Evening journal., 1895-07-30
HOLMES DEATH ROLL.
If All Tales Are True, He Made
a Business OF Homicide.
HIS ALLEGED VICTIMS NUMBER TEN

In Explanation of PitzeFs Death Holmes
Tells Crewsome Story Of Suicide and Of
How He BIutiiatrd His Friends Corpsa
In Order 70 Collect the Insurance.
CHICAGO, July 3O.-Wcird and grew.
some beyond human conception almost
are the developments in the Holmes case
From almost every nook and corner of his
malodorous castle" are coming evidences
of murder in tho form Of CHASTITY relics OF
bodies that were slaughtered. Each hour
adds to the discoveries.
In flendish cunning they were laid away
and would have remained forever un-
known but for the action OF the authori-
tics in ordering the place torn down.
From the great vault, from the ruins Of
the cellar, from the vat in which chemic-
als We're placed, from every place, in fact,
that could hide a body, are damning evil
donces of wholesale murder
This city is now vyng with Detroit,
Toronto and Philadelphia in an endeavor
TO obtain possession of the accused that
justice may be melted out to him
No crime Of tho century In cold blooded
ntrOcity or in the number Of unfortunate
victims, in any degroe approaches this.
The victims ranged in age from TO 80
years. Many were believed TO have been
murdered for the sake Of the insurance
they carried Others were sacrificed, fear
ing they knew the secret.
They were made away with in divers
manners. The body Of one was cut up in
TO small pieces and fed into stove. That
of another was put into a trunk and sunk
in the like. Two others were shut up in
a vault and allowed TO die there, tho bod
les being subsequently articulated and
the skeletons sold TO a medical student
Not only is the cellar of the castle" a
veritable graveyard, but the bones Of 9TH
or victims are scattered all over the eoun-
try One is believed to have been mur-
dered in Arkansas and tNo in Canada.
The trail Of the murderer is all over the
country and i'm every case it was either
the getting Of insurance money or the fear
Of discovery that was the motive These
capital offenses were necessarily accom-
panied by minor ones, such as arson and
perjury, but the graver crimes may be
summarized as follows;
Death Roll Numbers Ten.
The murder of B. Il. Pitzel.
The murder OF Alice pitzel.
The murder of Nellie Pitzel.
The murder of Howard Pitzel.
Tho murder OF Mrs Julia Connor.
The murder of Alice Williams.
The murder of Minnie Williams.
Tho murder Of Emma Cigrand
The murder Of Milford c. Cole
Tho murder Of DR.. Russler.
The swindling Of insurance companies
to the extent Of at least $3.50, 000
The police secured Monday "a skeleton
which they believed at first to be that Of
Mrs. Connor, one of the alleged victims Of
H. II. Holmes NJ. Q. Chappell, who
claimed to have articulated several sl1ele-
tons for Holmes, took two detectives to
the house Of a west side physician, where
the complete skeleton was found. Chap
pell says that he got the bones from
Holmes, and from the dates and other evi-
denco Inspector Fitzpatrick announced
that he believed the skeleton to be that Of
Mrs Connor
After further examination the police
decided that the skeleton is probably that
Of Miss Cigrand, the Indiana girl, instead
of that Of Mrs. Connor. It had been sold
to the Hahncmann Medical college by
Holmes, the police claim. This find, with
the trunk discovery of Sunday, makes two
of the three skeletons which Chappell
claims to have articulated for Holmes, and
the police are in hopes Of finding the third
very shortly