Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-07-28

and told me she was going home to
town in Iowa, and said good-by. On
Wednesday following Holmes came to
the Office ind said he had letter from
Critics mother saying that Gertrude
was dead. l wheeled right around in
nv chair and said: Holmes, you have
killed her He turned it of in that
suave way of his, saying with the ut
most sang froid: Bah. What makes
you think that%
Toronto Ont, July 27.-Should
Holmes be brought to Toronto for trial
the authorities could put in the witness
box thirteen or fourteen persons who
would furnish damaging evidence
against him. 1t moght be proved that
on the 18th of October, in company with
a woman known as Mrs. Howard,
Holmes brought Alice and Nellie Piet
eel TO the city: that on the 25th of the
same month, Holmes took these girls
TO the house on St. Vincent street; that
he was with them in that house on the
morning of the date named, and they
never left the house alive. In connec-
tion with the disappearance of these
two girls, the woman known as Mrs.
Howard would tell all she knows and
the puTport of her statement is now
i'm the hands of the police authorities.
When she was in Toronto, she was reg
istered as Mrs. Powell, of Columbus,
O., but she stayed with Holmes as his
wife.
Inspector Stark, upon instructions
from the authorities, has written the
Philadelphia authorities asking if they
will consent to the exqtradition of
Holmes. If favorable reply is received
papers will at once be taken out and
officers will proceed to Philadelphia to
bring the prisoner here
Cincinnati, O., July 27.-Chief Deitsch
received telegram this morning from
Detective Geyer 10 search the Poplar
street house, formerly occupied by II. II.
Holmes in this city. Holmes had his
mysterious trunks at this house, but
took them with him. He gave away the
large stove he used In the house. How
ard Peitzel, as well as his sisters, We're
here with Holmes and Geyer wanted to
be satisfied as to whether Howard was
disposed of here. Detectives and work
men dug up the basement to-day and
took ont the fireplace The yard and
everything was searched, but nothing
was found to indicate murder there
Holmes was closely watched here by
Geyer and local detectives. 1t is the
opinion Of the latter that Howard was
taken to Indianapolis
Chicago, July 27.-In prosecuting the
investigation of the basement of the
big brick house on Sixty-third and Wal
lace streets to-day, the workmen en-
plOyed by the police came upon two
graves. The indications are that in the
graves were laid the bodies of Minnie
and Annie Williams Time and quick
lime had accomplished their work and
the bodies had turned to native dust.
but there stil remained sufficient evi-
dence to make the Identification pos
sible.
Two soft spots in a bed of hard clay
were the size of human bodies and
where the heads would have been were
mats OF long hair. One big strand was
of light color, like that of Annie, while
(he other was of the brown hue of Min
MES hair. The juXataposition of the
mats Of hair would indicate that the
bodies had been laid side by side. the
heads but a few inches apart
Twelve men worked with picks and
shOvels in the rear basement of the
Castle to-day. They were divided
into two squads. One squad worked
under the tin shop and the other at
tackled the dirt bottom of the cellar
near the rear and west walls 1t was
close to the partition wall between the
rear and front cellars, under the stairs
leading from the tin shop, that early
in the afternoon the masses of hair
We're found. A long. wooden.
shallow vat was found two feet under
the ground. 1t was expected thar
when cleared out evidences that a hu-
man body had been buried there would
be found, but the examination resulted
In nothing of the kind. Either It was
blind sewer or secret repository.