San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-30
THE HOLMES CASE.
PAT QUINLAN Is CONSIDERED AS
GUILTY AS HOLMES.
Three Warrants Out For Holmes
Arrest-Dstectivss Say That
he Was Laying Plans
To Murder His
Fifth Wife.
WARRANTS OUT FOR HOLMES.

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WARRANTS OUT FOR HOLMES.
CHICAGO, July 30.-Three war.
rants for the arrest Of II. III. Holmes
and Patrick Quinlan are now hang
ing fire. Circumstantial evidence
is considered as showing Quinlan
to have been as guilty as Holmes.
The warrants in question will not
be held back longer than today and
when sworn out will COMPEL the
bringing of Quinlan into court
and airing his course before a
grand jury. Animportant witness
against Holmes and Quinlan was
found in a mysterious brick-layer
who built a fire box in the castle
which he thinks might have been
used as a retort fol- dead bodies,
who has turned up and told his
story. Knepper, of Dickey street,
came forward and told OF Holmes.
"He was very familiar with Mrs.
Conner" said Mr.. Knepper, she
would be gone from the building
for severed days at time and then
suddenly appear and make the
statement that he had been away
and made 1000. To the best Of my
recollection Mrs. Conner disap-
peared the last of December 1891 or
early in Jan. 1892"
A Mrs. Baily has definitely
identified the picture OF Miss Ci-
grand as the girl who had a dress
made with her in Nov. 1892. Mrs.
Baldwin, of Sixth street made the
dresses in July and August of that
year.
In the tool chest of Pat Quinlan,
in his fiat in the castle, there have
been found bloody draw knives,
knives and chisels. These stained
teols will all be subjected to chemi.
cal tests to determine whether the
blood Is from human beings.
HOLMES STILL NON-CoMMITAL. 4,
PHILADELPHIA, July 3O.-It has
been learned that the authorities
in this city have found among
Holmes papers several letters
from Allen, who Is In prison in
Little Rock, Ark, duplicating both
in illegal transactions. Holmes
attorney in this city gives out a
statement purporting to come
from the arch-conspirator and re-
lating to the statements made by
Charles Chappell OF Chicago, to
the effect that he had articulated
four skeletons for Holmes. In the
first place Holmes declared that
any medical men who failed to
make a living by the practice OF
his profession adds to it in many
other ways by calling into play his
scientific knowledge. Accepting
this idea himself, he said, he re-
solved to procure a number OF
skeletons and when he found them
expensive he concluded that to
deal in the CHASTITY articles would
be a lucrative business. Thereup-
on he procured number OF corpses
and had them scraped and artl-
culated but the superstition that he
had murdered people to obtain
them he secuted as arrant non
sense.
81 got them in legitimate man.
ner," he continued sand l am pre-
pared to prove 1t when the time
comes"
"There Is not a soul living in
Chicago who can prove that l had
anything to do with the disappear
ance of this aggregation OF people
of whose murder l am accused"
HOLMES AFTER HIS FIFTH WIFE.
CHICAGO, July 30.-A special to
the Tribune from Indianapolis
says: Detective Geyer who is here
searching for the house in which
he thinks Holmes murdered
Howard Pietzel and disposed OF
the body, makes the startling an
nouncement that he has discover
ed enough here to convince him
that the arch.murderer had laid
his plans to murder his fifth wife,
Georgiana Howard, and her
mother, Mrs. Yoke, Of Franklin, In
this city, as soon as he should get
rid of the the Pietzel family. De-
tective Geyer obtained his clue at
the real estate office OF John
Wright, who had dealings with
Holmes while the latter was going
from one hotel to another with the
Pietzel children. At that time
Holmes had been given authority
by Georgiana Howard to make
deal with other heirs for her pro-
perty at Franklin and had her
mothers consent. Owing to some
hitch, the deal was dropped tenn