Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-29

OulCaSO, july Lo.-DeN tiOp plllOhlo III
the investigation into the criminal
deeds of II. H. Holmes in Chicago close
the net still tighter around Pat Quin-
Ian ana added still more proof to that
already existing that he was an accom-
plice Of the arch-mwderer and fully
cognizant Of most, if not all of his
deeds.
The name of Milford Cole, formerly
of Baltimore, Md, was also added 10
the list of Holmes possible victims as
was also that of another woman, VINO
was for a short time a resident oil
THE CASTLE
in Slxty-third street.
The date of the disappearance OF MIS-
Julia Conner was to-day fixed as CHRIST
mas day. 1891. This information was
obtained from Mrs. John Grove VINO
occupied rooms in the Holmes Castle
from early in 1891 to September, 1872
and whose name in connection with Ih0
ease has never before been mentioned
Tonight officer Fitzpatrick arrested
man in Englewo0d who is believed 10
be II. S. Mack, who
WORKED FOR HOLMES
during the last six months he lived in
the Sixty-third street house. Mack $
indentification with the druggist opera
,ions was furnished by railroad detec-
tive Young. who used to live in the Cas-
tie. The police have been looking for
him since Friday and now that they
have him in the tolls they admit unre-
servedly that they have the most I'M
portant witness they have yet rounded
up.
Whether he can tell anything about
Holiness personally, they are not GER
tain, but that he knows all about
Pat Quinlan and his wife
and their connection with
Holmes. they feel sure from certain ad-
missions he made to friends.
The whole trend of the present inves-
tigatiOn is not only to fasten the crimes
upon Holmes, but also upon Mr. and
Mrs. Quinlan, so they can be arraigned
for murder. Chief Badenoch says he
does not believe the Philadelphia au-
thOrities will ever surrender Holmes,
and therefore he is determined that
Illinois justice shall be meted out to his
accompliceS here.
The police are satisfied that
THE SKELETON
which is now safe in the vault of In
spectOr FitZpatrick's Office, is all that
remains of Annie Williams, sister of
Minnie. They have no means of prov
ing that this is so, because the teeth
have been destroyed and the jaw bones
broken, but nevertheless they are sat
isted that their conclusion is correct.
1o-day's revelations have also con-
WINGED the police that the house at Six
ty-third street was the scene of all of
Holmes murders, and that the myste-
rious Office on the third floor was en-
plOyed exclusively for the butchery of
his victims.
Charles NJ. Chappell, of 100 Twenty
ninth street, the man who gave the
police. Saturday night, the information
that he had articulated skeletons for
II. II. Holmes had also been an
ALL-ROUND MECHANIC
for Holmes. and had built two tanks in
the basement of the Castle for the de
structiOn of bodies which Holmes might
wish TO get rid OF. These tanks will ba
opened in the morning. In them went
the bodies of that long list Of women,
once tenants Of the Castle and now
numbered with the dead.
Chappells admissions are the most
remarkable and damaging yet received
by the police against Holmes and his
confederates They reveal the eXis-
tence of a complete system of machin-
cry in the Castle for the commission
of murder. commencing with the steel
chamber, or the vault, the dissecting
table and ending in the acid tanks,
which are evidences of the deeds. but
the bones were removed. In addition
to- the confessions of Chappell, the pO-
lice also located some of the clothing
of Minnie r. Williams and Julia l..
Conner. which Holmes gave away after
they disappeared. The combination to
the steel vault has been found in the
possession of Chappell. It is now be-
lieved by the police that Howard Piet-
eel was killed in Chicago and his re-
mains disposed Of.