The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-02

HORROR ON HORROR.



tOnswith Medical Colleges.
Daily the list OF crimes grows for which mei
man Mudgett, alais II ii Holmes, now conlI n
in Moyamcnsng prison, PhiadelPnia, Is Ur
ders are now laid at his door. Besides pietIe
and his three children. the two Mi.il.'hs S ns
and Mrs Conner and her darShter, WIZ" or
cases were detailed last week We ar,n nr
now told of the mysterious dlsappearhimro,'
of DIR Rossler who had offices IN homes ouiiu
ing until about July, 1892, after whcn ne va
never seen; of an Is year old Boston girl' M.ne
Barrett, who went TO New York win nm osten
sibiy TO open q manicuring establishment ant
was never heard from by her friends after tn,i IA,
of a Lafayette, Ind girl, Emeline Clgrhnu VIA t
went to work for him as a stehograpdh s sh ,n
was afterward reported, as the records SHOW
| falsely, to have married II man by inc nah'o ~, y,
Phelps and of whom no trace can siM 1;..,, ~
found; of Horace Williams, brother Oh ni'i hnd
| and Annie Williams, who lived in Denver, na1
his life insured for $500 and then was Di9ttcu
ont of existence, so far as can DC learneu OF
another Chicago girl Emily Won Iassel VINO Is
known to have been intimate with nm anu VINO
also disappeared June l, 1892, her parents pc.
lieving that Holmes murdered her; OF MISS h MI.
Kelley, who was employed by nm as ms cierh
at the drug store in Englewood' a no n %,
OF Cole who met Holmes at Fort WORTH IeX,
and went with him to Chicago to engage III MS
schemes and has never since been hearn OF.
The building in Chicago called "nolIies
castle" In which the police are still hunting,
seems to have been veritable chamber Oh nor
rOrs. ,,
Friday the workmen employed by the police
that in the graves were laid the bodies OF Minnie
and Annie Williams. Lime and quicklime had
accomplished their work, and the bodies nad
turned to native dust, but there sun renalneu
suficien. evidence to make the ldehtlhcaIon
possible. Two soft spots in a bed OF nara cay
were the size of bodies, and where tne heans
would have been were mats of long mar. ohe
big strand was of light color, like that OF ANNIE
while the tothPr was of the brown nue. OF
Minnie s.hair. The wOrkmen digging IN the cei-
lar of the Holmes house i'll Englewoou mohu'y
unearthed two brick vaults, SIN rect long ny
three feet wide and Just deep enough 10 make u
grave for single body each Both were hileu
with quickme. The police theory Is tnat
Holmes used this vault for quckliming the
bodies of his victims andjgettng them into sucli
a condition that they could not possibly be lden
titled. Tuesday workmen found In corner OF
the cellar six bones, four of whlch were s'iaii
and the others about six inches III lehgth put
they were afterwards pronounced soup bones,
and the detectives say that Holmes distributed
hem TO confuse the police should they ever
make an investigation.
A man by the name of Chappee who, articu-
ated skeletons for Holiness has made comics
'ion besides showing the police much about the
,aul,s, secret passages and DARK cnainp 9, oi
he castle. lie saws he treated three bodies In
his way for Holmes in 1883, they being shown
o him on board in llIolmes' house and
fterwards in the night at his place. Inc third
keleton is now in the possession of Inspector
fitzpatrick. The skeleton is that of woman
bout % years of age. The flesh had not been
tripped from the bodies when they were given
' lacerated and torn that Identification would
ave been impossible. The skin In fact had
cen taken entirely off each face; He claims 70 {
ave supposed at that time that they were SUP. ,
,cts" for some medical college One was That
a man and two of women. The police declare
rat they have almost positive proof that the
rst female body was that of Emiline Cigrand u
nd the second that of Annie Williams. The j
al Pc n nj nprfprf Medical pNpgrtS pro- | n
ounce the skeletons as having belonged TO TWO n
iris about the age of 20 and "A woman OF middle l
ye. 1t is definitely known that Hoimes IN con
ection with his murder harvest derived consid- G
able revenue from the sale of articulated hu- K
an frames to medical colleges. II
The market price of a human frame when G
,atiy mounted ranges from $40 TO $50, and the u
rnaces in the cellar, which 1t is believed were
,ed for bending plate glass, would have been
,od places to boil the bodies and dispose OF the
,sh When Chappelle called on Holmes for y
s pay, the latter refused to give II 10 him, and y
as, moreover, somewhat IN arrears on the blll '
rimounting the two previous skeletons. The g
70 men could not come to terms, ana the MS p
tie tinally ended by the aricuator retaining N
Is 1t in his house, ol
A negro eNpressman, Ccphas Humphrey by Al
,ted that he had been employed by Holmes to
move several packages that apparently con a.
