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. always regarded as the scapgrace Of Company of this elty. For some reason ‘Tho company demanded Identification F
the family, although that doesn't mean: or other this policy’ was permitted to marks and. the Mdentification q
i “anyt hing in particular in a little town lapse, but another was immediately body Dy some member ort 3
ot to be taken out for $10,000 in the Fidelity Then Howe started off with ‘Alice, . :
‘ag still studying, Mutual Life Company of Philadelphia, ¢iolmes, in the mean time, had gone
_ BREE.
We want ; ‘a wide
e to not get some one who knew B:
Alton by Squire John -down there and identify it as Pitzel’s. jamin F, Pltzel in life to come on, in
ie money Holmes, -however, discovered that the the interests and at the expense of the
wi a ody
: as ambitious | of climate was t Keep any body com
awake hustling boy in An could get long enough to nave the really the body of the man. insured,
. . . . and the started} in at the identification ‘completed, and so re- Holmes sus red that something of
in every city and town ne : “College at Burlington, Vt. ‘The next turned with Pitzel az far as SU, Louis, this kind would be done, and that was
. ‘ ” . . year he went out to-Ann ‘arbor, Mich., Mrs. Pitzel was living there. When he the reason he visited the office. The
in the country. If there aT “ Study there, His money was gone, got home Pitzel fold his wite that he Chicago agent telegraphed ‘back to
: HESITATED AT” NOTHING. He determined to work his way, through and Holmes were g © play a game Philadelphia that he could send on Mr,
~ Sis no agent in your city iversity, and he Then his © an ‘surance company ed H. H. Holmes, who had been a former
eo . . ~ own stor he Dean ‘his criminal him not to do-it, and he promised that en r of Pitzel, and who was also a
oy ortown, read our propo-* eareer.~ It was as a swindler of tnsur- he would + Be but he “said to his elder policy-holder in the pany. :Holmes.
: as . Herman ‘Mudgett) or, as 5 he is known, ance companies, He-says that a fel- danentens SSA: then went to Philadelphia at,the ex-
sition. on page 7, and. H. H. Holmes, who is now confined in Jow student in the university, who is’. “No ttle one, it. you. oyet bear fnat pense of the company ‘to identify the
se 4 rigon in Philadelphia - Row @ physician in this city, was his your papa is “dead, don’t man he is now accused of murdering.
+ the I:tustRaTED mplice. “The thought came to him @bout it, and don’t let your. mother He was recelved there with open arms,
gets, awaiting sentence $i @ charge of con- When he'was in the dissecting room | Worry.” I'll be all right, and will come a check was given him to pay his ect
Recorp free. . »gpiracy fo ‘defraud an insurance com- and a body was brought in, “Why -f you some time, no matter what they Penses while In the elty, and then pe
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pany, “awaiting Indictment . for couldn't a body like that be substituted: S¥.”.-"~ , asked whether
y: . whose life was tolmes, when he, got to St. Louis, marks on Pitze ody Dy. which th e
insured?” He decided jt could, His bought a drug store.on wind, and pur- man could be faentifed. He thought a
% and other crimes, is, df he is guilty, the ftlow student was of the same opinion, chased @ new: stock ‘of goods from the few minutes, and then said: *
: S. IULUSTR, A T% great criminal of the age. To him mur-_ gng_agreed to get his Mee" Insured for s ‘Se Mentih brug Can ‘drug company and’ on VEY he wa neat the Wenes, for
a n cor a $12,500. A year later.a body was ob-~ " on his, right eg. near ie knee, for
te ee re der, ooo and to vukeder ae n talng tained and Successfully palmed of on #0t in jail. ‘This was under the name. when he for me I. remember
y ind no. wi e the insurance company as that of the Of J.'M. Howard, and happened on July “that he couldn't get. down: on his
. tn fact, of the two, he seemed to con- jncured man. The money was divided. 19 ISO .He was released. on July 23 knees to plane. ‘Then he sald, I think,
a as sider murder the preferable, for, com- | Whether this was Holmes’ firs : and rearrested te 1 days later, . He he hed a wart ar mol le or something
= . rious crime or not it 1s Impossible to jent release on On the back of wis ‘nee know he
* °° mitted efter hie plan, there was no one fou Whether tt ever ha prened as he Avg. 1, by compromising with the com- never used to wear a ‘collar and 7
The Largest Illustrated Newspaper fa In the Wort, left to point an accusing finger at him. C71 i¢ did fs a question. Certa’ inky at Pany. All this is of very great im- asked him one day why he didn't, and
He built a house which he called ‘The g Jater oohioa than this he appeared to Portance, because, as will develop later, he told me It was on that account.”
