The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-28
The pIETZEL BONES
REMAINS OF THE MISSING LAD FOUND
IN AN IRvINGToN HOUSE.
Detective Geyer at Last Discovers the
Place where Holmes Murdered
Little Howard Pietxel.
CONTENTS OF A CHIMNEY
PARTS OF A SKULL, TEETH, BONES
AND BUTTONS FOUND HIDDEN.
stove I'm Which the Fiend Burned the
Boy and Trunk Among the
Discoveries of Yesterday.
HOLMES KNOWN AS COOK
HE RENTED THE HOUSE OCTOBER )
AND REMAINED SEVERAL DAYS.
Alvet Mooreman's Conversation with
the Murderer-HOlmes's Furniture
Still Remains In the suburb.
stove I'm which the Fiend Burned the
Boy and a Trunk Among the
Discoveries of Yesterday.
HOLMES KNOWN AS COOK
HE RENTED THE HOUSE OCTOBER j
AND REMAINED SEVERAL DAYS.
Alvet Mooreman's Conversation with
Still Remains In the suburb.

Yesterday morning in the quiet suburb of
Irvington, five miles east of the city. was
found house which beyond doubt was
| occupied by II. II. Holmes during last
| October. During the afternoon charred
pieces Of human bones were found in the
chimney. which has a foundation in the
cellar There Is no doubt in the mind of
| detective Frank Geyer. of Philadelphia.
who has worked so untiringly upon the
| Holmes case for eight months and more.
that he he's found all that remains of
| Howard Pietzel and at the same time OBJ
| tanned good evidence that the boy was
| murdered and disposed of in this city. The
name which Holmes gave in renting the
house was A. K. Cook. the same name
he used in Cincinnati. The exact time of
the murder was all that remained to be
| learned last night. Elvet Mooreman.
| student at Butler University, talked with
| the man who rented the cottage and he
positively identifies the photograph Of
| Holmes as that Of the mysterious indvi-
dual who came to the place one day in
October with boy. remaining there but
one two days. Holmes rented the house
Oct. 5. Among the ashes found in the
chimney were sections of human skull,
teeth. several vertebrae. portions of ribs.
buttons and other things indicating foul
play. which give traces of the only victim
of the human butcher unaccounted for.
Inspector Gary, of the Fidelity Insurance
Company, has been with detective Geyer
upon his last visit to this city. They have
been assisted by detective Richards, of
the city detective force, and the three
have searched from one end of the city
| to the other in an effort to learn some
| thing of Holmes and his actions in this
| city. Real estate Offices have been visited
and the owners of real estate questioned,
but no tangible clews were obtained until
yesterday morning. Many were the reports
brought to Mr.. Geyer and he faithfully in
vestigated each, Inquiries have been made
of suburban real estate men, but none
reported house as having been rerted
October Mr.. Geyer. after his Investigations
in other cities and the discovery of the
evidences of Holiness guilt, was convinced
that Howard Pietzel was murdered and his
remains buried in this city.
Mr.. Geyer knew that Holmes. with the
three Pietzel children, was in this city last
October. He knew that he presumably de-
parted upon the 9Th. but in fact was seen
here as late as the 10TH 1t has been his
endeavor to find how and where he spent
the intervening time. The discovery at
Toronto strengthened the conclusions drawn
by Mr.. Geyer. He traced Holmes from this
city to Toronto and learned that the willy
swindler charged with a dozen murders
did not lose much time in getting there
1t was learned that Holmes arrived there
with two little girls. having first stopped
to murder them, going so far as to dig
their graves.
THE IRvINGToN CLEw.
The investigation at the Toronto house
Pietzel girls, but no trace of the boy,
Howard, was found, neither could it be
proved that he had the boy with him either
there or at Detroit. Indianapolis was the
last place where the boy was seen, so Mr..
Geyer returned here month ago, making
the Spencer House his headquarters and
letting 1t be known that he was searching
for house rented under suspicious cir
cumstances last October. AT times he was
on the point of giving up and allowing the
disappearance of the boy to remain mys-
terry with the explanation that Holmes
had so we'll covered his tracks in murder
ing the boy that they could not be found
He persevered, however. and can now re-
turn to Philadelphia with evidence much
the same in character as has been ac-
cumulated against Holmes in the manage
ment of the famous Chicago castle, where
many persons met their death at his hands.
The story and a half house at Irvlngton
where the discoveries of yesterday were
made stands some little distance from Union
avenue, In the extreme eastern part of the
suburb. Across the street Is the Methodist
church. and two hundred yards TO the south
are the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. There
is no other house in the immediate neigh
borhood. for the cottage stands in a Sc
cluded place. To the west is a small grove
of young catalpa trees. To the east there
is a large common. There are two roads
leading to the street-car line. 1t is such
place as Holmes would seek for a crime,
suggesting the neighborhoods in which he
rented houses in Detroit and Toronto Sew
cral persons in the suburb recall the strange
actions of the man who rented the house
last October. and to Eivet Norman these
actions were suggestive of those of Holmes
He was on the point of notifying Mr. Geyer
of what he knew some time ago, but the
fear OF notoriety deferred him. There was