The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-29
ALL THE DETAILS OF HIS AC-
QUAINTANCE With MINNIE
WILLIAMS EXPLAINED.
IFE SAYS MINIMIZE MURDERED
HER SISTER
In Fit of Jealousy Over Him-They
Packed Nannie's Life.ess Body in a
Trunk and Sank it in Lake
Michigan.

New York, Aug. 25.-A@ sign
ed statement written by III. H.
Holmes in the Moyamensing prison at
Philadelphia and certified to by his lawyer,
which goes into all the details of his ac-
~quaintance with Minnie Williams is printed
by local paper.
Holmes writes that he first met Minnie
Williams in an intelligence office kept
oy one Campbell on Dearborn street, Chi
ggo, in January, 1893, and employed her
as stenographer.
She was installed in his office in the
building which has become known as
Holmes CASTLE" and from March to
May of that year. occupied rooms in the
building adjoining the Office. Occasionally
meals were served in the building and if
any bones have been found in the stove
Holmes writes, it will be found by mi
croscopical examination they are the re-
mains of such meals.
lie continues: Certain it is that no
human being was ever created there during
my occupancy of the room, my own eX-
perience years ago being quite sufficient
TO show me the danger of such proceedings
on account of the awful odor, if | had no
"'HlA'i tlOtifNs " lie lEOm Suc0 q
course"
Holmes says that in April Minnie Will
liaans, knowing him to be in need of money.
gave him draft for $780, the proceeds
OF the sale of real estate she held in Texas.
and asked him to use it until she should
need 1t. In order that she should be
protected, he transferred to her by war
ranty deed house and lot at Wimette.
ILL.,, valued at $500.
Inc mOnpV was rpturnad to hor NIov
1898; being paid by Isaac r. Hit & Co.
or Chicago. She desired to convert her
other Southern property into cash or i'm
proved Northern property and he advised
her TO execute a worthless deed (by having
some one other than herself sign the same)
to fictitious person and offer the prop
erty TOR sale at very low cash figure
and years later to demand an additional
sum IL exchange for good deed.
Ihis was done, Clarence "A. Phillips
forging the name of Alexander e. Bond
Tp0n The deed SO made, which deeds are
" iii existence
..Jout this time Holmes narrates, Miss
NllNams was taken i'll, suffering from
acute mania, and was removed to the
Presbyterian hospital near Dearborn ave-
nue. car limits, being enrolled as Mrs.
Williams, as her ailment was such that
~ was prudent for her to pass as mar
lied woman.
Minnie Williams condition was brought
about so Holmes says she told him, by a
q, prominent Boston business man, head of
, firm dealing in surgical instruments
whose wife she had visited at their home
IN Sonerville, Mass. This man had nc.
K quired an influence over her which she
7 was unable to resist, betrayed her, and
= she met him frequently at hotel neal
his place of business, breaking her engage
ment to marry an honest clerk.
When she grew better and returned to
his house her sister, Mamie Williams,
came from Texas to join her.
Returning one evening early in July from
day in the city, he was greeted by a
cry from Minnie Williams in the parlor
Is that you? My God, 1 thought you
would never come! Nanine is dead.''
She was seated upon the floor, holding
y her sisters head in her arms, rocking
backward and forward and moaning much
as mother would over a child. He
found that Mamie Williams had been
dead for hours and laid her body upon
the bed in his room, finding no mark of
violence but a slight discoloration on one
side of her temples.
According to the STORY written by
Holmes, Minnie Williams had been away
the preceding night, and he (Holmes) had
also been unexpectedly detained by bust
ness all night.
. When Minnie Williams returned that
morning she noticed his bed had not been
occupied during the night.
This is what Holmes writes: "And
with only this one thought in her disor-
dered mind, had rushed into the adjoin-
ing room, where her sister then sat, and
in voice which only the very few who
have been intimately acquainted with
Miss Williams can appreciate and under
stand the tragedy of, had said: You
evil, you have stolen my husband from
me- At the same time she had struck
her sister with a small footstool, causing