The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-08-02
It seven MURDERS
Chicago Officers Sure They
Can Convict Holmes.
A Man Who Can Tell of All o,
Holm es' DOings Located-He Is a
convict and Is Willing To Testify
If Granted a Pardon GROWING
Very Dark for Holmes.
Very Dark for Holmes.


If Granted a Pardon GROWING
Very Dark for Holmes.
Little Rock, Ark. July S1.--There is
now little doubt that the Chicago police
Will convict H. H. Holmes, alias Mud
gett, alias Pratt. alias Gordon. now in
the Philadelphia Jail, Of the murder of
at least seven persons. They know the
name of the man who can hang Holme.
by giving his testimony, and that man
Is IN their power. His name is Hatch.
allas Bond, alias Mascot, and he is now
serving sentence of ten years in the
penltentiary here for horse stealing. He
Is as close to Holmes through all his
murder plots as Janitor Quinlan and is
ready to tell all he knows, providing he
Is granted pardon.
Evidence I Continues To Pile Up.
Chicago, July 31.-A great deal of
Importance is attached by the police to
the finding of parts of human skulls in
the basement of Holmes Castle by the
workmen digging them. Lawyer Will
liam Capps, the Fort Worth attorney,
who is here at the instance of the heirs
that he is prepared to prove the murder
of Minnie ana annie WILLIAMS. He In
sists that it was done by Holmes GUM
Ian, Pietzel and another man whose
name he is not yet prepared to give.
This man has been found by detective
whom the heirs engaged to work ON the
case eight months ago. 1t is said he has
made a partial confession, and will make
it complete ON condition he is granted
immunity from punishment. Mr..
Caps also says that this man knows
exactly where the bodies of the Will
liams girls are buried. Mrs. Strowers,
who washed for Holmes, says he asked
her at one time to take out IA policy for
$40, 900 on her life and promised to give
her $4,000 for the policy at once At
the advice of her friends, she says, she
declined.
HIS Career in Clinton County, N. Y.
Plattsburg, n. Y, July 81 1t trans
pires that H. H. Holmes, who is accused
of numerous murders and other crimes,
was once resident of this (Clinton)
county. In 1888 he appeared at Moores
under the name of Herman w. Mudgett,
an AGENT for nursery stock. and created
such a good impression that he was en-
gagged to teach the village school. This
occupation he found uncongenial. He
left Moores and went to Massachusetts,
but returned in a short time accompa-
MED by small boy, who disappeared
shortly after arrival, Holmes saying he
had gone home, but it is now believed
that the boy was the murderer's first
victim. After the boys disappearance
Mudgett, or Holmes, went to Mooers
Forks, hamlet three miles away. ENC
began practice as a physician, and re-
manned there about year, taking
while there an active part in politics.
Supported Blaine in "a,
He was an enthusiastic supporter O.
Blaine in 1884 and wagSred every dolla
he had and all he could secure by Dor
rowing or otherwise on Mr.. Blaine
success, On losing his wagers he be
came penniless, aud then his true nature
began so show itself in many dishones
practices. His misconduct eliminated
in hurried departure for Chicago
leaving behind many unpaid bills. H
returned again to this county in 1881
when he told Munchausen- like stories
of his success in Chicago, where, SO h
claimed, he owned several stores. Hi
last stay was a brief one. In his cert
fcate, filed in the Clinton county clerk
Office ON October II, 1884, Midget
(Holmes) swears that his name is He1
man W. Mudgett, that his birthplace
was Gilmanton, n H., and that b.
graduated at the University of Mich
gan Ann Arbor).
Now Boston Girl
Boston, July 31.-An evening paper
says. that in July 1893, Holmes, the in
surance swindler, was in Boston an
induced Mable Barrett, an orphan gil
IS wears old, to ge'to New York ostensi
by to open a manicuring establishment
and flat the Boston friends of the cir
have hot since heard from her.