The Portland daily press., 1895-07-27
MORE WOMEN MISSING.
The List of Holiness Victims Increases
Each Day,

Chicago. July 26. Startling disclosures
were made last night to the chief of po-
lice and his subordinates officers engaged
in the Holmes investigation ~ Patrick
Quinlan, the trusted friend ssand former
employe of the alleged wholesale MUIR
derer. He gave information which con-
vinced the police that Holmes made away
with Kitty Kelly, who was employed by
him as his clerk at the drug store in
Englewood.
Quinlan gave the police picture which
he said was that of the missing girl. He
will be examined again today.
At midnight Chief Badenoch said that
the case was growing more horrible and
mysterious every hour, and he was sure
Holmes had committed more murders
than the world had yet been appraised OF.
The energies OF the police who are in
vestigating the Holmes case were devoted
this morning to an inquiry into the fate
Of Miss Elneline Cigiand of Lafayette,
Indiana, who is supposed to be the latest
| victim.
Doctors B. j. and P. J. Cigrand, Sec
ond cousins of the girl, were closeted with
Chief Badenoch and Inspector Fitzpatrick
all the morning. They told how their
oouSiA WoHo W WORK IOf Holmes as
| stenographer, and how she was afterward
| believed to have married man named
Robert H. Phelps. who was interested
In fake copying business down town,
of which Holmes was the head A care
full search Of the marriage records made
| by the clerk fails to show any records
Of such a marriage in Cook county.
| 1t is the belief OF the Cigrand brothers
that Miss Cigrand was murdered by
Holiness and that Robert e. Phelps was
no other than the swindler under an
alias. Certainly no such person was ever
heard of in connection with the business
down town except through Holmes him
SELF
The police claim that still another girl
They admit that she is a Chicago girl, but
beyond this they will say nothing In
speotor Fitzpatrick showed photograph
Of the girl who is supposed to be mis-
| sing, to reporter of the United Press,
but carefully concealed the name writ
ten on the bottom Of it.
| 'We have little doubt that the subject
of this photograph has gone to join the
long list Of those who fell in the clutches
Of this fiend Holiness said the inspector.
The picture was that Of trim little
brunette with short curly hair Around
her neck, which was exposed by low
necked dress, was a string Of what ap-
peared to be amber beads.
Chief Badenoch said he would state
positively that the girl was not Kitty
| Kelly, the stenographer, who was named by
| a morning paper as the one missing.
| Chicago, July 26--Col. Jonathan l..
| Belknap the great uncle Of Wilmette,
the wife of Holmes, who resided for
| many years at Big Foot Prairie, Ills,
made statement to the effect that Mrs.
Julia L. Connor was killed by Holmes
| in the Englewood building four years
and half ago. Her room was a small
dark one and adjoined the dark bath
room. Col. Belknap's theory is that
Holmes entered the woman's room by a
secret door from the bath room. and killed
carried the body to the bath tub and
cut it to pieces and fed the sparts to the
furnace like fire in stove. When the
process of cremation was complete
Holmes carried the bones and ashes to
the cellar and buried them in quicklime.
Col Belknap was, one Of the men
whom Holmes tried to victimize.
never repaid. The Colonel says that he
and his wife spent Christmas with
Holmes and Mrs Connor, and he helped
Holmes carry the stove through a secret
door into . bath room adjoining Mrs.
Connor's S room the same night Mrs. Con-
nors disappeared.
Philadelphia. July &C. When District
A ttorney Graham was asked today what
action he would take upon the demand Of
the Toronto authorities for H. II. Holmes
he replied that he hadsnot given the mat
ter the slightest thought and would not
until the question came to him officially.
He has declared repeatedly that he will
send Holmes wherever the case against
him Is the strongest