Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-08-08
KILLED BY HOLMES.
FURTHER EVIDENCE OF MURDER
IN HOLMES CASTLE.
Detectives Searching the Building
Find a Pair Of bloody OveraIIs-
They VIII BE Placed Upon
Qufnlan, the Suspected JanitOr.

Detectives Searching the Building
Find a Pair of Bloody O%veraIIs-
They VIII BE Placed Upon
QufnIan, the Suspected Janitor.
Chicago, Aug. 1. 49, Tomorrow an
officer from the central station will
start for Little Rock, Ark, commits
stoned by Chief Radenoch to inter-
view Convict Allen, who claims that
he can relate the secret chapters Of
III. III. Holmes career Of murder and
fraudulent dealings. Digging in the
cellar of the Holmes building today
was less fruitful than any day yet
spent investigating the underground
schemes Of the Philadelphia prisoner.
Bones by the dozen were found, but
as tangible evidence against the swim
dler they do not seem to count for
much. The laborers confined their
work principal TO the southeast end
Of the basement where was located
the mysterious tank. An investiga-
ton of the tank revealed nothing
ever as cir .umstantial evidence
against Holmes. The tank was easily
made accessible and nothing was
found therein but a small quantity of
petroleum In its raw state. Nowhere
were there traces of carbolic acid Of
other fluids which might have been
used by Holmes in putting away his
victims.
Clinton Sherman. formerly living at
GAG ~Sixty-ninth street. came TO the
castle to-day and said he had been
employed by the mysterious Richard
son, now missing, to remov bodies
from the castle and deliver them to
Chappell. the articulatof at the medf-
cal college. Sherman'sN name was
found several days ago among the
private papers of Holmes. Detective
Fitzpatrick discovered he had been
an inmate Of the castle. Sherman is
a cOlored man. He heard he was
wanted and left the produce farm on
which he is working and came to the
city at once. He told of several mys-
FERROUS happenings in connection with
the removal of bodies which he was
told were ~'stiffs" procured from Gem
eteries and hospitals, to be sold to
medical students.
Chicago, Aug. 2. $3.50 Experiments
were made to-day with the liquid
found in the bottom Of the vat in the
cellar of Holmes house and ii was
found that when mixed with ben
zine or kerosine it would emit a
vapor 50 deadly that no human being
could live in IT. Whether or not
Holmes used the vapor for s~uffocating
his victims is not known, but the po-
lice are inclined to favor such a
theory. Pat Quinlan, under the ques-
tioning of the chief of police. has let
the cat out OF the bag by admitting
that Mascot was III. ii. Holmes
confidential man i'm Fort Worth. Tex.
He engineered all the big deals for
him." said Quinlan. Il was not good
enough for the fine work" From
further questioning the police believe
that Hatch, A. T.. Bond Through
whom Minnie Williams property in
Fort Worth was conveyed to Benton
r. lyman. John c. Allen, 4. G. Cald-
we'll and Mascot" who figure in diff
feTcnt times and places in the Holmes
case, are n and the same man. The
man confined in the Little Rock peni-
tertiary claims to be able to give the
history Of Holmes deeds from first to
last, but insists that he be pardoned
out first. Detective Rea, Of Fort
Worth, last night teiagraphed that Al
len is the much~wanted Mascot"
and that he has given up some valua-
BILE information. BY agreement be-
tween States Attorney Kern, Mayor
Swift, Chief Badenoch and Attorney
Capp, the latter will leave tonight for
Little Rock with credentials and au-
thority granting him the power to
represent the State of Illinois, and re-
| questing the absolute and permanent
release of Allen from the Arkansas
~penitentiary, such immunity being
| granted on condition that he fasten
the crime Of murder on Holmes by
unmistakeable and existing evidence
in this city.
Chicago, Aug. 3.-The police to-day
acknowledge their complete defeat SO
| far in the effort TO secure direct evil
dence against III. H.. Holmes. Dozens
| of promising clues have been careful,
ly investigated, witness after witness
| who was confidently expected 10 tel
| all has been examined without result,
| and at last the detectives are forced
| to admit that their efforts have been
| unayaiiing SO far as real proof OF
\ guilt is concerned. This was admitted
| by Inspector Fitzpatrick today.
When we started on the case" be
said, we knew it would be almost
impossible to get any one who could
possibly connect Holmes with any
case of murder, yet We thought it oui
duty TO investigate, and we have done
the best we could. We believe sew
eral crimes have been committed, and
believe that Holmes and his confed
crates are guilty Of several murders
but so far we are unable to prove oul
belief correct. We have 40 evidence
that would even cause an indictment
against any of the men under sus
picion if it were presented to the
grand jury"
Pat Quinlan was given a six-boul
session in the sweat box to-day, buf
the result was as unsatisfactory az
the previous examinations of the ex
j~anitor. Quinlan gives no evidence OF
weakening, and ~stubborniy sticks Il
his statement that he knows absolute
Iy nothing of any killing The Duiic,