The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-26
HOLMES LATEST.
He Tells in a Signed State
ment
How Mamie Williams Died
Remarkable Recital
IN JEALOUS RAGE
He Says Minnie Killed Her
Disposal Of the Body.
IN JEALOUS RAGE

NEW YORK, Aug. 2e.-A signed state
nent written by FL. H. Holmes in Moy-
lmensing prison at Philadelphia and
certified to by his lawyer, going into
Ill the details of his acquaintance with
Minnie R. Williams, is printed by a
local paper. Holmes writes that he
FIRST met Minnie at an intelligence
office, kept by one Campbell, on Dear
born street, Chicago, in January, 1898,
and employed her as a stenographer.
She was installed in his office in the
building which has become known as
Holmes Castle, and from March to
May of that year occupied rooms in
the building adjoining the Office. Oc-
3asionally meals were served in the
building, and if any bones have been
found in the stove there, he writes, it
will be found by microscopic examin-
ations that they are the remains of
such meals.
Holmes says that in April Minnie
Williams, knowing him to be in need
Of money, gave draft for So, 500, the
proceeds of the sale of real estate she
had held in Texas, and asked him to
ase it until me should need it.
About this time, Holmes narrates,
from acute mania and was removed to
she Presbyterian hospital, being en-
rolled as Mrs. Williams, as her all
ment was such that it was prudent for
her to pass as a married woman.
Minnie Williams condition was
brought about, SO Holmes says she
told him, by a prominent Boston BUSH
ness man, head of a firm dealing in
surgical instruments, with whose wife
he rrie faH "A in
vile. This man had acquired an infu-
once over her which she was unable to
resist; betrayed her, and she met him
frequently at a hotel near his place of
business, breaking her engagement to
marry an honest clerk. When she
grew better and returned to his house,
her sister, Mamie Williams, came from
Texas to visit her Returning one
evening early in July from a day in the
city, he was greeted with a cry from
Minnie Williams in the parlor: lis
that You? My God, l thought you
would never come. Mamie is dead. -
She was seated upon the floor, hold
ing her sisters head in her arms,
rocking back and forth and moaning,
much as a mother would over a child.
He found that. Mamie had been dead
for hours, and laid her body upon the
bed in his own room, finding no mark
of violence, but slight discoloration
On one of her temples. According to
the story written by Holmes Minnie
Williams had been away the preced-
ing night, and Holmes had also been
unexpectedly detained by business all
nfght. When Minnie Williams re-
turned home she noticed that his bed
aad not been occupied during the
aight.
This is what Holmes writes: ''And
with only one thought in her disor7 led
mind, she had rushed into the H.
ing room where her sister sat, au-. ii a
Foice which only the very few who
ave been intimately acquainted with
NJ ISIS Williams can appreciate, had said:
You devil, you have stolen nv hus-
band from me- A the same time she
struck her sister with a small foot
stool, causing her to fall to the floor
where with hardly a struggle, she
seased to breathe
At first Minnie thought her sister
Tad only tainted and tried to revive
her. then she found her efforts useless,
and remained in the position in which
ne found her Then came the ques-
zion of what to do Holmes story of
what was done follows:
1--WE clothed Mamie in light dress
she had liked to wear, and taking a
large trunk she had brought with her
from Texas, l placed her in it l went
to a stable and obtained covered con-
Veyance, and upon my return I en-
gagged man to accompany me. to the
house and help me place the funk in
The carriage. l then drove to the lake
side and waited until night, thus APP
pearing to parties noticing me, if any,
that l was awaiting the return of some
belated boating party.
Then [ procured boat at some
distance and took it near. my waiting
place, and later, with con siderable
trouble, l placed the trunk in the
craft and proceeded about one mile
from the shore. There in the dark
ness passed beyond the sight of this
world into the ever-graspinG depths
of Lake Michigan all that was mortal
of this beautiful Christian girl
The housekeeping was broken up,
and very shortly thereafter Mr.. Hatch
took Minnie Williams to Milwaukee,
where she remained in a private insti-
tuition until later in the summer. The
cause that produced her unsound men
tai condition had been removed. We
kept Nannie's things several weeks,
until 1 could obtain time to dispose of
them, when [ assorted some of them
and gave them to Pietzel, telling him
that they were some that Miss Will
Jams had sent to his children. All the
others were burned in the large stove
in the third story office. The last I
over saw of Miss Williams was in De-
brOit last fall, and my belief is that
she is still alive and well"
Successful Jail Delivery.