The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-04-24
NUMBER 10.
at No. l2O, Wriyhtwn0d avenlie.

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All these statements 1t gives tiic d
certain amount OF satisfaction to re.
tract, rs far as l can, these additional
wrongs have heaped upon her name.
| met Miss Williams in New YORK la
1888, where she knew me as Edward
Hatch, and later under the same name
in Denver, as has been testified to bt
certain young women who recognized
my photograph. Early In 1893 l ~a6
again introduced to her as II. II:
Holmes. She had applied for a posi-.
tiOn as a stenOgraphcr Soon afttf
entering my employ induced her 10
give me 800 in money, and to trans.
fer to me by deed mucl, Southern real
estate, and little later to live with
ME as my wife; all this being easily
accomplished owing to her innocent
and child-like nature, she hardly
knowing right from wrong 10 SUCH
matters.
MAMIE WILLIAMS FOOTPRINT.
Thereafter l succeeded in stttirihR
two checks from her for $500 each;
and also learned that she had a sis
ter, Mamie, in Texas, who was an
heir to some property. l induced
Miss Williams to have her come I'd
Chicago on a visit. Upon her arrival
| met her at the depot and took her
to the castle, telling her Miss VII.
liams wa, there. It was was an easy
matter to force her to assign to NE all
That she pbssessed After that she
was Immediately killed, in order that
no one in or about the castle Should
know of her having been there, save
-, who burned her clothing. 1t
was the footprint of Mamie Williams,
as later demonstrated by that most
astute lawyer and detective, Mr..
CappS, Of Fort Worth, that was found
upon the painted surface OF the vault
door. 1t was made during her vic:
lent struggle before her death. 10
was also easy to give to Miss vii:
liams delayed letter, stating that
her sisters proposed visit had been
given up, and by intercepting later
letters and substituting others to
keep her from learning that her sister
had left the South.
Having secured all tue money and
property Miss Williams had, it Vas
time that she was killed. Owing to
a fire that occurred in the castle 1
was unable to resort to the usual
method In taking her life, and after
some delay took her to Momencc; Ill
about Nov 10th, registering ut ia hotel
near the pOst0fficc under an assumed
name, but as man and wife. Ny In.
tention was to quietly kill her in some
sure manner, but freight wreck that
occurred on the outskirts OF the town
the day following my arrival there,
which out of curiosity l visited,
brought me in contact with a passeti:
ger conductor, Peck, who knew me,
and l therefore abandoned it, but
later returned and took her eight
miles east Of Momence on u freight line
little used, and ended her life with
poison, and buried her b,dy In the
basesticht u the house spoken Of
about the time Of the IrvingtOn dis.
cOverics In 1895.
MOST HEINOUs OF CRIMES.
1t was a great wonder that the body
was not totna at the time, IL the
detectives in reality went to that 10:
cation. Nothing would at the present
time give me SO much satisfaction as
to know that her body had been prop.
erly buried. l would be willihE t8
give up the few remaining days have
to live IL by SO doing this would be
accomplished. Because Of her spot
less life before she knew me, becauss
OF the large amount OF money l de.
frauded her Of, because / killed her
sister and brother, and because, not
being satisfied with all this, l endeav:
ored, after my arrest, to blacken her
good name by charging her with the
death of her sister, and later with the
nstigation Of the murder 6f the two
Pitezel children, endeayOring to have
it believed that her motive for doing
was to afford an avenue Of escape for
herself, II ever apprehendcd for her
sisters death. by pointing To hue as
a wholesale murderer, and therefore
presumably guilty Of the sisters death
as we'll; for these reasons, this Is;
without doubt, the saddest and most
heinOus Of all my crimes.
II. II. HOLMES,
| philadelphia County Prison..