Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03
THE HOLMES CASE
Moro Discoveries Are Made In the En-
wood Houge.

CHICAGO, July 30.--The huge brick
| vault underneath Holmes charneI
house was nhearthed by the police
Monday, who are still delvinp
in the earth in and about
the cellar. The existence OF
this vault has been theoretical
until now. Many rumors of such re.
ceptacle have been circulated but il
was not until the police discovered
Machinist Chapel that they
succeeded in gaining any idea OF
the location of the vault. When
Chapel accompanied the officers
through the Holmes house Sunday he
indicated the location of the vault in
the southeast corner of the cellar, and
early Monday morning half n dozen
men were put to work digging in the
| place indicated.
The police theory Is that Holmes
used this vault for quickliming the
bodies of his victims and getting them
into such condition that they could
not possibly be Identified and
that Chapel, the articulator, would
not suspect that the bodies
were anything more than ca
davers secured at somes of the med
lcal colleges, morgues or hospitals.
While the police officials are not hope
full of finding bodies of murdered peo
pie in the vault, they are at the same
time hopeful of securing evidence to
fully establish just what the vault
was used for and what connection,
if any, the vault had with the
half destroyed human bodies that were
carted away from the charnel house to
the home of the articulator. The find
ing of the vault made the police much
tirmer in their belief that Chapel is a
reliable and valuable aid to them in
the work they have before them
Almost every new development lands
Janitor Quinlan more fairly in the po-
lice net, much to their satisfaction.
They know he is unwilling to tell all
he knows and are anxious to secure
enough evidence TO force confession
from him in order to fasten the crimes
upon Holmes.
The skeletons are not perfect. In
spector Fitzpatrick said Monday morn
ing that he expected to get the re-
mainder of them but would not tell
from what source. Medical experts
pronounce the skeletons as having be-
longed to two girls about the age of
twenty and a woman of middle age.
Not all the teeth were removed and
the police hope that there may
be some sort of Identification
from those which remain. 1t is not
at all certain that the bones belong
to Holmes victims. As an insurance
swindler nothing would have been
more natural than for him to
have procured bodies with the
intention of deceiving the companies
and then to have had their skeletons
articulated as an extra source of reve-
nue.. The market price of the human
frame when neatly mounted ranges
from $40 to $780, and the furnaces in
the cellar which it is believed were
used for bending plate glass would
bodies and dispose of the flesh.
PHILADELPHIA, July 30-Holmes' at
torney gave out another statement
Monday night, purporting to come
from the arch-conspirator and re-
lating to the statements made by
Chappell of Chicago to the eff
feet that he had articulated four
skeletons for Holmes. In the first
place, Holmes declared that any
medical man who fails to make living
by the practice of his profession adds
to it in many ways by calling into play
his scientific knowledge. Accepting
this idea himself, he said, he
resolved to procure number
nf Slya1atnnS txrha h,
them expensive he concluded that
to deal in the ghastly article would be
a lucrative business Thereupon he
procured a number of corpses and had
them scraped and articulated, but the
supposition that he had murdered peo-
pie to obtain them he secuted as arrant
nonsense.
II got them in a legitimate manner"
he continued, and l am prepared to
prove it when the time comes. There
is not soul living IN Chicago who can
prove that l had anything to do with
the disappearance of this aggregation
of people whose murder l am ac-
cused Of"
TORONTO, Ont, July SO.-Though
Acting Attorney General Hardy has
not yet given his decision it
is learned on most reliable authori-
ty that Toronto will not ask for
the extradition of Holmes until all
legal sources have been exhausted in
the United States. The attorney gem
eral is under the impression that the
police authorities here have been a lit
tie too sanguine in their belief
that they have strong enough evidence
to hang Holmes. He would much
rather have Illinois or Pennsylvania
be at the expense and trouble than On
tario. The expense of extradition and
trial, it is estimated, would cost the
province in the neighborhood of Ss, 600
TWENTY THOUSAND IDLE.