People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — ALIBI FOR HOLMES. [ARTICLE]

ALIBI FOR HOLMES.

Evidence Showing He Was Not the Murderer of Howard Pitzel. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 29.—Attorney Bullock has received a letter from Judge Harvey of St. Louis, saying that H. H. Holmes was in that city October 2 and 3, and this supplies the missing link, showing Holmes’ whereabouts from the Ist to the 11th of October, during which time Howard Pitzel is supposed to have been murdered in the tenement at Irvington, near this city. Mr. Bullock has also found a witness who saw a stranger in the Irvington tenement at the time when Holmes was known to be in Chicago, and the claim is made that this person was the mysterious Hatch, and that Hatch killed the boy. While this evidence does not reach the case for which Holmes stands convicted at Philadelphia, it is claimed to have an important bearing, inasmuch as it indicates him not guilty of one of the crimes with which he te charged.