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT Castle," and there he is accused of dis- be without money, and ta it was while in jail in St. Louis that |The day following this, Lawyer Howe
ing of his victims as rapidly as, and for fivin, is was Mooers. si 3 appeared in Philadelphia, with, Alice,
Willlam and Spruce Sts, NEW YORK. _ Posing Forks, Clinton County, y N. ¥. He 9 justice. e had a letter from Mr. McDonald, a
with. the deftness of the Bluebeard of there as a nursery agent for a er ischarge from well-known St, Louis» man, intsodac.
: : ficti > bodies of some, they ne, and was engaged a Pitzel-come E: 0 © ty. ing hima to Chief Lindner of the Phila~
ESTERED A? THE TOST OFFICE NEW YORK, *. ¥ | he utterly destroyed with quicklime ond district schoo! teac her. He represented He himseif followed as far hiladel- delphia Police, » and Fecoramend!
_ a8 pxonD-cLase Math MATTER _acids, He ts accused. of having his himself gle, and propose very highly, Mr. Lindner gave
a 7 riage to tw wo or’ three @ letter to the officials of “ae e idelity
own private articulator, too, and he boarded with a man named ‘Ha: rs g ¢ tum when Comp: any, and he | ted it
2 had the skeletons of some of his vic- up a big board bill, and then left in New Yor see Pile . The pi en he called with the little gir girl. His
TERMS TO > SUBSCRIBERS. tims mounted and then sold them for broad daylight, never - t recommendations were so good that
return.
One copy, oneyenr, oF 52 numbers... 00 cash, thus realizing more from the vic-. Holmes had lived with hls wife off and due at the ¢ ae office, the got quite as royal a welcome as aid
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a : e@ mere property to Sh jorne him one child,
~ ‘obtain which he had killed them. He boy, and she spent nearly all her time Chicago from here.
didn't confine his crimes. t char- with her parents at ia,
on ———— souse, the, police say place after. the school episode he visited her,
aN . enough for him, and the and then he left, it seems, for good. fights ‘wusiness at 1316 Cale
at stightest motive wae sufficient to acta- ‘olmes is supposed to have gone: from : lowhill Stree! ‘He! ton Pitzel ail
C DON’T. FORCET ate hinr to take ‘the lives even of inno- New Hampshire to St. Paul, where he’ the business, and Pitzel was vary ‘bout
. cent children. There is no such record started in business, earned the respect ‘pleased to havea chancesto do some,
va ae as that credited to him in ithe criminal of his neighbors, and got appointed the thing honest. He went o¢er t ‘:
9 Phila-~
“ 13 wWEEKS—HLY a0 | history of a score of years, if there is receiver for a restaurant, He stocked delphia with’ Holmes. One month's
> in the cent restaurant with goods on\credit, rent was paid on the house, and the
‘Born of reputable parents, reared un- ‘sold them all, and walked oWvay, leay” business was. advertised. ‘The , office tion
'.* der the influence of a Christian home, ing his bondsmen to. set was furniture consisted of an old desk and a
Address at communications to surrounding in his early years by rev next heard of In Chicago. “rnen began few ‘chairs, On the second floor there fh,
ing influences, married to a beauti- his kaleldoscopie career. He beran by was a cot, on which: Holmes told Piteel
1s * RECORD woman, ‘whose influence on him marrying a Miss Myrtle Z, Belknap, he might’ sleep peen th
“THE ILLUSTRATED * - feud ot Bu Bor jhaye been for the beat, daughter of s resident of Wiliametie. phi , : he ized
hose rb of Chicago. He had not i was in “August ASM. | Holm: wasn't satisfied. with 0!
Ss Because he thought he could obtain <diyorced from his Rrst wit, He tied remained in Philadelphia nearly the “I want to soe the wid a th.
