The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-08

gether, under Holmes leading strings.
and yet each detachment ignorant Of
the presence of the other two. Eventu-
ally he rid himself Of the incumberances
by numbering the girls in Toronto ana
the boy in Indianapolis.
NEW STORY OF HOLMES.
A remarkable illustra ton of the in
congruous elements making up the
mans character is offered right here,
and il is a story that has never before
been told in print. In some western CITY
he registered at a hotel with Miss oke
or Miss Howard-his third wife. out
she saw little of him, for he divided his
time between her, the children at an
other hotel and Mrs Pitezel at a third
His wife undoubtedly loved him, ana
chided him for neglecting her, of course
ignorant of how his time was occupied.
1t was not Holmes purpose, however,
to spend any night at the hotel where
She was, but, 10 quiet her remon,
strances, he promised 10 be more de-
voted, and employed a plan which
shows that he had in his makeup some
grain of sentiment-perhaps of poetry.
He told her he was very busy with i'm
portant affairs, and that there were cir
cumstances which would make ii un-
as her husband. When he found an op-
portunity to be with her, he said, he
would surreptitiously come to the hotel
and toss rose in her window. The
lonely wife-wife in name only then
watched patiently for the symbol. but
the welcome rose never came while she
was there. Several times, when she re-
turned from errands, she found il, but
it was then too late, for Holmes had
gone. This was his plan. He had
watched from a hiding place until she
had gone out, then tossed the rose in
the window and fled. And even at this
time ne was calmly planning the
slaughter of the innJcents.
MURDERED IN A TRUNK.
It was also during these travels that
he received from the children pathetic
little scraWls TO their mother, whom
they thought was in st. Louis. He was
to mail then to her, but upon his arrest,
long after, nearly every one Of the child
ish letters was found on him, unmailed.
At Toronto, Canada, Holmes, with the
two girls, hired a house. The boy How
ard had previously disappeared in In
dianapolis, where his chared bones were
afterwards found in stove. The girls
were murdered in this way: Holmes,
them, induced them to hide in trunk.
Then he shut down the lid, and filed the
trunk with gas by means of a rubber
tube inserted through hole. Then he
buried their bodies in the cellar.
All these discoveries were made by
Detective Frank P. Geyer. Of the Phila
delphia department, who secured the
country unravelling the mysteries of
Holmes multifarious crimes.
HOLMES CASTLE"
The scene of Holmes other known
murderOus operations was the notori-
Gus Castle" in Chicago, the building
erected by him on the border of the
worlds fair grounds. The place was
fitted up with padded rooms, secret
vaults and quicklime watts,
and this part of the story smacks of the
rOmances of medieval times. Here IL is
thought sudden and violent deaths
came to the Williams girls, Emily Ci-
grand, Mrs. Julia Conner and her s.
year-old daughter, Pearl.
Minnie Williams, when a child, inher-
tied $40 900 from an uncle. When she |
became of age she went on the stage, |
In 1892 she met Holmes in Chicago, and !
became his stenOgrapher, living with |
him as his wife. In 1893 she invited her !
sister, Mana, then school teacher in |
Texas, to visit her at the Castle. She |
did so. Soon afterwards both girls dis |
appeared forever. 1t is believed that |
Holmes killed them to get the s40.000 |
The Chicago police found several skele- |
tons in the Castle, and two of them, !
they think. are all that remain of the |
hapless Williams sisters.
1t should be stated here that Holmes, |
making a trade of murder, employed a /
private articulator, and had the skele- |
tons of his victims mounted, and then |
sold for cash. He neglected no oppor-
tunity.
EMILY CIGRAND.
The murder Of Emily Cigrand comes
1eXt in interest. She came from I.afav-