The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-22
THE LIST INCREASES.
Two More Supposed Victims Of the
Murderer Holmes


Murderer Holmes.
CHICAGO, July Ito the long LIST of
murders and other crimes directly traceable
to the arch fiend. H. H. Holmes, must now
be added the disappearance of Mrs. I. I.
Connor and her twelve-year-old daughter.
With a reasonable certainty that they NAV
have been disposed Of in the same manner
in which the rest of his victims met their
death. Mrs. Connor and her child were last
seen in the company of Holmes in this city
in 1Ss3 Since then all trace of them has
been lost, and the shrewdest of detectives
who. at the fnstigation OF the woman s
family. have been working on the case, are
now OF the opinion that the finding OF their
bodies is the only possible solution of the
mystery. There are circumstances which.
while at first seemingly susceptible OF ex-
PLANTATION, now point In the direction Of an
other double murder at the hands of the
greatest villain of modern times
Mrs. Connor came originally from Daven-
port, Ia, where she was married to 1. l..
Connor, a jeweler, nearly fifteen years ago.
probably In 1850. when she was about
eighteen, though the exact time is un-
known. To them q child was born and in
1889 Connor and his wife and child then
seven or eight years old. came to Chicago.
Holmes. AZ that time, was just beginning
to frame the swindles for which he later
became notorious. and had started drug
and jewelry store in Englewood. Connor
went to work for Holmes and moved his
family into a fiat over the store.
II was not long after this until Connor
became aware that the relations between
his wife and Holmes we're not OF nature
consistent with the law OF society. Before
long Mrs. Connor and the child disap-
peared and no trace OF them has since been
found.
1t Is the intention of the Chicago police
to make every effort to have II. II. Holmes,
the insurapce swindler.. brought here to
answer 10 the charge OF having murdered
the Williams sisters The local officers are
convinced that the murder of the Williams
girls was the first committed by Holmes,
and they argue in consequence he should
also insist that they will be able to pro-
duce evidence that he did murder the sis
ters. The police are by no means con-
vinced by the analysis made by doctor
Saturday that the substance found in the
big stove in Holiness old office was fire
clay. and not human bones. Tney say that
| fire clay would not become brittle IN any
kind of heat, whereas portion of that
| found In the stove crumbled in the hands OF
detective Fitzpatrick.
IL developed to-day that the substance on
which the first report of the finding Of the
| bones OF Minnie Williams was hinged was
| in the hands OF detective Geyer. Of Phila-
delphia. Ii was said. that he visited Chi
| caao week ago, and when he left carried
with him positive evidence that body had
! been burned in the big stove in Holmes S
/ Office 1t was also learned to-day that de-
| tective Geyer would come to Chicago after
| he completes his search for the remains OF
/ Howard Pietzel in Detroit. and will CO.
| operate with the Chicago officers in what
| ever may be done hereafter.
| In police circles IL was said tonight that
| the only hope OF convicting Holmes was in
| Chicago II was said that the Philadelphia
| authorities could convict him Of nothing
| more serious than insurance swinoltne, and
| that the Canadian authorities would mol