Waterbury evening Democrat., 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 PitEers Death Holmes
 Tells Grewsome Story of Suicide and of
 How He ATutilated His Friends Corpse
 In Order to Collect the Insurance.
 CHICAGO, July 3O.-Weird and grew some beyond human conception almost are the developments in the Holmes case.
 From almost every nook and corner of his malodorous 'castle' arc coming evidences of murder in the form of ghastly relics of
 bodies that were slaughtered. Each hour adds to the discoveries.
 In fiendish cunning they were laid away and would have remained forever >un- known but for the action of the authori- ties in ordering the place torn down. From the great vault from the ruins of the cellar, from the vat in which chemic- als were placed, from every place, in fact
 that could hide a body, are damning evi- dences of wholesale murder.
 This city is now wing with Detroit, Toronto and Philadelphia in an endeavor to obtain possession of the accused that justice may be meted out to him. No crime of the century, in cold blooded atrocity or in the number of unfortunate victims in any degree approaches this. The victims ranged in age from to 50 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 out up in- | to small pieces and fed into a stove. That | of another was put into a trunk and sunk | in the lake. Two others were shut up in 8 vault and allowed to die there, the bod | ies being subsequently, articulated and the skeletons sold to a medical student. l Int ic tba of tha hnuctlobp n veritable graveyard, but the bones of oth- CT victims are scattered all over the coun- l try. One is believed to have been mur- dered in Arkansas and two in Canada. | The trail of the murderer is all over the country, and in every case it was either 1 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. F. Pitzel. l The murder of Alice Pitzel. l The murder of Nellie Pitzel.
 The murder of Howard Pitzel. The murder of Mrs Julia Connor. | The murder of Alice Williams. The murder of Minnie Williams. The murder of Emma Cigrand.
 The murder of Milford c. Cole. | The murder of Dr. Russler. | The swindling of insurance companies
 to the extent of at least $25o, 900. .. The police secured Monday skeleton
 which they believed at first to be that oi
 Mrs Connor, one of the alleged victims o1 | H. H. Holmes. Nj. c. Chappell, who
 claimed to have articulatcd several skele-
 tons for Holmes, took two detectives to
 the house of q 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-
 dence Inspector Fitzpatrick announced
 that he believed the skeleton to be that oi | MEN. 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 Hahnemann 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.