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r. • H. II. 1161,31ES, MEND. DIABOLICAL DEEDS OF THE IN- SURANCE SWINDLER., [AYH A MERE Titirl.it i Clig WAY OF IIIN AMBITION. ft Score of Murders May lte Traced to the Cold -Blooded Slayer of Viettel. file 1hree hildren, and 111.Aill• and tout., ihillittaus. IlliDERERS ARE if three classes. There is the crimin- al wbo kills to avoid capture; the blood- thirsty villian who who slays for pure love of the sight of - a. , blood and the born murderer. To the latter class belongs H. H. Holmes, alias ‘AND 0,4 ZNYIN 5 e\ , Howard, and half a dozen other aliases, who is now in jail at Philadelphia awaiting trial on a charge of conspiracy to defraud insur- ance companies. The charge will soon be changed to murder. Slowly, but nevertheless surely, the coil is tightening about the neck of this fiend in human form. That Holmes murdered B. F. Pletzel and his three children there is no longer the shadow of a doubt in the minds of the police. Evidence showing almost conclusively that he murdered the Williams sisters In Chicago before he became involved In the insurance swindle with Pietzel was found in Chicago by newspaper men and detectives last week and this How successful he was Is eviaenced by the fact that swindle succeeded swindle and n.urder succeeded murder until he had secured and spent fortunes, brought six victims to Pideous deaths, and twelve years passed without even so much as a check on his awful career. When once his troubles began they came thick and fast, until at last he is about to be brought to justice. The beginning of the end came with his arrest in St. Louis last fall. Since then he has enjoyed but a brief spell of freedom and now all of his horrible crimes are being fastened upon him. Subtlety and cunning added to the man's finished education and polished manner have combined to make him the most wonderful criminal of the age. It is not the purpose or this article to trace his career further, than to nar- rate briefly the crimes ch tged against him in order to show w at a moral monstrosity he Is. While itt Ann Arbor University he entered into a conspiracy to defraud an insurance company in very much the same manner the Fi- delity company was fleeced in the Piet- zel case. His accomplice was a fellow student, and experience gained whie he was a medical student enabled him to successfully carry out the fraud. His Classmate's life was Insured for $2,500, a corpse was secured and \plant- ed,\ and afterwards identified as the body of his confederate. The company paid over the 'money, and with it Holmes, who was then sailing under the name of Herman Mudgett, and his pal paid their tuition through college. The young scoundrel had deserted Mrs. Mudgett and their baby and left them to drift for themselves, in their New England home in /order\ that he -might go to Ann Arbor. • Flushed by the success of his first venture, Mudgett, the ceillege scape- grace, became Mudgett, the criminal, crime will probably be fastened upon and thenceforth his ambition . In the I him. Every step in Ilolmes' career world of shad , know ne bounds. Leav- stamps him as a moral monster—a man wholly devoid of moral sense. Every move made by the man since he started out in the world twelve years ago, seems to have been made with a crimi- nal intent. He is by no means an ordi- nary man, and his mental apabilitles rank him far above all the celebrated criminals ever known to' American or English police. He was graduated from the Michigan University at Ann Arbor and began his career of crime while yet a student in that flastitution. He was a school teacher in Vermont, and before he entered the university he was graduated in medicine. Thus equipped he was in a position to begin the most remarkable career Of crime ever known to the police. His case is the most re- mArkable .stedy in psychology and criminalogy ever brought to light in a Civilized nation. Holmes' knowledge of drugs would have enabled him to matte way with the Pieta.' children without the sight of blood, of which he seems to be in mortal terror. Miss Minnie William's, the Fort Worth, Tex., typewriter, who lived with Holmes in Chicago. was, in all probability, murdered in the same way. The theory of the police that Misa Williams killed her slater with a stool In a fit of jealousy, and that, in order to protect his mistress, Holmes disposed of the body by sinking., It in a trunk In Lake Michigan, has gfven way to the belief that Holmes was himself the mur- derer, a theory which the cruel, de- signing nature of the man thoroughly justifies. These two young women owned prop-rty in Texas worth $80,000, and subsequent developments lead the detectives to believe- Holmes coolly set about to get them out of the way in order to come in possession of the mon- ey. At no time in his career has Holmes ever hesitated to murder if the - Intended victim stood in the way of the accomplishment of his scheme. This is proven by the fate of the Wil- liams girls, by the fate of Pletzel, by the cruel murder of three of the victim's children and by his attempt to blow up Mrs. Pletzell at Burlington, Vt. Certain It is that Holmes contemplated and plot- ted the death of the entire Pietzel fam- ily in order that not a single person having a knowledge of the Fidelity swindle and the death of Pletzel, the first murder that became necessary to Its success, should he left alive. The fiendish cruelty of such a plot seems almost beyond belief. Every instinct in Holmes seeing