, has arrived
in this city in the custody of Detective
Crawford and Special Agent Perry OF
the Fidelity Mutual Life association.
Mrs. Pitzers l6-year-old daughter,
Media, and'her 1-year-old boy were also
with the party. Mrs. Pitzeps nervous
condition was such that she was unable
to walk from Broad street station to tho
Central station across the street and
had to b. supported by Detective Craw-
ford and policeman. After their ar
rival the party was closeted with
Superintendent of Police Linden until
late in the afternoon. When the con-
ference was over Detective Crawford
Detailed the Story Of the Trip,
tho most important feature of which
was the relation made to him by
Holmes of the story Of his whole life.
1t reads like the most sensational Of
romances. Holmes sat beside the de-
tective, with handouts on. The train
had scarcely emerged from the Boston
depot before the prisoner tried to bride
his captor. He offered the detective
$500 if he would allow him to hypnotic
him so that he could escape. He said he
had frequently hypnotized persons,
having acquired the art from college
professor in the West. He said he
could get the money from his wife and
Mrs. Pitzel. When he saw that his
words had no effect, Holmes entered
into a general conversation and
Told the Story of His Life.
He said he was raised in Burlington,
VT, and SO well educated in school
there that at Is he was a teacher. For
some time afterwards he went to col
lege there and later in Detroit, Mich.
Here he formed the acquaintance of a
medical student, who, he said, fur
nished the body in New York in the
present case. During vacations they
worked on farms to raise their college
expenses, but one summer they found
themselves without means, and it was
then that the medical man suggested
the idea of getting q body and beating
an insurance company. This was IL
years ago. The doctor got his life in.
sured for $l2,5OO. They obtained the
body in Chicago, took it East, arranged
the details Of Identification and success.
fully got the money. with which they
continued their studies. He refused to
name the company thus swindled.
We're Successful Schemers.
They worked this scheme a1terward
with success, Holmes said, obtaining
sums ranging from $1,000 to $20,O
While living in Chicago about Is
months ago he fell in with a typewriter
girl and furnished a house on the out.
skirts. where they lived together. A
younger sister came to visit them, aud
the woman grew SO jealous of her that
in a quarrel one day she struck her
over the head with stool and killed
her. To save the woman with whom
he was living, Holmes said he put the
body in trunk, loaded it'with stones
and sunk it in the lake. This girl had
property in Texas, and he and Pitzel
took it off her hands and sent her
abroad. 1t was worth, he said, &c.
600, and after getting it in their hands,
they went through Texas. buying car
loads Of horses on notes on this prop
erty, but as they never had legal title
to the property
The Notes Were Worthless
and it is for this affair that they are
wanted in Fort Worth. To save this
property he and Pitzel formed the
scheme Of swindling the Fidelity COM
pany. He told the detectives that for
the crimes he committed he deserved to
be hanged a dozen times.
Holmes is not lacking for money, as
he himself admitted that at the present
time he is supporting nearly two dozen
persons, including the girl murderess,
her mother and an imbeoile brother;
two orphans in Chicago. who live in
one Of his properties; three separate
alleged wives and their children, and
his own mother and father in Kanka-
kee. He firmly maintained that Pitzel
is alive in Salvador and that he will
hear from him through the personal
column of certain New York news
paper.
Big Iron Land Deal.
DULUTH, Nov 21.-Louis Rouchleau
has completed big iron deal on behalf
of the Rouchleau-Ray Iron Land COM
pany, having sold government lot
and the southeast quarter of northwest
quarter of section 5, township 81, range
II, for 5000, 1000 cash, to the Fayal Iron