. ti et oe. e joug! e could ..o1 in *divores ‘rom his first wife. fe le lows ag le ix
woe ‘witilam ana Spruce reets, _with less difficulty in that way the to get possesslon of her fathers prop- on ee th of ugust, and he called six children get the money,” he said;
Testes s. fos" > NEW YORK, living which it youd have been easy erty by means of forged deeds... He ‘e office. een He yas seen at “bu ut I al so want to see that no mistake
im_ te ce ho leans, pain din that, and th his wife left x in @ mes. made, an money is 1d it
- Our read wtiomed against Seemingly, he had no conscience. He » keeping with her th baby Pitzel a4 p to 10 o'clock. uniess it is due Dootor, Tend Weg
women readers are a id nerve such as is possessed by not .that-had been bora to them. - im Saturday night, 8 ight gloves,” he said to one of the phy
/ payiig money for sabscriptions to oo. nan in a thousa: ie was dull ‘The story of t re serious crimes. he a gre; t deal Tetore he went to clans engaged by the insurauce.com-
3 ed agents, The ILLUSTRATED jo al] human instincts. Robbery, ar- Polmes ia accused of having co aed ext morning Hugene Smith, ny. “When I was a little younger
. RECORD employs = son, seduction, murder, any crime must with ‘the Bie the 3,catpenter, who hai ged to’ practiced medicine to some tent, ant
Heit subscriptions. feomed the same to him. AH brought, Pitzel family, more particularly a with ground, het tows a the building, oa xa ike 2 ake a more careful €3
— - Pp of them brought the der of Pitzel himself. Holmes. * re. Mon 1ns : : bor
“a Our redaere Fequested to ad- him money. “He geeumulated a for~ beca me acquainted with Benjamin F, 2¥ and Tuesday’he called again. The The doctor handed over his rubber” ¥
en ae e, he says, of $200,000. many Pitzel Sin: Chicago about 1890. Pitzei place" wag still unoccupied downstairs, gloves: Holmes took off his cont, got ee.
= <=~~.__Aresa_sl_gommunications te Tyee thea ceo te ute do was married and bad six children. He OP Tuesday morning, on looking up- down on his knees beside the boy, and _
, ILLUSTRATED RECORD, William asd not know. was poor and was not averse to engag. Stirs. he saw a hat and: waistcoat at dest disclosed the scar ori the e leg.
Sprece streets, New York eity. | © A number of persons known to have jng in dishonest. business if it paid, 2&0! in the upper hall. “He call nd me your knife doctor,” he
<5 : nthe employ of. Holmes at ‘one Holmes at this time was engaged large. Pitzel several times, but got no answer, paid nd we will cut this out.” H 4
NEW YORK MIGHT TAKE THE HINT. time or another are now missing. They ‘ly in the forgery line and he got Pitzel Then he went upstairs, and when tok the doctor’s knife and cut out the
tae re last seen when they. were work-. mixed up in it. Pitzel was arrested in Me@rly. up he looked into the room at Scar. Next he searched the back of the
* In Detpht Ind., a thousand ferttle Ing and Hving with him. For weeks- Terre Haute, Ind., in January, 1893, the top of the stairs and discovered a ne ond fnalty di 8s vart, a
sas minds have been busily at work at- «Crore tout Holmes “The names or sirpassing some of the forged Raner. parently dead He ease yee ae he did, and jaia it with'ehe sear, Phen “——y
12 _ tempting to devise ways and means to these missing people Rave been printed ‘straw ball for Pitzel, whe thereupon 22d called in the police. ‘They foana he took the two hands of. the dead: i... [3
: around the Nicholson law. Many almost daily. There.is not a town or ran away.. Holmes sent him to Fort the body.to be badly burned abdut.the Mt ‘and, holding out the thumbs so» :
saloon keepérs and saloon patrons have hamlet in the country where the news Worth, Tex., under the name of Benton’ face: There was a broken bottle by that every one see them, asked:
to netrated and where some T. Lyman. He had with him a deed to his side and a pipe on the floor. A ,, C4M you gentlemen see any differ-
jain awake nights figuring on how people are not talking about it. Yet property there valued at $40,000,.which COroner’s jury was summoned and re. Me in) the two. nails on these
Godge this law. A ealoon keeper‘in not one of'these missing persons has belonged to Minnie R.. Williams, who 1s Ported“that Pitzel had died from the thumbs?” . . ‘ 7
Delphi claims to have discovered a way been heard from. There is'no evidence, marked as one of the first.of Holmes’ ¢ffects of an explosion of some sort or yhody could: see a difference. ;
ot gettin around one of the rough cor- ther than, this, that they are dead. victims, and had at that time already. bY Polson. ‘The doctor "who made the Poles quickly snapped both nails off,
Betting Here fs a list of‘ the persons ha Is ac- disappeared: in the famous castle, .to- @utopsy testified that: when he ea, #24, laying them aside, sald: -
ents cused up to this time of having made gether with her sister, Nana, Accord-- amined the lungs there was no odor at. 1We Iso preserve these.”
