The morning call., 1894-11-24
MAIL FOR PITZEL
Sent Out and Does Not
Come Back.
EITHER HE is YET ALIVE
Or Somebody Who Knows His
Business Gets His Letters.
ANNIE WILLIAMS AN ACCOMPLICE
The Police Do Not Think the Girl
Was Murdered by Conspira-
tor Holmes.

CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-The Chicago police
have obtained a clew regarding Benjamin
f. PitZe, the accomplice of 81. ii. holmes,
alias Howard, who is now detained at
Philadelphia on charges Of having
swinded an insurance company. The in
surance was placed on PitZeps life and on
September 80 last a body supposed to have
been his was found in Philadelphia. Pit
Eel had lived up to May 1 on Madison ave-
nue., near Fifty-third street. 1t was found
that Pitzel had vacated his Morgan fat
apartments on May s. and that the fur
niture had been stored at 492 Sixty-thrd
street On or about August last he was
in the city ostensibly 10 make arrange
ments regarding the removal of his house
hold effects TO ST. Louis, where he in
tended making his home for the winter.
The st. Louis address was given as 2306
Michigan street. A letter was received
from Pitzel from st. Louis in which he
promised to soon clear the outstanding
indebtedness on his furniture and effect its
removal. Four letters have been written
to Pi'Zel a st. Louis. and none have been
returned to the writer, despite the fact
that the precaution was taken to place the
writer's address with the usual request
for return on the outside of each envelope
This, the police think, shows that if Pitzel
himself is not alive and living at st. Louis
some one is representing him there who
knows every detail connected with his
business transactions. The handwriting
of the st. Louis letter CORRESPONDS with
tnat of the ore mailed at Philadelphia by
Pitzel.
Nothing has yet been discovered as TO
the whereabouts of Minnie Williams and
her sister Anna. The impression is gain
ing, however, that Minnie, at least, is a
confederate of Holmes. 1t is believed tie
detection of the incendiary ire at Eugle-
wood scared the outfit badly enough to
make them get out of town without taking
Annals trunk. 1t has been discovered
that mail is being sent to Mrs. Mary
Yobe, the mother of Georgiana Yohe, at
Franklin. Ind. every few days. The en-
ve!opes were marked, Return to No. SO
Dearborn street, care of T. Z. Blackman,
Chicago"
F. E, Blackman last night fatty contra
dcted the statement that the correspond
ence between Georgiana Yohe and her
mother passed through his office. He de-
MED all knowledge of the parties and said
he never met Ii. 81. Holmes or Georgana
7 ohe in his life. He said his only connec-
tion with the case arose through lending
money on the security Of lease on the
Holmes house at Englewood.
Some commercial traveller who alighted
from the Erie train at Sixty-third street
last evening saw a photograph of a young
woman said to be Minnie r. Williams.
81 saw that woman in Buffalo last week."
was his comment. and when he was told
the fair original had been murdered, ac-
cording to popular supposition, some
weeks before. he looked increduous. The
police also think Miss Williams is alive
and able to make a report when called
upon. None of Holmes friends place any
reliance upon his confession, except as it
may deIude those who would pry into his
record.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. %. - Holmes to-
night retracted many of the statements
made or said to have been made to de-
tective when coming to the city from Bos-
ton. He declared that both the Williams
girls were alive, and that Anna was re-
Gently paid $1,000 by Pitzel in New York
City. The story of her murder and numer-
Gus other crimes with which his name was
linked, he characterized as ''rot" invented
to throw the detectives off the track.