New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-16
rOUND BURIED IN A CELLAR
.ro1yEI TO THE PIETZEL INSURANCE
CONSPIRACY.

,r poD1Es OF HIS MISSING DAUGHTERS DIS
covEREp-H. H. HOLMES NOW AWAITING
SENTENCE FOR THE FRAUD. THOUGHT
TO HAVE MURDERED THEM
r.o,,o July l5-The bodies OF Eta and Nettie
r,za the missing daughters Of Benjamin T.
n,1ol were found by Detectives Cuddy. OF To-
Ito and Geycr of Philadelphia. this afternoon
.,od IN the cellar of the house at No. l6 ST. VIM
-, " H. Holmes now under arrest al Phia-
.,hi, is believed to have murdered he two sr.s
,,or he had first murdered their father In Phia-
se,nhia and their brother in Detroit Inquiries De-
, ~. the police Jed 20 the knowledge that Holmes
"a the children lived at the house in question: ana
arch WAS made by the TWO officers. A photograph
.. rIo.,oss was shown 10 Frani> y. Nudel. or the
O,.srio Educational Department. VINO owns NO. 10
G, yincent-s,, and without any hesitation ne l'e"-
.,o.d !, as that of the man who had rented from
Wv, last october. and who after very snort stay
Rad departed
Wen they reached the cellar it appeared to the
s,e,,,ves that something had disturbed the cellar
short distance below the surface they
n. across the and portion OF the mead OF
40 NJ the murdered girls, and further work soon
rsaled the bodies OF two victims Ihey were
..,h nude and had lain there. in all prooapiity
49, tact October The bodies of the little ones
xs-e buried three feet below the surface anu were
IN fair state of preservation.
mines the alleged murderer OF the girs. Is heid
h, Philadelphia a charge of conspiracy H. II.
rIomes alias Herman w. Mudgett, aias IL. H.
w,rd was born in NewHaven, Conn ana at
100 a medical school at Burlington, VI. ana
,.,er at Ann Arbor. He was married at 'ha'
go He and friend swlnded an insurance COM
- in chicago out Of $1,000 soon after they were
Graduated Holmes went into the drug business
and snecuated His wife went home. ana ne mar
,ied another woman with whom he went 10 oalior-
MIA Returning in about year. ne went 10 mouse
a..--t.e -cFf IN,
ARMED Learning that his typewriter and her Sis
,sr had inherited $4,000. he laid scheme TO get
tho money The sister came to live with them ana
disappeared while he and Minnie. the typewriter
ei-l took up their abode at the Plaza Hoie. chi
Saco. Holmes next appeared in Terre Haute Ind,
,Ssre he went 70 franklin Ind where he married
Miss ok and they spent tgs n IN Der"
'ss Phiiadeiphia he and Pietzel PLAYED The las,
Fsss III S in 6s SsS
was found dead in the house at No isl' NOV VI
r. F. Perry. His body badly burned, and the
face was almost unrecognzab.e Homes ana i .,
zels wife and children identihed the pouS d '""'
According to the story Holmes told MIS- Po'z Hn
r. siI the insurance. COMPANY by passing on upon
It bogus body as that OF Pieizels Holmes toid
house b. Ard 5ha hi! ns sS %ss
and TO aid her husband consented so Iar 10 ' sk
part in the deception as to claim me In Tney Ven,
received 800, Howe got big fee and Homes kept
Then the tran:robber. Hedgespaih, gave the case cas-
YER Jeptha b. Howe OF st. Louis. whom he had
into the S MAS F Tace Raa to
burlington and Boston. and in he last named rity
was arrested Meanwhile the Pe,z,l children hnd
snd The two girls to Toronto
Holmes awaits sentence IN Phadelpna Tor ,nS
the police expec, to fix several murders on him.