The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-07-30
Holmes ENTERPRISES.
Skeletons Discovered Which Have
Been Traced to Him.
SAYS HE GOT THEM LBG1T1MATEIY.


The Chicago Police, However, Relieve They
Have the Skeletons OF Two of the alleged
Wholesale Murderer's Many Victims.
The Prisoner RidiouIes the Charges.
CHICAGO, July 80.-The search of the
Holmes building was prosecuted yester-
day on the Information given to the police
by M. c.. Chappell, the maehinist, who
says that he articulated the skeletons of
three of the supposed victims of II. H..
Holmes. Chappell told the police that
Holmes had two watts in the cellar. One,
he said, was in the southeast orner, and
the other in the southwest corner Of the
rear cellar. They had since been walled
up, he said. One of the watts, according to
~Chappell's statement, was used as q vessel
in which the flesh was eaten from bones
by the use of acids. The other was for the
purpose of bleaching the bones.
Twelve laborers worked all day digging
out the two corners designated by Chap
pell, and were about to give up the search
as unsuccessful when one of the men at
work on the southeast corner struck his
spade against something which gave forth
a metallic sound. The metal object
proved to be a huge tank in the shape of a
boiler. 1t was located just outside the
cellar wall, and it's top was four feet from
the grounds surface. Work for the night
was stopped before the tank was fully vi
covered, but apparently it is eight feet
long and three feet in diameter.
The police yesterday secured a skeleton
which they believe to be one of the alleged
victims of Holmes. Chappell took two
detectives to the house of a West Side
nhuainfnn rrhoro NLa a,,,v1oEn eIolatnr
was found. Chappell says that he got the
bones from Holmes. After examination
the police decided that the skeleton is
probably chat of Miss Cigrand, the Indi-
ana girl. 1t had been sold to the Hahne-
mann Medical college Shy Holmes, the po-
lice claim. Yesterdays find, with the
trunk discovery of Sunday, makes two OF
the three skeletons which Chappell claims
to nave a%rticulated for Holmes, and the
police are in hopes of finding the third
very shortly.
Beside these matters the police have So
cured the trunk which Holmes said he
had used in sinking Anna Williams in
the lake. There are plenty of signs that
it once held a body freshly mutilated, and
Chappell says Holmes brought the trunk
to his home with the remains of Anna Will.
lam In 1t,
SIN this way" said Inspector Fitzpat-
rick, I'VE are told four victims of the En-.
glewood house were disposed of. This
witness took away the skeleton partly
cleaned and asked no questions. He got
S36. so for each job. One of the bodies was
that of a man. We have not been able tC
conclude who he was. There is ony a sus
picion that his was Robert E. Phelps
who was supposed to have married Miss
Miss Cigrand. Holmes said he wanted
him to take care of the bodies of two chill
dren. One witness say he refused tx
mount the bones of any children, but he
does not say anything to explain what
distinction he saw between children's
bodies and any others If his business was
legitimate and he had no knowledge o.
foul play. You see. it is all very sus
picious."
One of the many theories hat has beer
advanced concerning the Holmes castle
and the many USES to which it was put il
to the effect that Holmes was a profess
ional ''procurer." The presence of 81
many young girls about the premises a
various times has led to the suspicion tina
Holmes added this to his other nefarioui
crimes. In this way the disappearance o
some of the unfortunate creatures is &C
counted for.