to have been criminal. His every move was ,toward the accomplishment of some crime. He never moved in a direct line. Every talent, every energy, every bit of education be ewer had have been employed toward a criminal end. The result Is the most accomplished and sue- eeesfill crook in police annals—a crInd- nn i leslIe whom the record of any one roan ever •rr , sted in America prior to Septembcr. IsSit. pales into insignifi- cance. Murder has only been an inci- dental part oit lloimes• careor. He mur- dered when some humeri being stood In the way of his daring schemes. Swindling and fraud were the prime factors In every crime he ever commit- ted. and he loved them as the gambler loves the green cloth lie played his scheme. with the Seine feeling that the poker .hark plays his carte They were his amusement, his pastime. his Means ef sor wing the money necessary to oar- ee, on his wort and terrible career. MILLIKEN'S MISTAKE. _ Th• Washington Society Man Indicted for House Breaking. lienjanda H. Dillliken, private secre- tary to President Harris of Tennessee, has been Indicted by the district grand jury for housebreaking &ad felonious assault. He is charged with having broken into the house of ex-Solicitirr General Samuel F. Phillips, secreted himself in the bedroom of Miss Gertruti• B. H. MILLIKEN. Phillips and attempted to chloroforg the young woman. The affair occurre the night of July 4, at Washington. Mr. Phillips says his daughter Gel trude sat up with him until after mid- night, when she retired. Some time af- ter he had been in bed he heard his other daughter, Nora, scream. Going to her room, he found both young wo- e ing college he went to me Norristown Insane Asylum, and later entered a drug store as a clerk, but his first ven- ture as a crook floated ever before his mind's eye, and he dreamed of the day when he would acquire wealth and affluence by the turning of another sue-, cessful trick. He drifted back to Chi- cago, with his eyes always open for the main chance, and before long he became deeply engrossed In another swindle ot four times the proportions of his first. Sailing under the alias of Howard. he fell in with his former confederate and classmate. and together they worked an insurance cohmany for $10,000 on the same schenie resorted to In the first instance. From that' time on he was out of one' nefarious job into another. He bought a drug store, but sold out soon after, and with probably $30,000 left for Calif:Walla. All the money he had' in the world was fleeced from vic- tims of his various schemes. He seemed to glory in this thought and to be seized with an, insatiable desire to plunder moneyed people, whether individuals or corporations, and his ever active brain was almost continually employed de- vising schemes to effect this result. All pretense at earning an honest live- lihood, save the necessary precautions to dupe the unstispicioun public, were cast aside, and this reckless man cut loose from docent associates to drift where his abnormal hankerings would lead. While in Chicago he married a second time, and a bright little babe was born of that union, but love was foreign to this cold-hearted man, whose whole extstence seemed wrapped up in the excitement , of the dangerous game he was playing, and he forgot them when he left suddenly for the Paelfic coast. What he did there remains a secret buried within himself, and for the time being he was lost sight of. Ere long his greed for excitement overcame his fear . \ and one bright spring morning found him bark in Chi- cago.,_He..at once launched a commis- sion scheme known as the Yatea-Cimp- bell Co which he advertised would buy and sell goods of any kind. Whether he met Mamie Williams dur- ing his sojourn in the west or came across her in .Chicago is not known. but at this stage of the game, the bright. winsome young typewriter became en- tangled in the meshes of the cruelest of men. She was rich, owning in con- junction with a sister as lovely as her- self, property valued at $80,090 In or near Fort Worth. This in itself was enough to fix the doom of the beautiful young woman, and from the day she met Holmes, or Howard, her fate was sealed,. Sleeping or waking the inehilotie !dolling of the man she loved never Ceased, and he would no more have spared that fair girl than the spider could refrain from sucking the life -blood from sof11 , ` poor fly that becomes entangled in its web. Crime had become second nature to him, and he was happy In the commis- sion of It. ore...more Grace. The grave of John Grosvenor, in the town of Pomfret. Is one of the oldest In that aection of Connecticut. It has been marked for generations by a head- stone of apetillar interest, on account of the coat of arms displayed on its sur- face. The inscription and design are still distinct and clear men much agitated. They said ther was a man in Gertrude's room, an begged him not to go in for fear he would be shot. Mr. Phillips says he grasped the handle of the door, but It was held on the inside. Some one then tried to climb out over the transom, but Mr. Phillips struck at his head and he desisted. His wife and daughters were screaming, and his partner. Frederick McKenney, ran upstarirs with a revol- ver. At this instant the man who was in Gertrude's room broke out and rush- ed downstairs. Mr. Phillips says he rec- ognized Milliken. He chased the man and caused his arrest in the garden. When taken to the station he proved to be B. H. Milliken. lie appeared to be intoxicated. Mr. Phillips