The herald., 1895-07-28
IS II BECOMING A MANIA
To Credit Every Disappearance
to Murderer Holmes ?
HOW ONE WAS KELLEY CURED
Another Attorney Turns Up With Fool
Theory
Plenty Of Damaging Evidence In Toronto
Connecting the Insurance Fiend
With the PitzeIs
Associated Press Special Wire.

| Associated Press Special Wire.
CHICAGO, July PA local paper says !:
| By no means the least mysterious Of the
many mystifying disappearances from
| the Holmes "castie" was tnat of Peter
| Verrett. Ha was short, heavy set
Frenchman. with an uuquen chabe thirst
for strong drink. He went to the castle
and requested to be cured of the drink
habit. Holmes had an insbriate asylum
in the castle and offered to cure the hab-
| it. The drink cure in the castle was run
under the name Of The Silver Institution.
Peter took the cure. He said he was heir
to fortune in Toronto. Since then he
has not been heard from.
| William Capps. the Fort Worth attorney
who is here in behalf of the heirs of the
| Williams sisters, advanced q rather start
/ ling theory today, which, if found to be
true, will add another victim to the large
list of murders already credited to Holmes.
| Accord ng to Mr.. Capps. Minnie Williams
had brother named Horacs A. Will
iams, IN Denver. This young man either
died suddenly or was killed in May or
| June. 1888 shortly before the supposed
murder of the Williams sisters. The man
ner of his death is not known to the at
| torney. but he says that he has ascer-
tianed that the young man was insured
for s25n0 in favor of his sister Minnie.
This fact Mr.. Capps considers to be de-
cidedly peculiar. as he says that it is not
oeasonable to suppose that Horace Will
lams would insure his life in favor of a
sister who was already wealthy. He said
that his Investigations upon this point
were in an incomplete state. but from
what he had learned he was of the opin-
ion that Holmes had first insured the
young man and then been instrumental
in causing his death.
TORONTO, Ont, July 27-Should
Holmes, the alleged murderer OF the Pit
eel children, be brought to Toronto for
trial, the authorities could put in the wit
ness box thirteen or fourteen persons
who would furnish damaging evidence
against him. 1t might be proved that on
the 1871, Of October, in company with q
woman known assMrs. Howard, Holmes
brought Alice and Nellie Pitzel to the
city: that on the 25th of the same mon tn
Holmes took these girls to the house on
st. Vincent street; that he was with
them at that house on the morning of the
date named and thoy never left the house
alive. In connection with the disappear
ance of these girls, the woman known as
Mrs. Howard would tell all she knew
and the purport of her statement is now
in the hands OF the police. When she was
IN Toronto she was registered as Mrs.
Powell of Columbus, o., but she stayed
with Holmes as hts wife.
Inspector Stark upon instructions from
the authorities, has written the Phila-
| delphia authorities asking If they con-
sent to the extraoition OF Holmes. II
favorable reply is received, papers will
at once be taken out and an officer would
proceed to Philadelphia to bring the
prisoner here.
CHICAGO, July ga mass OF human
hair, clotted with blood was found today
in search of insurance swindler
Holmes basement. More homes were
also found, but they proved to be soup
bones from Chicago butcher shop. The
hair was apparently that of woman. 1t
was brown and about twelve inches ong.
The police also found letter from
Holmes to Pat Quinlan. The police be-
lieve the chain OF evidence against Pat
Quinlan now complete and Holmes ex-
janitor will be tried for murder here.
II won't allow Qunlan to become
states witness to escape the rope" said
Chief of Police Badenoch TODAY. 81
have enough evidence to indict both
Holmes and Quin!an, and tho case will
be submitted to the grand jury soon."
CHICAGO. July 27.-In prosecuting the
investigation of the basement of the big
brick house on SIxty-third and Wallace
streets today the workmen employed by
the police came upon a grave. The indi-
cations are that in the grave were laid the
bodies Of Minnie and Annie Williams,
Quicklime had accomplished it's work
and the bodies had turned to native dust,
but there still remained sufficient evil
dence 10 70 make the Identification possi-
BILE. The eoft spots in the bed of hard
clay we're the size of human bodies, and
where the heads would have been were
mats Of long hair. One big strand was
of light color, like that Of Minnie, while
the other wa, of the brown hue of An
nie's hair.
CHICAGO, July 27.-Inspector Fitzpat-
rick believes il to be certain that at least
three murders were committed in the
''castle" of Holmes. and through wit.
nesses that were found today tits thought
now that Holmes can be convicted of
murder in this city. The police have
found man, whose name they refuse to
divulge but who was brought to the office
of the inspector this afternoon. He told
the police that he had mounted three
skeletons for Holmes, and that the skele.
tons were from bodies taken from the
house of Holmes on Sixty-third street.
One Of these, he said, was the body of
man and the other two were women.
They we're taken from a dark room in
Holmes house in the night time, and two
Of the mounted skeletons were returned
to Holmes. The third skeleton is now in
the posse ssion OF Inspector Fitzpatrick.
The flesh vf the bodies had not be en-
stripped from the bones whom the bodies
were given to the new witness, but the
faces were so badly lacerated and torn that
Identification would have been i'm posi-.
BILE.
The police also found an expressm IN
today who was able to give what was be-
lisvsd to be important evidence. The