The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-07-19
HORRIBLE CRIME.
FINDING Of the bodies Of the Two Pis.neI
Children In . Cellar In Toronto-fhs
Father Murdered In PhIladelphIa-

Children In q Cellar In Toronto-fhs
Father Murdered In Philadelphia.
TORONTO, Ont, July 16-The bodies
Of Alice and Nettic Pietzel, the miss.
ing daughters Of Benjamin =. Pietzel,
were found by Detective Cruddy, of
Toronto. and Detective @. T. Geyo, OF
Philadelphia. Monday afternoon, bur
led In the cellar Of house No. 10 St.
Vincent street II. Holmes, now under
arrest at Philadelphia, is believed to
have deliberately murdered the girls
after he had first murdered their father
in Philadelphia Inquiries by the po-
lice led TO the knowledge that Holmes
and the children lived at tho. house in
question, and search was made by the
two officers.
They were both nude and laid there
since last October.
The bodies Of the little ones were
buried three feet from the surface and
were in fair state Of preservation
Holmes, the alleged murderer Of the
girls. Is held in Philadelphia on q
charge Of conspiracy, and a nice legal
point now presents itself The muir
der having been committed in Canada,
the case must be tried within its boun-
daries. but as Holmes has pleaded
guilty TO one charge in the United
States, he may insist on being sentenc-
ed for that
Holmes, alias Harmon Mudgett. alias
M "A 49, =
ven, Conn, and attended q medical
school at burlington, Vt. and later at
Ann Arbor. Mich. He was married at
the latter place. lie and friend swim
died an insurance company in Chicago
out Of $4,000 soon after graduating.
They made another haul Of $4,000 in a
similar way.
Holmes went into the drug business
and specuiated- His wife went homo
and he married another woman, with
whom he went to California Return
ing In about year he went 70 house
keeping with the woman typewriter Of
the company. whose acquaitance he
had formed. He tried to cheat a fire
insurance company out of 100000 but
failed, and lao-ning that his type
writer and her sister had inherited ESQ.,
900 laid scheme 70 get the money. The
sister came 10 live with them and dis
appeared. while he and Minnie, the
typewriter girl. took up their abode at
the Plaza hotel, Chicago.
Holmes next appeared in Terre
Haute, Ind. where he bailed Pietzel
out Of Jail From there he went TO
Franklin. Ind. where he married Miss
Yoke, and they spent their honeymoon
in Denver, where Holmes made e27, 900
in speculation
At Philadelphia later on he and Piet-
eel played the last card. Pietzel was
insured in the Philadelphia Mutual for
$1,000 On September 'he was found
dead in the house at 1916 Callowhill
street, which he had rented under the
name of H. F. Perry. His body was
badly burned and the face was almost
unrecognizabic. Holmes, Pietzers wife
and children identified the body as
Pietzers and $500 of the insurance
money was paid over
Then Train Robber Hedgespath gave
the whole case away 70 Chief Of Police
Harrison because Lawyer Howe, whom
he had gotten into the conspiracy, had
not paid him the promised reward
Holmes was traced TO Toronto, Bur
lington and Boston, and IN the latter
city was arrested, the boy being
traced % indianapolis and the two
girls 20 Toronto
Holmes awaits sentence in Philadel-
phia for insurance fraud. and the po-
lice expect 70 fix several murders on
him.