Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-08-30
A Statement Written in His Prs-
on Cell at Philadelphia.
ABOUT The WILLIAMS GIRLS
Graphic Story OF the Death OF Mamie
Williams AT the Hands
of Her Sister.

on at Philadelphia, and certified to by
his lawyers. going into the details of
his acquaintance with Minnie Williams,
is printed by the local papers. Holmes
writes that he first met Minnie Will
liams at an intelligence office kept by
one Campbell. on Dearborn street, Chi
cago. in January, 1893, and employed
her as stenographer. She was in
stalled in his office in the building
which has become known as the
Holmes Castle" and from March to
May of that year she occupied rooms
in the building, adjoining the Office.
Meals were served in the building, and
II any bones were found in stoves. it
would be found by microscopic in
vestigation that they were the bones
of meat. He continues:
1T Is certain no human body was
cremated there during my occupancy
or the rooms, my own experience years
ago beng quite sufficient to show the
danger of such proceedings on account
OF the awful odor, If had no other mo-
tive to deter me from such a course"
Holmes says that in April Minnie
Williams, knowing him to be in need
of money, gave him a draft for $500,
the proceeds of a sale of real estate she
mad held in Texas. and asked him to
use it until she should need It. In order
that she should be protected he trans
Ierred to her by warranty deed a house
ana lot at Willamette, ILL.,. valued at
$ioOO The money was returned to her
IN May, 1893, being paid by Isaac X.
Hit d Co. of Chicago. She desired to
convert her other southern property
into cash or improved northern proper
ty and he advised her to execute a
worthless deed (by having some one
other than herself sign the nance, to
fictitious property and offer the proper
ty for sale at a very low price, and
years later to demand an additional
sum In exchange for a good deed. This
was done. Clarence A. Phillips forging
the name of Alexander e. Bond upon
the deed so made, which deeds are stin
in existence.
MINNIE WILLIAMS TAKEN ILL
About this time Holmes narrates that
Miss Williams was taken i'll, suffering
from acute pneumonia, and was re-
moved to the Presbyterian hospital
being enrolled as Mrs. Williams as her
ailment was such that it was prudent
Tor her TO pass as a married woman.
Her condition was brought about, SO
Holmes says She told him. by a promi-
nent Boston business man, head of
firm dealing irs musical instruments.
with whose Wife she visited at their
house in Someiville. This man had &C.
CURED an influence over her which she
was unable to resist, and betrayed her,
and she met him frequently at a hotei
near his place of business, breaking her
to marry an honest clerk
When she grew better and returned
TO her house, her sister, Mamie Will
iams came from Texas to visit her
Returning one evening early in July
rom a day in the city he was greeted
Dy cry from Minnie williams in the
oarlor, saying:
DEATH OF MAMIE.
rs that you? My God! thought you
would never come. Mamie Is dead"
She was seated upon the floor, hold
ng her sisters head in her hands, rock
ng ana moaning as a mother would
ver her child. He found that Mamie
lad been dead for hours, and laid her
'ody upon bed in his own room, find
ng no mark of violence but slight dis
oloration on one of her temples.
According to the story written by
iolmes. Minnie Williams had been
way the preceding night and Holmes
lad been also unexpectedly detained
y business all night. When Minnie
Williams returned that morning she
oticed that his bed had not been oc-
upied during the night. This is what
Iolmes writes:
KILLED HER SISTER.
And with only this one thought In
er diSordered mind, she had rushed
nto an adjoining room where her sister
hen sat, and in a voice which only
cry few who would have been init
nately acquainted with Miss Williams
an appreciate she said. You devil, you
ave stolen my husband from me- At |
he same time she had struck her sister |
With small foot-stool. causing her to
all to the floor. where, with hardly |
truggle. she had ceased to breathe"
Holmes story of what was done fol- |
ows:
I'VE clothed Mamie in a light dress |
hat she had liked to wear and took a |
arge trunk she had brought with her |
rom Texas and placed her in 1t. / |
vent to the stable and obtained a COW
red conveyance, and upon my return l |
ngaged a man to accompany me to |
he house and help me place the trunk |
n the carriage.
DISPOSING OF THE BODY.
Il then drove to Lakeside and waited |
ntil night. then l procured a boat and |
laced the trunk in the craft and pro- |
eeded about half mile from shore. |
here, in the darkness, I threw the |
ody out.
Coming toward the shore, / thought |
wise to deposit the trunk upon an
ther and more remote portion of the |
each. l did this after returning the |
oat, drove away and later came back |
or the trunk. Very shortly thereafter |
latch took Minnie Williams to Mil |
yaukee, where she remained in a pri- |
ate institution until later in the sum- |
1er. The cause that produced her I'M |
ound mental condition had been re- !
noved. We kept Nannie's things sew |
raj weeks until 1 could obtain time to |
ispose of them, when 1 assorted some |
( them and gave them to Pitzell, tell
ng him that they were some that Miss |
Williams sent to his children. All |
theirs were burned in Il large stove in |
he third-story Office"
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