The Irish standard., 1896-04-18
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A VARIED LOT or EXPLANATIONS


w. T. Gary, OF the Fidelity MUTUAL Lite IN
suranee Company, denying that he killed
the Pietzel children has been made ei2ublic.
The letter in part is as follows: q
Whether / SHALL be dead or alive when
the matter is cleared up, can prove that
In Indianapolis did not kill the, boy, and
in Toronto by Mrs. Pietzel's and my wife's
statements taken In connection with the
postmortem and inquest evidence, that !
did not kill the girls | also want 70 call
your attention toone other point Wa-ca was
Mr.. Grahan's strongest point here, VIZ:
That the child Alice had been here had
seen her father-had told the other chill
dren, and had to kill them all lest they
would say to their mother that it was Ia re-
aIity him who was buried here.
Before leaving St. Louis Mrs. Pietzei
and ! had instructed Alice to answer
promptly, Yes, I am sure, It is my father,
Mrs Pietzel's object being lest the Child
would not recognize him, she supp0sin3 4
body had been substituted; mine because !
feared the body would be SO badly lecom-
posed it would be unrecogn.zable. Now in
looking over the letters published: ] soc the
child speaks of going to Morgan and TO in
surance companies, etc, but wholly ontits
anything about seeing him. Next letter
| being one from Indianapolis The truth .
that Mrs, Pietzel received a letter Of con-
siderable length written the evening after
! the visit to the grave, in which she gave a
full account of it. saying: am sure, It
was papa, etc What more could she have
told her mother If she had seen her? II
| she had seen her mother in person and told
her the same it could not have alarmed her
quite so much as to have her say, No, It is
1 not him. Where, then, is the motive?
There can be none other, save the one hey
! tried to drag into the case relating 10 my
alleged ill-usage of the child. First, con-
s.dering that Alice was child, then look
over my record which you, of all Others
know by this time, and, bad as / have been.
You would seek in vain for criminality in
| this direction; second, read the little letters.
| Somewhere in them you VII find:. My
| feet are better Mr. Holmes got me some
vaseine, ETC.; and, finally, ask Of your Mr..
| Perry fwho also knew of her difficulty with
/ her feet and shoes and Coroner Ashbridge,
who both saw the child just before and just
after the alleged ill-treatment. will abide
by their decision as to whether she had suf-
fered at my hands.
After Hatch's visit to me at Cincinnati,
when told him that P.etzel was dead aud
i he had made the visit to Miss Williams, he
Il
I inc real estate trades in Indiana) he was
4 seeking for the Irving house. Whle was
in ST. Louis he found the same, and visited
/ the owners or agents. From that time tin
til left Indiana, | was only there a. few
hours in the middle of three days, making
it necessary for him to postpone his WORK
in order to see me. 1t was at these times
he was seen at the barber shop, where ht
had his chin shaved, leaving him with only
moustaehe After had returned Il
Franklin he made his purchases and ris;ti
(seven separate occasions, when certain,
" could not have been there) On one oc
casion he must have hired horse and TAX
en- furniture to the house in the evening
kept the horse over night, and using; ten
ants grain was away no other night b
evening.
!, "On the 10th, in the afternoon, he had ;
trunk and boy taken to the house. After
2 p. M, presumably during the night, afte
7 the boy had gone to sleep, as Moremai
T says the bed had been occupied. the boy
life had been taken, and during next da.
S (Armstrong seeing him in the morning) h
burned the body and trunk and clothinl
g three suits and two overcoats), eXeayatel
) the fireplace, buried the portions, yol
I found, and carefully replaced the bricks
! all taking at least "a hours time, and still
: giving him a chance to take the Detroi
e train, on which know he must have como
s Then he met the girls, as had been agree
j upon, leaving me full opportunity, as m
t wife has stated, to take her to the hote
|, without giving the attention to them that
1 would otherwise have had to do.
t 'eThe Detroit house and excavation wa
: certainly blind, and II had known tha
|, the children were dead. you VIII agree tha
I. could have made no more foolish NOV
than to have voluntarily told you, Of th
same, which / must have seen would be
e key to the whole wrong doing. You cel
4 tainly OF all others know that but for thi
voluntary action on my part there was nc
\ one chance in a hundred Of the Toronto dc
o velopments being known. Hatch certain
n ly- went to the Detroit boarding house an
i accompanied the girls to the train the da
I after we left. there.
'sHe reacaed Toronto Saturday imornin.
4, the goth, meeting me at the postoffice, an
= while my wife and were shopping an
n eating dinner hired house. (See Tpront
] reports.)e He took care of the children ovt
N Sunday, while nay wife and j were ava
j tNiagara). On Monday he bought furnitu
and stove. On Tuesday and Wednesday /
, was with me for several hours. lThevoiIl
! time / was out Of my wife's sight in Tornl
!, to, day or night, to exceed one half nour
q On Thursday morning a letter was receive
g from Mrs. w, at / p. m. When / am ea
le ing dinner with my wife. he is at the hou
~ with the girls (See Ryves' testimoriy) ]
70 b. m, when i met Mrs. p, having ii n
n hands underclothing to send to Howard(re
IN ord of the purchase of which you can see
II Toronto hoteD, he was at the house agai
o. borrowing a spade, had not seen him sin
le 1890 a. m. when, after the letter had com
ID he had taken the girls with him. He i;
le'l sent them to their lunch at 2 p. m wi
Is word that he would be at the train at 4 3
N don't think you will question the fact tn
4 at this time of which Mrs. Pitzel -peah
le that is p. M, Thursday, the 25th. the gin
ia were alive You certainly know they we
IL alive only few hours earlier, and my wife
ly testimony shows that ! was in and Q
OF her hotel all the intervening time.
ia Granting me this, YOU must divorce +
IA from the Toronto murders, for as soon as
er had taken the-children into the train Itwi
a. In AS minutes Of the time Mrs. Pitzel s.
! me at the store}, was at my wife's hot
q. and until ] saw her at Ogdenshurg Frid
m afternoon, after aiding her to leave Toron
. that evening, was not out OF my wifi
u sight. Hatch must meantime have n
i ! Miss Williams and the children, either /.
:, the return from Hamilton or some way ST
- ton, and, without doubt destroyed the
~ ~ cne at time, Miss Williams keeping I
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