Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-08
KILLED BY HOLMES
HE WAS AT LEAST THE MURDER.
q Err OF BENJAMIN PIETZEL.
HE Police Finally Worm D Confess
= sion From Pat Quinlan, the JAM
1tOr of Holmes s*Castle,"
Which Shows That Holmes
Killed Pietxcl.
WAS MURDERED IN CHICAGO.
PietxeYs Body Was Then Shipped to
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Promised
Immunity.

Chicago, Aug. 4.-The police have
at last obtained partial confession
from Pat Quinlan, the janitor of the
Holmes castle, and have, they believe,
positive evidence that Benjamin
Pitzel was murdered in this city by
Holmes and the corpse sent to Phil
adelphia.
The confession was wormed out of
the Quinlans by means of tip given
the local officers by Detective Geyer
Of Philadelphia, who arrived in this
city to-day. The exact nature of the
story told by the Quinlans the police
Radenoch and Inspector Fitzpatrick
wife made any confession at all.
Notwithstanding the. denial of the 20
lice, however, it is positively known
that Quinlan made and signed a con-
fession, because it was left where
Quinlan's signature on the document
could be seen, although the subject
matter under which he wrote his
name could not be ascertained. It
has been learned that a confession
was made covering all the details of
the murder Of Pitzel, with the excep-
ton of the actual place in which the
crime was committed. This. the po-
lice declare. they will have tomorrow
and they declare that in less than
three days they will have indisputa-
BILE evidence that PitZel came to his
end through the direct agency of II.
Il. Holmes. The confession was OBJ
tanned from the Quinlans only after
the hardest kind of work, and at the
price Of promise of immunity from
punishment for all part the Quinlans
may have borne in the murder of
PitZel or other crimes committed by
Holmes.
CaldwelTs Ruse.
Memphis, Aug. 4.-The Little Rock
end of the Holmes murder sensation
is about petered out In the next
forty-eght hours the police will. in
all probability. have proven that Con-
vict John Caldwell. alias Hatch. alias
Allen. alias Fogg. alias Mascot, could
have had no connection with Holmes
or his crimes. as he was in the Ten
nessee penitentiary at the time he
claims to have been operating in
Fort Worth. Tex, for Holmes.
Caldwell was born in Upton coun-
ty. Tenn. not far from Memphis, and
was farm hand up to the time he
took to horse stealing. He followed
this occupation for only brief peri
cd, when he was arrested here and
sentenced to twenty-one years in the
penitentiary. That was seven years
ago. few months since he was
pardoned, but went Immediately to
Arkansas and engaged in his former
pursuit. There he again came to
grief and was sent to the Arkansas
state prison. where he now is The
Memphis police are confident that
Caldwells story is only ruse to get
out of prison. He is ignorant, and has
not much mother w.t." not at all
the kind Of man that shrewd fell
low like Holmes would be likely to Sc
lect as confederate In crime, even,if
Caldwell had been at liberty at tho
time.
Saw Mrs. Connor's Body.
Mrs. Pat Quinlan knew of the dis
appearance of Mrs. Julia L. Conner in
Holmes castle and saw the body of
the woman after she was dead. She
further knew and has admitted that
Pearl Conner disappeared in the
castle after her return from the Quin-
Ian farm at Lake Michigan. Chief
Baden0ch took Mrs. Quinlan and her
husband to the castle to-day with In
spector Fitzpatrick and Detectives
Fitzpatrick and Norton. The object
Of this trip was more for the purpose
of letting Quinlan and his wife meet
than any other. They were closeted
together alone for an hour in the
room in which the Julia Conner car
pet lies and the chair belonging to
the murdered woman stands. What
took place between them no che
knows. but Chief Badenoch and the
detectives are nearer the solution Of
the Holmes mystery than they ever
We're before. They now have positive
proof that Mrs. Conner and her
daughter Julia or Cora Quinlan were
murdered in the building while the
mother was in his employ. Mrs.
Ouinlan has given information within
the last three or four days which
brings the charge of murder near to
Holnes. Quinlan and his wife, while
demonstrating to the police that they
We're at no time guilty of the crime Of
murder themselves. have made ad-
missions by which the chief could use
them on the stand as valuable wit
nesses against Holmes In proving
that Mrs. Conner and a child were
made away with by Holmes for the
purpose of securing insurance which
Mrs. Conner carried on her life
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