The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-27

castle. Is in serious danger, tie carried
tie thirty-ssysn keys whsch opened fks
vSriegs doors secret and otherwise. 10
the chambers OF the Holmes castle. He
was the fRctotuns OF Holmes. Qsinian :
between rnra tres Il Holmes confesssS.
a. Il s expected ne viii, he viii implicaie
QRlsnian. ard II QuimEan s>onfesses he must
ne must lnaplicate himself Damaging
evidence against Quinisn accumulated
mora rapidly IN the past twenfT-fotir
hours than that against Holmes netes'-
tive Norton was informed early IN the
career az Cg.nlaD swSrh Holmes the former
kept al the castle n g3rs IS hose nrSt name
vas L4lxgie She bad a sister working n
ths restaurant connected with tAe castle.
Miss L4zx.e gave hsrth 70 child which
Holmes seSk care ~. What beca me Of u
Is unkao1n save 20 Holmes and Gluinlan.
Tia report spread about Sixty-thlrd street
thai Gulnian was aho8s 10 marry the girl.
suddenly his Wife who had not been Nv
ing a the castle. appeared on me scene.
Lizzie vas hurried out OF the city. and Il
Is sad she Is now in omaha. An effort
viii ha made 10 nnd her. To ouinlan. ii
appears. we're ssnt the orders from Phil
sdesphia 70 destroy all of Holmes papers,
clothing and other articles wSich might
aid the detectives IN tracing his career.
How faithfully Quinlan did this is 10 be
seen IN the little az Holmes effects 20 he
LCDNU N TIE csASAiH. A2kInl3n Nf1fN tHr
combination of Holmes vault in the cas-
tie. when Gecrgians Yoke Holmes re-
turned from the side Of her husband in
Philadelphia With a commission 10 secure
certain valuable papers locked M In his
vault IL ives Pat Quinlan whom she got
10 assist her. Mrs badd. a dressmaker
living With Mrs Kennedy on the second
floor 81 a Hat AT Eighty-eighth street and
Ntrcennes avenue went with CieoTglana
INf~ ~at 2 hsl +staf ha
vault
Chlcago. July 2s-one If the important
fnds made BY the police today in the
search OF Homes castle was bench COW
cred with blood stains. Il was found In
q deserted store room next 70 the apart
ments in which Pat Quinlan slept. II IS
believed Holmes used the bench as ~
operating table on which re dismemhered
victims before disposing OF their bodies
Lafayette Ind, July SEmeline Ct-
grande reported a victim OF Holmes, is
we'll known here. She went 70 Dwight.
H.. in 1891, where she was a stenograph-
er. Later friends were informed BY her
that she was with the A r. &. Copying
Company. ON Sixty-third street. Chicago.
and was soon TO marry the manager, Rob
ert f. Phelps. This marriage. according
TO cards resolved here, took place in De
cember. 1892. Since then Lafayette friends
have heard no trace of her.
Denver. July Zo.-the unfortunate MIL
ME Williams and her sister. whom Holme :
is accused of having murdered. came here
early In 1S92 with their brother. who was
in poor health. They took rooms at the
Deyonshire an apartment house al las
Logan avenue, and soon became very pop
u.ar with the other guests. Minnie Will
Jams was about - or N years of age.
and. beside being apparently well edu-
Gated. was an accomplished ssocutionisc.
She had studied elocution in Boston. Sae
appeared for three weeks on the stage OF
the old Fifteenth street theater as a
member of a stock company. Those who
knew her affirm Of her character that IL
was gentle and not weak. and that her
feeling for Holmes-whons she knew as
Harry Gordon at that t.me-whatever IL
was. was no headlong infatuation for a
romantic hero. The brother died in the
latter part Of the winter. and the sister
took the body home TO Texas. The I'M
preston prevails among those here VINO
knew the girl that she met Holmes. whom
sha knew only as Gordon. ia Chicago lie
appeared In Denver some time after the
Worlds fair and told various friends os
the girl that she had married and Como
10 India with her husband. Whether this
was before or after the murder of the
girl cannot he learned.