The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-01
DON'T AGREE.
OuinIan Has Placed Himself In z De-
cidedly Bad Predicament.
FINDING OF "MASC0T' ALLEN
May or May Not Solve Numor-
Gus Mysteries.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-Expcriments were
made yesterday with the liquid found In
the bottom of the vat in the cellar OF
Holmes house, and IL was found that
whenever mixed with bonzine or kerosene
II would emit vapor SO deadly that no
human being could live in 10. Whether or
not Holmes used tho vapor for suffocating
his victims Is not KNOWN, but the police
are inclined TO favor such a theory.
Another link in the chain binding Quin-
Ian to the alleged crimes of n. IA. Holmes
was forged yesterday by an admission
- made by Quinlan when Questioned py
Chief OF Police Badenoch.
He said ne was hired bya man named
Allen (otherwlse known as Hatch) TO go
TO Fort Worth, Tex. At tho time he was
engaged he said he had only one days ac-
quaintanoe with Allen, and on the follow
ing day he started for Fort Worth. Quin-
Ian had previously claimed that he had no
knowledge Of any crimes committed by
Holmes, although he had admitted that In
Fort Worth he met and knew man called
Mascot" Now that Allen and Mascot
are practically proven 10 bs one and tho
Same man, Quinlan's contradictory stories
have placed him in still worse light
with the police.
Mrs. OuinIan wcaLcns.
That Mrs. QuinIan, the wife OF tho
janitor who is supposed TO know so much
about the misdeeds of Holmes, made
partial confession to the police yesterday
A. almost certain.
At an early hour the two principal In
vestigators OF the case went 20 the Harri-
son street station, where Mr.. and Mrs.
Quinlan have boen confined. taking with
them a stenographer. Chief Badenoch de-
clarcd that nothing had transpircd which
he could give 10 the press without inJur-
ing the police status of the case.
He admitted that Quinlan broke down
completely and wept like child, but
denied that he had said anything which
would implicate either himself or Holmes
In the murders laid Ttheir doors
"Mrs. Quinlan was very much affected" I"
raid Chief Badcnoch. "She not only wept
throughout the whole interview, which
need not say was unusually severe, but
she said I call on God To witness that
know nothing moro of the murder than 1
have already told. II Pat says / know
anything more about IL no simply lies,
that's all"
This remark was called out by the de-
coy statement made to her that her hus-
band had confessed everything At least
this Is the story the police told, but 1t Is
believed from the whole circumstances OF
the Interview that much more was said
than the inqusitors cared TO give out.
"We shall not go TO Little Rock az all, F"
said Inspector Fitzpatrick. 1--WE are going
TO bring Hatch here, IL possible. We can
not bring him on n requisition, as he is al
ready confined on an offense OF which he
had been convicted. but think We can get
him here on a parole"
Has n Price.
LITTLE Rock, Aug. Convict Allen
persists in his assertion that Minnie Will
Jams was alive six months ago and in the
belief that she is alive now He did not
meet Holmes in Arkansas, and his con
nection with him was confined TO Fort
Worth, Tex. Allen declares that the de-
tectives from Chicago will get nothing for
their troubles unless they are able TO SO.
cure his release from the penitentiary
The only place ut which Allen met
Holmes, he says, was az Fort Worth, and
he knows great deal about his crooked
ness in that city. "When the authoritie:
come to my terms will talk. and not be
fore" This Is all that Allen will say In
regard to the case Allen undoubtedly
knows oil about Holmes operations in
Texas but that he knows the whereabouts
of Minnie Williams or that he had any
thing to do with her disappearance is con
sidered extremely doubtful here.
Prosecutions Plans Upset.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-The finding In
the Little Rock pcnitentiary OF Hatch
who has fgured 80 prominently in tn,
Holmes case has apparently upset tn,
plans for the prosecution OF Holmes II i
can be proved that Hatch is the individual
whom Holmes has dragged into the cas-,
a. tho custodian Of the Pitzel girls, who's,
bodies were found In Toronto, q new line
of work will have TO b. started upon
From the start Hatch was considered by
the police here to be a myth, but now they
seem TO have experienced n change o
opinion.
Lawyer Shoemaker, who represent
Holmes, stated that he was astonishet
that one or dozen men named Hatch hat
not previously come to the surface. III
said that his client adhcres to the state
ment that the two Pitzel girls were left II
charge of Hatch, and that the whereabout
of the latter are unknown.
A Boston Victim.
BosroN. Aug l.-Holmes the insuranc
swindler, persuaded Mabel Barrett, an or
phan, Is years old, to go 20 New York II
July, 1898, ostensibly 20 open manicur