The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-08-02

unkn,wn man and . little boy sre living
on W sossh avenue, somewhere between
Forty first and Forty second streets, In
this city. The writer says he Ii friend
of Holmes and he knew Minnie Williams
and Mrs. Conner we'll. He claims that
he met them last week. He also says
Holmes will DO able To produce Annie
Williams at the proper time.
Another local paper says the physicians
have examined the bones found In the
Castle" basement and pronounce them
''soup bones" Some hair about q foot
long was found matted together with
what appears to be blood, but 10 mny be
mud. Another friend OF Holmes named
Mischoff has written TO Philade phia say
he has just returned from Eirope and is
sure Holmes wasn't In Toronto at the
time of the alleged murder OF the Pitzel
children.
A telegram from Anderson, Ind, the
home of Emelipe Cigrande, says that In
an interview her father, referring to a
letter from Holmes TO him stating that
his daughter had gone to Michigan and
been married to a man named Phelps,
that the fact that they were to have gone
to Michigan to be married and no point
given by them Is conclusive that Holmes
made sure OF erasing every clue. Even
though she was married IL would be i'm
possible TO find her marriage record.
From the descriptions she gave in her
letters. and To her sister when the latter
was in Chicago on ten-days visit, he is
quite certain that Phelps was Pitzel. She
never spoke of amau by the name OF Pitzel
either. Another thing that adds greatly
to his discontinue and makes HIM be.
al. n. a A. h.. a..
ly with Is the fact that although Miss
Phoebe CiRrand was In hicago visiting
her sister ten days, less than month be-
fore Phelps was 10 marry her. he never
showed up
that one signed Emelne and supposed
to be from her three weeks after her mar
rage is not her writing on the typewrit-
er. 1t was done by some one that was by
no means an expert and there are traces
everyw here that indicate that it was not
the work of proficient typewriter.
A lock OF her hair has been found. 1t
was taken from her head in 1892 and is a
foot long. brown and very fine. II CORE.
spends with some of the hair found in the
cellar.
CHICAGO, July 30-Chappell, the ma
chinist who says that he articulated
skeletons OF three supposed victims OF
H. H. Holmes, told the police that
Holmes had two watts In the cellar Of the
castle. One, he said was in the
southeast corner and the other in the
southwest corner of the rear cellar. One
Of the watts, according TO Chappelfs
statement was used as vessel in which
the flesh was eaten from the bones by the
use o. acids; the other for the purpose Of
bleaching the bones.
Twelve laborers worked all day dig
ging out the two corners designated by
ChappeIl and were about to give up the
search rs unsuccessful when one Of the
men at work on the southeast corner
struck his spake against something which
gave forth metallic sound. The metal
object proved to be a huge tank in the
shape of boiler. Work for the night
was stopped before the tank was fully
uncovered, but apparently 1t is eight feet
long and three feet in diameter.
CHICAGO July 8l.-DiRging in the Gel.
lar of the Holmes building was less fruL-
full yesterday than any day yet spent in
investigating the underground schemes
Of the Philadelphia prisoner. Bones by
the dozen were found, but as tangible
evidence against the swindler they do not
seem Co count for much. The laborers
dug up Chappell's mysterious tank, but 1t
revealed nothing even As cIrcumstantial
evidence against Holmes. Nothing
was found therein but small
quantity of petroleum in it's raw state.
A rather significant bit OF infor-
nation came To the police when Mrs.
Strowers informed them that Holmes had
once insisted on her taking out II $4,000
lite insurance policy. Not only did
Holmes beg her to take cut the policy,
but he also offered her So QUO for it, Her
friends dissuaded her from taking
Holmes advice and she never saw him
afterwerd.
Clinton Sherman, formerly living in this
city, and now at Dalton, Ills, went to
Holmes Castle" and said he had been
employed by the mysterious Richardson,
now missing. to remove bodies from the
Castle" and deliver them TO Chappell,
the articulator.
Sherman is a colored man. He heard
he was wanted and left the farm on
which he was working and came to the
city at once. He told OF several mysterious
happenings in connection with the re-
moval of bodies which. he was told. were
'stiffs" procured from cemeteries and
hospitals TO be sold to medical students.