The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-25
HOLMGS MANY CRIMES.
Still Unearthing Evidence Against
J the Arch Conspirator.
a LITTLE SKELETON IN CHICAGO.
Bones OF Child Found In Holmes Chi
oago House-Murder, swIndiinE. Big
amy, Conspiracy, Abduction, Forgery and
Horse Stealing Charged Against Him.

oago House-Murder, swIndiing. Big
amy, Conspiracy, Abduction, Forgery and
Horse Stealing Charged Against Him.
PHILADELPHIA, July eb-As the days
come and go the case Of the great crimi-
nal Holmes soems to become more and
moro intricate. Each succeeding twenty
four hours some new crime which the au.
thorities lay at the door OF the now fam.
Gus arch conspirator Is brought to light.
As these crimes are ferreted out persons
other than the prisoner appear In roles
connected with them which place them, If
not in equally as guilty light as the
doomed man at Moyamensing, at least as
so closely connected with Holmes in his
rasoality as to warrant their being held as
liable as he.
The latest phase Of the case Is that the
Chicago authorities are now confident
shat Holmes murdered his typewriter,
Miss Gertrude Conner, in Chicago. The
police authorities OF the latter city also be-
leve that they now have sufficient oircum.
stantial evidence to convict Holmes of
numbering the Williams sisters. Friends
Of the latter have taken up the case, and
warrant for Holmes arrest on the charge
Of numbering the girls Is expected to be
issued at any moment.
Should such q stop be taken requisi-
tion would have to be granted before the
swindler could be removed from this state.
This will be the barrier that will prevent
tbe Chicago authorities from getting
Holmes OF this time.
District Attorney Graham will hold the
prisoner In this jurisdiction until the Can
adian authorities have come to some dis
position as regards the Toronto murders
u is thought beyond the shadow of a
doubt that the disclosure at Toronto will
prove Holmes guilty Of killing little Alice
and Nellie Pltezel. 1t is believed that II
ths Canadian authorities decide to try
Holmes he will pay the penalty Of his
srime on the gallows.
Here are the crimes which up to this
dime are charged against Holmes: Muir
der. swindling, bigamy, conspiracy, NIB,
dtction, forgery aud horse stealing. Tho
charge Of horse stealing just came to light
yesterday.
At the time that Holmes is supposed to
heve inveigled Minnie Williams out Of
her money and property he, in company
with Beniamip Pitezel, went to Fort
Worth, Tex. Holmes had it given out
that he was immensely wealthy. He had
Q business block located In the town, and
gave notes as security for the payment of
Its construction.
When the building was completed he
had it portgaged before the notes were
paid. The townspeople then came to the
6onolusion that the man was q swindler.
He skipped the town in company with
Pitezel. On their way north they passed
through the blue grass region of Ken
eucky, where Holmes appropriated to him
eelf twelve high bred horses from stock
farm near Lexington. He shipped the
animals to st. Louis and sold them. He
then escaped, although the detectives
were hot on his trail.
Holmes was visited In his cell yesterday
by his counsel, William A. Shoemaker,
and to him he for two hours or more spoke
freely of the finding of bones and other
fragments Of human anatomy found in
bis castle" In Chicago. He declared that
the tuft Of human hair found la the chin
pey'could not have belonged to Minnie
Williams, for the reason that the chimney
was new one, put in after the girls dis
appearance. AS to the bones he said,
they were not those of Gertrude Conner,
Minnie Williams, or any of the other
persons whom he was charged with hav-
Ing murdered. "The police simply don't
know what they're taking about, he con.
tinued, ''when they say l murdered SO
many persons and buried their bones in.
discriminatory in every nook and corner
could find throughout the country.
"Quite while ago made statement
90 the Philadelphia authorities that they
were liable to find human bones in many
different places all over the continent.
then frankly admitted that l had been
ADgaged in number Of insurance swim
dies which didn't pan out. One of these
&as for 10000 policy, and had TO be
abandoned in an embryonic state because
the officers of the company became sus
Licious. The idea was to have the bodies
OF a woman and boy found in their home
and afterwards the corpse of q man with
bullet In his head, to make 1t appear
case of murder and suicide.
81 got two bodies from graveyard tc
represent the wife and son, but the hus
bands body had not yet been procured
whom the insurance agents learned of the
scheme and tho bodies had to be disposed
of the best way could do SO. I had then
embalmed and put in trunks which wer,
sent to cold storage warehouse Befor,
my preparations for gotting rid of tn,
bodies could be completed, however, tn,
manager of the storage house notified m,
TO take the trunks away Or he would sci
the contents. / did SO, and the bodie.
were buried in separate places. Whert
they are the police must find out"
Holmes said that the subtorranean tanl
found in the Chicago establishment hat
served as nothing more harmful than /
vat for illuminating oil used on the prem
ises. The dumb waiter was accounted TO
by the fact that during the Worlds fai
there had been a restaurant ON one of tn
upper floors of the building.
In the transfer of properties between
him and Minnie Williams, Holmes added
in which he had secured the Fort Wortl
property, note In the shape of mort
gage was given by Minnie Williams, AM
Endorsed Horace A. Williams" who wa
supposed to be her brother. She never hat
brother, however, and the indorser wa
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