Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-18
MRS. PIBTZEL'S SAD STORY,
She Vas The VICTIM, She Says, Of
Hypnotic llllolCa
Holiness Probably Intended 20 Nm
urr Win tho ueSi Of the
Family.

identity the boties Of the two children
found In the cellar oithe house al g ~.
Vincent street, talked about her past
lie and hOr husbands dealings with
Holmes Just be'oro leaving. MIS-.
Pietzrl 10 broken In hualth ana mia +,
the victim, she believes gI bypuotic
1 ilusEce .xerted by Holmes.
"h,mas. wu,m bad never met"
saia Mrs. PiaiIri, con, once bciogs the
grash Of my HuFosod, stoned iFlm he
,im1 he asked me Tor the osra o. tho
children until biz nnsl aTrost b bnye .
pgcu,irr iHiiuonCr over nue.. io,t W =
tiUl|sd uy him. Hg hat n sway over
$40 tHsi 1 ihgu thought natural, since
o nnu been INC lutimsto lflouJ 90 my
husband. Besides my husband hsi
feprA.nlly told fuo that could trust
blW; that he wnH good mnu, Rud mat
how uld alwsys be true u u. The
children I'D lizsI hiu. ihete was
nothing that no could not 10 with
them.
"Again and again my husband told
me low much is thought ~ Holmes
came 10 the same opinion mytcit, a.
though ~ Hrs diI not like ihs mHn
and tod my hutband 90, aud begged
him 10 have nothing TO DO do with
him.
81 saw my husband last on August
"a, 1894. he had gone 10 ~. Louis,
He was then heavily Interested with
Holmes IN whatever tho enterprises
40 All 4
b log riGk with my baby. 1 was very
sick. i could not 20 90 PhilldeIphis
TO Identity the body which they sue.
ltctod to TO that Of my husband.
could not he moved. Holmes came to
me and Mice was taken east and She
Identified the body. 1t WAS after that
that Holmes told mo that the body was
not that OF my husband, that II was a
hOgus body made up to look like him,
aud that II or the children said any
thing about II the Insurance. company
would o., hold OF rs and We would DO
punished severely.
"l was very sick end 1 believed
Holmes. He talked Kindly and offered
81 take Alice, Nellie and Howard away
from mo anu educate them. He said
thst he would put them To school and
p,y all OF their expenses. Tho CHI dTsn
loved him and | was alone in the
world and poor. 1 let him take them
ami they went away. At this tme and
all other times Holmes acted to me
Ike \ gentleman.
HE constantly kept mo under the
impression, though, that and tho
children wsTo TO 10 mixed up in the
bogus BODY which he said was found In
Philadelphia. He said PIstzel was
still alive, and that would $50 him
again when the trouble was over. He
Wished though TO shvs US from arrest
and after the three children were gone
| moved about tue country. | began
to worry about the children. l wanted
10 see them and wished TO know where
they were. Holmss always put me OIL
with the story that must keep quisI
until the detectives stopped their
work.
"Whsn he took mo 10 Detroit II was
no who reRistered me there NJ Mr..
Adams. He told mo 10 when he came
up u the room where Bessie, my oldest
daughter, and | were. tOld him that
ho uid wrong TO put my name down
wfon 4. but he explained that tho de.
t'otlvsS must be Eopt of the track and
that | was protecting my husband by
this. | finally heard tho children were
Al Toronto, aud Dessie, 1 ana the BABY
went there alone to search, but without
aucCeIe.
"5ince then have been working for
tue location OF the children with Dlt-
triot Attorney Graham, OF PhilA.
dolphia. Mr.. Geyer, tue detective, OF
Philndelphia, anu the officers OF the
lilo Insurance company have done all
In their power 10 aid me. You
must understand that when my
children were fret really missing,
| was locked up and could not com.
munictts with any Que. | was not
allowed to see tbs newspapers nor to
receive mail. In III lmes'B trunk there
WAS found letter from my daughter
Alice to me which never reached mo,
showing that my mail WAS intercepted.
Since l have had my freedom the
Philadelphia authorities and the In.
Surance company have worked 10
bring my children back 70 me and [
have aiued them so far a. | could.
"When | gave the children up TO
Holmes In 81 Louis | was too sick and
trusted him toe much to pay careful
attention to what did. He told me-
10 20 honns 10 6alvh, 10 recruit there
with my parents aud he would keop
tho three In school. When he took
me TO Detroit, and sup Osed we were
being bounded by detectives, Holmes
paid most OF tbs bills. Som.limes
was compelled to pay my own expenses,
believe Holmes intended to kill me,
| think he meant to kill mo Ia Burlipg.
ton, VI, but no must have Loaf bis