The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-03
PHILADELPHIA DETECTIVE WENT
FROM HERE TO CHICAGO.
Lawyer Humphrey Visits Convict Al
len, Who still Says Minnie WILL
Jams Is Alive.


Geyer, of Philadelphia, who arrived in this
city to-day. The exact nature of the story
told by the Quinlans the police will not re-
veal and in fact Chief Radenoch and In
spector Fitzpatrick have both denied that
Quinlan or his wife made any confession
at all.
Notwithstanding the denial of the police.
however, it is positively known that Quin-
Ian made and signed a confession, because
it was left where Quinlan's signature on
the document could be seen, although the
subject matter under which he wrote his
name could not be ascertained. Tonight,
however it was learned that a confession
was made covering all the details of the
murder of Pietzel with the exception of the
actual place in which the crime was COM
mitted.
This point the police declare they will
have tomorrow. and they declare that by
Aug. they will have undisputable evil
dence that Pietzel came to his end through
the direct agency of H. II. Holmes The
confession was obtained from the Quin-
lans only after the hardest kind of work,
and at the price of a promise of Immunity
from punishment for all part the Quinlans
may have borne in the murder of Pietzel
or other crimes committed by Holmes.
Mrs Pat Quinlan knew of the disappear
ance of Mrs. Julia l.. Conner in Holiness
castle. and saw the body of the woman
after she was dead She further knew and
has admitted that Pearl Conner disap-
peared mysteriously in the castle after her
return from a trip to the Quinlan farm, at
Lakota, Mich.
Chief Badenoch took Mrs. Quinlan ond
her husband to the castle to-day with In
spector Fitzpatrick and detectives Fitzpat-
rick and Norton. The object of this trip
was more for the purpose of letting Quinldn
and his wife meet than any other. They
were closeted alone for an hour in the room
in which the Julia Conner carpet lies and
the chair belonging to the murdered woman
stands. What took place between them no
! one knows, but Chief Badenoch and his de-
tectives are nearer a solution Of the Holmes
mystery than they were ever before. The
chief now has proof positive that Mrs. Con-
| ner and Pearl, her daughter, or Cora Quin>
! lan were murdered in the building while
! the mother was in his employ. Mrs. Quin-
| Ian has given information within the last
| twenty-four hours which brings the charge
of murder nearer to Holmes than II mas
been in Chicago any time since the case
| opened. Quinlan and his wife, while
demonstrating TO the police that they were
| at no time guilty of the crime of murder
| themselves, have made admissions by which
/ the cnleI cOulQ use tnem on the StdnQ as
valuable witnesses against Holmes in prov
| ing that Mrs. Conner and a child were made
away with by Holmes for securing insur-
ance which Mrs. Conner carried on her
| life in favor of her daughter. or in which
| Cora Quinlans life cut an important figure.
! Further, Quinlan and his wife have proved
to the police that Mrs. Conner was SO well
operating that Ii became necessary for
Holmes to put the woman out of the way:
Mrs. Corners body was disposed of by
burial within the castle somewhere close to
| the spot where PEARLS supposed body was
| found. The police have not ceased their ef-
and uncover her remains. The digging.
| which was suspended to-day, will continue
tomorrow and during the coming week.
Pat Quinlan and wife have admitted,
! partially the woman more than the man,
| that business in receiving and disposing
| of dead bodies, stolen from country grave
| yards, was carried on In the castle under
the direction of Holmes: The graveyards
of the western portion of Michigan, Grand
Haven, South Haven. Muskegon, Holland
venerabie graves were despoied of bodies
and collins. The bodies were brought to the
castle. chemically treated and TT, then dis
were remade by Quinlan., Pietzel and
Holmes, refined and disposed of to under.
takers at tai fair r,Iosnt Proiit; evidence 70 xssr
Holmes in prison for the remainder of his
natural days said Detective Geyer to-
Should he, by a technicality, escape the
conspiracy charge in Philadelphia. twenty
warrants on other charges are ready to bt
murder is the stongest one against him
and If he is taken there he will probably
be hanged. AS to all the Chicago charges
swindler. / believe that it viii be finall,
shown that he did murder Mrs. Conner
and the two Williams girls Minnie VII
liams L think, was killed last fall, at tht
same time as Howard Pietzel. have found
TO trace of his body,
Jasper Richardson, the expressman, want
ed to back up the testimony of M. c. Chap
pell. Holiness bone rigger IS not dead a.
reoorted Richardson corroborates Chap
pells story. He has told the polio all HI
knows of Holiness traffic in mysteriou'
packages and boxes and b besides sbs tns es
4 ton-street office shows just how much worl
Holmes had done in the years 1898, an'
where the packages he handled wer
delivered.
The new witness said he did not know
what the packages contained at the tim
this traffic was in dead mems bones. Rich
ardson says he is quite prepared to be
iieve it, The number of the trips to tn
| Wallace-street house, he adds, cannot b
contained in twenty calls, nor thirty.
II remember this special patronage yer
WELL" said Richardson. Holmes sent thes
boxes all over the city at times TO phys
clans and medical students. and again I
| the hospitals direct. good part of IN
| stuff We also took TO the various depot
He received good many consignments hin
self from other points. The boxes handles
as remember them. were strong and tigh
| and there were also well-headed barrels
| numbers. / don't remember seeing that oil
trunk Chappel turned up. nor do / reca
any trips to dump stuff in the lake. l gues
| Holmes had use for most everything
| handled. without throwing anything away.
| The other witnesses involved I'm this ev
dence are Edward Morrison and Edxai
Newman, both drivers for an express con
pany in Englewood at the time Holmes ra
his plant for drying bones and giving thel
copper mountings.
Thinks the Willia mas Girl Is Alive
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Aug. 2.-Attorne
o. NJ. Humphreys. OF Fort Worth. arrive
here to-day and went almost immedid tel
10 the prison where he and Superintendent
Mcconnell were closeted for some time ritl
convict Allen. Mr.. Humphreys represent
the interested heirs holding claims agains
Minnie WilfIams's property in Fort WORT
on debts contracted by Holmes and his ac
complices. After the conference he said
; ALLEN undoubtedly knows thai
= anybody else about the transfer Of th