The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-08-09
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Against Him says the Police Can Prove
Nothing -Quinian VIII Not Talk aud HE
wife Has No knowledge Hate the DAILY
Man he f~srs-Attorney Cspps Goes tn
Little Rock.
PHu.ApEIrnIA. Aug. Ell. IL.
Holmes. who is charged with about
cvery or me in the calendar. has made
| a statement regarding the latest de-
velopsnents in the series OF murders
with which he Ia accused.
The Chicago officials. he said. may
claim that ! am responsible for the
death of Minnie Williams. Emily
Cigrand and Mrs Conner and little
Julia. but can show conclusively that
these people have not and could not
have been done away with by me. |
am willing TO admi. that Emily e.
grand was employed by me as clerk
and typewriter for quite awhile. but
cannot say where She is now"
Holmes declared that Minnie Will
liams is alive.
"A few days after leaving her in De-
troit." he continued. Il sent II oward
Pietzel 10 her from indianapolis. and
both of them came east. Since then
have seen neither she nor the boy.
Regarding my acquisition Of her prop
erty. all | can say is that ! traded a
piece of property in Wilmette. ILL.,,
with her for dou ble-corner lot in
Fort Worth. Tex"
When Holmes was asked about the
identity established between Allen.
alias Caldwell. and Hatch. who is now
confined in the Little Rock fArA.) pen
itentiary. and the imminent confess
sion of the man. he said he was not
disposed to discuss that matter at
present
II will say. however," he went on.
"that the police out west are away OF
in this case They do not know what
they are talking about. ! will tell
you frankly that do not care what
number of confessions Allen makes
They cannot harm me. But Hatch is
the man fear. He is responsible. or
at leas. can account for the disappear
ance Of the Pietzel children. He took
them from Toronto, and l have not
seen them since Should the police
find Hatch. he is liable to turn around
children. As long as Hatch keeps out
of the way they cannot prove that
murdered them. but il he is found and
accuses me of that crime. | do not
know what to do. Ii would be a case
of dog eat dog, for can swear just as
strongly as he can"
Holmes persistently refused to dis
q 4. ..,.I t..t,
are the same person. Then. touching
the Quinlan end of the case. he said:
This tall, about Quinlan making a
confession and duplicating me in all
these horrible crimes. is the veriest
nonsense. Quinlan will not confess.
and his wife does not know anything
TO con TESS. Even If Quinlan did know
some things bout me. he is not the kind
of a man To shoot off his mouth to
those Internal fools of police, and the
fact that he cannot tell them anything
makes my mind much easier. | don't
fear QuinIan, and whatever confession
he makes TO the police cannot injure
me.
''In relation To the aggregation OF
charges made by the Chicago police.
will lay that they cannot prove any
thing positively against me. The
bones that they claim u have I'M
earthed in my building do not mean
anything That place was originally
a dumping ground. and all kinds Of
rubbish was deposited there. conf
IDENTIFY say that neither the police in
Chicago, Toronto. Philadelphia or any
where else can produce evidence to
show that ever murdered anybody."
An officer of the Fidelity Insurance
association positively said Hatch
could not have been in Toronto at
the time Holmes took the Pietze
children. for he i thought to have
thea been an inmate of the Little Rock
penitentiary. where he had been SEN
fenced TO fifteen years for horsesteal.
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