Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-22
THE PITzEL MURDERS.
The Plot ThicIxeAs and New Proof
Seems to Go Against Holmes.


Seems to Go Against HolMcs.
DETROIT. Mich. July 22.-Detective
Geyer of Philadelphia is in the city and
will make further efforts to find the body
OF Howard PitzeL. Geyer has all along
held that the boy was murdered in De-
troit and has several clews. but what they
are he is not ready to tell.
CINCINNATI. July GA Commercial
Gazette special from Indianapolis says:
Mrs. Holmes. the wife of the accused muir
derer 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 friend. to whom she confided
her purpose, did talk last night.
This person says Mrs. Holmes has for
saken her husband. She alleges that Mrs.
Holmes said that the assertion of Holmes
that he was not in Toronto, but was alb
sent with his wife when the PitzeI chill
dren disappeared. is not true, that wher-
ever Holmes was at that time he was not
with Mrs. Holmes. Moreover, Mrs. Holmes
says she was with Holmes in Chicago at
the time Miss Williams disappeared. This
intimate friend of Mrs. Holmes believes
she will tell all she knows about her, htis-
band and BE- Strong witness in prosecut-
ing him.
CHICAGO. July 22.-The search for the
bCdies of the missing Williams girls was
resumed at the Castle" of H. H. Holmes.
the suspected murderer. today, and in a
noosed rope, stained dark about the knot,
the police think they have made an i'm
portant discovery. The rope. which was
found hidden beneath quantity of rub
bish. is of considerable length and strong.
At one end is plated loop and at the
other 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 Of the rope is, sucn
wall upstairs of the secret dumb waiter
shaft 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 VIC
tins had been pushed through the upstairs
door to the dumb waiter and strangled t6
death in the shaft below. Other officers
however refused to advance a theory, and
the rope was submitted to an analysis to
determine the nature of the stains.
TORONTO, Ont. July 22-If the coro-
ner's jury finds Holmes guilty of the muir
der of the two Pitzel children which Is
almost a foregone conclusion, papers VIII
at once he issued demanding his immediate
eXtradition.
DETROIT. Mich, July 22-Search for the
missing Howard Pitzel, supposed to have
been murdered in Detroit by H. II. Holmes.
was resumed today by Detective Geyer CT
Philadelphia, aided by the local force An
effort will be made to find the express
man who was engaged by Holmes to move
the trunks to and from the boarding house
on Park street, where he and his wife
stopped during the days OF their visitation
in Detroit. A belief exists that the lad was
killed before arriving here; that the body
was brought to Detroit and destroyed. or
that after digging the hole in the rear of
the Forest avenue house Holmes became
frightened and replaced the body in a
trunk, taking 1t with him into Canada.
Geyer declares the statement that Holmes
has admitted having killed Howard in De-
troit is false and silly.
CHICAGO. ILL.,, July CIT is re-
ported today that Pat Quinland and
his wife had been arrested and given
an experience in the Sweat box" In an
effort to discover just how much they may
know of Holmes Chicago record. The re-
port, however, was emphatically denied by
the police. Quinland was employed as a
janitor by Holmes here. The Holmes house
in SD street was surrounded by crowd
of several hundred curious people all day.
Several efforts were made by the throng to
carry the door with rush, and gain ad-
r1ittance, but strong guard of police kept
all sightseerS outside.