Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-25
rmLADELruIA srEouLATIoNs.
what officers There Think of the
Pratt Cnae.

Philadelphia, Nov, PA local pa
per has the following;
The police and Insurance officials
are inclined to the belief that Holmes
confession, In SO far as 1t relates to
the existence OF Pltezcl. is true. They
are upon the track OF man known
as b. #. Lyman. who they think Is
really Pltezel. and who they believe
viii be arrested by detectives before
long. They incline to the belief that,
although Pitexel was a party to the
conspiracy and that his was not the
murdered and the body used by the
swndiers TO collect the insurance from
the company,
ms tneury is partialy borne out by
the contcssou OF hoimes ana the opIn-
ion vi meuncal men. Homes stated
that he procured the corpse used as u
counterfeit presentm9nt OF Pietzel
from medleal Trend in New York.
Ehyslcians say that n body from
whlcn lie had been long enough ex-
tinct to permit It's examination by
coroner oInciais and 1t removal TO n
medical college would be rigid, that
after II had been removed from the
trunk IN waich Holmes claims 1t was
snapped to THIS city II would have
been impossible to place IL In the pos
Ation In wnich the corpse was found
in the Caliownlll street house.
The human blood found ON the floor
OF the room after the lire was used
as another argument In favor OF the
murder theory, for, in the opinion OF
the doctors, olood could not have been
extracted from the veins of a corpse
such as Holmes described. except
with force pump, Then the ques-
ton arises who was the man muir
dered2 1t could not, the police think
have been Pitezel, because he ls
known 10 have LETT Detroit with two
OF his children, unless Holmes Is deal
ing In fiction. and in that case he
would be compelled to make some
disposition of the children. He would
hardy saddle himself with such a
burden as two little ones. and this
incllnes the police TO the belief that
some unfortunate was selected by the
consplrators as means by which
they could carry out their scheme
As the utmost penalty for conspira-
cy IL but few years Imprisonment.
tho insurance officers think that prob
ably Holmes has, by confesslng tho
latter crime, hoped to save himself
FROM All suSplc. on OF murder His
apparent Willingness to return to this
city and his ready confession an lead
to this belief but according to the
police that the swindle has been dis
covered, no effort vii be spared to
unravel all the nyste,-y surrounding
u. Holiness confession will be used
as means to ferret out all the facts
connected with the case.
president Fouse said yesterday thar
as Mrs Pitezel had corroborated the
statements made by Holmes in his
confession. the theory Of murder
seemed to be exploded. II Pitezel can
be found and can answer the ques-
Tons which VIII be put to him about
the body OF the man found in ths
house on callowhil street, then tho
case WIN be one OF conspiracy. But
president Bouse cannot accept one
statement In the confession made bv
Holmes, Holmes claims that he never
saw the body and did not know Inc
marks upon 1t. YET he was to Identlfv
IL before the coroner
fteeideht Fouse said he would hoia
TO NE murder theory until the wife ma
seen the body and failed 10 rein,nIs ,s
u as her husband. The fact mai az
was not allowed 10 see her Husband ~
Detroit. and was kept in Ignorance or ~