The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-28
BOYS BODY.
Remains of Howard Pietzel
Found in Indianapolis.
They Had Been Burned to a Crisp
in a Stove.
is STRONG EVIDENCE.
It Was Done in a House Oc-
cupied by Holmes.
S STRONG EVIDENCE.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 2s.-In'
dianapolis will claim the right to try
II. Fl. Holmes for murder This claim
will be based upon the horrible de-
velopments of yesterday, which in
clude the finding of the charred
remains of 9-year-old Howard Pietzel
and evidence which before any jury in
the country would convict II. H.
Holmes of having murdered him and
then having partially burned his body
in stove.
Detectives Geyer of Philadelphia,
Richards of Indianapolis and Inspector
Gary of the Fidelity Insurance COM
hunting for traces of the boys body.
He was traced here with Holmes and
disappeared The city was secured
and work began in the suburbs hunt
ing for house rented by Holmes on
October 10, II or II of last year.
Yesterday morning the detectives
went to lrvington, pretty suburb of
the city and the seat of Butler college,
and before they had been at work an
hour their attention was called by
local real estate dealer to a small va
cant cottage situated in the woods at
the edge of the town and far removed
from any other dwelling, The party
went to the house, and a few minutes
later the officers found beneath the
side porch the missing trunk. which
was taken from the side door of the
Circle house in this city October 10 by
H. FL. Holmes, and which was thought
to contain the body of the boy.
In a barn connected with the house
is a large stove of cylindrical shape
of the same pattern as Holmes bought
in Cincinnati. He rented the house
under the same alias The stove had
been moved from the house to the
stable by the owner of the house after
Holmes lett. 1t was at once concluded
that the body had been burned in the
stove, and search was began for the
remains.
Last evening DR.. J. F. Barnhills at
tentiOn was called by small boy
named Walter Jenny to the stove hole
where the stove had been. It was
filled with refuse. This was pulled
out and the remains of the boy were
found. Physicians and dentists were
there, and in this pile of refuse hun
dreds of pieces of charred bones were
found.
The teeth showed that the body was
that of boy between s and 10 years
of age, and all the other bones con-
firmed this All were charred, and
pieces of flesh chung to some of them
The skull bone and pelvis added to the
same convincing truth. The body had
evidently been burned in a cob fire,
and in the huge stove found in the
barn.
Towards overcoat was found at
grocery store near by, where Holmes
had left it, saying the boy would call
for it. He never came. Owners of
the house recognize Holmes from pict-
ures, and several neighbors distinctly
remember his face. All identify him
as the man who last October rented
the house with the same story he told in
Toronto and other places, came with
the boy and big stove, wash stand and
bed, stayed two days and then disap-
peared. Seven people have identified
him, and all doubt is removed. Other
developments are expected, and with
this evidence Indianapolis will de-
mand Holmes for trial.