Connecticut western news., 1894-11-22
Mr.. pItral confnssna.


 alleged life insurance swindlcr, was re- moved from tho city prison Co police headquarters, whero' his photograph and measurements wore taken. In n private room his confession was tAkon dowR.hy a stenographer to be reproduced In court in Philadelphia. He was careful not Co implioato any one except himself and he stated positively that tho body found Tn the room at Philadelphia W ls not that of F. K. Pitzol tho insured man, but a corpse obtained from a medical frlnnd. The police authorities do not place any oredenoo in Holmos' story in this oonnoo. ton and believe that Pitzel was murder cd. In the municipal court Judgo Ely dismissed the oaso against Holmes hera. and tho prisoner started for Philadelphia last night in charge of detectives.
 Mrs. Pitzol. wife of the alleged victim of Holmes. was also one of the party She oamo here from Burlington, vt, last evening in answer to doooy mossnRe sent by detectives from this city purport. ing to bc from Holmos. and on hor nr- rival here was arrested on the oh rae of oomplicity In dcfraudinR the insurance company. To the officers she made full confession, 10 is said, duplicating Holmes, at whose suggestion sho said, she had gone to Burlington. ..s
 She stated that Holmes substituted the alleged bogus body for that ot hor hus- band and collected the insurance, hut she was kept In ignorance of tho whereabouts of herhusband, who disappeared at onoe
 Sinoo tho affair sho has boon moving about from place to place, prompted by Holmes, in search of her husband. and 10 was through the hopo that she would be sent Go him that she answered the telo- gram of tho detectives.
 Now she fears that tho body for which the insurance was paid was not a bogus ono, but that of her husband Mrs. Pit. gel also fears that her daughter Alice. who was tho only ono besides Holmes to identify the body, has been spirited away, as she has completely disappeared, and Holmes is the last one known to have seen her. Holmes asserts that ho loft Alice and the two other pitzel children at their fathers home in Detroit month ago md sinoc then has heard nothing from thom.
 Holmes further stated that when he oame to Boston on Tuesday last hn in. tended to tako passage for Berlin, but changed his mind, and boforc ho could porfoct other plans the detectives had him.
 Attorney Howe Arrested Also.
 ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2o.-Joptha Howo. an
 
 firm of Mcdonald X Howe of this olty, was arrested hers on tho charge of con. spring with one H. H. Holmes to detraud the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance com. psny of Philadelphia out of Sl0, 000 Tho arrest was made in connection with tho insurance swindle onsn reported from Philadelphia last Saturday night
 Attorney Howe was taken boforo Chisf Harrigan nt tho four courts, Atlhe con ference W. K. Gary of St. Louis manager of tho Fidelity Mutual, was present Al the conclusion of the conference Howe was roleased on sI,000 bond. Howe signed a document. to which the chief al. so put his signature, and it was turned over to Gary. Neither Gary nor Chief Harrigan would talk about tho cnso Co representative of tho prcss.
 Howe, however. made this statement. s"I will say the same 0 you" said Mir. Howe, that have said to Mir Gary and the chief do not In tho first plaoo bo. lievo that a fraud has been committed I believe tho body identified by pitzol's IS. year old daughter was that of her father. The marks of Identification wero perfect. As to how Pitzel met his death cannot say.
 But, as | said to Mir. Gary. if fraud has been committed l am ne anxious ta havo it investigated as any. ono and will do all In my powor to bring tho guilty to punishment took tho onso in good faith and acted as any attorney would havo done. Mir Gary askod mo, if they proved a fraud, if I would be willing to roturn to the company my fec l told him l would bo not only willing. but would not under any circumstances keep any part of it '"