Te will be recalled that the law pio- away wh: ing to the deed in Pltzel’s possession, choloform, but that when hé examinod _./Re Tepresentatives of the Insurance
vides, among other things, that no ‘CONNER, JULIA L, divorcea wite the property had been conveyed to him . the Stomach there was a very decided Satished now.
q . of L 1. Conner, and bookkeeper for by a man named Bond, who got it from odor of that satlsfled now that the body was that of
game of chance shall be permitted In@ Yioimes, | Minnie R, Williams, and the transfer | Pitzel was living in Philadelphia and frea ee ooo they had issued the
saloon, which means that dice boxes | CONNER, PEARL, daughter of Mrs. had been executed In the presence of H. doing business under the name oe Be i MeUrance policy. Then Howe spoke up. os
and other similar devices have to’ go.” Conner, Hi. Holmes, notary publie. Pitzel, une Perry, which was a name that Holmes «,.¥ ix {t may satisfy. you,” he said,
“ 2 th GRAND, EMELINE G. daughter der the allds of Lyman, gave if out that had aavised him “there yout the widow will never be satisfied
The dice box was a great feature of the {eI NE eat or Anderson, Ind. he was a man of wealth. and that he was ‘no apparent Tengen, ghough there unt laughter _ identifies . the
trade, aud how to supply the deteieney teroetap he tan Hon g Boing to ulld the finest building Pitzel In Bt. Louie a seen ie etn ody.” -
: and not violate the law was one of PHELPS, ROBERT E, who Holmes in the fown. He had plans for it and Papers a, tory of the finding of the yas t. storm of protests fm.
“s the questions that vered the saloon Saye married Miss Cigrand. *he out contracts, Perry, She remembered mediate Ho ynes was the only cool...
ot . an tZEl, BENJAMIN ‘F., confidential "Patrick ‘Guinian , @&ho few ures in the that her husbantt ad ong in the pee
keeper. Flies and loaf sugar are all ww eriminal of Holmes, care as janitor of the famous castle, Is tamer hay ie ag nad eon e under that | “Well.” ‘he ““T belleve we ought
t are necessary to carry out the killed in” ‘Puliadelpoie, sald to have been with him, Holmes the dead man could be he ~s den coat to satisty the widow. “he toct
scheme of the Delph! man, PITZEL, Alice, daughter of B. F. appeared in the town with a third wife Tater Holmes eatled on lay or ¥o you will notice, are somewhat peculiar,
. = Bay, twomenentera saloon for the Pitzel, Killed In Toro he had married, and the three suc- her the item in a Philadesch and possibly the child may identity
Co purpose of regaling themselves, and de- PITZEL, NELLIE, ‘duighter of BF. ceeded Ine borrowing something like paper. He told ae the lelphia news- them as her f: .
sire to decide with the “! bleh pitzel, Killed tn Toro) nto. $50,000." "Then they skipped, stealing thinie ehe nesd rfhen that he didn't "He! walked aut of the _bullaine tou!
of the three shall “set * Three rloa horses as they went couldn't ter ee for e was sure where the child was waiting, and, put-
hind ‘the bas end & dump placed i poesd to have ‘been Titled fa and Ghipping them to St: Louis. Holmes’ he left her. So e days later he cahed tects, “Alice, oR will only: be said
e mp placed in Indianapolis or Det wi f 7 : only ‘bea mo-
ront of the saloon keeper and each of ‘ASSEL, EMILY, daughter. or great brant (She lived in ‘Wranilin, Scheme that ne ‘and her husband nai y Your papa's teeth’ ©” °° If these are *
the others. e fellow’s lump upon xa ‘an Tassel, of 641 Ni her unde name "7 a our .
