Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-25

q look NJ Der, II nc. cail HSlp IT, cue ~
extremely cnreworn and he thinks the
ordeal ofviewipg the bodies might have
scrions consequences.
Hundreds Of people are crowdipg
round the corridors Of the Rossin House
to get glimpse of the woman utthcir
curiosity is still unsatlstied.
y THE rosrMoRTEM ExASiIEATIoN,
Drs. Cayen and Harrington continued
the postmortem examination on the re-
mains-of Alice.Piclzel yesterday at the
morgue. What the specialists found
vivid not be made public until the re-
stunned inquest at. the police court this
evening, but it Is certain that traces OF
some narcotic were found.
After this, examination Drs. Caven
and Harrington spent the remainder Of
the day in arranging the body so as to
make 1t presentable TO Mrs. Pietzel, the
mother who will view the remains as
soon as she Is able.
MEANS OF IDENTIBroATIoN.
II Is understood that there was pc.
culinr division in Alice's two upper in
cisors and by this Mrs. Pietzel says she
can at once Identify her child. She also
says she would Immediately know the
hair OF tho children.
Tho only parts Of the child's body
besides the teeth and hair which are at
all presentable are the hands, and these
also will ne seen by Mrs. Pletzel as there
arc certain marks that may possibly
help in the Identification.
OTHER WITNESSES Will TESTIFY.
Assistant District Attorney Barlow of
Philadelphia and Detective Crawford
may both be at the inquest tonight,
Other witnesses than Mrs. Pietzel will
be brought from The United States to
give evidence before the inquiry closes.
MpRDEgER HOLMES WIFE.
CfNcrS1Arr, o., July ga CONNER
ciai Gasstie special from Indianapolis,
says. s3
Mrs. Holmes, wife OF the accused
murderer and insurance swindler, left
here for Philadelphia at the instance Of
the prosecuting attorney of that city.
Mrs. Holmes herself would not talk,
but her most intimate ffiend, TO whom
she contided her purpose, did talk last
night.
This person says Mrs. Holmes has
forsaken her husband. She alleges that
| Mrs. Holmes said that The assertion of
Holmes that he was notin Toronto, but
was absent with his wife when the
Pietzel children disappeared, is not
true; that wherever Hblmes was at that
time he was not with Hrs. Holmes.
Moreover, Mrs. Holmes says she was
with Holmes in Chicago at the time
Miss Williams lisapp eared. This inti-
mate friend of Mrs. Holmes believes she
will tell all she knows about her hus-
band, and be u strong witness in prose-
cutting him.
CHICAGO, ILL, July 22.-The search
for the bodies Of thb missing Williams
girls was resumed 81 the "Castle" Of o.
II. Holmes, the suspected murderer,
to-day, and in toosed rope, stained
dark about the Knot, the police think
they have made an important discovery.
| The rope, which was found hidden
beneath quantity OF rubbish, is of con-
siderable length and strong. At one
end is plated loop and at the other a
running, or hangman's moose. About
the knot and on the rope near the moose
were found several dark spots, which
the police Immediately concluded were
blood stains. The length is such that
were the plated loop attached to the
upstairs wall of the secret dumb. waiter
shaft, a body hanging from the moose
would just clear the floor at the bottom
OF the shaft.
This coincidence convinced some OF
the detectives that Holmes alleged
victims had been pushed through the
upstairs door to the dumb waiter and
strangled to death in the shaft below.
Other officers, however, refused to ad.
vance a theory and the rope was sub.
mitted to an analysis to determine the
nature of the stains.
| MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 23.-It is
believed that H. II. Holmes, the notori.
GUS insurance swindler and murderer,
accompanied by Nellie and Howard
Pietzel, were in Milwaukee for several
days last October. A man answering
the description of Holmes called at the
Plankinton House with two children
who were from 10 to 10 years of age
the girl being the older of the two
Both We're well.dressed.
The stranger told Manager King that
he found the children in the Davidson
Theatre after the performance and the
girl told him their father had gone to
Waukesha on business. The children
were kept at the hotel for several days
They disappeared.
They next turned up at the ticket
office of the Chicago s. Northwestern
road. The same man called with then
and asked for Fred. Hall, the tickeI
agent. The latter was told by the
stranger that the children had beer
found at tho theatre and that the hotel
keeper refused to keep them any longer
He said that the girl had told him tina
her father, William Dixon of Sterling
ILL.,, knew Mr.. Hall. The latter coulc
not remember being acquainted witt
a Mr.. Dixon, but took charge oil
the children. Mr.. Hall did not question
the children, but the stranger told hin
thut Dixon was real estate dealer anC
had gone to Waukesha to- close larg,
deal. Together with the'children, Hal
: and the stranger started for the Wind
SCR Hotel.k When they got near til,
hotel the stranger excused himself, say
ing that he would have TO catch trail
for Chicago At the request of Mr.
Hall he gave his name and address a
! Mr.. Knapp OF, No. 1856 Calumet avenue
Chicago.
Mr.. Hall took the children to tn
hotel and engaged rooms for then,
} That night woman called at the hote
and waited on the sidewalk until sh
I, could talk to the children. Between
and 10 o'clock the children found thei
. opportunity TO steal from tho hotel un
+ seen, and the last trace that the polio
7 could find was that the children ha,
l gone with the woman. The same nigh
| another woman well dressed made in
Quiries at the Plankinton House as I
where she could find the children.
? CAUSED MRS, ooNNoR's DEATH.
: CHICAGO, ILL.,, July GA locs
! paper to-day prints, the following
That Mrs. Connori is dead is certain