The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-08-02
GREATEST VILLAIN.
HOLMES HOLDS THE RECORD AS A
PRODIGY IN CRIME.

Not Unstained with Blood-Murder o,
Another Man suspected and Two More
Women ON tho Roll.
CHICAGO, July 26-More proof has been
found that Mrs. Julia L. Conner Ia dead
and that she was made way with by
n. ID. Holmes. As late as November.
1892, Holmes, as shown by letters which
have been found, was writing her parents
as to her whereabouts and stating that
she had gone to st. Louis. But on June
B. 1892, he wrote to her brother In law
Ira Yantis, at Waukesha, Wis, giving
him fictitious address as to her where.
abouts. In digging at the castle" the
shoulder blade OF an adult human being
has been found, and socket bone sup,
posed to be that of a child.
Two we'll dressed women have called ON
the chief of police and told him that a
i6-year-old girl, daughter of wealthy and
respectable parents became acquainted
with Holmes during the fall of 1893 and
afterwards disappeared. This makes the
seventh woman, as follows: Kitty Kelley, a
stenographer who worked for Holmes:
Minnie and Annie Williams, Alice Pit
Eel, Julia Conner and daughter and the
girl just heard of. Conner, the divorced
husband OF Julia Conner, is here.
CHICAGO, July S7.-Mrs. Patrick Ouin-
Ian has lost her defiant spirit In the no.
lice inquisition. Two days Of Sweat
box" experience proved more than she
could bear with equanimity, and she told
the police things which before had not
been acknowledged. 1t resulted in max
Ing the police more than ever suspicious
of her husband and the part he took in
Holmes mysterious business. Chief of
Police Badenoch last night said: "The
evidence secured from Mrs. Quinlan is
highly imp ortant She confessed to abet-
ting Holmes in insurance swindIes, and
that is step in the right direction. Pat.
tests that he was mere hiring and did
not know of Holmes affairs at all.
Mrs. Quinlan's evidence was that after
Mrs. Conner disappeared it became neces-
sary for Holmes to produce her to collect
some insurance. Mrs. Quinlan consented
to act in her place. She went to the in
surance office and swore she was Mrs
Conner and signed that name 1 think
she was wanted in the collection of fire
insurance that was secured by fraud
This opens the way to other deals, which
1t is necessary to know to fasten the guilt
of many of the supposed murders" Mrs.
Quinlan Is locked up in a cell at the Har-
rison street station.
According to the statements of Jona-
than l.. Belknap it was Christmas night
four years and six months ago that Mrs.
Julia l.. Conner was killed. He believes
ohA ahuv loft in hAr .xx,hs
she slept. Her room was small one ad-
joining the dark bath room in the
Castle" When all was still in the
house Holmes switched on the gas. When
the deed was accomplished Holmes
stealthily admitted himself through the
secret door OF the bathroom. He lifted
the inanimate form of Mrs. Conner from
the bed and carried it to the bath room.
Then placing the body in the bathtub
he proceeded to cut it to pieces and fed
them to hot fire in the stove. When all
was done he took the ashes and parts that
had not been entirely burned and buried
them in a mass OF quicklime in the cellar.
Colonel Belknap is the uncle of the father
of the Wilmette wife of Holmes. He says
he and his wife spent Christmas with
Holmes and he helped Holmes To carry
the now famous stove through II secret
trapdoor into the bathroom adjoining
Mrs. Conner's room. That night, he
claims, Mrs. Conner disappeared
According to the reports up TO date
there are ten persons on Holmes death
list now, six of whom are women, two
girls, one man and a boy, as follows: B.
f. Pitzel, Howard Pitzel (boy( Ida and
Alice Pitzel (girls) Minnie and Annie
Williams, Emily Cigrande, Mrs. Conner
and her daughter Gertrude.
CHICAGO, July 9-Yesterday's devel-
opments in the Holmes investigation
closed the net till tighter around Pat
Quinlan, and added moro proof to that
already obtained that he was an accom-
plice and fully cognizant Of most il not
all his deeds. The police gave out the
name of Edward Chappell as a man who
not only had articulated skeletons for
Holmes but also did much of the work
of constructing the mysterious tanks for
acid and lime in the basement of the
Castle" Tho further the police get into
the matter the more striking the fact
seems that all tho elaborate plans were
part of skillfully concocted scheme for
murder. 1t Is thought that the proof now
In hand Is such that the Quinllns can be
arraigned for murder. More develop
ments are coming to the front every few
hours.
Inspector Fitzpatrick was put into
possession Of facts which weave a closer
web of proof around Holmes, and add
another victim to the already long list.
This information was furnished by At
torney George b. Chamberlain, general
manager of the Lafayette Mercantile
Agency. This murder Is shown to have
been prior to or during 1891. b Il. Pit
eel, who later fell "a victim, was partici.
pant in the murder OF this man, and
Chamberlain says he was equally guilty
with Holmes. The crime was committed
In Chicago either in 1891 or early in 1872.
Again the victim was traced TO the
Holmes building in Englewood.
The police do not think this body has
been found. The skeletons that were
articuated were furnished year and two
years later. 1t Is tho belief that the body
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