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The Fiend Incarnate

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The more thoroughly the detectives investíante the record of 11. H. Holmes, the tiend who is now in prison at Philadelphla, the more blackened his hands become with' the blood of his innocent victims. In addition to almost positive prooi that he murdered B. F. Pietzel, at Phüadelphia, to secure insurance on liis life, and Pietzel's two little girls at Toronto, to be rid of two lii'irs of Pietzel's property, it is Bcarcely doubted that he killed Pietzel's boy at Detroit f or the same reason. The detectives clai.n that Holmes also murdered Mianie and Ina Williams, of Forth Worth, Texas, at Chicago, to secure possessiou of their property. And now it is thought that he also 'removed"' JIrs. I. L. Connor and her 12 year old girl, of Davenport, Ia., at Chicago, af ter he had caused her husband to obtain a divorce from her. The reason given by the officers for the last two crimes is that Holmes feared that they knew too much for his comfort. Thus, to recapitúlate, there are now erght murders credited to Holmes as follows: Pietzel in Philadelphia: Julia Connor and her daughter; Minnie R. and Ina Williams, in Chicago; Alice and Nellie Pietzel in Toronto, (and little Uoward Pietzel, possibly in Detroit.

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Ann Arbor Register