The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-27
Alleged Details Of the CoId-Bieoded
Murder of Mrs. Julia conncr IN
the Chicago aCastfe.-
HOUSE BUILT FOR CRIME
DESCRIPTION or THE DARK DENs
AND souND-DEADENED WALLS.
Miss Emiiine Cisrsnd. OF Lafayette,
Believed to Have Met Her Death
I'm the Place.

Christmas night four years and six months
ago. that Mrs Julia l. Conner was killed
In Holiness now notorious charnel house.
the castle" He believes she was asphyxi-
ated in her room. Her room was the small
one adjourning the dark bath room in the
sixty-third-street castle When all was
still In the house. Holmes turned on the
gas. When the deed was accomplished
Holmes stealthy admitted himself through
the secret door-of the bath room. He
lifted the form OF Mrs. Conner from the
bed and carried Il TO the bath room. Then.
placing the body In the bath tub. he pro-
ceeded TO cut II into pieces and fed them
70 a fire in the stove which was filed with
fuel until 1t became a raging furnace
When all was done he took the ashes and
parts that had not been entirely burned
and buried them I'm a mass OF quick lime IN
the cellar.
Colonel Belknap is uncle OF the father
of the wilmette wife OF Holmes. He resid-
ed for many years at Big Foot Prairie.
III. He became acquainted with Holmes
through his nephews connection with him.
When Holmes learned that uncle Belknap
was worth a comfortable fortune he tried
to swindle him out OF IL. He endeavored 20
obtain loans. and did get $1,000 In this wey.
After escaping from Holiness clutches Mr.
Belknap went TO New York State. and he
now resides at Weston Mills. cattaugurus
county. The details OF the crimes OF which
Holmes Is accused in the newspapers. he
wrote several letters TO friends In
this city. asking that his information Be-
transmitted to the police. These letters
contain the statements that Mr.. Belknap
and his wife spent Christmas with Holmes
and Mrs. Connor in the sixty-thirdStreet
hat hn al
now famous stove through the secret trsS-
door TO the bath room adjoining Mrs. Con-
nors ROOM That night, he claims. Mrs.
connor disappeared. going to Omaha, IL was
said
Mrs. Patrick Quinian lost her defiant
spirit in the police inquIsition to-day. Two
days OF sweat box experience proved
moer than she could bear with equanimity.
and she told the police which had before
had not been ackncwleosed- IL has re-
ever suspicious OF her husband and the
of Holmes.
"Our evidence OF to-day secured from
Mrs. Qainline is highly important said
Chief Badenoch tonight. "She has cor
fessed TO abetting Holmes in hts insur-
right direction. Patrick Qninlan. up 10
this hour. firmly protests that he was a
mere hireling and did not know Holiness
Mrs. Quinian's evidence was that after
Mrs. Conner disappeared IL became neces-
sary for Holmes to produce her TO collect
act in her place She went TO an insurance
Office In Lasalle street. not yet located. and
name / think she was wanted 10 account
attest in the collection OF some hre In
surance that was 70 be secured by fraud
This opens the way TO other deals which II
is necessary 10 know 10 fasten the guilt OF
many supposed murders
chId dsy Little Cora 0sSsaa oualaS /. sane
and soS-"" ne said, at the home OF the
John, her grandparents near Lscota.
Mich sse of the Peace Taylor, 20 whofn
we Aphed to-day, answered that she
| had there for nearly two weeks"
Mrs. Quinlan is locked in a cell In Har-
a man named osmer ". Fay was also
brought 10 light to-day. who admitted that
he wrote the policies for the insurance on
mits very frankly that Holmes encouraged
| him 10 keep after Pietzei until he got his
insurance written, saying that Pietzei might
Mr.. Fay also knew Pat ouInian. and says
Holmes always assured him that 0uinlan
| was a man Ito be trusted with any kind OF
job. and who would do IL well and betray
| nothing"
Pat Quinlan. the janitor In the Holmes
castle. Is In serious danger. he carried the
| doors. secret and otherwise. In the cham
| bers OF Holiness castle. He was the facto-
| fires. III Holmes confesses as IL is expect
| ed he will. he may implicate Quinlan. and ff
| Quinlan confesses he must apparently inn
eini puInisn "ss' has accumuisted more rapidly IN
] the past twenty-four hours than that
against Holmes. Detective Norton was In
| formed that early in the career OF Quin-
Ian with Holmes the. former kept
at the castle girl whose nrst
name was Lizzie. she had a sister working
| in the restaurant connected with the castle
Home. H6s 1os took eaye OF sr'H whst OF T. Is
| unknown, save 10 Holmes and Quinlan.
| The report spread about Sixty-third street
Suddenly snst hIs wfs fs who had not been snx
| at the castle appeared on the scene IfxEie
/ was hurried out Of the city. and ~ is said
she Is now In Omaha An enort VIII oe
! were sent orders from Philadelphia TO de-
stroy all OF Holiness papers. clothing ana
other articles which might Aid the detec-
| Quinlan did this is TO be seen In the little
| Of Holiness effects to be found In the
| castle.
was discovered to-day by one OF the mea
| employed searching the basement Of the
| Sixty-third-street house. This was a let.
| the apartments adjoining the drug store.
II was dated at the Philadelphia prison
May I. 1896. The letter was signed n. n:
Howard" which name Is an alias assumed
! II is addressed IL the Qunlans stu lived IN
the flats The writer is also soiicifouo
| about the condition OF certain partitions
| asks II the ghosts OF the, Williams sisters
! had been seen In the nelghborhood.
TIE letter was turned over 70 omcer
| Norton who declinea 10 give any inforna-
! fIon concerning II or The person 70 whom
| IL was addressed. IL Is said that Holmes. r.
| writing. took an optimistic view OF Ms ot-
uation and declared he would be out of