The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-29
HORRORS OF CASTLE HOLMES.
CHASTITY STORY TOLD ny 4 MA
CHINIST WHO WORKED FOR
THE MURDERER.

TO Work Mounting SI<eIetOns-A
| Chamber of Horrors COrpseS
| shown Him hut Partially stripped
of the Flesh, and Which He Says
/ "LOOSed Like Jack zRabbits"-Quin-
/ Ian ImpIicated-He Comes Ont OF
! the Sweat BOX Looking Ten Years
] Older.
! Chicago, July S-Unmistakable evil
/ dence of murder at the Holmes castle in
Englewood was last night placed in the
| hands of Inspector Fitzpatrick. That at
/ least four people have been cruelty muir
dered in this chamber Of horrors is now
/ a practical certainty.
The skeleton of one OF Holmes victims,
supposed to be that of Mrs. Julia Con-
nors, is now in the inspectors office in
the city hall. The other skeletons which
came from the same place will be placed
in his possession to-day or tomorrow.
A fourth body has been traced to Phil
adelphia and it's recipient there will
no doubt be discovered in the course of
a few days.
The man who produced this startling
evidence was closeted with the inspector
and Detectives Norton and Fitzpatrick
from 6 till o'clock last night. The in
spector declines to make his name known
at present, for the reason that it would
| handicap his further Investigations.
This mans story is that he first met
| Holmes in response to an advertisement
which appeared in daily newspaper for
a machinist This was in the summer of
1892. He worked for Holmes in that ca
pacity for several months. One day
| Holmes came TO him and asked him II he
could mount a skeleton. The man sald
he could. Holmes conducted him to a
dark room on the second floor in the cen
tral part Of the building and there point
ed the remains of a man. There was con-
siderable flesh on the lower limbs, but the
arms We're practically bare. He took the
arm bones and skull away with him that
night. The next day Holmes brought the
remainder of the skeleton to the machin-
lists house
This was oct. l, 1892. Jan. 2, 1898. Holmes
came to him and asked him to aruculate
another skeleton for him. Another trip 20
the dark room produced another human
body-this time that of female. This
body had much more flesh on II than the
other In describing the remains to the
police, he said:
The body looked like that of a Jack
rabbit which had been skinned by split
ting the skin down the face and rolling
it back off the entire body. In some
places considerable flesh had been taken
off with it," This is the skeleton now in
the possession of the inspector who be-
lieves it to be all that is left of Mrs. Julia
Connor
In June, 1898, he was again called upon
by Holmes to articuate a third skele
ton, which was produced from this same
dark and mysterious chamber in the cas-
tie. Holmes paid him $36 each for two of
| the skeletons and took them away. The
third he did not call for.
Another most important feature of this
mans story was his statement that dur
| ing all this time that he was fixing up
| skeletons for Holmes Pat Quinlan was
! about the premises and seemed to be
| Holmes trusted man. To verify his state
ment in this regard Quinlan was sent
for and confronted by the machinist and
mounter of skeletons. What took place
| between the two men the inspector de-
clined to say, but when Pat came out
| of the sweat box this time he looked ten
| years older. and his whole bearing was
that of abject despair.
Only about an hour before Quinlan had
been called upon to face another witness
| whose testimony was damaging for him
and Holmes. But from this ordeal he had
come out with an air of apparent conf
| dence. This witness was Cephas Hum
| phrey, a colored man, who lives at No.
6213 Peoria street, and runs an express
wagon. Humphrey told the inspector that
in June, 1893, Holmes came to him one
day and asked him If he could take a
| trunk and box to the Union depot.
Il told him l could" said Humphrey.
II want you to come after the stuff
about dark said Holmes, "as l do not
care to have the neighbors see it go
away
Humphrey called. He was conducted to
this chamber of horrors mentioned by the
! machinist, and even more vividly de-
| scribed by the superstitious colored man.
1T was an awful looking place." ne
said There was no windows in it at all,
and only a heavy door opening into 1t.
1t made my flesh creep to go in there. I
felt as if something was wrong, but Mr..
Holmes did not give me much time to
think about that"
Humphrey then went on to tell how he
had found a large box which looked like
the casing ordinarily used for a coffin.
This box he carried down stairs and
started to set up on end on the sidewalk
Holmes was watching him from a window
upstairs and raped vigorously to attract
| his attention.
Don't do that" he called to the ex-
| pressman; LAY it down fat"
He then went back and got the trunk.
| Holmes instructed him to take both to the
union depot and leave them at a certain
place on the PLATFORM he told Humphrey
he need not say anything to anybody at
! the depot, as a man there was expecting
the packages and would take care of them.
| Humphrey said, as right as he recollected
| Holmes told him the box was to go to
! Philadelphia, but he could not remember
! where he said the trunk was to be sent
! The expressman and machinist were both
detained by the inspector and win not be
/ allowed to leave the custody of an officer
until more searching investigation is made
| in regard to both their stories.
The name by which the mechanic is
| generally known is Charley Chapman
| He has not been formally placed under
arrest, but probably will be as soon as
/ the police get from him all the information
he will give 1t IS said that he knows en-
| tirely too much of Holmes and his skel-
etons to be an innocent man.
1t was what he claims to be the skull
of Mrs Connors which ne brought TO In
spector Fitzpatrick. He claims that the
balance Of the bones are now in the hands
of a Young medical student TO whom he
I loaned them. The entire skeleton will
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