The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-08-02


this city The writer says he is friend
OF Holmes and he knew Minnie Williams
and Mrs. Conner WELL He claims that
he met them last week. He also says
Holmes will be able to produce Annie
Williams at the proper time.
Another local paper says the physicians
have examined the bones found In the
Castle" basement and pronounce them
''soup bones" Some hair about q foot
long was found matted together with
what appears tn be blood, but 1t may be
mud. Another friend of Holmes named
Mischoh has written to Philadelphia say
he has just returned from Europe and Is
sure Holmes wasn't In Toronto at the
time OF the alleged murder of the Pitzel
children.
A telegram from Anderson, Ind, the
home of Emeline Cigrande, says that in
an interview her father, referring to a
letter from Holmes to him stating that
his daughter had gone to Michigan and
been married to a man named Phelps,
that the fact that they were to have gone
to Michigan to DO married and no point
given by them is conclusive that Holmes
made sure OF erasing every clue. Even
though she was married 1t would be i'm
possible to find her marriage record.
From the descriptions she gave In her
letters. and to her sister when the latter
was In Chicago on ten-days visit, he Is
quite certain that Phelps was Pitzel. She
never spoke OF aman by the name of Pitzel
either. Another thing that adds greatly
to his discontinue and makes him be-
lieve that his daughter has been dealt foul
ly with is the fact that although Miss
Phoebe Cigrand was in hicago visiting
her sister ten days, less than a month be-
fore Phelps was to marry her, he never
showed up.
A close inspection of letters shows
that one signed Emeline and supposed
TO be from her three weeks after her mar
riage, is not her writing on the typewrit-
or. 1t was done by some one that was by
no means an expert and there are traces
every where that indicate that it was not
the work of proficient typewriter.
A lock Of her hair has been found. It
was taken from her head in 1892 and is
foot long, brown and very fine 1t corre-
spends with some of the hair found in the
cellar.
CHICAGO, July 8O.-Chappell, the ma
chinist who says that he articulated
skeletons of three supposed victims of
III. III. Holmes, told the police that
Holmes had two watts in the cellar of the
castle" One, he said was lin the
southeast corner and the other in the
southwest corner of the rear cellar. One
of the watts, according to Chappell's
statement, was used as vessel In which
the flesh was eaten from the bones by the
use OF acids; the other for the purpose of
bleaching the bones
Twelve laborers worked all day dig
ging out the two corners designated by
Chappell, and were about to give up the
search as unsuccessful when one of the
men at work on the southeast corner
struck his spake against something which
gave forth metallic sound. The metal
object proved to be a huge tank in the
shape of boiler. Work for the night
was stopped before the tank was fully
uncovered, but apparently 1t is eight feet
long and three feet in diameter.
CHICAGO, July 31.-Digging in the cell
lar of the Holmes building was less frnit.
full yesterday than any day yet spent in
investigating the underground schemes
of the Philadelphia prisoner. Bones by
the dozen were found, but as tangible
evidence against the swindler they do not
seem to count for much. The laborers
Jug up OHdppoii mysterious oeAih, ouO Az
revealed nothing even as circumstantial
evidence against Holmes. Nothing
was found therein but a small
quantity of petroleum in its raw state.
A rather significant bit of infor-
nation came to the police whom Mrs.
Strowers informed them that Holmes had
once insisted on her taking out $40, 900
lite insurance policy. Not only did
Holmes beg her to take out the policy,
but he also offered her So, 600 for it, Her
friends dissuaded her from taking
Holmes advice and she never saw him
afterward.
Clinton Sherman, formerly living in this
CITY, and now at Dalton, Ills, went to
Holmes "Castle" and said he had been
employed by the mysterious Richardson,
now missing. to remove bodies from the
Castle" and deliver them to Chappell,
the articulator.
Sherman is colored man. He heard
he was wanted and left the farm on
which he was working and came to the
city at once. He told of several mysterious
happenings in connection with the re-
moval of bodies which. he was told, were
''stiffs" procured from cemeteries and
hospitals to be sold to medical students.