The evening times., 1896-05-07
INSTRUCTIONS TO PITEZEL.

and shipped il in a trunk TO Philadelphia.
i turned the check for the trunk over to
Pitezel on the Sunday nearest the LIST OF
September.
INSTRUCTIONS TO PITEZEL.
II instructed him how to prepare the
body and in three hours we were on our
way to New York. Ten days after the
payment of the money l saw Pitezel in
Cincinnati. 1 took the three children to
that city. where the father saw them.
Piteze agreed to go South, and he took
one child. Howard. i took the two
two girls to Chicago because l had busi-
ness there.
we an met again in Detroit. Pitezel
took the children nd went To South Amer
ica. During all this time Mrs. ptezel knew
her husband Was awe. but she did not
know he had the children. 1r she was
aware OF that she would insist that the
crooked business be wound up right away.
In order TO keep Mrs. Pitezel away from
her husband | had to tell her he was here
and there. travelling from one city to an
other
This was the frs. of a number OF alleged
admissions that Holmes subsequently, made
In fact. lie acquire a penchant for making
confessions that surprised the authori-
ties
for believing Holmes had murdered PlteZei
and the three children, so when the priS-
oner arrived in Philadelphia he was urged
to make another confession. And he
did so without any hesitation. bat it
varied somewhat from the one he made
in Boston. II graphically narrated how
tue body was substituted for Pitezel IN
the Callowhill street house aud its ideni.-
fication by Alice Pitezel as that of her
father a week afterward.
DIVISION OF MONEY.
Holmes also related how the money was
received from the insurance company and
its subsequent division between Mrs Pite-
eel Jephtha ID. Howe, tie st. Louis IA wyer
and himself. IT was in this confession
that Holmes accused Howe OF receiving
So 500 for bis share in the transaction
Howe was indicted for Conpiracy. Dut re-
Gently the case against him was dropI"I.
Soon after Holmes was brought To Phlia-
delphia Detective Geyer visited him in the
county prison in relation 10 the ilfding OF
the body at No. 1916 Caliowhlll street on
September 4, | S9i. After an hour : COnver-
sation with the willy Holmes the detective
emergedfroIn the prison with confession.
in which the accused said the body was not
that OF PiteZei. hut was one substituted TO
defraud the insurance company
4 week later Holmes honored Geyer will
another confession" Mr.. Geyer, lie said,
that story ! tOlQ you ~ out the substituted
body is not true. 1t is the body of Renta-
min +. Pitezel. but ] did net murder him
or his children. On Sunday morning. Sep
tcmber . ! found PitZel dead in the third
story of the Callowhill street house. ]
found a note in hottie. telling me that
he was tired OF life and had finally decided
to commit suicide.
He requested me to take care of the in
surance money and look after his wife and
family / then fixed up the body in the po-
sitiOn it was found. These children you
Williams in London. gave Howard to
Minnie williams in Detroit, and | sent
Alice and Nellie to her from Toronto. They
met Miss Williams in Niagara Falls, and
sailed for Europe from New York"
SEVERAL OTHER CONFESSIONS.
Eetween this time and his trial for CON-
spiracy to defraud the insurance company,
to which he pleaded guilty, Holmes made
many confessions" But they differed
very little from those already given. Each
time lie pretended to tell the truth, but he
sedulOusly avoided doing SO. Nobody be-
lieved what Holmes said about PiteZel, and
he would not say anything about the Chill
dren, except that they were all right.
In his many interviews with District
Attorney Graham, Holmes persisted that
the three missing Pitezel children were
with Minnie Williams in London. He even
persuaded Mr. Graham to have an adver-
inserted in a New York paper. for the pur
pose of bringing Minnie Williams and the
little Pitezels back from Enrope- The
district attorney placed little faith in
what Holmes had told him, but the adver-
tisement was published as a sort of last
and hopeless effort. When the bodies of
Nellie and Alice Pitezel were unearthed in
Toronto Holmes denied having killed
them.
When Howard's charred bones were lo-
Gated in supera nnuated stove in Irving
knowl ledge of the lads death. When the
murders of Minnie Williams and her
sisters were discovered Holmes said Minnie
killed Nancy in jealous frenzy and he
buried the body in Lake Michigan He
vigorously denied having put Minnie tn
death so as to secure her property. The
disappearanceof OF Emily Cygra nd was traced
to Holmes. but the criminal said lie knew
nothing of the girls fate
BONES OF HIS VICTIMS.
The partially consumed bones that were
found iu the Chicago castle are known
To be those Of some OF Holmes victims.
About the last time that Holmes was
taken to the district attorneys office to
confess Mr.. Graham lost patience with
him. Holmes gave repetition or his
picturesque fIlseboodS. He actually gave
the district attorney vertaole Jolly
about the PiteZel fanil v and Minnie v illiams
being still alive The scene tina ensued was
extremely dramatic Mr.. Graham said:
Holmes, you are an Internal lying muir
derer. l will hang you in Philadelphia
for the murder OF Benjamin Pitezel.''
Holmes nerve was still with him, and
u defy you: You have no evidence to
Mr. Graham looked with disgust and de-
termination at Holmes, and said:
You viii surely hang in Philadelphia
for numbering Benjamin Pitezel.'
The trial and conviction followed. The
district attorney endeavored to prove dur
ing the. trial, through Detective Gcyer,
L
dren, but Judge Arnold, before whom the
case was tried. declared this TO be irrele
want. Geyer had unearihed the murder
of. the children. after a prolonged invcsti-
CATION. and the Commonwealth was pre-
pared to prove that Holmes also committed
these crimes.
Holmes embraced the Catholic faith when
it became evident TO him that he must hang,
and Rev Father Daley mlnistered TO his
spiritual wants Throughout his trial
aud subsequent Imprisonment this arch
criminal maintained Il nOnchalance that was
remark able.
BIGAMIST ALSO.
Herman Webster Mudgett was born at
Gilnnanton, N. H., May 16, 1860 On July
4, 1873, he married Clara A Lowering
at Alton, N. H., and on January IS. 1887,
under the name of Harry Howard Holmes,
he committed bigamy by marrying MyrtaZ
BeIknap. few weeks thereafter Holmes
applied in Chicago for divorce, and the
suit was pending until June 4, 1891,
when the court dismissed il, owing to We
nonappearance OF the complainant
Holmes continued his bigamous career
By marrying Georgianna Yoke. in Denver,
Col, on January IT, 1894, I've assuming
the name OF Henry Mansfield Howard
on this occasion. A son was born to the
first wife. and this Is the boy W hOm Holmes
is said to have made the chief beneficiary
of the proceeds OF the alleged confession
of wholesale murders.
Holmes was indicted for the murder OF