The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-22
HOLMES, THU ARCHEIEND
IHo Is Suspected of Still Another
- Double Murder.
BRUTALITY WITHOUT PARALLEL.

The Mysterious Disappesrance Of Mrs. !.
L connor and Her chnd, Together
with Her Relations with Holmes, Loads
60 the Belief that He Killed Them.
CHICAGO, July ga local paper says:
To the long list Of murders and other
crimes directly traced to the arch fiend,
III II. Holmes, must now be added the
mysterious disappearance of Mrs. /. l..
lConnor and her i2- year old daughter, with
. reasonable certainty that they may have
been disposed of In the same manner in
which the rest OF his victims met their
DEATH Mrs. Connor and her child were
last seen In the company of Holmes in
this city In 1903,
Since then all trace of them has been
fost, and the shrewdest of detectives, at
che instigation of the woman's family,
who have been working on the ease, nre
now of tho opinion that the finding Of
their bodies is the only possible solution
OF the mystery. There are circumstances
which, while at first seemingly suscepti-
BILE Of explanation, now point In the
direction of another double murder at the
hands Of the greatest william Of modern
times.
Mrs. Connor came originally from Dav-
enport, Ia, where she was married to l.
u. Connor, a jeweler, nearly fifteen years
ago, probably in 1882, when she was about
as, though the exact time is unknown. To
them child was born, and in 1889 Con
nor and his wife and girl, then or years
Of age, came to Chicago. Holmes at that
time was just beginning to frame the
nwindles for which he later became motor
tous, and had started a drug and jewelry
storo In Englewood Connor went to work
for Holmes, and moved his family into q
Dat over the store.
II was not long after this until Connor
became aware that the relations between
his wife and Holmes were not Of a nature
consistent with the law of society Before
long Mrs Connor and the child disap-
Peared, and no trace Of them has since
been found.
II Is the intention OF tho Chicago police
10 make every effort to have H. H. Holmes,
the insurance swindler, brought here to
answer the charge of having murdered
che Williams sisters The local officers
are convinced that the murder OF the Will
tiams girls was the first oomr.ltted by
Holmes, and they argue that in conse-
auenoe he should be required to stand
stand trial for IL first. They also insist
that they will be able to produce evidence
chat he did murder the sisters, The po-
Lice ore by no means convinced that the
analysis made by a doctor on Saturday
Shat the substance found in the big stove
In Holmes old office was fire clay and not
human bones. They say that fire clay
would not become brittle in any kind Of
heat whereas portion Of that found In
the stove crumbled in the hands q, Detec.
tive Fitzpatrick.
II developed yesterday that the sub
stance on which the first report of the
hnding of the bones of Minnie Williams
was hinged was in the hands Of Detective
9eyer, of Philadelphia 1t was said that
Hs visited Chicago week ago, and when
Ne left carried with him positive proof
chat body had been burned in the biz
4tove in Holmes office. 1t was also learned
Ahat Detective Geyer would come to Chi
eago after he completes his search for the
femains Of Howard Pitezel in Detroit, and
will cooperate with the Chicogo aflicers
m whatever may be done hereafter.
In police circles 1t was said today that
che only hope of convicting Holmes wal
IN Chicago 1t was said that the Phila
Helphia authorities could convict him o
nothing more serious than insurance
awindling, and that the Canadian authorI
ties would not go to the expense of extra
Citing and trying him. In the event thai
detective Geyer fails to locate the body o
Howard Pitezel In Detroit, everything
will depend on the work of the Chicago
police.