The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-24
IS P|IzEl AMONG The LIVING?
A Clue to His Whereabouts
Discovered.
Chicago Detectives Have Traced Him
to st. Louis.
The Fate of This williams Sisters
Not Yet Asoortainsd-H olmrs
Rstracts Part of His
ConfessiOn.
BY the Associated Pre7s.

By the Associated Prew.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-The Chicago pc
lice have obtained clue regarding
Benjamin F. Ptzel. Pi'zsl had lived
up to May let on Madison avenue, near
Fifty-third street. II was found that no
had vacated his Morgan dat apartments
in May and that the furniture has been
stored. On or about August lat. last.
he WAS in the city osten-
sibly to make arrangements regard
ing the removal of his household
effects to st. Louis, where he intended
making his home for the winter. TIE
st. Louis address was given as 230 6
Michigan street. A letter was received
from Ptzel 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 Pitzel at st. Louis and none
have been returned by him, despite tn Q
fact that the precaution was taken to
place the writer's address with
the usual request for return ON the out.
side OF each envelope. This, the police
think, shows that ii Pitzel himself is n OF
alive and living at St. Louis, some one
Is representing him there that kno VS.
every detail connected with his business
transactions. The handwriting of the
st. Louis letter corresponds with the one
mailed at Philadelphia by Pitzel.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23. Holmes to-
night retracted many of the statements
he is said to have made to q detective
when coming to the city from Boston.
He declared both the Williams girls are
alive, and that Anna was recently paid
$1,000 by Pitzsl in New York city. The
story OF her murder, and several other
crimes with which his name was linked,
he characterized as rot" invented TO
throw the detectives off the track.
CHICAGO. Nov. % Nothing has yet
been discovered as to the where.
abouts of Minnie Williams and her
sister Anna. The impression is
gaining, however. that Minnie, at
least. 10 a confederate of Holmes.
1t 10 believed the detection OF incsndi.
ary fires at Englewood scared the out.
fit badly enough to make them get out
OF town without taking Annals trunk.
Ii has been discovered that mail is being
sent to Mrs. Mary Yoke. the mother Of
Georgiana Yoke, at Franklin, Ind :,
every few days. Tho envelopes were
marked "Return to No. SO Dearborn
street. care OF F. E. Blackman. Chi
cago."
f. E. Blackman last night fatty con.
tradicted the statement that tho CORE
spondence between Georgiana Yoke and
her mother passed through his Office.
He denied all knowledge OF the parties
and said he never net H. H. Holmes or
Georgiana Yoke in his life. He said his
only connection with the case arose
through lending money on the security
OF lease OF Holiness house at Engle-
wood.
Some commercial traveller who alight.
ed from the Erie train at Sixty-third
street last evening. saw photograph of
young woman said to be Minnie K.
Williams.
II saw that women in Buffalo lsst
wsek !" was his comment, and when
he was told that the fair orig
inal had been murdered, accord.
ing to popular superstition, some weeks
before, he looked incredulous. The
police also thinh Miss Williams 10 alive
and able to make q report when Gale
upon. None OF Holmes friends place
any reliance upon his confession, ex-
cept as 1t may delude those who would
pry into his record.