The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-21

conspirator II. H. Holmes, accoInpan-
led by Mrs. Pitzel and pretty woman
who calls herself Mrs. Holmes, arrived
in this city today, in the custody of
Detective Crawford and Special Agent
Perry, of the Fidelity Mutual Life as
ISOLATION.
Mrs. Pitzel's 16-year-old daughter,
Media, and her 1-year-old boy, Were
also with the party Mrs. Holmes dis
appeared soon after her arrival, and
no clue to her whereabouts could be
obtained. It is thought she is stopping
at hotel in the neighborhood of the
police headquarters After their ar
rival the party was clOseted with SUI
perintendent of Police Linden until
late in the afternoon.
Reads Like n Romance.
When the conference was over. De-
tective Crawford detailed the story Of
the trip, the most important feature of
which was the revelation made to him
by Holmes of the story of his whole
life. It reads Ike the most sensational
of romances. Holmes sat beside the
detective 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 liberty, SO
he could escape. He said he mad fire.
quently hypnotiZed persons, having &C
quired the art from college professor
in the west. He said he could get the
money from his wife and Mrs. Pitzel.
When he saw his words mad no eff
feet, he entered into general converse
tion and told the story of his life. He
said he was raised in Burlington, VT,
and SO we'll educated in the schools
there that at Is he was a teacher. For
some time afterward he went to col
lege there, and later in Detroit, Mich.
Here he formed the acquaintance of d
medical student who, he said, furnish
ed the body in New York in the pres
ent case. He refused to divulge his
name. During vacations they worked
on farms to raise their college eX-
penses, but one summer they found
themselves without means and then
the medical man suggested the idea of
getting body and beating an insur-
ance company. This was twelve years
ago. The doctor got his life insured
for 1000. They obtained a pody in
Chicago, took it east, arranged the de-
tails of Identification and successfully
got the money with which they con
tinued their studies. He refused to
name the company thus swindled
They worked the scheme afterwards
with success. Holmes continued, OBJ
tanning sums ranging from $4,000 to
$40 1000.
His Life Insured.
Once Holmes got his life insured for
$4,000. He went to a, hotel in Rhode
Island. AT that time ne wore a beard
He secured a corpse in Chicago, cut
off the head and took the body to a
Then he shaved off his beard, returned
to the hotel, asked for Holmes and
enga ged a room to- wait for him. He
had brought the head with him ana
burned it beyond recognition in the
fire place of the hotel. This scheme,
however, fell through, the mother of
his wife when she discovered it threat
ening to tell the police and Holmes fled
to the west.
Resuming his story. he said that
while living in Chicago, about IS
writer girl and furnished a. house on
the outskirts, where they lived toge'th-
er. A younger sister came to visit
them and the woman grew so jealous
Of her that in q quarrel one day she
struck her over the head with a stool
and killed iler. To save the woman
with whom he lived, Holmes said he
put the body in trunk. loaded IL with
stones and sunk it in the Lake. This
girl had property in Texas, and ne
and Pitzel took it off her hands and
sent her abroad. It was worth. he said,
$4,000, and after getting it in their
hands they went through Texas, buy
ing carloads of horses on notes on this
property, but as they never had
legal title to the property the notes
were worthless and il is for This affair
that they are wanted in Fort Worth.
The Scheme Formed.
To save this property Holmes said
he and Pftzel formed the scheme of
swindling the Fidelity company. He
told the detective 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 murderer,
her mother and an imbecile brother,
two orphans in Chicago who live in
one of his properties, three separate al
legged wives and their children and his
own mother and father in kankakee.
He would not give the names Of the
women. He firmly maintained that
Pitzel is alive in San Salvador, and that
he will hear from him through the per-
sonal column of a certain New York
newspaper. Mr. Perry said that as a
result OF LNe INTERVIEW IL lldu DSSi Oc-
cided to arrest a number of other per-
sons whose names would not yet be
given out.
Mr. Perry related in detail the story
of Holmes arrest in Boston and the
manner in which Mrs. Pitzel was de-
coyed from Burlington. He said that
in the secret conference today nothing
had been said that would in the slight
est degree refute his original theory
that Pitzel had been murdered.
Mrs. Pitzel Is Innocent.
When in the west, he saw the par
ents of Mrs. Pitzel and they told him
that their daughter had complained of
the exorbitant fee charged by the st.
Louis lawyer, $500. In confederation
of his murder theory, Mr.. Perry said
that he had from Mrs. Pitzel an exact
description of her husband, agreeing
in every respect with that of the corpse
found in the Callow Hill street house.
Mrs. Pitzel, he continued, was perfect
ly innocent of any completely in the
whole affair. She told Perry last night
that she had received only $4,000 in
cash She said Holmes had taken
$4,000 of the money and put it in