The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-11-09
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she had suffered during her trouble in
New York. Becoming somewhat better
l had her to go to tho Baptist or Pres
byterian hospital, an institution near
the ClybournG avenue cable limits in
Chicago, where her name will be found
enrolled upon the books of that institu-
ton during the last week in May, 1898,
under the name of Mrs. Williams.
We took apartments at 1920 Wright
wood avenue, early in June, and about
June 20 the sister, Mamie, came to visit
her, in response to a letter from Miss
Williams. Her trunk was delivered by
Drinks next day, it being another one
containing books and pictures that was
later returned to Fort Worth. Mamie
Williams was never at 701 Sixty third
street. At about this time MIR. Edgar
Hatch, q former New York theatrical
acquaintance of Miss Williams, called
upon us.
In October or November I bought a
new safety vault, in the name of the
Campbell & Yates company, of a firm
between Madison and Adams street, on
Fifth avenue. This vault was placed in
position and plastered by a workman
named Cross late in December, 1898,
and a few days thereafter | left Chicago,
and have neve been i'll the building
since, yet it is persistently claimed that
my many alleged victims must have
met their death by s~uffocation in this
vault.
III February, 1894, at Fort Worth,
Benjamin L. Pitezel, while under the
influence Of liquor, was, as he supposed,
legally married to a disreputable wom-
an known by the name of Mrs. Martin.
AS 0 o rs lie became sober he told me
Of what had occurred and threatened to
kill both the woman and himself. In
June, 1894, lie made All effort to end
his life by taking poison at the hotel of
Henry Rodgers, Perkinsville, Ala.
In July, 1894, I was arrested in st.
Louis, it. being my first acquaintance
with prison or jaiE Of any kind. The
days of my short confinement in this
prison were taken up by my reading
Lies M~iserables."
On Oct. 10 | left Indianapolis for
Chicago, the two Pitezel children, Alice
and Nellie, accompanying me, the boy
Howard being left in Hatch's charge at
an Indianapolis hotel AT about II a.
IN. Thursday, Oct. 20, at Toronto, Hatch
received a letter from Miss Williams,
stating that she was ready to return
and would meet the girls at Niagara
Eo1ic A I .gN IN , ~ ' N fhnu oto 1urloh
with me, and no one who has heard
Mrs. Pitezel's recent statement that she
knew Of their being in or near a large
store where. she was making some pur-
chases at about 4 p. m, will doubt the
t~ruthfulness Of it, and it could only have
been upon this day, for while there /
asked her if she could prepare to leave
Toronto that evening. This she will re-
member, and, moreover, / could not
have asked her this at an earlier date,
for / bad not known until that morning
that Miss Williams was ready to return
to. London. From 80 p. n. until 6 p.
M. ] was engaged in tie business portion
Of the city gathering together and pay
ing for several articles l had previously
bought, making settlements in at least
two stores where their books will show
that such payments were made just be-
fore business ended for the day, which
was at 6 p. N.
After this I ate dinner at the Palmer
House, then went to Mrs. Pitezel's
hotel and accompanied her to the depot,
returning to my hotel. l did not go out
of this hotel until next morning, at
which time (about 8 a. m. ! took a
train for Prescott, where l registered at
the Imperial hotel at 4 80 p. m During
the preceding ID hours my wife had
been with mo constantly, save the short
time l had been engaged in collecting
my parcels, as heretofore stated, and in
aiding Mrs. Pite2el to take the train.
MIR. Reeves, who seems to be a credi-
BILE witness at the Toronto inquest, If he
has been correctly reported, states that
he saw the children at p. m. Thurs
day that the next morning the spade
was returned TO him, and still later the
keys were given to him. Upon two &C.
casions in conversation Mr.. Reeves has
stated that the returning of the spade
occurred before working hours, presum-
ably before 7 or Z 80 Friday morning,
at which time I had not left my hotel,
and hat the keys were not returned I'M
til next day, I being hundreds of miles
away, at Ogdensburg, N. Y, at the
time.
During most of my stay in this re-
gion l was at the Windsor hotel, at Og-
d~ensburg. While there l hired a house
for Mrs. Pitezel, but it being in so quiet
q n%eiehhorhood and SO many inquiries