The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-21

MuFuerous
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2o.-Arch Con-
,oira.or B. q. Holmes, accompanied by
Mr.. Pitzel and pretty woman who
calls herself Mrs. Holmes, arrived in
tho city to-day in custody Of Detective
Crawford and Special Agent Perry, OF
ths Fidelity Mutual Life Association.
Mrs. Pitzei's sixteen-year-old daughter,
MEDIA, and her oue-year.old boy vera
also With the party. Mrs. Holmes dis
appeared soon after her arriyul and no
cIae to her whereabouts could be OBJ
tanned. 1t is thought that she is stop
ping at hotel in the neighborhood Of
police headquarters.
The train which left Boston at 7:S0
last night was behind time, having been
delayed BY q wreck near Bristol. Mrs.
F,1ers nervous condition was such that
she was unable to walk from Broad
street station to the Central station
across the street, and had to be sup
yported by Detective Crawford and
policeman. After their arrival, the
pasty was closeted with Superintendent
Of poiee Linden until late in the alter
noon. Whom the conference was over,
Detective Crawford detailed the story
Of he4rip, the most important feature
q which was the relation made to him
By Holmes OF the story OF his whole
lie. II reads like the most sensational
offomaneea.
LIKE A ROMANCE.
Holmes set beside the detective with
handouts on and the train had scarcely
emerged from the Boston depot before
the prisoner tried to bribe his captor.
he offered the detective $500 II he
would allow him TO hypnotlze him so
that he could escape. He said he had
frequently hypnotized persons, having
acquired the art from college profess
sor in the west He said he could get
the money at once from his wife and
Mrs Pitzel. When hesaw that his words
had no effect, Holmes entered into gen.
erai conversation aud told the story of
his life. BE said he was raised in Bur.
lfngton, Vt, and was SO well educated
In school there that at fifteen he was a
teacher. For some time afterwards he
went 10 college there and later in
Detroit, Mich. Here he formed the ac-
quaintance OF a medical student, who,
be said, furnished the body in New
York in the present case. he refused
10 diyulge his name. During vacations
they worked on farms to raise their
college expenses, but one summer they
found themselves without means and 1t
was then that the medical man suggest.
ed the idea Of getting dead body and
beating an insurance company. This
was twelve years ago.
HOW THEY WORKED IT.
The doctor got his life insured for S12,-
0oO. They obtained body in Chicago,
took 1t east, arranged the details OF
Identification, and successfully got the
money with which they continued their
atudies. He refused to name the COM
pany thus sw,ndled. They worked the
scheme afterwards with success,
Holmes continued, obtaining sums
ranging from $4,000 to $40, 900. Once
Holmnes got his own life insured Tor
10000. He went 10 q hotel in Rhode
Island. At that time he wore q beard.
He secured q corpse in Chicago, cut of
the head, and took the body to a lonely
spot not far from the hotel. Then he
shaved oil his beard, returning to the
hotel, asked for Holmes and engaged
room to wait for him. He had brought
the head with him and burned 1t be-
yond recognition in the FIRE place OF the
hotel. The scheme, however,, fell
through, the mother Of hia wife, when
she discovered 1t, threatening TO tell
the police, and Holmes fed to the west.
KILLED HER SISTER.
Resuming his story, Holmes said that
while living in Chicago about eighteen
months ago, he fell in with typewriter
girl and furnished house on the out
skirts, where they lived together. A
younger sister came to visit them, and
the woman grew 30 jealous OF her that
in quarrel one day she struck her over
the head with a stool and killed her.
10 save the woman with whom he was
living, Holmes said he put the body IN
trunk, loaded 1t with stones, and sunk
itin the lake. This girl had property
In Texas and he and Pitzel took it OF
her hands and sent her abroad. 1t was
worth, he said, $4,000, and alter getting
II in their hands, they went through
Texas, buying car loads OF horses on
notes on this property, but as they
never had legal title to the property,
the notes were worthless and 1t Is for
tnls affair that they are wanted in Fort
Worth. 70 save this property, Holmes
said he and Pitzel formed the scheme OF
sTindling the Fidelity company. He
told tue detective that for the crimes he
had committed, he deserved to be
hanged dozen times.
has PLENTY OF MONEY.
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 murdcrcSs,
her mother aud an imbecilo brother;
Two orphans In Chicago who live 10 ono
ol his properties. three separate alleged
wives, and their children and his own
mother ind father in kankakee. He
would not give the names OF tho women.
lie firmly maintains that PitEel is alive
IN San Salvador and that he will hear
from him through the personal columns
oil q certain New York paper
- A telegram was to-day received by
Ffesldent FOuSe, Of the Fidelity COM