Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-29
THE KILLING OF ONE OF THE
WILLIAMS GIRLS DE-
SCRIBED.
Minnie Accused in a Written State
ment OF Having Murdered Her Sis
ter in the Castle" in q Fit of
Jealous Rage-The Body in
Lake Michigan.

statement in which he claims to go in
to all of the details of his acquaintance
with Minnie r. Williams, with whose
murder he has been charged by Chi
cago police. He writes that he first
met the woman at an intelligence
| office kept by one Campbell on Dear
| born street, Chicago, in January, 1898,
and employed her as a stenographer.
| She was installed in his office in the
building which has become known as
"Holmes's Castle" and from March to
May of that year occupied rooms
in the building adjoining the office.
building, and if any bones have been
found in the stove there it would be
found by microscopic examinations
that they are bones left from meat
eaten there. He continues: "Certain
it is that no human being was ever
cremated there during my occupancy
of the room, my own experience,
years ago, being quite sufficient to
show me the danger of such proceed
ings on account of the awful odor, if |
had no other motive to deter me from
such a course"
MONEY DEALS WITH THE GIRL
Holmes says that in April, 1893,
Minnie Williams, knowing that he was
in need of money, gave him a draft
for $4,000, the proceeds of the sale of
real estate she had held in Texas, and
asked him to use it until she should
need it. In order that she should be
protected, he transferred to her by
warranty deed, a house and lot at
| Wilmette, ILL.,, valued at $500. The
money was returned to her in May,
1898, being paid by Isaac r. Hit &
Co. of Chicago. She wanted to con-
vert her other southern property into
cash or improved northern property
and he advised her to execute a
worthless deed (by having some one
other than herself sign it, to a ficti-
tious piece and offer the property for
sale at a very low price and years
later to demand In additional sum in
exchange for a good deed. This was
done, Clarence A. Phillips forging the
name of Alexander E. Bond upon the
deed, which is still in existence.
About this time, Holmes narrates,
Miss Williams was taken ill from
acute mania and was removed to the
Presbyterian hospital near the ely
bourne avenue car limits, being en-
rolled as Mrs. Williams. When she
grew better and returned to his house
her sister, Mamie, came from Texas
to visit her.
THE MAMIE WILLIAMS MURDER.
Returning one evening early in
June from a day in the city, Holmes
goes on, he was greeted by the cry
from Minnie Williams in the parlor:
els that you? My God, 1 thought you
would eve come. Mamie is dead"
She was seated upon the floor, holding
her sisters head in her arms, rocking
back and forth and moaning, much as
a mother would owe a child. He
found that Mamie had been dead for
hours, and laid her body on the bed in
his own room, finding no marks of
violence but a slight discoloration on
one of her temples.
According to the story written by
Holmes, Minnie Williams had been
away the preceding night and Holmes
had also been Unexpectedly detained
by business all night. When Minnie
Williams returned that morning she
noticed that his bed had not been DC
cupied during the night. Then he
continues: "With only this one
thought in her disordered mind, she
rushed into the adjoining room, where
her sister then sat, and in q voice
which only the very few who have
been intimately acquainted with Miss
Williams can appreciate, had said:
you devil, you have stolen my hus-
band from me- AT the same time
she had struck her sister with a small
foot stool, causing her to fall to the
floor where, with hardly a struggle,
she had ceased to breathe. At first
Minnie Williams thought her sister
had only tainted and tried to revive
her, then she found her efforts use
less, and remained in the position
which he found her. Then came the
question of what to do"
THROWN INTO LAKE MICHIGAN.
Holiness story of what was done is
as follows: "We clothed Mamie in a
light dress she had liked to wear, and
taking a large trunk she had brought
with her from Texas, I placed her in
it. l went to a stable and obtained a
covered conveyance and upon my re-
turn / engaged a man to accompany
me to the house and help me place
h trunk in the carriage. / then
drove to the lake side and waited I'M
til night, thus appearing to parties
noticing me, if any, that I was await
ing the return of some belated boat
ing party. Then l procured a boat at
some distance and took it near my
waiting place and later with consider
able trouble, l placed the trunk in the
craft and proceeded about one mile
from the shore. There in the dark
ness passed beyond the sight of this
world into the ever grasping depths
of Lake Michigan all that was mortal
of this beautiful Christian girl. Com
ing toward the shore I thought it wise
to deposit the trunk upon another and
more remote portion of the beach. |
did this, and after returning the boat.
drove away, and later came back for
the trunk. The housekeeping was
brok up and very shortly there
after Mr.. Hatch took Minnie Williams
to Milwaukee where she remained in
a private institution until later in the
summer.
ACCOUNTING o BURNED THINGS.
"We kept Nannie's things several
weeks, until I could obtain time to
dispose of them, when / assorted
some Of them and gave them to Piet- |
eel, telling him that they were some
Miss Williams had sent to his children. |
All the others were burned in the |
large stove in the third story office |
and this 1 plainly told the PhiladeI-
phia authorities in the fall of 1884 and |
all the subsequent excitement oc-
CURED as q direct result of a visit
made there by their representative
IN verihcation OF my story. Another