The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-08-03


LITTLE Rock. Ark. Aug, Convict
Allen persists in his assertion that
Minnie Williams was alive six months
ago and In the belief that she
Is alive now. lie did not meet
Holmes in Arkansas and his con-
nection with him was confined to
Fort Worth, Tex. He never wrote
any letters TO Holmes. Allen declares
that the detectives from Chicago will
get nothing for their trouble unless
they are able TO secure his release from
the penitentiary.
The only place at which Allen met
Holmes. he says, was at Fort Worth,
and he knows great deal about his
crookedness in that city.
Relative to pardon for Allen, Gov.
Clarke said: ''lf am convinced that
Allen can convict Holmes OF murder,
who Is guilty and would otherwise go
unpublished, would be inclined TO
pardon him, II requested so to do by
the proper authorities
CHICAGO, Aug. MIR. Capp, the at
torney from Texas who is here In the
interest of the relatives Of the Williams
sisters, who has been In consultation
with Chief Badenoch and Inspec-
tor Fitzpatrick. said Wednesday that
IL was true Quinlan and his wife had
made confessions, but the nature of
their admissions. he said, he
was not privileged to divulge.
lyon can say" said Mr.. Capp.
shat we have complete
case against Holmes and Quinlan, and
Allen is the corpus delictr that makes
conviction possible. There is no spec
ulntion about it,"
The police were not communicative
after their work OF the day. They
held long session with Quinlan and
declared that they got but lit
tie information from their con-
versation with him. 1t Is gem
orally believed. however, that
Quinlan has confessed on Hatch, alias
Allen. alias Caldwell now in Little
Rock penitentiary. The police arc
playing the two men, one against the
other, for Information concerning all
parties, and il Is believed Quinlan told
them several important facts concern
ing Hatch.
Despite Quinlan's denial, Il can be
proved he went to Fort Worth with
Holmes. Pitzel and Hatch, and that he
was in the Fort Worth bank with Hatch
when the bank loaned $4,000 on the
Williams property, which had been
transferred TO Pitzel under the name
of ID. B. Lyman. Quinlan admitted he
was in Fort Worth with Holmes and
Pitzel in talk with Attorney William
Capp last Saturday. He said at the
time he had nothing to do with the
forgery.
sample OF the oil found in the cell
lar has been submitted TO the city
chemist and it is found that the fumes
from IL In closed vault would
suffocate person in less than min
ute. The oil will be analysed
to-day. 1t is also believed from an
experiment made by the chemist
that the footprint in Holmes air
tight vault was made by foot which
had been in this deadly oil The
chemist put some of the oil ON his hand
and then placed IL on the bottom of
metal pan. The iron was Immediately
corroded, where the oil touched and
the print of the hand was left on the
pan. The theory is now that the oil
was used by Holmes in numbering his
victims
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-Holmes, the
much-accused murderer, has an expla-
nation for the disappearance of Miss
Emeline Cigrand. one of his alleged
Holmes explanation of Miss
Cigrand's disappearance, like all the
fellows explanations, is clever,
but like all OF his tales il
is lacking in essential particulars.
In an interview Holmes said that he
had led Miss Cigrand astray. He after
wards fooled her with a bogus mar
riage. They lived together as man and
wife for short time and then Miss
Cigrand learned that she had been
twice deceived and was not legal
wife. Upon learning this the girl was
overwhelmed with shame and remorse
and she left home and entered con-
vent. Where this convent is Holmes
failed TO state.