The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-08-02
TANK IS EXPLORED
Private Detective Work Done in
the Holmes Case.
BONES IN ABUNDANCE ARE FOUND.
Many Witnesses Appear Whom Holmes
Labored with--HOw he once Lost
Cinch on Pietzcl--Mrs.
Corners Disappearance

to have been murdered by H. H.
Holmes. arrived in Chicago today with
a sister of the missing woman. They
were closeted with Chief of Police Bad
enoch and Inspector Fitzpatrick for
several hours. The acid watts in which
Holmes was supposed to have reduced
his victims to ether could not be found.
but the police unearthed more bones
two thigh bones and a piece of skull.
Tomorrow an officer from the Central
station will start for Little Rock. Ark.
commissioned by Chief Badenoch to
interview the convict, Allen. who claims
The can relate the secret chapters OF H.
H. Holmes career of the murder and
fraudulent dealings.
Attorney William Caps of Fort
Worth, Tex, who has been in Chicago
for nearly three weeks endeavoring to
obtain proof that Minnie and Annie
Williams were murdered, and who has
pursued lines of investigation separate
and distinct from the police, has made
partial investigation Of convict Aliens
stories and is so we'll convinced that
the man was really a witness of. If not
an actual participant in, the crimes OF
Hilmes. Pietzel AID others that he can
reveal the whole story if he wants to do
so.
The Texas lawyer spent nearly the
whole evening in Inspector FitZpat-
rick's private Office rela ting the results
of his detective work and trying to con-
vince the inspector and Chief Badnen-
och that Convict Allen ought to be seen
and the authority of his information
submitted to a test.
The police are inclined to regard the
convicts assertion hopefully, especially
as they happen to know that Holmes
spent some time i'll Arkansas conduct
ing land swindling operation that had
ramificationS in half a dozen distant
cities. He could have met and used
Allen on that occasion and brought
him to Chicago, as Allen claims.
Quinlan, who has not been disturbed
in his solitude since Monday night will
be conducted to the "Sweat box" in Cen
ira lstation tomorrow and be given an
other chance to explain some of the &C
cusations that are made against him.
Joe Owen, the Ohio farmer who is also
prisoner at the armory, persists in
the assertion that Quinlan was Holmes
accomplice in every crime the Swindler
planned and executed.
Digging in the cellar of the Holmes
building today and tonight was less
fruitful than any day spent in investi-
eating the underground scheme of the
Philadelphia swindIer. Bones by the
dozen were found but nothing Of tangi-
BILE evidence can be found.
The 1aborers confined their work
principally to the southeast end of the
basement where was located the mys-
FERROUS box. An investigation of the
tank revealed nothing, even as clrcum-
stantial evidence against Holmes. The
tank was easily made accessible and
nothing was found therein but a small
quantity Of petroleum in its raw state.
Nowhere were there traces Of carbolic
acid or other fluids which might have
been used by Holmes in putting away
his victims.
Rather a scientific bit of informa-
ton came to the police today when Mrs
Strowers of Sixty-first street and Nor
gan avenue informed the police that
Holmes had once persisted in her TAX
ing out $40, 200 life insurance policy. Not
only did Holmes beg her to take out
the policy, she said. but he also offered
her $1,000 for it. Her friends. she said.
disSusded her from taking Holmes
advice and she never saw him after
wards.
Clinton Sherman. formerly living at
GAG SiXty-ninth street, and now a Dali
ton, ILL.,, came to the Holmes castle to-
day and said he had been employed by
the mysterious Richardson, now miss
ing, to remove bodies from the castle
and deliver them to Chappell, the ar
ticulator at the medical college.
Sherman's name was found several
days ago among the private papers of
Holmes. Detective FitZpat trick dis
covered that he had been an inmate Of
the castle. Sherman is a colored man.
He heard that he was wanted and left
the produce farm on which he was en-
ployed and came to the city at once.
He told of several mysterious happen
ings is connection with the removal
of bodies which he was told were
"stiffs" procured from cemeteries and
hospitals to be sold to medical stu
dents.
Information fixing the disappearance
Of Julia Conner and her daughter was
found by the police yesterday. That dis
appearance had been fixed at any time
between December. 1891, and June. 1892.
and the exact date from the new and
important evidence, is given as Christ
mas day, 1891. This information was
obtained from Mrs. John Grove, who
occupied rooms in the Holmes castle
from early in 1891 TO September. 1892.
| and whose name in connection with the
| case has never before been mentioned.
She was traced by reporters yesterday
from the time she left the Holmes fiat
to her present abode, on Dearborn
street, near Fifty-f1rst street, where she
told, with tears in her eyes, the story
Of the strange and mysterious disap-
pearance of Julia Conner and her inter-
esting daughter Pearl. She said:
Yes, remember the case. 1 moved
|
rooms in the Wallace street side OF the
house, and we lived there until Septem-
Der. 1892. 1 knew Mrs. Conner and her
daughter we'll, and 1 also knew Mr..
Holmes. 1 also knew a man named, or
called Mack but his other name /
never knew. 1 was told that he was an
engineer, but where he worked 1 did not
know. IIe was about 80 years old and
was quite tall. He worked about the
place for Holmes. 1 was quite intimate
with Mrs. Conner, who was hired by
So. so a week. It was after she had left
her husband, but what the trouble was
never asked her.
WAS GOING TO DAVENPORT
"It was about December. in the early
part OF the month. in 1891. that she told
me, after receiving her mail, that her
sister. an old maid living in Davenport
was about to be married. She told me
that she was gonig home to be presen.
at the wedding, and arranged her at
fairs SO that she could go. She told me
that her sisters intended husband was
a railroad man, and that he was going
to send her a pass, and it was for that
she waiting
christmas eve. 1891, she was in ou1
rooms arranging the Christmas tree that
We had decided upon for her and my
daughter. Her daughter had been pre-
sented with doll that day and liked II
so well that Mrs. Conner had decided
that when she went to Davenport she
would take the doll with her.
''She had fixed all other things for heI
trip. She did not intend taking any
thing with her but the clothes she want
ed for hurried trip. and left her silver
ware and other things wrapped In
clothes in the bureau. She left on,