The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-07-24

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With all hls love Of mystSFy,. MS 40
light in sliding wall panels, oil when
there are tho remnants Of three In his
building. Holmes was incantiouS, Ito
mnda ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ones
o N all sides. Ho made Latimer his con.
iIant as to his FREQ use OF dlsgulaes ana
his intention Of deceiyinR people WIN
those lightning changes. lls TOD q
careless woman that he would XIII inc
ieWeler, q. Il. Davis, and thus warned
Davis through Joe Owens In time He
mRintaiued to his wife, the Miss Dun
can, OF Minneapolis, whom no had mar
riod. tina, lao led a lie OF Rbsolnlo
purity, yet across the hall from ms
office was tho sleeping room Of Minnie
Williams, The simple Texas girl whom
ne other murdered or had murdered
with hor sister. In this rOomthere isa.
window from which Mlnnie Williams
could look out to tho Western Indiana
depot, from which eventually tho trunk
Was brought by Holmes, Pitzal aud
Ovens, In which, ii 10 supposed, tue
body Of herself aud her sister were con-
vsysd into tho block for burial or cro'
nation,
MS MANY sIDEDNEss.
Holmes understood polsons and their
use. The use OF corrosive chemicals
was q fsyorits thcme Of conversation
With him. DisIntegratIon OF tho tissues
Of a human being through chemical
action was another Of his iavorIte topics
lie understood the physical weaknesses
Of women as u physician does, lie was
known TO change medicines which his
wife. who had been a drug clerk, con'
pounded, without her knowledge, so
that tho opposite effect 10 what she DO,
sired would be produced, lie boosted oil
having done this. When his child was
born he wa,not at home. When his build
Ing burned hs was away. lie would 60
from his drug store to DO gone Tor sew
eral days aud leave as much a. S!,00t IN
the cash drawer. Al times he would
seem to he impecunious aud Then would
borrow money from the merchants IN
tho strOst, lie had no didicu'ly In So
curing it.
Holmes used a cipher in his private
correspondence, llo carried on this
correspondence, it 10 said, through .
man BY the name Of blackburn at o.
Dearborn street, although IN tho city
directory no man Of that name "a given
as being found at that address. In some
OF this private correspondence, which
has fallen into tho hands OF tho police,
tho name Of Pat Quinlan, the %ianitor Of
his bnilding, frequently occura.
Since his impFiSanment Holmes haA
claimed that the name OF Minnie VIII
Jams was Geraldine Wanda, and that
she is now at so Veezy street, London.
AZ the house, "a Forest avenue, In Do
troit, where he kent Howard PiotZnl for
q tIms, an untitled grave was found.
He evidently feared to murder tho boy
there, and took him away. There is
little doubt that the two girls killed in
Toronto were asphyxlatod. Holmes al
ways had a mania for the use Of gNs.
He Is an expert In tho handling oil IT,
Holiness many.sidOlnesi in the com
mission OF crime 10 something before
which Dr.. Buchanan would dol his hat
were no still on earth. Ito became
financially involved In many ways.
There was scarcely q street OF promin-
ence in the business portion Of the city
In which ha could walk without meet
ing a creditor. II became with him, Us
It had 10 the past, n question OF raising
money BY hook or crook, and In rapid
succession there came his way Pitzel
with his patents, the Williams girls
with their property, and aaally tue
Philadelphia insurance for which tho
murder OF Pitsel was undertaken.
lie owned property in sixty.iecond,
Sixty.Ssvnnth. sixty.siEth. PGuliDa and
Honore streets. lie m%ortGaged and ro'
mortgaged. He carried his swlndllng
operations into every division Of the
city, When tine merchants OF tho west
side refused him credit he won't 10 the
north side, and when that was OK.
haultOd and friends were TOW on the
south side he sought the small manu-.
iacturers OF the Illinois coutry towns,
In his papers arc even financial lettOrs
from Berlin, from cities In all OF tho
prominent Nav England states, from
tho Pacitc coast aud the southwest.
lIe was in touch with tho whole world,
and il he had bssn content to do hon
estly what he did ably, dishonesty, his
career must have been a conspicuous
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