Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-29
TIE WEB OF THE VIEWERS Growing Stronger Around the
 Carcass of Holmes. HIS CHAMBER OF HORRORS Gives Up More Proof of His DiabolicaI
 Crimes. THE BODY OF MRS. JULIA CORNERS The Latest of His Victims to Be Unearthed. Machinist and Expressman Held
 Who Disclose Damaging
 Testimony.
HIS CHAMBER OF HORRORS
THE BODY OF MRS. JULIA CORNERS

Chicago, July 2S.-Unmistakable evil denee Of murder at the Holmes castle in Englewood was last night placed in the hands of Inspector Fitzpatrick. That at least four persons have been cruelty mur- dered in this chamber or horrors is now a practical certainty. The skeleton of one of Holmes victims. supposedly that of Mrs. Julia Corners, is now in the in- spectors office in the city hall. The other skeletons which came from the same place will be placed in his posses sion today or tomorrow. A fourth body has been traced to Philadelphia, and it's recipient there will no doubt be discov- cred in the course of few days.
 The man who produced this startling evidence was closeted with the inspector and Detectives Norton and Fitzpatrick from until O. o'clock last night. The in- spector declines to make his name known for the present, for the reason that it would handicap his further investlga- tions. This mans story is that he first met Holmes in response to an adVertSe- ment which appeared in daily news paper for a machinist. This was in the summer of 1892. He worked for Holmes in that capacity for several months. One day Holmes came to him and asked him if he could mount a skeleton. The man said he could. Holmes conducted him to dark room on the second floor In the central part of the building and there pointed out the remains of a man. There was considerable flesh on the lower limbs, but the arms were practically bare. He took the arm bones and skull bones away with him that night The next day Holmes brought the remainder ot the skeleton to the machinist's house.
 nrtabnr 1SMo January z, 1893, Holmes came to him and asked him to articulate another skeleton for him Another trip to the dark room produceu another human being-ths time that ot a female. ghe body had much more flesh on it than the other. In describing the remains to the police, he said: The
 body looked like that of Jack rabbit which had been skinned by splitting the skin down the face and rolling It back over the entire body. In some eases considerable flesh had been taken off I with it.''
 This is the skeleton now in the posses sion of the inspector, who believes 1t to be all that is left of Mrs. Julia Con ners.
 In June. 1893, he was again called upon by Holmes to articulate a third skeleton, which was produced from this same dark and mysterious chamber in the castle. Holmes paid him $36 each for two of the skeletons and took them away. The tnlrd he did not call for.
 Another most important feature of this mans story was his statement that dur ing all this time that he was fixing up skeletons for Holmes Pat Quinlan was about the premises, and seemed to be Holmes trusted man. To verify his state ment in this regard Quinlan was sent for and confronted by the machinist and mounter of skeletons. What took place between the two men the inspector de- clined to say, but when Pat came out of ha tbiS lime he lnOl<p0 ten years older, and his whole bearing was that of abject despair.
 Only about an hour before Quinlan had been called upon to face another witness whose testimony was damaging for him and Holmes. but from this ordeal he had come out with an air of apparent confi- dence This witness was Cephas Hum phrey, a colored man who lives at 621 Peoria street, and runs an express wagon. Humphrey told the inspector that in June, 1893, Holmes came to him one day and asked him if he could take a trunk and box to the union depot.
 "I told him l could" said Humphrey q want you to come after the box about dark said Holmes, "as l do not care to have the neighbors see it go away"
 Humphrey called He was conducted to this chamber of horrors mentioned by the machinist and more wildly de- scribed by the superstitious colored man. Tt was an awful looking place. he said. There were no windows in it at all, and only a heavy door opening into it. It made my flesh creep to go in there. I felt as if something was wrong, but MT. Holmes did not give me much time to think about that"
 Humphrey then went on to tell how he had found large box which looked like the casing ordinarily used for cof-
 fin. This box he carried down stairs and started to set upon end on the sidewalk
 Holmes was watching him from win dow upstairs and rapped vigorously to attract his attention.
 Don't do that" he called to the ex- pressman. Lay it down fiat"
 He then went back and got the trunk Holmes instructed him to take both to the union depot and leave them al cer- tain place on the platform. He told Humphrey he did not say anything to anybody at the depot. as a man there was expecting the packages and would take care of them. Humphrey said, as well as he recollected, Holmes told him the box was to go to Philadelphia, but he could not remember where he said the trunk was to be sent The express man and machinist were both detained by the inspector and will not be allowed to leave the custody of an officer until a searching investigation is made in re- gard to both of their stories.
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