Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-20
THE CHILDREN Round.

TIE CHILDREN FOUND.
A photograph of Holmes was shown
to- Frank " NuleL OF the educational
department. the owner of the cottage,
and without hesitation be identified 1t
us that 0i his tenant When they reach-
cd ,be house and went into the cellar
Che detective noticed chat something
had disturbed the floor and, armiug
themselves with shoyels. they began 70
dig a short distance below the sur
face they came across the arm and
portion OF the head of one of the little
murdered girls. Further work soon re-
vcaled the entire body not only of the
first but or her sister. They were both
naked and had been there i'm an prob
ability since last October.
There was no trace of wounds ON tho
bodies and the theory of the detectives
is that Holmes dec0yed the children
into a trunk under the pretonce of tell
ing them Co hide from each other and
inserted gas through a small hole which
has been discovered In the trunk which
Isl neatly covered with q strap tackled
over it. No trace Of Howard the Miss
inc S-year-old boy who disappeared at
Detroit has get been found
Am inquest viii be commenced on the
bodies tomorrow Holmes. it is said.
went under the name of Howell while
here and NE may DE brought here for
trial
TRACING THE CHILDREN
Tie officers have traced the children
Co Detroit They We're taken there
from Chicago. where they had been at
tending school They boarded on Con-
gress street West one week I'M 1894.
Holmes secured possession of Alice,
AGED a.. FIRST taking her 90 Philadelphia
to identify her fathers body. Then he
went t0 ST. Louis and told the mother
that DE would put Howard and Nellie
iu q good sch0O. I'm indianapolis This
was ON September Is. 1894 Mrs. Petit
Eal received two letters from Holmes In
indianapolis and acting on his advice
She went TO her parents. home i'm Illi-
uois.
Becoming worried about the children
She went % Chicago. where She received
word from Holmes tO go TO- Detroit She
met him iu that city and demanded the
children. bu- was induced 20 go with
him 90 Toronto and ,hen TO Burlington,
VT
AIDED BY THE NEWSPAPERS
Detective Ceyor says he attributes
great success I'm the case 20 the news
papers. The pictures of The children,
be said. were published with articles,
which attracted widespread attention.
Thomas Reeves. an old gentleman,
who lives at So. Vincent street which Isl
thickly settled residential part OF the
CITY. occupied by many of the best IA
miles I'm the city. remembered that i'm
the latter part of October. 1884, a man
with -wo lttle girls had occupied cot
tqae at SO. 16 ST. Vincent street, next
door TO- him. He recalled this fact when
reading the accounts OF the crime and
Gevcr's admissions here In The news
naners. and c0mmunica with the p0-
Ice This led 90 the discovery of the
bodies
Holmes registered at the Albion Hotel
on October - as Howell, and had the
children With him az the time. Geyer
said be believes that when the children
leC the Albion Hotel they were taken
direct % the house on ST. Vincent street.
where they were killed.
The indications are that they We're
stripped of their clothes. which We're
burned. MS the occupants of the adjoin-
ing house found some fragments of
clothes in the fireplace and threw them
into Che lane
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