med human bodies. Patrick Quinlan, the jan \,
II of the Holmes building, and his wife are ~
n
1t they were implicated The police claim that .. ~
3 man whoi can hang around Holmes and "
linlanby gyinghs testimony is In their power. IL
Is name is Hatch and he is serving sentence q;
10 years in the penitentiary al Little Rock, y
X, for horse stealing. lie was AS close to n,
dimes through all his murder plots as Janitor -,
linian and is ready to tell all he knows. This N.
dudes the pointing out of the resting place OF "s
e bodies of the Williams sistersiwhom he him. 7.
# assisted in secreting after they were muir "
red. He will give full Information concern.
l.,
Mrs Julia Connor and her daughter Pearl. gr
summing up the grist of the Chicago police ia
rk thus far, II may be said on the authority es
the police that they expect To hang Pat Quin in
/. ii ii Holmes, the man Harris, alias Ziegle Il,
4 James Allen. the Little Rock convict, be. TO
C they finish with the Castle. ov
Holmes, who has been so long asserting oh
It Pietze was alive, now comes out with Il Ju
" story of suicide as the result of financial SCI
iculty. He says Pietzeiitold him about ii and Ia.
ote him where he could find the body. WI
lines says he found it and tehn decided to de. IA
oy all evidence of the suicide So that he could mi
lect the insurance money. Holmes says he lal
gged the body from the first to the second .
'r, pried open the mouth of the dead man and eli
lfea III = Iuantity OF explosive chemicals lie his
n placed a match 10 his mouth and there was md
explosion. He and his wife left the city for iii,
cago that night. Lawyer Cape of Fort
nth, Ten. saws he has man who is ready If l
ranteed immunity, to confess that he aided W.
ines and Quinlan i'll numbering the Williams IL
ers. Holmes and Pietze had long been to- az 20
her in swindling schemes They began oper ao !,
ms in Texas, for which they are now wanted. q !
y made a tour OF the state buying horses on 'n'
'thless notes, and tor Il while they were quite :
.essful. hai
his appearance and bearing Holmes Is a Tn
hammered man. He makes no pretense of 50
ying his swindling operations, but he strong. 7
eclares his innocence of the greater crimes mr.,
at his door In explanation of the finding SIR
oules at ms castle IN thlcago he says that Ro
.o'i'1 i.I' ny was chgageu III the business abe
IMPLYING skeletons to physicians ana the the
aratus of which the police made so much hor
fer tine purpose of properly preparing the the
les. He says he found the work difficult and the
setSus, anu gave IL up Tor tnht reason. His TIL,
wife Is now living at Landon, y II, with a the
11 son. VI ms various other wives" str,
d. " iheue, Ill., peheNes IN MS innocence VIII
ltario will not ask the eNtradition of Holmes a
ITnited States The attornev gennraI ;s M Wa
The impression that the police authorities pod
nave been little too sanguine in the belief wa
they have strong enough evidence to hang retl
nes e attic
inlan and his wife were both nut und.r Nv sale
iation by the police Wednesday and 1t is be, naI
ri that Mrs Quinlan made some sensational iroi
os,lres and n martial confession Roth ,,,a,,, bro
ously. II Is generally believed that Quinlan anu
given information duplicating Hatch in the i'el
Ter. wac
sample of the oil found in the cellar of A
ness castle has been submitted to the city cou
llst, and II is found that the fumes from il Nor
closed vault would sufocatela person in less gull
a minute. The theory is now that the oil was
used by Holmes in numbering his victims
foul
mes La BTf of Vergennes was badly IL
eel last week Tuesday bv splitting acid on fror
ace and body A