Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-07-27
HOLMES MANY CRIMES
Still Unearthing Evidence Against
the Arch Conspirator.
A LITTLE SKELETON IN CHICAGO.
Bones of Child Found in Holmes Chi
cago House-Hurder, swindIing, Big
amy, Conspiracy, Abduction, Forgery and
Eorsc Stealing Charged Against Him.


PHILADELPHIA, July 25.--As the days
come and go the case of the great crimi-
nal Holmes seems to become more and
more intricate. Each succeeding twenty
four hours some new crime which the au-
thorities lay at the door of the now fam
Dus arch conspirator is brought to light.
AS these crimes are ferreted out persons
other than the prisoner appear in roles
connected with them which place them, II
not in equally as guilty light as the
doomed man at Moyamensing. at least as
SO closely connected with Holmes in his
rascality as to warrant their being held as
liable as he.
The latest phase Of the case is that the
Chicago authorities are now confident
that Holmes murdered his typewriter,
Miss Gertrude Conner in Chicago. The
police authorities OF the latter city also be-
lieve that they now have sufficient circum-
stantial evidence to convict Holmes Of
numbering the Williams sisters. Friends
of the latter have taken up the case anI a
warrant for Holmes arrest on the charge
of numbering the girls is expected to be
issued at any moment.
Should such step be taken requisi-
tion would have to be granted before the
swindler could be removed from this state.
This will be the barrier that will prevent
the Chicago authorities from getting
Holmes at this time.
District Attorney Graham will hold the
prisoner in this jurisdiction until the Can
adan authorities have come to some dis
position as regards the Toronto murders.
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doubt that the disclosure at Toronto will
prove Holmes guilty of killing little Alice
and Nellie Pitezel. 1t is believed that il
the Canadian authorities decide to try
Holmes he will pay the penalty Of his
crime on the gallows.
Here are the crimes which up to this
time are charged against Holmes: Muir
der, swindling, bigamy, conspiracy, alb
duction, forgery and horse stealing The
charge of horse stealing just came to light
yesterday.
At the time that Holmes is supposed to
have inveigied Minnie Williams out OF
her money and property he, in company
with Benjamin Pitezel, went to Fort
Worth, Tex. Holmes had it given out
that he was immensely wealthy. He had
business block located in the town, and
gave notes as security for the payment of
its construction.
When the building was completed he
had it mortgaged before the notes were
paid. The townspeople then came to the
conclusion that the man was swindler.
He skipped the town in company with
Pitszel. On their way north they passed
through the blue grass region of Ken
lucky, where Holmes appropriated to him
self twelve high bred horses from a stock
farm near Lexington. He shipped the
animals to ST. Louis and sold them He
then escaped, although the detectives
were hot on his trail.
Holmes WAS visited in his cell yesterday
by his counsel. William A Shoemaker,
and to him he for two hours or more spoke
freely of the finding of bones and other
fragments of human anatomy found in
his castle" in Chicago He declared that
the tuft of human hair found in the CHM
ney could not have belonged to Mimic
Williams, for the reason that the chimney
was new one, put in after the girls dis
appearance. AS to the bones, he said,
they were not those of Gertrude Conner,
Minnie Williams, or any of the other
persons whom he was charged with hav-
ing murdered THE police simply Cont
know what they're taking about. he con
tinued, when they say | murdered SO
many persons and buried their bones in
discriminatory in every nook and corner
could find throughout the country.