The morning times., 1895-07-25
More Human Bones Found in
Holmes Chicago House.
ARE THOSE OF A YOUNG GIRL
Detectives Locate the Two Janitors
Who Worked With the Insurance
Swindler-One of Them Helped
Holmes and Pitzel Carry the Mys-
terious Trunk to the Third Story.
(By United Press.)


in the cellar at the house on the corner
OF Sixty third aud Wallace streets. The
bones found were apparently part of the
trunk OF female child
There We're Is ribs, number Of ver-
tebrae and piece of much corroded bone
which could not be assigned to any par
ticular part.of the body on account of
being in an advanced state OF decay, ap-
parently from the action of some chemical.
This bone, however, is supposed to be a
portion of either hip or a skull bone.
With the partial skeleton was found
piece of torn skirt or chemise which bore
marks that may or may not prove to be
human blood.
The sleeves of teh garment We're too
long for the arms OF a child, and, al
though the opinion prevails that the bones
are undoubtedly those of female child,
the gown would seem TO warrant the concIu-
sion that they are part of the skeleton of
woman, the more so as it is well known
that the bones of many women are little
larger than those OF children.
TWO JANIToRs FOUND.
Besides the finding of the supposed re-
mains the detectives are congratUating
themselves on another matter which seems
ing OF the two janitors who are believed
to be more or less cognZant Of the crimes
of the insurance swindler.
Word was sent to Joe Owens, OF Bluff
ton, Ohio, and Patrick Quinlan, of Evans
ton, TO come to the Holmes building at
once. The word came from Chief Of Po-
lice Badenoch and was imperative.
Both men obeyed at once, and this after
noon came TO the Holmes building. They
bones were found and asked what they
knew about the matter Bo%h stoutly main
tained their complete ignorance OF the
whole affair.
Quiulau acted as a man who was badly
scared but o wens did not seem much dis
turbed. Both of these men were en-
ployed at the Holmes building in 1893,
the year the Williams girls are supposed
TO have been murdered owens was the
regular janitor OF the building, while
Quinlan was sort Of jack -of-all-trades,
turning his hand to any work which came
up for him TO do aud Holmes, with his
many queer schemes, kept him constantly
busy.
While neither man was placed under
arrest on arriving at the building, both
were, from that time on, under police sur
veillance. 4 prescott the detectives
have nothing to hold them by, save the
strong suspicious they have that the men
could tell considerable about the dolngS
OF Holmes If they cared to.
An examination of the men was made
late this afternoon. Quinlan would say
nothing but Owens talked rather freely.
The object of the examination was TO get
a few statements out OF the men and then
compare them with those made ON the final
| inquiry, in the hope that il might In this
way be aScertained whether they were
sticking to the truth or not.
Is-1a naf nv natp
patrick, a brother OF the Inspector who has
| charge of the Chicago end of the case. In
regard 10 the mysterious box which by
many was supposed TO have been used by
! Holmes as a receptacle for the body of
one or both OF the Williams sirls, owens
said:
WHAT OWENS SAID.
II helped to carry the trunk to the third
story with Holmes and PitzeI from the depot
i'll August, 1888, about the middle OF the
month. In November, 1893, in conversa-
| tion with me about the insurance, he told
me he wanted to keep the Williams gin
| in hiding; that he did nos want her TO be
seen by any OF insurance. people, and thathe
/ could telegraph and get 81 900 any time.
About the last of November or Deem
Der l, 1898, I assisted Holmes 10 establish
! the firm OF Campbell, Yates & Co., for the
purpose OF getting insurance on the build
| ing at the south west corner of Sixty third
and Wallace streets, which insurance he
received about November, 1898. Holmes
| came 10 me and instructed ne to repre-
sent TO the insurance company that l was
! the secretary of the company, which l did,
and / also took an affidavit to that effect
| also represented that had met Yates and
| received stock frop him.
He also instructed me to make the state
ment then that l had met Minnie X. VIII
liams, which did. He induced me to- make
| these statements by promising me my back
! wages and by his hypnotiZing ways, and
| candidly believed that he had q certain
! amount of influence over me. While l
! was with him l was always under his con-
| troll. l never received my back wages" !"
Il never knew the Connor woman.
| had heard of her, but had never met either
| her or the Williams girls, l never saw any
| women around the place. PitZel was the
man who hired me, and l met Holmes one
| day in the basement"
THE BONES. FOUND.
The bones found this morning are believed
| By the central station detectives to be those
! of Gertrude Connor, the daughter of Mrs
| Julia l. Connor, who is now believed to
have been one OF Holmes victims. Moth
er and daughter disappeared about the
| same time
The bones were found in a corner of the
cellar They were covered with quick
| lime but were nevertheless in q fair state
Of preservation. All were as black as if
carved out of ebony. Not far away from
| the spot where the bones We're unearthed
| O rusty hatchet was found, but it is not be-
| lieyed it was used as an instrument of vio-
| lence, as Holmes past career, SO far as
| known, indicates that he was far too cum
| ming and clever to put to death victim in
| such laundering manner.
For the same reason the story that he
carried the body of the Williams girl in
| a box is also disbelieved by those who are
in position to best judge of the case.
| Later on in the afternoon the workmen
| came upon another deposit OF lime under
| the rotten stairway which was used as
secret means of. ingress to the cellar.
| Only one bone was found here, and it was
| pronounced by a physician who examined
| tito be part OF the middle portion OF the
foot. DR.. Charles North pronounced all
the rib bones and vertebrae to be without
doubt human bones.
HOLMES EXPLAINS.
Philadelphia, July 24.-Holmes has an
explanation for the finding of the human
bones in his late Chicago home He told
| the story to Mr. Shoemaker, his attorney.
According to Sir. Shoemaker, the bones
| belong to the body of child that Holmes
intended to use in an insurance swindling
scheme, but which was never consumnated.
Holmes and a Michigan doctor, whose name
] Mr.. Shoemaker says he does not remem ber,
but which he thought was something like
Redburn, concocted the scheme. The plan
of Holmes and his medical friends was t
swindle an insurance company (name also
| unknown) out of S4O.000.
| The bodies were secured from q medical
| college, The insurance company had suS
picions and then Holmes had to get rid OF
the remains as best he could.
| Toronto July 24.-The INQUEST into the