Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1894 — A SLICK SWINDLER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A SLICK SWINDLER.

11. 11. Holmes, alias Howard, a criminal of monumental achievements, arrived at Philadelphia, Nov. 23. in company with Mrs, Pitzel, whose husband he is accused of murdering in order to defraud the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company, in charge of Special Agent Perry of that company, who secured his arrest at Boston. The record of Holmes as a swindler has seldom been equalled in history or romance. His operations have been successful in defrauding several insurance companies and he is believed ta have committed a number Of murders in

(From a sketch made of him in Philadelphia,; different parts of the country. Pitzel. the principal in the last attempt to swindle the insurance compan.v. Holmes claims to be alive. Pitzel formerly lived in Terre Haute. Holmes tried to britx the detective enroute but failed. He then made a full confession of his crimes and said that he deserved hanging a dozen times. Holmes is not lacking for money, as he himself admitted that at the present time ho is supporting nearly two dozen persons, Including Mrs. Piztell. hei mother and an imbeiile brother; two orphans in Chicago who live in one of his. properties, three separate alleged wives and their children, and his own raothei and father in Kankakee. He would no; give the names of the women. He firmly mai tained that Pitzel is alive in S an Sab vador and that he will hear from hin through the personal column of a certair New York newspaper. Mrs. Jesse Richards, a Miami Indiai squaw, the last of the Wa-ca-co-nahs died on the Indian reservation, near Som erset, November 22, in abject poverty an< squalor.

HARRY HOWARD, ALIAS HOLMES.