The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-29

Cigrand, the father Of Holmes victim,
was seen this morning and shown the
morning papers. He denies very pos
itively the story given out by Holmes
that Miss Cigrand was party to the
insurance swindles, and she held $4,000
worth of stock in the company. He is
positive of this from many reasons.
He is becoming worked up over the
matter and is liable to give some very
good pointers on the case before long.
He is 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 to be married and that no
point was given by them is, in his
mind, conclusive evidence that Holmes
made sure Of eraSing the very clue.
Even though she was married it would
be impossible to find her marriage rec
ord. 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 a man by the name of Pitzel. An
other thing that adds greatly to their
discontinue and makes them believe
that the daughter has been dealt
foully with, is the fact that although
Miss Phoebe Cigrand was in Chicago
visiting her sister ten days less than
a month before Phelps was to marry
her, he never showed up. She never
saw picture of him and her sister
but seldom spoke of him. While she
called at Holmes Office in the castle"
almost daily and stayed some time
with her sister at work there. she
never saw Holmes, who always, it
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 Cigrand, the victim, she
says, was very confidential with
Holmes and attended to all of his
work in the office. She was very close
mouthed. and had but little to say of
what was going on. She thinks that
her sister was getting too familiar
with the workings 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 murdered. She, how
ever never fastened the crime on
Holmes, for he was always described
as such a nice man. The parents
thought that she had really gone to
| Europe, and were awaiting her re-
turn. A close inspection of the letters
shows that the one signed Emma, and
supposed to be from her three weeks
after her marriage, is not her writing
on the typewriter. 1t was done by
some one that was by no means an
expert, and there are traces every
where that would indicate it is not the
work of a proficient typewriter.
1t, however, was written on a Yates
Campbell notehead, and told that her
husband was a drunkard and a gam
bier, and that they would leave imme-
| diately for Europe, where he had bust
ness. It is the last ever heard from
her.
A lock of her hair was found today
! in some old keepsakes. It was taken
from her head in 1892, nd is about a
foot long, is brown and very fine. 1t
corresponds with some of the hair
| found in the cellar. The detectives at
work on the case at Indianapolis are
expected to arrive today or tomorrow
morning.