The Forrest City times., 1895-07-19
A CAREER OF CRIME.

Iorohto-burted In the Cellar of n
D"ehing Where They Are Believed to
Rave Been Hidden After Being FouiIv
Murdered by II. III. Hoimes-Tbe Latter.
Bloody Record.
TORONTO, Ont, July l6.-The bodies
of Eta Alice and Nettie Pietzel the
two missing daughters of Benjamin
fletzel, were found by Detective
Cuddy, OF Toronto, and Detective
"eyer, OF Philadelphia, Yesterday af-
'ernoon, buried in the cellar of house
10 81. Vincent street. III. II. Holmes.
now under arrest at Philadelphia, 10
believed to have deliberately murdered
the girls after he had first murdered
their father in Philadelphia and their
brother in Detroit
Inquiries begun by the police led I,
the knowledge that Holmes and the
children lived at the house in question.
and search was made by the two off,
GERS. A short distance below the sur
lace they came across the bodies of the
two victims. They were both nude.
and had lain there in all probability
since last October. The bodies of the
little ones were buried within three
feet OF the surface, and were in a fair
state of preservation.
Holmes. the alleged murderer. is
held Philadelphia on the charge of
conspiracy, and nice legal point now
presents itself The murder was COM
mitted in Canada, and the accused
must be tried within its boundaries,
but as Holmes had pleaded guilty to
one charge in the United States, he
may insist on being sentenced on that.
Ii. H. Holmes, alias Herman w.
Mudgett, alias Fl. Fl. Howard, was
born in New Haven, Conn, and at
tended medical school at Burlington,
VI, and later at Ann Arbor. Mich
he was married at the latter place.
He and friend swindled an insurance
company. in Chicago out of s12. 900 soon
after graduating. They made another
haul of $4,000 in similar way.
Holmes went into the drug business
and specialized. His wife went home.
and he married another woman, with
whom he went to California Return.
ing IN about year, he went to house
keeping with the woman typewriter Of
the company, whose acquaintance he
q
insurance company out of 500, 900, but
failed, and, learning that his type
writer and her sister had inherited
$4,000. laid scheme to get the money.
The sister came to live with them and
disappeared, while he and Minnie, the
typewriter girl, took up their abode at
the Plaza hotel, Chicago.
Holmes next appeared in Terre
Haute. Ind, where he bailed Pietzel
out of Jail. From there he went to
Franklin, Ind, where he married Miss
Yoke, and spent their honeymoon in
Denver, where Holmes made S27, 900 in
speculation.
At Philadelphia. later on, he and
Pietzel played the last card Pietzel
was insured in the Philadelphia Mu-
tual for 500 On September 8 he
was found in the house 1916 Callowhill
street, which he had rented under the
name of b. F. Perry. His body was
badly burned and the face was almost
unrecognizable. Holmes, Pietzel's
wife and children identified the body
as Pietzel's and 81, 500 of the insurance
money was paid over.
Then Train-robber Hedgepeth gave
the whole case away to Chief of Police
Harrigan, because Lawyer Howe,
whom he had gotten into the conspi-
racy, had not paid him the promised
reward.
Holmes was traced to Toronto, Bur.
lington and Philadelphia, and in the
latter city was arrested. In the mean
while the Pietzel children had disap-
peared.
Holmes awaits sentence in Philadel-
phia for insurance fraud, and the po-
lice expect to fix several murders on
him.
RIG NLEnK