The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-09-05

Cottage Once Occupied by HI. HI. Holmes,
Near Indianapolis, the Scene of the
Discovery-This New Evidence Believed
suhicient to Secure Conviction.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 29.-Indianapolis
will claim the right to try H. H. Holmes
Tor murder. This claim will be based
upon the horrible developments of
Tuesday, which include the finding of
the charred remains of 9-year-old How
ard Pietzel and evidence which, before
any jury in the country, would convict
Holmes of having murdered him and
then partially burned his body in a
stove.
Detective Geyer of Philadelphia,
Richards of Indianapolis and Inspector
Gary of the Fidelity Insurance COM
pany, have been at work for weeks
hunting for traces of the boys body.
He was traced here with Holmes and
disappeared. The city was secured and
work begun in the suburbs hunting for
a house rented by Holmes about Oct. 10
of last year.
Located a Holmes Cottage.
Tuesday morning the detectives went
to Irvington, suburb of the city, and
the seat of Butler college, and before
they had been at work all hour their at
tention was called by a local real estate
dealer to small vacant cottage in the
woods at the edge of the town and far
removed from any other dwelling. In
a few minutes after the officers had ell
tered the cottage they found beneath
the side porch the missing trunk which
was taken from the side porch Of the
''circle' house in this city Oct. 10 by H.
H. Holmes, and which was thought to
have contained the body of the boy In
barn connected with the house was
large stove 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 left.
Search for the Remains
began, for it was concluded that the
body had been burned in the stove. Late
in the evening attention was called to
the stove hole where the stove had BEEN
It was filed with refuse. This was
pulled and the remains of the boy were
found. Physicians and dentists were
there, and i'll this pile of refuse hun
dreds of pieces of charred bones were
found. The teeth showed that the body
was that Of a boy between 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, bones and pelvis added to the
same convincing truth. The body had
evidently been
Burned in Cob Fire
and in the huge stove found in the barn.
Towards OvercOat was found at a GRO
Gerry store near by where Holmes had
left it, saying the boy would call for it.
Owners of the house recognize Holmes
from pictures, and several neighbors
distinctly remember him. All identify
him as the man who rented the house
with the same story he told in Toronto
and other places, came with the boy and
the big stove, washstand and bed stayed
two days and then disappeared. Other
developments are expected, and with
this evidence Indianapolis will demand
Holmes for trial
MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST HOLMES.
Feet of the Murdered Boy Dug Up-Also
Bottle of Poison.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 31.-The drug
with which Howard Peitzel was killed
before his body was burned in the big
stove in the Irvington cottage was found
during the day. A part of bottle of
cyanide of potassium was found buried
in the barn. 1t was given to the COR
oner. Boys digging under the house
in all unfinished portion of the cellar
found the two feet Of Howard Peitzel.
They had been burned but not DESTROYED
and were evidently too bulky to put into
the chimney hole. With the feet was
found buried a 5-quart can There was
some oil in it. All the witnesses were