Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-11-23
STILL 4 DEEP MYSTERY
Holmes Career In Chicago Re-
 mains to Be Told.
NUMEROUS sURMIsEs ARE AFLoAr,

They Are Assisting Him and Will
 Yet Make Their Appearance.
 CHICAGO, Nov. as.-Mystery still sur rounds the Chicago career of H. H. Holmes. The slouths of the land are at their wits ends to discover just what he did after he arrived in this city. Holaes' best friends are inclined to think him apt to be guilty of murder, which would serve well his own ends. His confess sion of the crimes that has blackened his life is looked upon by his intimates as a cleyerly planned ruse to mislead the officers of the law. Especially as to the whereabouts of Minnie Williams are his old neighbors about Sixty third and Wallace street skeptlcal.
 The belief prevails here that she and her sister were murdered by Holmes or his accomplices for the sake of their Texas property. A thorough search has failed to reveal the slightest elew since the time when Holmes went to Texas and claimed and improved the Fort Worth property left to Minnie by her uncle
 "There is a mud floor in this base ment," said c. E. Dayis the jeweler, last night, "and no one will ever know all it's secrets until it is dug up from end to end. I don't know any thing, but believe the mysterious dis appearance of Miss Williams and her sister might be solved by digging in this cellar. Holmes had vault in his room whose closed door would stfie any cries. An elevator from his floor to the cellar which he could operate alone, made it easy for him to convey the evidence of his crime"
 The mystery of the disappearance of Miss Williams is complicated by a SUD- posed connection she may have had as an accomplice in the carrying out of Holmes schemes to make money, Holmes confessed in writing that he had forged the trust deed from Colonel Bel knap, his wife's grand uncle, to D. E. Fisk, as trustee and those who inyesti- gated the case surmised that Mary Kelly, the notary public, who pretended to have the Belknsp acknowledgement and Minnie R. Williams were one and the same. Holmes confession of crim- inal and his repayment of all sums due settled that case. but left the Belknap property in Witemann still standing on record in the name of Minnie Williams Willis NJ. Hit is now foreclesing trust deed on that property in which Minnie Williams Is grantor.
 Minnie Williams trunk is held un- opened by the Wells-Fargo express. It came here July T, 1893 addressed to Miss Mamie Williams, care of H. Cor don, 1920 Wrightwood Ave. Chicago. The waybill reads from Midlothian, Tex.
 It was evident that Holmes was lead Ing double life in fact at times it might be said he was leading quadru- pie life. He had wife and three chii- dren in Willamette and built a fine
 
 house there.
 In the meantime Holmes, Minnie Williams and Pitzel had moved to a house on Dearborne avenue. Suddenly Holmes blossomed out as If he had lain his hands on considerable money, and hired. apartments at the hotel. A d.. tectige who was at work on the case says:
 ''I learned from the clerk of the hotel that the party was registered as Holmes and wife, The clerk said Miss Williams had told him Piizel was her brother. I found while Minnie was living at the South Side hotel she had been attended by a doctor who had never been paid for his services. I managed to get the bill put into my hands for collection and in the guise of collector went 70 Holmes. He introduced me to Minnie Williams saying, "Thisis Mrs. Homes." The woman was of medium height with a we'll developed figure, big brown eyes, light hair and a baby face. managed to collect the bill.
 'The next time I saw Holmes was in the office of certain insurance com pany where he had come as Hiram Scampbell to receive the amount of his insurance money. He recognized me as the supposed collector and was decd- edly uncomfortable. He was detained there while I went over to the Plaza ho- tel and called on Minnie Williams. I secured from her complete admission of the fraudulent character of the fire and had secured the insurance papers. When this was done my work was at an end had no further interest in the case and do not know what became of the outfit"
 The people in Englewood who knew Holmes an the Williams girls can t.ll enough stories to fill book. To some Minnie Williams was known as Mrs. Holmes, to others by her right name and to still others as a cousin of Holmes. It was in her character of cousin" that she witnessed Holmes marriage to Miss Yoke in Denver. People in Engle- wood who saw Minnie every day for