Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-08

induced the Williams girl to live with
him at No. 701 Sixty third street. Chi
cago. His fat he insured for $50, 600
on the plea that il contained valuable
papers. One night it went up in
flames.
Later he induced Minnie to write for
her sister Anna to come and see her
Rather a letter purporting to have |
been written by Minnie was sent TO |
Anna and the latter came. She took |
up her residence with her sister and
Holmes, or, as he was known, Howard.
In about month Anna disappeared.
Holmes says that Minnie got Jealous
OF her and one day she struck Anna on
the head with stool and the blow
killed her. Holmes says he got trunk
put the body in it and sunk it in the
lake. In few days Holmes moved
from the house and afterward Minnie
disappeared Whether hers is among
the bleached bones found in the cellar
of Holmes house, or an articulated
skeleton, is not yet known.
Apparently he needed man partner
in his business. He had read of the
forgeries of man name Pietzel, then
in the Terre Haute Jail. He visited
him, went bail for him in 81, 800 and
got him into partnership. He soon
found that detectives were shadowing
Pietzel, so he bundled him into large
trunk and sent him out of the city
Pietzel next officially turned up in
Fort Worth, taking possession of GER
tain property valued at about $50, 600,
which Minnie Williams was alleged to
have decided to one Bond" who was
Holmes. Pietzel went under the name
of Lyman. After a series OF daring
swindles the worthy pair, with an un-
fortunate girl that Holmes had married
in Franklin, Ind, lived for time in
st. Louis.
Here it was that Holmes met Hedg-
speth, the train robber. The latter
introduced him to useful attorney.
This is only important inasmuch as il
was Hedgspeth who subsequently
peached' on Holmes. Pietzel was
insured for $4,000 in the Fidelity
Mutual Life Association. Then he
went to Philadelphia. There he was
known as "B. #. Terry" He occu-
pied an odd looking old house at No.
1916 Callowhill street One morning
he was found dead. In his statement
printed above Holmes said the case was
suicide. AT any rate Holmes was able
to identify him as Pietzel and to get
the money.
That the Identification might be
perfect, he had Alice Pietzel, one OF
the daughters of the deceased come
on to st. Louis, where the family was
still living, to identify him. The
little girl did so. Instead of returning
the child TO her mother, he left her
at the Stebbins Hotel in Indianapolis.
He told Mrs. Pietzel she was with some
good friends and he wanted the two
other little ones, Howard and Nellie,
to go to Alice. Mrs. Pietzel consented
The children went off with Holmes
None of them have since been seen.
Holmes was known afterward to be in
Toronto with two of them. Bones of
two children have been found in the
cellar of the house he occupied, and
it is alleged he left Canada without
the little ones.
Hedgspeth, the train robber. was not
satisfied with the amount of money
given him for the Pietzel case and he
wrote the chief of police in ST. Louis
disclosing the whole plot. After the
arrest of Holmes on the charge, damn
ing evidence came rushing along The
Building Department in Chicago or-
dered the tearing down of the home,
or castle" as ii was called of Holmes.
Then it was that in all its awfulness
was uncovered, the fiendish use to
which the place had been put, On the
inside of two trunks were found un-
mistakable evidence that they had been
used for the conveyance Of human
bodies that had been cut up. In the
vault were found bones that at one
time were component parts of three
men or women. Dug up from the
cellar were piles of bones. On stove
that was in secret compartment were
found spots of blood.
1t was in this stove that it is SUP.
posed Holmes burned the body OF
Mrs. Julia Common. Chief of Police
badenoch Of Chicago says that her
murder was effected by Holmes enter.
ing her room through panel an turn
ing on the gas. Then he carried her
body to the bath tub SO that the re-
ceptacle could be easily cleansed, chop
ped 1t up into small pieces and burned
it in the stove. The date of this Ia
fixed as Christmas Day, 1891. II is
believed that DR.. Russler's bones are
among those found in the cellar. He
had had offices in the Holmes Building.
He and Holmes had been great friends.
He disappeared in 1892-a peculiar
faculty which many friends of Holmes
seem to have had.
Miss Emma Cigrand, who is missing,
is also believed to have been victim Of
Holmes She was working for Holmes
and Phelps" The latter is thought
to have been Pietzel. Her father. Peter
Cigrand, of Anderson, Neb., SAYS she
wrote that Phelps" was TO marry
her. Then her father received letter.
professedly from Emma, but which he
doubts her having written, saying she
was going to Europe. He did not hear
OF her agian.
And so it is all through the case.
Murder and swindling stand out
strongly everywhere. II Holmes be in
nocent Of everything except swindIing,
then the police everywhere are deceived
and the dumb accusation of the bleach
ed bones in his cellar is without foun-
dation. His janitor and the wife Of the
latter are now in custody in Chicago.
In all respects the case is the mos
extraordinary in extent and atrocity
that ever has been recorded.
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with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
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