The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-07-22

to 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 hend.
II. II. Holmes, must now be added the
mysterious disappearance of Mrs. l. L.
Conner and her 12-year old daughter, with
q reasonable certainty that they may have
been disposed Of in the same manner in
which the rest Of his victims met their
death. Mrs. Conner and her child were
last seen in the company of Holmes in
this city in 1893.
Since then all trace of them has been
lost, and the shrewdest of detectives, at
the instigation of the woman's family,
who have been working on the case, are
now of the opinion that the finding of
their bodies is the only possible solution
of the mystery. There are circumstances
which, while at first seemingly suscepti-
bic of explanation, now point in the
direction of another double murder at the
hands of the greatest william of modern
times.
Mrs. Conner came originally from Day
EXPORT, Ia, where she was married to l.
L. Connor, a ieweler, nearly fifteen years
ago, probably IN 1880, when she was about
Is, though the exact time is unknown. To
unGlu u CuAlu was DOIu, anu III 1907 SODT
nor n his wife and girl, then Z or s years
of age, came to Chicago. Holmes at that
time was just beginning to frame the
swindles for which he later became motor
ious, and had started a drug and jewelry
store in E%nglewood. Conner went to work
for Holmes, and moved his family into a
fiat over the store.
1t was not long after this until Conner
became aware that the relations between
his wife and Holmes were not of a nature
consistent with the law of society. Before
long Mrs. CoDnor and the child disap-
peared, and nc trace of them has since
been found.
It is the intention of the Chicago police
to make every effort to have H. H.Holmes,
the insurance swindler, brought here to
answe the charge of having murdered
the Williams sisters. The local officers
are convinced that the murderBAhe Will
liams girls was the first committed by
Holmes, and they argue that IN conse-
quence he should be required to stand
stand trial for it first, They also insist
that they will be able to produce evidence
that he did murder the sisters. The po-
lice are by no means convinced that the
analysis made by a doctor on Saturday
that the substance found in the big stove
III AAOAiAlOo Olh O4llOD was Nluy VIZ hON
human bones. They say that fire clay
would not become brittle in any kind OF
heat, whereas a portion of that found in
the stove orumbled in the hands of Detec.
tive Fitzpatrick.
> 1t developed yesterday that the sub
stance on which the first report of thu
finding of the bones of Minnie Williams
r was hinged was in the hands of Detective
. Geyer, of Philadelphia. 1t was said tina.
he visited Chicago a week ago, and whel
he left carried with him positive proc
that a body had been burned in the biz
stove in Holmes office. 1t was also Learned
that Detective Geyer would come to Chi
3 cage after he completes his search for tn
remains of Howard Pite2el in Detroit, an,
J will cooperate with the Chicogo afficer
in whatever may be done hereafter.
In police circles it was said today tina
the only hope of convicting Holmes wa
in Chicago. 1t was said that the Phila
delphia authorities could convict him q
nothing more serious than insuranc
swindling, and that the Canadian author
ties would not go to the expense of eKtra
diting and trying him In the event tina
Detective Geyer fails to locate the body c
$ Howard Pitezel in Detroit, everythin
will depend on the work of the Chicag
,. nn1Ic9