Confessions of the Serial Killer H.H. Holmes (Illustrated) by Mudgett (aka H.H. Holmes) Herman Webster

Author:Mudgett (aka H.H. Holmes), Herman Webster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 8: Alice Pitezel

Here again I am tempted to either pass the matter by without speaking of it, or to altogether deny it, but to what purpose? It is publicly known and was freely commented upon at my trial, and to deny it now, would only serve the double purpose of breaking my resolution to hold nothing in reserve, and of causing many who are somewhat familiar with the details of the different cases to disbelieve me in other matters, moreover, the testimony already given by Mrs. Actlia Allcorn, and the opinion of Coroner Ashbridge and a Mr. Perry, who knew the mental condition of the child upon the following day, would, if called for, be sufficient to decide the matter. These children, after boarding in Detroit for about one week, reached Toronto, October 19, and were taken to the Albion Hotel, where they boarded until they were killed. Upon October 20 I hired the Vincent street house, having the lease made in the name of H. M. Howard, in order to avert suspicion as much as possible in case an investigation followed. Between 5 and 6 P.M. the same day I took a large empty trunk to the house and then passed the following day at Niagara Falls. On the 22nd, I bought and had taken to the house the furniture, stove and bedding, and on the 23rd, the children went to the house for a few hours. The 24th was passed in other parts of the city, but upon the 25th, the fatal day of these deaths, they were seen at the house at 1 P.M., and a little later they accompanied me to several clothing stores and finally at 4 P.M., while they were in a restaurant near-by I entered a large store in which I believed I should meet Mrs. Pitezel, holding in my hands some heavy winter underwear I had bought for the little boy already dead. Of this meeting Mrs. Pitezel has said:

“I believed my children were at that time in that store with me.”

I immediately took them to the Vincent street house and compelled them through the cover of which I made a small opening. Here I left them until I could return and at my leisure kill them. At 5 P.M. I borrowed a spade of a neighbor and at the same time called on Mrs. Pitezel at her hotel. I then returned to my hotel and ate my dinner, and at 7:00 P.M. went again to Mrs. Pitezel’s hotel, and aided her in leaving Toronto for Ogdenaburg, N.Y. Later than 8:00 P.M. I again returned to the house where the children were imprisoned, and ended their lives by connecting the gas with the trunk, then came the opening of the trunk and the viewing of their little blackened and distorted faces, then the digging of their shallow graves in the basement of the house, the ruthless stripping off of their clothing and the burial without a particle of covering save the cold earth, which I heaped upon them with fiendish delight.

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