The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-26
BELIEVES SHE Is STILL ALIVE.
CraZed With Jealousy. She Killed
Her sister With Footstool.
Graphic Account Of the Burial OF
Nannie's Body in the Waters OF
Lake Neutrality-suspicious. Loaned
Holmes Money, But Was Betrayed
by Another Man-No Human Bones
IN the Building.

Philadelphia, and certified 10 by ms law
yers, going Into ali the details OF his ac-
quaIntance with Minnie Williams, Is print
ed BY local paper. Holmes writes that ne
first met Minnie at an intelligence Office
kept by one Campbell, on Dearborn street,
Chicago, in January. 1898, and employed
her as stenographer. She was Installed in
mis- Office in the building which aas be-
come known as Holmes castle, and
from March 10 May of that year occu-
pied rooms in that building adjoining the
office. Meals Were served III the build
ing, and II any bones were found in the
stove there. he writes, il Will be found by
microscopieal investigation that they were
the bones OF meat. lie continues:
1T Is certain that no human body was
cremated there during my occupancy of
the rooms, my own experience, years ago.
being quite sufficient 10 show the dan
ger of such proceedings on account of the
awful odor. ii l had no other motive 10
deter me from such a course.
Holmes says that In April Minnie Will
Jams, knowing him 20 be in need Of
money, gave him draft for $50 the
proceeds OF the sale of real estate she had
held In Texas, ana asked him 10 use il
until she should need 1t. Ia order that
she should be protected he transferred TO
her by warranty deed a house and LOT at
Willamette. H., valued at S7oo0. The
money was returned to her in May. 1Ss3
being paid by Isaac X. Hit & Co. of Chi
cago. She desired 10 convert her other
Southern property into cash or improved
Northern property, and he advised her 70
execute a worthless deed (by having some
one other than herself sign the same) 10
fictitious piece, and offer the property
for sale at very low price, and years
later demand additional sum in
exchange for a good deed. This was
done. Clarence A. Phillips forging the
name Of Alexander +. Bond upon the deed
NysaA rh. 41s IL -
ence. About this time, Holmes narrates.
Miss Williams was taken i'll, suffering
from acute pneumonia. and was removed
to the Presbyterian hospital. being en-
rolled as Mrs. Williams. as her ailment
was such that II was prudent for her 10
pass as q married woman. Minnie VIII
iams' condition was brought about. so
Holmes says she told him. by prominent
Boston business man, head of a firm deal
ing in surgical instruments, with whose
wife she visited at their home in Somer-
Vile. This man had acquired an infiu-
ence over her which she was unable 10
resist, betraying her, and she met him
frequently 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 Williams.
came from Texas To visit her. Returning
one evening early in July from lay in
the city. he was greeted by a cry from
Minnie Williams in the parlor: rs that
YOU? My God. thought you would never
come. Mamie is dead She was seated
upon the floor. holding her sisters head
in her hands, rocking and moaning as
mother would over a child. He found that
Mamie had been dead for hours. and laid
her body upon the bed in his own room.
finding no mark CT violence. but a slight
discoloration on one of her temples Ac-
cordmg TO The story written by Holmes.
Minnie Williams had been away the pre-
ceding night, and Holmes had also been
unexpectedly detained by business all
night When Minnie Williams returned
that morning she noticed that his bed had
not been occupied that night. This is what
Holmes writes:
And with only this one thought in her
disordered mind, had rushed into the ad-
Joining room. where her sister then sat
and in voice which only the very few
who have been intimately acquainted with
Miss Williams can appreciate. she said
You devil, you have stolen my husband
from me AT the same time she struck
her sister with small footstool. causing
her TO fall 10 the floor. where. with hardly
a struggle. she had ceased to breathe"
At first Minnie thought her sister had
only tainted. and tried to revive her. Then
she found her efforts fruitless. and re-
mained in the position in which he found
her. Then came the question OF what to
lows
we clothed Mamie in a light dress she
had liked 20 wear, and took a large trunk
she had brought with her from Texas and
placed her In e. I went 10 a stable and
obtained 4 covered conveyance and upon
my retarn | engaged man to accompany
me 20 the house and help me place the
trunk in the carriage. / then drove TO the
lake side and waited until night, thus
appearing 70 parties noticing me. IL any.
that l was waiting the return Of some be-
lated boating party. Then ! procured q
boat Al some distance and took IL near my
waiting place. and later. with cons!dera-
BILE trouble ! placed the trunk in the craft
and proceeded about one mile from the
shore There. in the darkness. passed be-
youd the sight Of this world In the depths
or Lake Michigan all that was mortal Of
this beautiful Christian girl Coming to-
ward the shore, I thought il wise TO de-
rosit the trunk upon another and more re
mote par; of The beach. 7 did this. and
after returning the boat drove away and
later came back for the trunk.
''The Housekeeping was then broken w
and very shortly thereafter Mr.. Hatch
took Minnie Williams 10 Milwaukee. where
she remained IN a private institution until
later in the summer The cause that pro-
duced her nns0und mental condition had
been removed. We kept Nar.ie's things
seversl weeks. untl | could obtain time 20
DISPOSE of them. when I assorted some OF
them and gave them % Pitzel. telling him
that thew were some that Mss Williams
had sent % his children All the others
were burned IN the large stove in the third
sta.y Office. and this was plainly told 20
the Philadelphia authorities in the fall OF
fSaa and ali the subsequent excitement oc-
curred as a result % v.s.t made there bv
their representatives IN ver!ticatiOB OF my
story Another trunk containing pictures
and books was not taken from the express
company. owing % a mistake tn charges.
though Miss Williams supposed this had
been disposed u. and there was the one
later returned 20 Fort Worth
The last ever saw of Miss Williams
vas tn Detroit last fall. and my belief Is
that she = stslI alive and well"