Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-08-02
HOLMES MURDER NOTES.
Capps and AlIen-PoIice and Insur-
pncc Companies.

CHICAGO, August i-Attorney William
Caps, of Fort Worth, who is in Chicago
representing the heirs of the Williams
sisters, left tonight for Little Rock. He
goes with a letter from state's-Attorney
Kern authorizing him to represent Kern
i'm the negotiations concerning Caldwell
alias Hatch alias Allen, now In the Little
Rock Denitentiary.
At best the Chicago authorities do not
believe Allen alias Hatch can give infor-
nation that will develop evidence that
will prove murder and they say his state
ments are contradictory. and that the
evidence on his having had absolute
knowledge Of the murders committed by
Holmes Is decidedly weak Attorney
Caps has convinced them. however. that
there Is proof Of the identity Of the pri
soner as A. f.. Allen alias A. +. Bond
alias Mascot.
1t is now clear that the police have
been comforting. or attempting TO confer,
with the lfe-insurance companies. An in
adyertent remark from an official at po-
lice headquarters to-day was You can
bet they (meanlng the insurance cOmpa-
nies) will not admit having paid losses 10
Holmes. or upon any of his alleged vic
tins until they have proof that will con-
The foregoing remark was called out
by Holiness statements that he Is worth
500 600. il being believed he collected in
surance on the lives Of many persons sup
posed 10 be his victims.
A well-known local hypnotist called
upon Chief-ot-Police Badenoch to-day and
requested that he be permitted to try
his art upon Quinlan. the proposition be-
ing 10 secure a confession from Ouinlan
while the latter was In the hypnotic state
The Chief refused to test the hypnotists
powers.
ANOTHER HOLMES STATEMENT.
PHILADELPHIA. PA, August l.
There appeared to-day an entirely new
statement from lnsurance-Swindler
Holmes, VINO. despite the advice of his
counsel. and his own statements that he
would talk no more, still continues 10
ln1lct sensational stories upon the long
suffering public This statement il as
serted TO be up-to-date, and 10 represent
the prisoners defence as IL will be made
in court. Holmes insists that he ala not
xiii Peitzel. although he intimaies that
he came very near doing so on several
occasions in self-defence. Peitzel being
unruly and quarrelsome when In his cups.
He still holds 10 the statement that ne
committed suicide. ass rts that District
Attorney Graham Is convinced that he
HIolmes) did not kill Peltzel, and is con-
fdent that he cannot be convicted OF
murder in Philadelphia. Toronto. or Chi
caoo.
Holmes declares that Pat. Quinlan has
nothing 10 confess. and that Minnie VIII
ilams was his best friend. The statement
holds TO the story that Minnie Williams
h.
that the latter must be dead. as he has
heard nothing from her
The bones in the Chicago castle" he
accounts for by saying that many meats
found their way into the cell1r from the
restaurant, and that being a doctor by
profession. he bought several cadavers
FOR scientific and pecuniary purposes
during HIS residence there, the bones OF
which may have been found by the
police.
About Mrs. Gertrude Corners dsap-
nearlnce he has very little TO say. What
became OF her after she left his employ
no claims not TO know, and asserts that
there was no particular -eason why ne
should have murdered her AS for Alice
and Nellie Pei;zel, he says they were
given by him to Ed. Hatch. Howard
PIetzel Holmes says, was also given 70
Hatch In indianapolis on october 10Th
This Hatch. he asserts, Is not the convict
in the Arkansas penisent.ary.
Holmes says he was married three
times. and that the lady who calls herself
Mrs. Howard IL net his legal wife, but
still remains loyal to him. Holmes still
asserts he Is worth 100000. and would
have no difficulty in raising that amount
Both Holmes and his counsel assert ths'
Developments are to be looked for shortly
that viii clear the former, ana the iattei
Expresses surprise that these develop
ments lave not already matsriaiizsd.