The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-28
GRAVE OF TWO GIRLS
Found In the Basement Of the
Holmes Castle.
sop.ss DESTROYED ~ LIME.
Hass q Hair Tell where ne HsodD
Rssesd-Probablys me WILL
lams efstsrs-

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the bodies OF Minnie and Annie Williams
Lime and oaick.irne had accomplished
their work and the bodies had turned 70
native dust. but there stiu remained SUI
GcIent evidences TO make the ideatiiedti0n
possible. The soft spots In the bed OF
hard clay were tho size OF human bodies.
and where the heads would have been
we're mats OF long hair. one big strand
Eas OF light color. Ike that OF Minnie.
Enfie the other was Of the brown hue OK
AEnle's hair.
Chicago July IA nsass OF human
BAR clotted with blood was found today
On the search Of Insurance. swin1ler
2o4Ees' basement The police found let
Car from Holmes 90 Pa; oulnsan. 70 which
Ggch importance - Attached Tie Letter
= "a follsxs.
Dear Pal. Among their other fool
eseor.es they think you took tbs Pitxel
boy 10 NschlE2n and either left him there
Or put him on; Of rne way. l s-wsYs
eo.d them I Eever ssked yoa 20 90 aay-
en.ng illegal. bat they ars buflhe@dsc.
CotoDsr = / saw you o. Ia factory.
mink. Can't you show where you ye-e
oil the rest Of che month n they question
you or threaten 20 arrest you Tel than
anything thers e. 90 tell abo1t this or any
orher mattera They may want 50 know n
son were IN Cincinnati or Indianapolis
shout October l. VIII you be abe 10
know where you were workingT | arr
awfully sorry. RAT. for ! always tried %
make things easy for you. When Minnie
ALLIED her sister I needed you the w1sst
way. but would not drag you into ~.
II the detectives would so 20 New York.
o. I want them 20. thoy wouit fuc whore
Minnie W. took them by boat. I have
eIhe no killing. Pat. One BY one they are
finding them alive. Minnie ". WILL not
come here "a hong as there IL any danger
OF her being arrested. TIE Boston man
o. A..
piossie II. WatD WILL at a proper end
safe Zine. 90 70 her Let your wife write
ne anything You wish. not ostsner than
ewo times a month, directing n. II.
Holmes. County Prison. Tenth and Reed
Streets. Philadelphia I can not write
many letters 10 you. I'm doing all can
Cor all Expect TO hear shortly from you
Give my love 20 your wifs and Cora. Tell
her have her picture in my room with
me. and ] thank her for II. Tel her /
have tame mouse and a spider TO keep
n1s company sly food is the worst part
here. only eat once a day. Shall be out
OF u sooner than you expect They kept
Airs. y. shut up here six months. When
NO would have let her out on bail, they
made fool Of her. Write soon and Free
~. Ask any questions you want TO. Geor-
giana Is visiting her mother: went about
swo weeks ago. With regards to al.
III. II. H."
III you see Tfedt tell him / am much
Obliged TO him.
The police believe the chain OF evidence
agains; Pat Quinlan Is now complete
and that Holmes ex-fanitor win be tried
Tor murder here. II won't allow Qu.n.an
70 become state'S witness 10 escape the
rope" said Chief OF Police Badenoch TO-
DAY. l have enough evidence TO sndiet
both Holmes and Quinlap. and the case
viii be submitted 10 the grand Jury soon"
William Capps. the Fort Worth attor-
ney. who Ii here In behalf OF the heirs of
she Williams sisters. advanced rather
startling theory today. which. IL found
70 be true. WITH add another victim 10
che large list of murders already credit
ell to Holmes According 10 Mr.. Cams
Minnie Williams had a brother named
Horace A. Williams In Denver. This
young man either died or was killed
suddenly ia May or June 1879. shortly
before the supposed murder of rhe WILL
iams sisters. Tho manner OF his death
IT, not known to the attorney, but he
says that he has ascertained that the
young man war insured for s., 500 In ia
vor Of hts sister Minnie. This fact Mr.
Capps considers 70 be decidedly peculiar
IS ne says IL is not reasonable 70 suppose
that Horace Williams would insure his
life IN favor OF sister who was al
ready wealthy. He said that his investi-
cations upon this point were IN an incou-
learned he was az the opinion that
Holmes had first insured the young man
and then been instrumental in causing
his death.
local paper says; BY no means the
least mysterious OF the many mystifv-
Ing disappesranees from the Holmes cas-
lie was that o. Peter Nerret. lie was
shor.. heavy-set Frenchman. with an
onquenehsbie thirst for strong drink
lie went TO the castle and asked 10 be
cured OF the drink habit. Holmes had
an inebriats asylum In the cas-.
&c and offered TO cure him.
The drink cue IN the castle WAS
stitute." Peter took the cure lie saii
he MAS heir 70 a fortune IN Toronto
Since then he has not been heard from.
Toronto. July 37.-Shouid Holmes. the
alleged murderer OF the pitzel children,
be brought 70 Toronto for trial. the au-
shcrities could pat n The witness box
thirteen or fourteen persons who would
furnish damaging evidence against him.
j. might be proved that on the 18Th OF
october. IN company with woman
known as Mrs. Howard Holmes brought
Alice and Nellie Pitzel 70 the city: that on
The Sith ~ the same month HOLMES took
bese zir's 70 the house OF ST Vincent
street: that he was with them IN ths,
house on ire morning of the fay named
rud thar they aerer left the house alive
II connection with the disappearance or
these girls the woman known as Mrs.
howard would tell al she knew, ard the
rurport ~ her statement IS now IN TIRE
hands ~ the paiice. when she was in
Toroate she was registered as Mrs How
ard. 81 Columbus. o but she STAYED with
Holmes as his wife Inspector Stark
upor Instructions from the authorities
sas written the Philadelphia authorities
asking = thev WI consent 20 the extra
d'tioH Of Holmes. - favorable reply
s. received ~ane~s viii az once he taken
cut ana m ofF'rer viii proceed % Phila-
delphis - hiring me prisoner here.
frSr@rfov Fft-nRtri~k believes - 20 he
certain that a. least three murders were
committed in fhe castle % Holmes. and
through Witnesses that were found today
g. IS thought n0w that Holmes can BE con
Nictcd - murder iu this city The pcllre
have found a nan. whose name thew re-
SuSe g dlvlI,ge, bat who was brough; 20
the office ~ the inspector this afternoon
tts told the police that he had mounted
three skeletons for Holmes aud that the
skeletons Ne from bodies taken from
the house CT Holmes in SlxtY-ihird street
One or these. be said. was the ho3v ef a
man ana the ether two were women
They were taken from a dark room tn
Holmes house in the night and two q
Tire mounted skeletons were returned ia
Holmes Tie third skeleton Is now In t,a
possession or Inspector fItrpAtrsck The
flesh Of the bodies had not been str.nr-.s
from the bones when Tie bolies ~.
given 60 the ne witness. hug the faees
we're 50 badly lacegated and torn that
idenuuoaSioa would have been Impossible
Tie police also found az eXpressnsas
today Who vas able 20 give What Is he
ieved % he important evidence Tae
name 81 the expresSman IS CAarlez
Hum rhTey. A.. 81 she month o. Ilrn