Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-20
More Evidence Against Holmes.

Tor week.
More Evidence Against Holmes.
CHICAGO, July 20.-Another appalling
crime will be laid at the door OF III. Ii.
Holmes, the notorious INSURANCE windler,
and the alleged murderer Of the Pitzels.
That Minnie Williams of Fort Worth
met her death mt the hands Of Holmes
there Is scarcely doubt. That she died
In this city In violent manner has been
proven almost conclusively.
Late last night the police found In q
stove In the three story brick building 81
70l Sixty third street, which was built by
Holmes, and In which both he and tire
Williams girl lived, u quantity Of charred
bones, buttons known to have boon on q
dress owned by Minnie Williams and .
partly melted portion Of watch chain,
which was positively identified as having
been the property Of the girl.
The chain was instantly recognized by
C. II. Davis, who occupies portion OF the
store formerly used by Holmes when he
was in the drug business, rs one he had
sseen Miss Williams wear, and which he
had on two separate occasions repaired for
her Davis also claimed to recognize the
buttons AS those he had seen on q dress
worn by Miss Williams.
The ghastly discovery was made Late
last night by force OF detectives working
under the command Of Inspector Fitxpat
rick, and who had all day been at work
searching the building from cellar to gar
ret. The floors were taken up In parts,
the wall were sounded and the big iron
vault carefully inspected. The walls Of
the vault were fou1d b to be heavily packed
with asbestos, which the police believe
was placed there for the purpose Of dead
ening sound.
what the Search Revealed.
The search Of the house was undertaken
by the police, who yesterday received n
communication from the Philadelphia
authorities. The building was carefully
gone over, and the dummy elevator. which
ran from the top floor of the building
where Holmes had his office, to the base
ment without exit on the intervening floors
was tried and worked in every possible
manner.
On the top floor, in the room which was
used by Holmes Us an office stood an inn
mense stove, fully eight feet high and
three feet in diameter, with door sufIi-
GENTLY large to admit of the adnS6ssion Of
human body into the interior. This
stove had i'm the former examinations been
entirely overlooked.
Inspector Fitzpatrick opened the door
and poked earelessly among the debris
with his cane. Almost the first thing he
turned up was human bone, badly
charred He hastily jointed IL out and
found that it was, beyond all question, a
human rib Of an adult. The contents of
the stove were then taken out. All of the
ashes and debris removed from the stove
were carefully preserved and taken to the
police station, where a more careful ex-
animation will made of them.
The police are now of the opinion that
not only Minnie Williams, but her
younger sister Anna, and the boy Howard
Pitzel met death in this house. They will
renew the search OF the house, beginning
with tho basement, which will he care
fully dug up. They are Of the opinion
that they will 6nd either the body of Anna
Williams or that of Howard Pitzel before
they have concluded their work.