ich a fly alights first decides that he Robey street, Chicago, : f Sror cede Tovah she had keegan gptered Cantey Getraud: the Fidelity: The chi ld wes trying as if her heart
is to pay for the drinks ‘The saloon | WILLIAMS, NANA. of Fort Worth; as Holmes: He explained to her that Nactel, Company. |The body, he said, would break. She came into the room, .-
men claim that this is not’ game of ‘Texas: was visiting her sister when he had a rich uncle named Howard who Savstiteted to he usband, but one Holmes still having: his arm around’
ide chance In the strict sense of the word, she disappeared. had promised to give him @ yortune on Was ail right. He tng per husband d her over to the body. She
5 : and that the fly is the guilty party. WILLIAMS, MINNIE R, of Fort condition that eit ook the name. is must help ttn told her that she’ looked at the teeth and then replied
They allege that they simply, put out Worth. Texas, private secretary to mother and father were dead, he sald. Surance.” She. ected ee tor he la mek those ep bh.” “
je sugal e rest. Holm nd a name didnt matter much, any. ° is, ere wasn't a dry eye in the room °
Heretofore all saloons have kept uD But this is fot all. Every day has way. She accepted the explanation, and. Holmes insisted, and finally she agreed. at the time, and, ag-one man eaid, af-
screen do d windows for the pur- py w developments. The.au- they were married in Denver. delphia and icemaust g o Phila- terward:
of keeping ou: They will be thorities say the list may reach a score. Went straight to meet Pitzel in Fort Gelphia, and identity “There wasn’t one man there, gentle-
taken down now, and the festive fy will It may-go. higher.. The Castle was Worth..Holmes told her he owned a ers, Ul al 7 e time. and eould not at men, who didn’t swear by the Eternal
be made welcome. ‘The more files the shemat4' hey say, while the Worlds, reat tract of land there which was in Then he said that one of the children that’ Holmes was the bravest man that
more rapidly ‘will business go. Fair was & near the the possession of squatters, and that gopia go on. He recommended her to’ ever lived.- They thought, you see, -
+ _ One saloon keeper in town has been They ask, Who can tell how he had been warned that If he appeared & lawyer, | pamed Jeptha D. Howe, who, that he .was doing it all tor the sake
detected in attempting to “cola deck” fron eros claim his property he would be mur- he said, Idol after her interest of the widew and the six children,”
his customers. He has one loaf - “There Is nothing in Holmes’ ancestry Gered it would be necessary, he said, #04 get the money, Howe called short. | The Identification by the child more
gar thi sets imself touched to account for his remarkable criminal 0 live under an assumed e in the ly after Holmes had gone and ised than satisfi e pany, and the
ith turpentine, the othe: 1 re, n at Gilmanton, N. town. He too pol the name of H, M, her, as Holmes had advised her, that following «Monday they Dald to M .
The fly will never alight on turpenti; is nts nd‘are Pratt, hig wife consenting only One of the children must go. She leptha Howe, as the attorney for Mrs.
sugar, and he has a sure thing. In the he most respected persons in~ when” he told. Ber nis life was in dan- gided 0 let Alice go, Alice was next Pitzel, $10,00¢
Winter time, when the files have dis- their part of the State. His father had. 8eT-,. ne o est. Howe it in on mae fime. The susp! Telos circumstances about -*
appeared. the cockroach will take his ‘master for more than twenty- - Tt was after this Fort Worth Incident wro fn s tne Pitzel's icath were thes
place. | ,tigretofore the cockroach bas four years. Holmes has two married that Holmes conceived of haying Pit- TePresentative of “Hits. Pitzel saying he posed to ‘have been killed by an explos —
pecen the bane of the average saloon sisters, who live in Boston, and one zel’s life insured. He talked to Pitzel delleved that the body was really thac’ sion caused by his own Suse a
: keeper's life, Hnceforth every encour brother. They are younger: than he, ‘about it, and told him how easy it waa of Benjamin F. Pitzel, who he knew The Coroner's jury decided that ‘the
“ agement will be elven them to produce and hav up to be good citi- to. beat an insurance co: with a Was living under the name of Perry, be bottle found: boken on the floor haa °
and multiply, The saloon keepers are zens, Tespected, fend honored by their substitute body. Pitzel ‘fell, Tent into Inthe of some unfortunate speculation contained the explosive, and that the
now figuring on educating files » and /netzhbors. . the scheme, and a, $5,000 policy wag 5 ¢ South, and the asked what should Pipe on the floor showed that Pitret
eockroaches, ae : Holmes was not a good boy. He waa cured in the Washington Lite tasurance be ‘done to ' Bet the insurance money. had been Tying on his cot Ughting hia
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