St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-29
HOLMES, ACCOMPLICE.
Net TiShtens Around the Qufn-


CHICAGO, July %. Developments
in the investigation into the criminal
deeds of H. H. Holmes in Chicago
closed the net still tighter around Pat
Quinlan, and added still more proof to
that already existing that he was an
accomplice of the arch-murderer and
fully cognizant of most, if not all of
his deeds.
The name of Milford C. Cole, for
merly of Baltimore, Md, was also
added to the list of Holmes possible
victims, as was also that of another
woman, who was for a short time a
resident of THE Castle in Sixty-thilTi
street.
The date of the disappearance of
Mrs. Julia Conner was today fixed as
Christmas day, 1891. This information
was obtained from Mrs. John Grove,
who occupied rooms in Holmes castle
from early in 1891 to September, 1892,
and whose name in connection with
the case has never before been men
toned. Tonight Officer Fitzpatrick ar
rested a man in Englewood who is be-
lieved to be H. S. Mack, who worked
for Holmes during the last six months
he lived in the SiXty-third street
house. Mack's identification with the
druggists operations was furnished
by railroad detective Young, who used
to live in the Castle. The police have
been looking for him since Friday, and
now that they have him in the tolls,
they admit unreservedly that they
have the most important witness they
have yet rounded up.
Whether he can tell anything about
Holmes personally they are not GER
tain, but that he knows all about Pat
Quinlan and his wife and their con-
nection with Holmes, they feel sure,
from certain admissions he has made
to friends.
The whole trend of the present in
vestigation is not only to fasten the
crimes upon Holmes, but also upon
Mr.. and Mrs. Quinlan, so they can be
arraigned for murder. Chief Badenoch
says he does not believe the Phila-
delphia authorities will ever surrender
Holmes, and therefore he is determined
that Illinois justice shall be meted out
to his accomplices here.
The police are satisfied that the
skeleton which is now safe in the vault
of Inspector FftZpatrick's office is all
that remains of Annie Williams, sister
of Minnie. They have no means of
proving that this is so, because the
teeth have been destroyed and the
jaWboneS broken, but nevertheless
they are satisfied that their conclusion
is correct.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Chappell, of 100
Twenty-ninth street, is the man who
gave the police Saturday night the
information that he had articulate
skeletons for Holmes and had had
bodies taken away from the Castle
bodies taken away from the castle.
From the information which he gave
today the police also learned that he
had been an all-round mechanic for
Holmes and had built two tanks in
the basement of the castle for the de-
struction of bodies which Holmes
might wish to get rid of. These will
| be opened in the morning. In them
went the bodies of that long list of
women, once tenants of the castle,
but now numbered with the dead.
ChappelPs admissions are the most
| remarkable and damaging yet re-
ceived by the police against Holmes,
| and his confederateS. They reveal the
! existence of a. complete system of ma
| chinery in the castle for the commits
sion of murder, commencing with the
steel vault, the dissecting table and
! ending in the acid tanks. In addition
| to the confessions of Chappell the po-
| lice also located some of the clothing
| of Minnie Williams and Julia Conner
which Holmes gave away after they
disappeared.
The combination to the steel vault
has been found in the possession OF
| Chappell. 1t is now believed by the
police that Howard Pietzel was killed
in Chicago and his remains disposed
| of here