The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-07-25

come and 90 the case of the great Crlml-
nal Holmes seems to become more and
more intricate. Each succeeding twenty
four hours some new crime which the au-
thorities lay at the door of the now lam
Gus arch conspirator is brought to light.
As these crimes are ferreted out persons
other han the prisoner appear in roles
connected with them which place them, if
not in equally as guilty light as the
doomed man at Moyamensing, at least as
so closely connected with Holmes in his
rascality as to warrant their being held as
liable as he.
The latest phase of the case is that the
Chicago authorities are now confident
that Holmes murdered his typewriter,
Miss Gertrude Conner, in Chicago. The
police authorities OF the latter city also be-
lieve that they now have sufficient circum-
stantial evidence to convict Holmes of
numbering the Williams sisters. Friends
of the latter have taken up the case, and a
warrant for Holmes arrest on the charge
of numbering the girls is expected to be
issued at any moment.
Should such a step be taken a rcquisi-
tion would have to be granted before the
swindler could be removed from this state.
This will be the barrier that will prevent
the Chicago authorities from getting
Holmes at this time.
District Attorney Graham will hold the
prisoner in this jurisdiction until the Can
adian authorities have come to some dis
position as regards the Toronto murders.
1t is thought beyond the shadow of a
doubt that the disclosure at Toronto will
prove Holmes guilty of killing little Alice
and Nellie Pitezel. 1t is believed hat if
the Canadian authorities decide 20 try
Holmes he will pay the penalty of his
crime on the gallows.
Here are the crimes which up to this
time are charged against Holmes: Muir
der, swindling, bigamy, conspiracy, alb
duction, forgery and horse stealing. The
charge of horse stealing just came to light
yesterday.
At the time that Holmes is supposed to
have inveigled Minnie Williams out of
her money and property he, in company
with Benjamin Pitezel, went to Fort
Worth, Tex. Holmes had it given out
that he was immensely wealthy. He had
q business block located in the town, and
gave notes as security for the payment Of
its construction.
When the building was completed he
had it mortgaged before the notes were
pau. LhO UONA opOOpAb bhOh ulAl w bAV
conclusion that the man was "a swindler.
He skipped the town in company with
Pitezel. On their way north they passed
through the blue grass region of Ken
lucky, where Holmes appropriated to him
self twelve high bred horses from a stock
farm near Lexington. He shipped the
animals to st. Louis and sold them. He
then escaped, although the detectives
were hot on his trail.
Holmes was visited in his cell yesterday
by his counsel, William A. Shoemaker,
and to him he for two hours or more spoke
freely of the finding of bones and other
fragments of human anatomy found in
his castle" in Chicago. He declared that
the tuft of human hair found in the chin
ney could not nave belonged to Minnie
williams, for the reason that the chimney
was a new one, put in after the girls dis
appearance. AS to the bones, he said,
they were not those of Gertrude Conner,
Minnie Williams, or II Of the other
persons whom he was charged with hay
ing murdered, "The police simply don't
know what they're taking about, he con
tinued, "when they say l murdered so
many persons and buried their bones in
discriminatory in every nook and corner l
could find throughout the country.
quite a while ago l made a statement
to the Philadelphia authorities that they
were liable to find human bones in many
different places all over the continent. l
then frankly admitted that / had been
engaged in a number of insurance swim
dies which didn't pan out. One of these
was for a $4,000 policy, n had to be
abandoned in IN embryonic state because
the officers Of the company became sus
picious. The idea was to have the bodies
of a woman and boy found in their HON
and afterwards the corpse of a man Will
a bullet in his head, to make it appear
case of murder and suicide.
II got two bodies from a graveyard tt
represent the wife and son, but the hus
bands body had not yet been procured
when the insurance agents learned of thu
scheme and the bodies had TO be disposed
of the best way / could do so. / had then
embalmed and put in trunks which wer,
sent to n cold storage warehouse. Befor
my preparations for getting rid of tn.
bodies could be completed, however, tn
manager Of the storage house notified M
to take the trunks away or he would sell
the contents. 1 did so, and the bodie.
were buried in separate places. Where
they are the police must find out"
Holmes said that the subterranean tanI
found in the Chicago establishment haC
served as nothing more harmful thar
vat for Illuminating oil used on the prem
Uses. The dumb waiter was accounted TO
by the fact that during the Worlds fai
there had been a restaurant on one of tn
upper floors Of the building.
In the transfer of properties between
him and Minnie Williams, Holmes added
In which he had secured the Fort WORT
property, a note in the shape Of a mort
gage was given by Minnie Williams, an
Endorsed Horace A. Williams, - who wa
supposed Co be her brother. She never ha
a brother, however, and the indorser wa
Holmes himself.