Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-16
THE PIETZEL MURDERS.
Evidence ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Holmes,
how In Prison.
Probably sis uaman Lives Sacrificed
for the sum OF Ton Thousand
Dollars.

PHILADELPHIA, July lG.-Tho find
ing OF tho bodies OF the two Pietzel
children In Toronto created a sensation
In police circles In this city. The au-
thOrilies are convinced they were
murdered by the arch oonspiTAtor II.
IA. Holmes, now Ia prison In this city,
awaiting trial on charge Of conspiracy
TO deifAud the Fidelity Mutual Life
Insurance association Of $4,000. This
hnlount was obtained by Lawyer
Joptha ID. Howe, Of -. Louis, repre-.
senting the family Of -. r. Pielzel,
who, a. IL alleged, was Killed In this
city ty the explosion Of n chemical aud
who shortly before had been insured IN
the Fidelity company. IL IL probable
the charge against Holmes viii be
changed from conspiracy 10 murder,
nu II IL geuefally believed Pietzel IL
really dead. JuSI before Holmes was
brought to trial he made q COME sion
la which he said he procured the
corpse In New York, brought II TO this
city and disilguttd II by the use Of
chemicals, palmoi II on successiully
confession Holmes's trial was post.
ponsd until October. II In believed rs
lho Philadelphia murder hHtodstes the
Cannon mufdefs, the mAn viii have
10 stand trial hers.
Detective Geysr, who found tho
bodies Of tho children In Toronto, has
been on the case since September,
1894, WHOM tho chaTted remains oi the
bogus or genuine Pislzsl were found.
He followed many olsws furnished by
President FouRe, OF the Fidelity
Mutual lnturEnce association, aud has
Jeeb confident from the ouLot that tue
murder would finally ias!en on
Hoimus.
REMOVED TO THE M0R0uE.
TORONTO, July i6.-The bodies OF
the two Pielzsl children eXhumed In 4
cellar Of a vacant house yesterday
were today removed TO ihe mOTgus.
Doctors CRven AM Orr aTe making a
pts. mOtten examination. Efforts will
he maize to extradite Holmes at once
and give him lhe benefit OF the sw III
Canadian Justice. Detective Geyet's
theory 10 that the children were chloro-
formed In trunk.
ThE MURDERED CHILDREN.
lSpIASAroLIs, July l6. - The
announcement hero last night that the
murdered PltEol children had bsen
found buried In Toronto cellar
created n sensation. as tho ohilJTe n
were last seen alive, by those who
know thom, In this city. Detective
GeySr traced the children from mere TO
Dstrolt anu from there 10 Toronto. ii o
was unable TO got any evidence that
tue boy left this city alive, and h o
went away from here believing that
the boy had been murdered and his
body shipped from here III trunk.
PHILADELPHIA, July lB.-rhe find.
ing II the bodies Of Alice aud Nellie
Pistzol In Toronto strengthens the be.
lief that II. IA. Holmes, alias Norman
Mudgstt, N the murderer OF ak per
| sons. Two nre young women OF Chi.
oago, named Williams, whom no In
| dueod to 30 TO Fort Worth, Texas, and
whom he robbed Of $4,000. The
women were never seen after that
The two Pielzel ohildfen's deaths are
| placed 10 his account. There 10 n
third child, boy, yet TO be- accounted
for, who II Ia believed he killed. The
grsnt mystery OF all In what became OF
| Pitzsl, the man whose life was insured.
IL IL believed ho was also a victim Of
Holmes.
THE BROTHER PROBABLY KILLED TOO
IEDIANApoLIB, Ind, July l6.-Ths
| journal Today prints an article con.
tanning the statement that tho PlelLsl
boz brother o'Alice aud Nellie Plelzel
whore dead b dies hrs supposed to have
been uuesIthed at Toronto yesterday,
was beyond doubt murdered In this
city on October 9Th last, pTesum.
ably 10y Holmes, the insurance
swiuilar Ia custody nj Philadelphia.
1t has developed that n certain express
driver, by agreement with Holmes,
called ut OLD Circle house on that date
anu removed through the roar door a
large trunk which Ia believed 10 have
contained the boy's Temains. The
driver has Identified tbs picture OF
Holmes MS the man who employed
him. Three OF the Plelzel children
were In this city Tor some time. Do.
tsolive Frank Geycr, OF Philadelphia,
who has been working on the case,
stated that web 10 being woven
around Holmes aud ho beyond doubl
will be iouni to bs the murderer OF the
Pielzgl children.