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ooriotiB and Benjamin F PiteL Minnie was never
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seen after December 15 Hblmes after ¬
unique unmxnsu jaipitwiiauu
Itidianpolis where
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release from Jail of
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Chicago
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Pitzel
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toHavo Secured
same time hehad the Minnie Williams
to Show Tbat Bo KUleil at
Least TefiPeraonj
property In Fort Worth transferred to
Pitzel under the name of Benton T
llSsclal Chicago Letter
Lyman He then went to Franklin
If the reports of Chicagos Torontos Ind t and there married Miss Georgiana
rind Philailelpbiafci polioe oiHcers arc Yoke On January 12 1894 Holmes is
even partiallyased ou fact the United reported to have appeared in Fort
States has the unenviable distinction of Worth under the name of 0 C Pratt
having produoed in the person ofH After beginning the erection of a build ¬
JIL Holmes the shrewdest and most ing on one of tho Williams lots Holmes
unprincipled scoundrel and criminal of and Pitzel left for St Louis and
thb nineteenth century A mero sum ¬ planned the insurance swindle which
mary of the crimes charged against him led to his arrest
vvould fill many columns and the story
In July 1894 a life insurance policy
of the murders said to have boon com for 10000 was Issued by a Philadelphia
naltted by him told In the barest out company in favor of Benjamin F Pifc
line has caused intense K excitement zch The scheme evolved by Holmes to
wherever it has been heard
secure this sum was as follows Holmes
H H Holmes whose real name is and Pitzel were to get possession of a
HermspA Mudgett was born in Gil corpse resembling
Pitzel burn it
mantonAJfc H in 1800 At tho age of slightly to prevent identification forge
proofs of Pitzels death and share the
money As a means to this end Holmes
was duly appointed guardian for the
Pitzel children Alice Howard and
Nellie In September 1894 tho charred
remains of a man were found in a de¬
serted house at No 1316 Callowhtll
street Philadelphia Holmes and Alice
Pitzel went to Philadelphia and identi
fled tho remains as those of Benjamin
F Pitzel The insurance money was
paid to J B Howe a St Louis lawyer
It is stated that Lawyer Howe received
2500 Mrs Pitzel 300 and Holmes the
resa of tho 810000 Alice did not re ¬
turn to St Louis with Holmes who said
that ho had left her in good hands On
the pretext that ho wished to put them
in a good school Hplmes also took
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Nellie and Howard from their mother
17 he married dara A Lovering a Ho took Alice and Nellie to Cincinnati
New Hampshire girt in 1870 while Detroit and other places and finally to
clerking in a store at East Concord N Toronto Canada where at No 10 St
Vincent street it Is claimed he killed
H he began the study of medicine
and a year later entered the medical the girls and burled them in the cellar
department of tho University of Tho boy Howard it is stated was
Michigan at Ann Arbor Soon after murdered at Indianapolis On July 15
hls arrival in the Michigan city he In ¬ 1895 Detective Frank Geyer of Phila-¬
sured his life heavily and with the as ¬ delphia discovered tne bodies of the
sistance of a fellow student succeeded two girls in the cellar of the Toronto
They were promptly identi
in passing a body in the dissecting cottage
room as his own The conspirators fied by their mother
On November 17 1594 Holmes was
collected the insurance and separated
Holmes returning to the east where be arrested in Boston charged with Concontinued his studies 3n 1837 he left spiracy to defraud the Philadelphia in
his wife telling her ho was going to surance company The work of the
Chicago and from that time until No ¬ detectives caused a belief that the body
vember 1894 she knew nothing about Sfound in the Callowhill street house
Ills liaings
Some time in 1887 Holmes arrived in
Chicago and became clerk In a drug
store nt No 700 Sixty Enird stroet In
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property at the corner of Sixty third
and Wallace streets on which ho erect
ed the welding which has since become
known ic3 the castle or charnel
houseIn the same year he married
Miss Myrtle Belknap of Wilmette a
suburb of Chicago
In the month of September 1839 L
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visited Denver and there met Minnie
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teenth Street theater Early in 1893
Miss Williams cameto Chicago and was
installed as nqjfmes private secretary
She was possessed of property at Fort
Worth Texj yalued at 550OQ0- - part of
which Holmea afterwards secured
either throuhh iorged deeds or undue
influence Soou after her arrival at
Chicago Minnie eut for her sister
Nannie to make her a visit Nannie
left her homo hurriedly with instruc- ¬
tions that if she did not return at a
certain time her trunk should be sent
after her Her trunk was shipped to
F Chicagoybut was never takenout of tho
attached to
- him which aroused Minnies jealousy
and led her to Kiu ner sister jxannie
fitatedvTiaii Nannie became
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1893
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night soon after Nannies murder the
castle which had been insured for 00
000 was burned out The insurance
companies suspecting arson refused to
6y the lss and for three months tried
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that of Pitzel and that he
had been killed by Holmes
The discovery of the bodies of the
Pitzel vchildren in the Toronto cellar
led to a thorough examination of the
Holmes castle at Chicago The po ¬
lice department concluded to search
thepremises from cellarto attic and
ghastly discoveries followed each other
in quick succession On July 23 blood- ¬
stained garments were found in the
celtex on July 24 parts of a childs
skeleton supposed to be that of Pearl
Conner were unearthed on July 27
oneMG Cbappcll a somewhat dissii
pated mechanic stated to the police
that he had articulated four skeletons
for Holmestwo of which he produced
a few days later On July 29 detectives
discovered a secret vat in the basement
of the castle This vat Is buried five
feet under ground and is twelve f oet In
length It was probably used for quick
liming theljcdies A vault large enough
to hold two persons and supplied with
gaspipes is another startling fcatureof
