The record-union., 1895-07-20

Toronto when the news of her husbands
death came. Holmes brought it to her.
She cried, and Holmes said she made as
much fuss about 1t as il 1t were really
true. He advised her to place the matter
in the hands of j. b. Howe, a lawyer, to
see about the insurance. The managers
OF the Fidelity Life Insurance Company
wired her to come on there and Identity
the body. She was too sick to go. Howe
and Holmes went instead, and took little
Alice, her daughter. with them.
At this point Counsel johnson handed
her pictures Of the children. which she
identified through deluge Of tears.
Continuing she said that the body was
identified by Alice, and the man paid
Howe, who retained $500 as his fee and
gave her the rest. Holmes brought Alice
back, and advised the witness to visit her
parents at Galva, ILL.,, and he offered to
take Howard and Nellie and put them
in school at Indianapolis.
MORE OF HOLMES CRIMES.
CHICAGO, July 20.-All night last night
two detectives from the central station
were engaged in digging in the base
ment and searching the building at 7Ol.
SiXty-third street, IN search Of the bodies
of Minnie Williams and her beautiful
sister, who it is supposed were muir
dered by DR.. H. Ii. Holmes,
now under arrest in Philadelp phia
There was a rumor in police circles
this morning that detectives had found in
an old stove, charred human bones and a
watch charm, which it is believed be-
loDged to Minnie Williams.
During the Worlds Fair DR.. Holmes
occupied the lower floor of the three
story building at 70l SiXty-third street.
During his residence there both Minnie
Williams and her sister lived with him.
They were beautiful, and possessed con-
siderable money. Suddenly the sisters
disappeared. Nothing WAS thought OF
the matter at the time, as it was supposed
they had gone 20 visit friends.
Last winter the arrest of Holmes for
the murder of Pietzel gave rise to the
rumOr that both OF the Williams sisters
had been murdered by Holmes, and that
their bodies had been buried in the cellar
of the building occupied by Holmes.
Detectives put 10 work on the case at the
time, and so strong was the suspicion
that it was decided To eXcavate in the cell
lar for the remains of the missing sisters.
This, however, was 80 strongly objected
to by the occupants of the first floor that
it was finally abandoned.
Since the finding OF the bodies of the
Pletzel children in Toronto. the mysteri-
Gus disappearance of the Williams sisters
while they were members of DR.. Holmes
household was recalled by the police, aud
yesterday Inspector Fitzpatrick deter
mined upon thorough investigation.
Detectives Sergeants Norton and Fitz-
patrick were detailed, and after a hasty
Investigation gave it as their opinion that
the Williams sisters had been murdered
by Holmes and their bodies buried in the
basement OF the house.
Upon this information Inspector Fitz-
patrick ordered the detectives TO exca-
vate the cellar in search of proof From
the quantity of bones found it was
thought that more than one body had
been burned IN the stove which
had been found, but this the detectives
were unable to determine. All OF
the bones wore wrapped UP, and will be
submitted to an expert for examination.
Detectives Norton and Fitzpatrick are
now fully convinced that they have found
the remains OF the Williams sisters. ami
that they were murdered by DR.. Holmes.