Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-22
AND THESE MAKE EIGHT Two Mofs Murders to Be
 Cb vged to Holmes. A MO SER AND LlTTLECHlLD
 
 Ire Fian5 reeoyed Fer From the Path < of Virtue EN0 THEN TXFCSFO HFR Tn Hlfo0AND
AND THEN IxFcsED HER TO HUsDAND
She Was Removed Because Sho Knew Too M ach and the Child Because It Would Be Troublesome-A Siekon-
 ing Summary.

ADlGdRO, murders and crimes directly traeeable to the arch-hend, H II. Holmes, must. now be added the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. l. l.. Connor and her 12-year-old daughter with a reasonable certainty that they may have been disposed of in the same manner in which the rest of his victims met their death.
 Mrs. Connor and her child were last seen in the company of Holmes in this city in lS93 Since then all trace of them has been lest and the shrewdest of detectives, who, at the instigation of the womans family, have been working on the case, are now of the opinion that the finding of the body is the only possi- be solution of the mystery. The hunt for Mrs. Connor and her child has not until lately been made on the theory that they had been murdered. It was pursued in an effort to locate the woman and get her away from the influence of Holmes, in whose net she had been trapped, and 1t was not until the disclosure of his work in connection with the Pietzel cases were made that her friends began to fear the lives of herself and child had been taken.
 MT. and Mrs. l. L. Connor, with their 12- year-old daughter, came from Davenport,
 
 that time beginning to execute the swim dies for which he afterward became mo- torious. One of his schemes was the drug and jewelry store in the Englewood flats.
 Conner, who is jeweler, was employed to conduct the jewelry store and moved with his family into flat above it. When Holmes had perfected his plan of rob ping his creditors he pretended to make a sale of store and stock to Connor.
 Mrs. Connor, bright, ambitious woman, was given position as book keeper.
 In a short time Holmes piloted her from the moral path and then wishing to get rid of Connor furnished him with proofs of his wife's infidelity.
 Connor promptly abandoned his wife, and she, it is alleged, became a counsel Tor and adviser. In this capacity she soon learned the character of the horrf-- ble work he had in hand and to degred had him in her power. They had many violent quarres and in 1893 the woman and her child disappeared.
 The theory of the people who have been Investigating the case is that she was "removed'' to prevent the exposure.
 If Mrs. Connor and her child are dead. as now seems almost certain, the list of murders with which Holmes is charged numbers eight, viz: B. r. Pietzel, the three Pietzel children, the two Williams girls and Mrs. Connor and her child, and there is a plausible theory for the crime in each case.
 Pietzel was murdered to get the money of the insurance company into the pos session of Mrs. Pietzel, the Pietzel girls were killed to remove three heirs to the property and make the securing of the property by Holmes just that much easier. The Williams girls were killed to get control of $75, ,000 worth of real es- tate in Fort Worth Tex. and Mrs. Con- nor and her little child were made away with to get rid of a woman who knew too much, and a child whose keeping would be troublesome and might neceSsi- tate an explanation of her mothers fate.
 The rib-like fragments found in the ashes under the stove in the room of the Holmes building on Sixty-third street, and supposed to be the remains of the two missing Williams girls, were last night subjected to chemical test by Dr. c. P. Springfield and pronounced by him to be bits of fire clay. When matched to- gether the pieces of fire clay formed 6 section of a circle, which if complete would equal the inside circumference of a large stove.
 During the search yesterday for fur ther evidence of Holmes crimes bank book was found in Holmes office on the third floor of the building at s. S.xty-third and Wallace streets by Detectives F'itz- patrick and Norton. It belonged to Lucy Burbank and was the property of the First National bank of this city. It showed that Miss Burbank was a heavy depositor, putting money in the bank ev- cry day. and sometimes as high as $sG0. Who the woman is is unknown. but De tective Fitzpatrick thinks he will be able fo fin har