The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-29

Little Rock. Ark. yuIy SIT fs Prob
able that John G. Alien, alas sonn -
Caldwell. the associate Of insurance sNtii-
der n. III. Holmes. ard who - sefssnE
here fer horse stealing. may be the rneahs
OF fixing upon Holmes the responsibility
for another murder Sheriff Achaes or
Fort Worth, Tex, who was IN THIS CITY
last wees had a long taik with Aiienr and
during the conversation the cisapp-afehce
last year OF Milford Cole. q wealthy Bal
tiruarsan was mentioned Cole came here
wear ayr last spring as the representa-
tive Of a baltimore lumber syndicate. He
At once became prominent IA lumber cir
clex buying sawmill near Beebe. north
Of here. on the Iron Mountain road, and
contracted for the purchase Of 2slSs acres
of timber lands IN Southeastern Arkansas.
In I,lIy. rssa he spent svfo weeks at Fort
Worth. Tex, becoming well acquainted
with Holmes who tried 70 interest him I'm
come business enterprises. These facts
Cole mentioned 70 friends on his return 10
Little Rock. About three weeks after
ward he was summoned 20 Chicago by
telegram from Holmes. and has not been
seen or heard from since. Both McRae
ard Allen. IL ie said. recalled Holmes at
Fort Worth last year and Coles subse-
Guent DISAPPEARANCE
Anderson, Ind. July 2s-Peter Cigrande.
the father OF Holmes victim. was seen
pers. He denies very positively the story
given out by Holmes that Miss Cigrande
was a party 10 the insurance swindles,
ana that she held 81 90 worth OF stock in
the company. He is positive OF this for
many reasons. He 10 becoming worked up
over the matter. and In liable 10 give some
very good pointers on the case before
long. He is a man Of slow action. and
very conservative. He says that Holmes
and Phelps gave his daughter gold
watch and two diamond rings. She said
they were both very kind TO her. The fact
that they were TO have gone to Michigan
70 be married, and that no point was given
by them, In his mind is conclusive that
Holmes was sure of erasing every clue
Even though she was married II would be
Impossible TO ind her marriage record.
From the description she gave in her let
tiers and TO her sister when the latter
was IN Chicago on a ten days visit he Is
quite certain that Phelps was Pitzel She
never spoke of a man by the name of
Pltzei- Another thing that adds greatly
10 their discontinue and makes them be-
iieve that the daughter has been foully
dealt with, lis the fact that although Miss
Phoebe Cigrande was In Chicago visiting
her sister ten days. less than a month be-
Tore Phelps was TO marry her he never
showed up She never saw a picture of
him. and her sister seldom spoke of him
While she called at Holmes office i'm the
castle almost daily. and stayed some
time with her sister at work there she
never saw Holmes, who always, il seems
was in his private apartments or had Just
this moment lodged out. She never got
beyond the first floor. and knew nothing
of what was going on in the castle. Miss
Emma cigrande. the victim. she says,
was very confidential with Holmes, and
attended to all Of mis- work in the Office.
She was very close mouthed, and had
little to say Of what was going on. She
thinks that her sister was getting too
familiar with the worlxir gs of the place
and was best out OF the way
for Holmes good She is quite
confident now, and has thought
for years that her sister was
the crime on Holmes, for he was always
described as ''such nice man" The
parents thought that she had really gone
10 Europe, and were awaiting her re-
turn. A close inspection OF the letters
show that the one signed Emma and
supposed to be from her three weeks
after her marriage. is not her writing
on the typewriter IL was done by some
one who was by no means an expert, and
there are traces everywhere that would
Indicate IL was not The work OF pro-
ficient typewriter. 1t was. however. writ
ten on n Yates-Campbeli notehead, and
told that her husband was drunkard
anu ildA tNsy Noulu itdNe
Immediately for Europe. where he had
been sent. This was the last heard OF
her.
lock Of her hair was found today.
II had been taken from her head i'm 1892
and is about a foot long. brown and very
fine. II corresponds with some OF the hair
Found In the cellar The detectives at
work on the case at Indianapolis are ex-
peeted TO arrive today or tomrrow morn
ing.