The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-09-05
YOUNG PITEzELS' BODY
Was Found in Holmes House
in Indianapolis.
THE CHARRED BONES ONLY LEFT
The Evidence Against the Insurance
Swindler Is Said to Be Strong
Enough to Hang Him.

indianapolis, August 29.-Indianap
oils will claim the right to try H. H.
Holmes for murder. The claim will
be based upon the developments today
which include the finding of the char.
red remains of 9-year old Howard
Pitezel, and evidence which before any
jury in the country would convict
Holmes Of numbering him and then
partially burning his body in a stove.
Detectives Geyer, of Philadelphia;
Richards, of Indianapolis, and Inspec.
tor Gary, of the Fidelity Insurance
Company, have been at work for sew.
eral weeks hunting for traces of the
boys body. He was traced here with
Holmes and disappeared. The city was
secured and work began in the suburbs,
hunting for house rented by Holmes
on October 10. II or IL, of last year.
This morning the detectives went to
Irvington, pretty suburb of this city,
and the seat of Butler college, and be-
fore they had been at work an hour,
their attention was called by a local
real estate dealer to small vacant cot
tage situated in the woods at the edge
Of town, and far removed from any
other dwellings. The party went to
the house, and few minutes later the
officers found beneath the side porch
the missing trunk which was taken
from the Circle house in this city, o.
tober 10, by Holmes, and which was
thought to contain the body of the boy
Great excitement followed and hun
dreds hOcked to the scene as soon as the
discovery leaked out, although the Off
GERS tried to keep it secret. The house
was guarded and work began, search
ing for additional evidence. Develop
ments followed thick and fast, and the
chain of evidence is damaging.
In barn connected with the house
was large stove of cylindrical shape,
Of the same pattern as those Holmes
bought in Cincinnati. He rented the
house under the same alias. The stove
had been moved to the stable by the
owner of the house after Holmes left.
1t was concluded that the body had
been burned in the stove, and search
began for the remains. Late this even
ing, DR.. Barnhill's attention was call
ed by a small boy named Walter Jenny
to the stovehole, where the stove had
been. 1t was filled with refuse. This
was pulled out, and the remains of the
boy were found. Physicians and den
lists were there, and in this refuse
hundreds of pieces Of charred bones
were found. The teeth showed that
the body was that of boy between 8
and 10 years old, and the other bones
confirmed this. All were charred, and
pieces of flesh chung to some OF them.
The skull bones and pelvis added the
same truth. The boy had evidently
been burned in cob fire in the huge
stove found in the barn. Towards
overcoat was found in grocery store
near by, where Holmes had left it,
saying that the boy would call for it.
He never came. Owners of the house
recognize Holmes from the pictures,
and several neighbors remember the
face. Several people have identified
him, and all doubt is removed. Other
developments are expected tomorrow,
and, with this evidence, Indianapolis
will demand Holmes for trial.