The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-26

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-A signed
statement, written by H. H. Holmes.
IN prison at Philadelphia, and certified
10 by his lawyer, going into all the de-
tails of his acquaintance with Minnie
r. Williams, is printed by a local pa
per. Holmes writes that he first met
Minnie at an intelligence Office, kept
by one Campbell, on Dearborn street,
Chicago, in January. 1885, and en-
ployed her as 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 that build
ing adjoining the office.
Meals We're served in the building.
and if any bones we're found in the
stove there, be writes. it will be found
by microscopic investigation that they
were the bones of meat
Knew the DANGER.
He continues: 1T is certain that no
human body was cremated there dur
ing my occupancy of the rooms. my
own experience. years ago, being quite
sufficient to show me the danger of
such proceedings on account of the
awful odor, if had no other motive
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 s., 500,
the proceeds of the sale of real estate
she held in Texas. and asked him to
usvh it until she should need, it. In Or
der that she should be protected. he
transferred to her by warranty deed,
fOGse and lot at willamette. H.,
valued at $500 The money was re-
Vrurned 20 her in May, 1895. being paid
Wy Isaac r. Hit & Co. of Chicago.
she desired to convert her other south
ern property into cash or improved
northern property. and he advised her
TO execute a worthless deed (by having
soma one other than herself sign the
SssSssr,e> to fictitious piece and offer
Ds property for sale at a very low
Price, and years later to demand an
additional sum il exchange for good
deed
4 Forgery.
This was done, Clarence A. Phillips
forging the name of Alexander E.
Bond upon the deeds so made. which
deeds are still in existence. About this
time Holmes nara ties Miss Williams
was taken Ill. suffering from acute
pneumonia and was removed to the
Presbyterian hospital. being enrolled as
Mrs. Williams, as her ailment was
such that it was prudent for her to
pass IS a married woman.
Minnie Williams condition was
Drought about, so Holmes says. she
fold him. by prominent Boston bust
ness man, head of firm dealing in
surgical instruments, with whose wife
she visited at their home in Somerville.
This man had acquired an influence
over her which she was unable to re-
sist. betrayed her and she met him fire.
Quently 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 Will
liams, came from Texas to visit her.
Returning one evening early in July,
from a day in the city, he was greeted
by a cry from Minnie Williams in the
parlor:
rs that you? Ny God, I thought
you would never come; Mamie is
dead
Been Dead For Hours.
She was seated upon the floor holding
Der sisters head in her hands. and
lTcking and moaning as mother
would over child.
n He found that Mamie had been dead
sSsNr hours. and laid her body upon the
bed in his own room. finding no marks
OF violence, but a slight discoloration
on one OIL UeI lSI4DicS. <ACCOIQluS "
the story written by Holmes, Minnie
Williams had been away the preceding
night and Holmes had also been un-
expectedly detained by business all
night When Minnie Williams returned
that morning she noticed that his bed
had not been occupied during the
night
This is what Holmes writes: And
with only this one thought in her dis
ordered mind, had rushed into the adj
Joining room, where her sister then sat,
ard in a voice which only the very few
who have been intimately acquainted
with Miss Williams can appreciate,
nd SAID: You devil, you have stolen
IA. husband from me-
AT the same time she had struck
her sister with a small footstool. caus-
ing her to fall to the floor where, with
hardly a struggle, she had ceased 10
breathe"
AT first Minnie thought her sister
had only tainted, and tried to revive
her. Then size found her efforts use
less. and remained in the position in
which he found her. Then came the
question of what to do Holmes story
of what was done follows:
Put in Trunk.
we clothed Mamie in a light dress
she had liked to wear and took a larg
trunk she had brought with her from
TEXAS and placed her in it. l went
to a stable and obtained a covered con-
yeyance, and upon my return i en-
gaeed a man to accompany me to the
Eouse. and help me place the trunk in
the carriage. ] then drove to the lake
siGe and waited until night, thus APP
pearing 70 parties noticing me- if any,
that was waiting the return of some
belated boating party. Then l pro-
cured a boat at some distance, and
took it near my waiting place. and
later, with considerable trouble,
placed the trunk III a craft and pro-
ceeded about one mile from the shore |
There, in the darkness, passed be-
yond the sigh- of this world into the
ever graspiDg depths of Lake Michi- |
Ress, sall that was mortal of this beau
NNhristian girl