The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-08-31
ABOUT The WILLIAMS GIRLS
Graphic Story OF the Death of Mamie
Williams at the Hands
of Her Sister.

his acquaintance with Minnie williams,
is printed by the local papers. Holmes
writes that he first met Minnie Will
liams at an intelligence office kept by
one Campbell. on Dearborn street, Chi
cago, in January, 1893, and employed
her as a stenographer. She was in
stalled in his office in the building
which has become known as the
Holmes Castle" and from March to
May of that year she occupied rooms
in the building, adjoining the office.
Meals We're served in the building, and
if any bones were found in stoves, it
would be found by microscopic in
vestigation that they were the bones
of meat. He continues:
1T is certain no human body was
cremated there during my occupancy
of the rooms. my own experience years
ago beng quite sufficient to show the
danger of such proceedings on account
of the awful odor, if 1 had no other mo-
tive to deter me from such course"
Holmes says that in April Minnie
Williams, knowing him to be in need
of money, gave him a draft for $780,
mad held in Texas, and asked him to
use it until she should need It. In order
that she should be protected he trans
ferred to her by warranty deed house
and lot at Willamette, ILL.,, valued at
$500. The money was returned to her
in May, 1898, being paid by Isaac r.
Hitt & Co. of Chicago. She desired to
convert her other southern property
81.
ty and he advised her to execute
worthless deed (by having some one
other than herself sign the name), to
fictitious property and "fe"'' 80 proper
ty for sale at a very low price, and
years later to demand an additional
sum in exchange for a good deed. This
was done. Clarence A. Phillips forging
the name of Alexander e. Bond upon
the deed SO made, which deeds are stin
in existence.
MINNIE WILLIAMS TAKEN ILL
About this time Holmes narrates that
Miss Williams was taken ILL suffering
from acute pneumonia, and was re-
moved to the Presbyterian hospital,
being enrolled as Mrs. Williams, as her
ailment was such that it was prudent
for her to pass as a married woman.
Her condition was brought about, so
Holmes says she told him. by promi-
nent Boston business man. head of a
firm dealing in musical instruments.
with whose wife she visited at their
house in Somerville. This man had ac
CURED an influence over her which she
was unable to resist, and betrayed her,
and she met him frequently at a hotei
near his place of business. breaking her
engagement to marry an honest clerk.
When she grew better and returned
to her house, her sister, Mamie Will
liams, came from Texas to visit her.
Returning one evening early in July
from a day in the city he was greeted
by cry from Minnie Williams in the
parlor, saying:
DEATH OF MAMIE.
rs that you? My God! thought you
would never come. Mamie is dead"
She was seated upon the floor, hold
ing her sisters head in her hands, rock
ing and moaning as a mother would
over her child. He found that Mamie
had been dead for hours, and laid her
body upon a bed in his own room. find
ing no mark of violence but slight dis
celebration on one of her temples.
According to the story written by
Holmes, Minnie Williams had been
away the preceding night and Holmes
had been also unexpectedly detained
by business all night When Minnie
Williams returned that morning she
noticed that his bed had not been oc-
cupied during the night. This is what
Holmes writes
KILLED HER SISTER.
And with only this one thought in
her disordered mind, she had rushed
into an adjoining room where her sister
| then sat, and in a voice which only
very few who would have been init
mately acquainted with Miss Williams
can appreciate she said, You devil you
have stolen my husband from me- At
the same time she had struck her sister
with a small foot-stool, causing her to
fall to the floor where, with hardly a
struggle, she had ceased to breathe"
Holmes story of what was done fol-
lows:
1--WE clothed Mamie in a light dress
that she had liked to wear and took a
large trunk she had brought with her
from Texas and placed her in it. ]
went to the stable and obtained a COW
cred conveyance, and upon my return ]
engaged a man to accompany me to
the house and help me place the trunk
| in the carriage.
DISPOSING OF THE BODY.
ct then drove to Lakeside and waited
until night. then 1 procured a boat anC
placed the trunk in the craft and pro
ceeded about half mile from shore
There, in the darkness. 1 threw tn,
body out
Coming toward the shore. though
1t wise to deposit the trunk upon an