the castle 3Chb police theory is that
Holmes persuaded his girl victims to
enter the vault which Is absolutely
sound proof He would then close the
door turn on the gas and asphyxiate
them After they were dead he would
place the bodies In a chemical solution
eo as to prevent identification and
finally have the skeletons articulated
Since Holmes lias been found guilty
of the murder of Alice Pitzel by a cor- ¬
oners jury in Toronto he is reported
to have made several statements ex- ¬
plaining how he came in possession of
tho skeletons articulated for him by
He said he procured the
Chappell
dead bodies for the sole purpose of sell- ¬
ing them to physicians a business
which he claims never fails to re- ¬
turn a good profit Polioo officers at
Chicago and Philadelphia Holmes is
now in jail at the latter place ridicule
his explanation
Should evidence continue to accumu- ¬
late the states attorney soon hopes to
be in a position to prove that Holmes
murdered in cold blood Mrs Julia Con- ¬
ner and her daughter Pearl Miss
Emeline Cigrand Minnie and Nannie
Wiftiams Benjamin F Pitzel and his
three children Howard Alice and
Nellie To these must be added Miss
Emily Van Tassel who was employed
In a candy store On Milwaukee avenue
Chicago where a man supposed to be
Holmes made her acquaintance After
he had visited her a few times she too
disappeared and has been seen no
more Other victims are spoken of
but thoten persons mentioned are
probably all whoso mysterious disap
pearance can bo established It Is a
elngularfact that all oi Holmes alleged
girl victims were decidedly pretty and
p6ssessed of more than ordinary intel
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THE OU HOUSE AND THE NEW ONE
it is a very active restless roaming
little creature not hidden away in a
cave bnt going about with ltshouse on
its back
Often the hermit seems to select a
shell on account of Its prettiness some- ¬
times it takes a shell that is too big for
it There is a hermit crab now at the
New York aquarium that moved
awhile ago from a natica shell into a
periwinkle shell that was obviously too
big the crab could hardly stagger with
it and it moved back into the natica
But soon it moved once more back into
the periwinkle again and it has been
there ever since not yet grown up o it
but apparently pleased with its big
house There is another hermit crab
at the aquarium that is housed In a
periwinkle shell a small white peri ¬
winkle that is dusted with patches of
fine bright velvety green some sort of
delicate marine growth a lovely little
shell This shell fits its owner who
gets about with It gayly and small as
it is it is conspicuous among the rest
on account of its beauty
There is left in the hermits tank at
the aquarium a number of spare shells
for the convenience and comfort of
crabs that may desire to change their
quarters and these may serve also to
There was
accommodate strangers
brought to the aquarium the otherday
for instance from Gravescnd bay along
with a lot of killies a hermit crab
This crab was in a worn and broken
natica shell the shell had a hole
through its top and half its lip was
gone a pretty dilapidated sort of a
house for a hermit crab to live in It
would seem as though it might have
found in the sea a better shell than
that but it hadnt and the crab was
lively and in good condition too But
within an hour after it was placed Yn
the vtank it had left the old shell and
taken one of the spare shells for its
own The new shell is a natica like
the one It left and a little smaller It
is cleaner and brighter but clearly this
change was made for the sake of utility
rather than of appearance for the benefits to be derived from the new shells
tight roof and projecting hood
The hermits are not very much given
to fighting but occasionally they do
fight Two hermits that met in this
tank the other day face to face grap
pled and struggled with each other at
a great rate They were pretty evenly
matched in size but one was stronger
than the other and the stronger one
shook the weaker until the shell on its
back rattled against the glass side of
the tank like one of those electrical
contrivances that are sometimes attached to window panes
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The heirs to tho throne of Austria
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iL Conner was employed by Holmes to
take charge of the jewelry branch of
his business and Mr and Mrs Conner
and their daughter Pearl were persuaded ioMpccupy apartments in the
mysterious cdfctle
In 1891 Conner
bought the store of Holmes but soon
afterward had trouble with the latter
over his avife In Mareh the couple
EeparatedVand Mrs Conner was made
bookkeeper by Holmes who had re ¬
sumed management of the store On
the evening of December 8 111891 Mrs
Julia Conner and little Pearl disap- ¬
peared and have not since been seen
tallve
Shortly afterward in May
1893 Miss JJmeline Cigrand a hand ¬
some young lady from Indiana accept- ed a position as stenographer in the
castle 3n December she informed her
friends that she was to be married to a
Mr Phelps whom she represented as a
rich man Then she dropped out of
sight completely not even calling for
hen wedding outfit which remained in
the hands of thedreesmaker
About this time Holmes who liad as ¬
sumed flthe name of Harry Gordon
Mr Johh H Tarver Dnlton 6a
says
Jiine 5th 95 This is to ceir
ify that I have U6ed Royal Germe
tuer in my family for tho last five
years for various complaints viz
Indigestion bowol troubles and general debility and find it all that it
claims to be In fact I would ndt be
without it in my house
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Geo P Root music composer of
Chicago is dead
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The hermit crab has up shell except
upon the front portion of ita body and
upon Its claws When unprotected It
Is liable to be Bttacked and eaten by
fish and even by Its own kind and 60
tho very first thing It does In life after
It Is able to get about at all is to find a
shell to live in An exceedingly Braall
shell says the New York Sun will do
for it at firstf It may bo a tiny snail
shell not more than a quarter of an
Inch in length The crab moves from
time to time as it grows bigger into
larger and larger shells until at full
growth it may require a shell four or
five inches in diameter Tho hermit is
such only so far as its habit of hiding
its body In a shell goes and that is a
llabit arising fromnecessity otherwise
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