says his daughter was awakened by the smell of chloroform and by feeling some one pass a handkerchief over her face. Search was made, Mr. Phillips says, and it was found that Milliken got in by climbing over a roof. A handkerchief and a bot- tle were found in the garden. A drug- gist declared that the handkerchief was saturated with chloroform, and that the bottle had contained the liquid. After his arrest Milliken was released by •ine of the district attorneys. It appear , ' that he was well acquainted with Miss Phil- lips and was a frequent visitor at the house. It is said he called early In the evening of July 4, but Miss Philll pa ask- ed to be excused from seeing him. MII- liken is said to have left town. ken's explanation Is said to be that the whole affair Was a mistake arising out of too much Fourth of July. Mrs. McDonald In St. Lonle. Mrs. Richard H. McDonald. Jr., of San Francisco. accused of having fled from that city with $100,000 belonging to her husband, who Is 'waiting trial there on charges of forgery and emliPzzlemont in connection with the wrecking of the Pe- rin/3 bank, was found last week to be MllS 1 af'D0NAL15. living with her sister -In-law. Mrs John Charlton nt Louis She said She had not fled with her husband's money, that his trout's in California grew roil or a politieni conspiracy, and that he was Innocent the charges against him The grandfather of the Rothschild's I. said to have scarcely owned • penny in 1900. OUR WIT AND HUMOR. SELECTED PLEASANTRIES FOR OUR LEAN READERS. Moonlight at the Beach—A King fall and Your Deuces—A Material Denion- titration Letting the Cat Out of Ma Bag — Flotsam and Jetsam. SIT upon the beach to -night, Willie she sits close beside me, And though I long to hold her hand, I find this is de- nied me. We note the bright- ness of the moon, The roaring of the sea, The hum of voices on the beach. The sounds of gayety. It's only two short weeks ago Since first I met her here; But ah, what pleasure do I know Whenever she is near! And as I sit beside her now My heart is filled with strife, To -night we part to meet no more— She passes from my life. But best of friends, they say, must part. Though partings may bring sorrow. My happiness is at an end— er husband comes to -morrow! —Charles E. Nettleton in Truth. Tatting the Cat Out of the Bag. Principal (to new apprentice)—Has the bookkeeper told you what you have to do in the afternoon? Youth—Yes, sir. I was to waken hide when I saw you coming.—Dahelm. He Had It Palled. Constant L. E. de Sipate—Why! I say old man, what has happened to your leg? Jack P. Van Tenspot—Oh! that's only the result of a little game I sat in last night in which I discovered that a king full couldn't touch four deuces. Well Deserved. Lord D., a proverbial hater of America and Americans, was dining lately in Paris with the British Minister. Next to him at the table was a noted New- port belle, Miss X. The conversation had drifted to a dis- cussion of things American, and Lord D. made some disagreeable remarks about some Americans he had met and some Yankee customs he abhorred. \Why dye know,\ he continued, with an unpardonable want of tact, \that at some of the places that I dined at in America I saw people eat with their knives and spill their soup on the table- cloth.\ Miss X was thoroughly provoked by this time, but she replied with an ap- parent unconcern: \What poor letters of introduction you must have had, my lord!\ There was no more unpleasant talk about Americans that evening.—Ex. A Material Demonstration. Maggie Hill—Say, Sloppy Slocum, does you bellevr in spiritualism? Sloppy Slocum—Well, yer kin jist bet I does. Say, me Ladder goes down to de gin mill every night ter one o' dent 'Panties. an' den comes home brIngin' der spirits along, and if ye could see me mudder's face ye'd know der was some lively rappings and goings on of dot apirita. A Fish- Book Refound. A few weeks ago Dr. Kennedy was trout fishing In the head watora if tine Dutch Holl-iw brook and lost a fair - fish by the parting of the line whore it was tied In the ring if lit f hook. Tuesday he tried the Sams stream and captured thirteen pretty good ones. While eating one for sup- por the head of the trout contained a bone.tbat the doctor couldn't chew and felt rather prickly. Upon taking it out of his mouth it prw•ed to be the hook he lost when the line broke on the pre- vioua trip lie could identify his prop- erty through a peculiarity of the hooka used by him.—Auburn Advertiser. This Three Made a Crowd. 0. M. Roberts and James Miller, stockmen, had a thrilling experience while' driving In the country Their buggy wheel ran over a huge rattle- en-kke. throwing it in their lapis. How- e, er. both fell from the buggy with the rep' de, all scared alike. The snake es- caped.—Kansas City Times. What He Was After, Clerk—That gentleman you sold a bottle of hair dye to three west's' ago was here again today. Druggist Was he alter another bot- tle? —4 I , Go to' THE flINT Per Imported And Domestic Liquors, Wines, Cigars 1.4 Ililwaukee and St. Louis Bottled Beers. The Anheuser-Busch Celebrated BEST IN THE \Premium On Draught. WORLD. Pale\. SPARLING Wickes, Proprietors, & SCHARF - - Montana. 1 _ _ J. W. MONAHAN, WICKES, - — MONTANA DEALER IN Hay, Grain, Flour, Rolled Oats, Corn Meal, FRYE FL—CDUFR. Lowest Prices for Cash. DEAN & TAYLOR, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Beef, Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon, 4 AND MONTANA LARD. Wickes, • - Montana. 7
