The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-16
TELLS OF HIS GRIMES.
Extracts from y Reported Confession ny
II. III. Holmes.

Extracts from y Reported Confession ny
II. III. Holmes.
Philadelphia, April 1.-THE North
American of this city will this morning
print what purports to be sentences
from the confession alleged to have been
made by Murderer II. H. Holiness
Among other things the story says:
In prefacng the confession. which COW
crs in full nearly three newspaper pages.
written in Holmes own handwriting. and:
detailing with a minuteness that Is simply
at times revolving, the arch-muttlator and
author Of q murders. as he admits himself
to be, states with something like pathos
that he does so simply that he may obtain
enough money to educate his boy,
Holmes writes of'his blood-curdling atroc-
tiles with an abandon that simply apalls
one. Not one grain OF remorse seems to en-
ten into the construction Of that document.
and never for a moment, except In two iso-
lated cases-one where he refers touchtngly
to the memory of Minnie Williams and an
other time when he pathet1cally speaks Oh
an outrage perpetrated on his boy-does the
redeeming clement pity figure In the case.
Regret is never for y moment expressed,
and he comes out boldly and without COM.
Function on his very opening with the
statement: II was born with the very devil
in me-"
Even now he believes that the evil spirit
is tho guiding genius of his destiny He
asserts that he fs gradually changing IN ap-
rearance in figure, that<htssface Is becom-
ing distorted, and he sees, whether in the
| distortion Of his bloody Imagination. which
contures up hosts of vengeance calling
dead or not, his face assuming the look, the.
eyes, the leer, and the very ears the exact
similitude Of the picture OF Satan them
selves.
II was born with the devil in me-" says he
in one part Of his confession. II could not:
help the fact that was murderer, no
more than the poet can help the inspiration
to song. nor the ambition of an intellectual
man to be great. The inclination to murder
came to me as naturally as the inspiration
TO do right comes to the majority Of per-
sons. Not only that, was not satisfied i'll.
taking it in the ordinary way. sought de-
y : strange fantast'ca'' and even gro
II am convinced" he declares, that since.
my Imprisonment have changed woefIlly
and grewsomely from what formerly was
in feature and in figure. I mean. in fact.
that my features are assuming nothing
more nor less than pronounced satanical
ASPECT: that have become afflicted with
that disease, rare but terrible. with which
physicians are acquainted, but over which
they seem to have no control whatever"
"rhat disease" says he, lis malforma-
ton or distortion of the osseous parts, caus-
ing deformity so marked that in many cases
men are made to assume ikenesses to the.
inferior animal.
From what can see. believe fully that
7 am growing to resemble the devil; that
the osseous parts of my head and face are
gradually assuming that elongated shape
SO pronounced in what Is called the Go
generate head, and that the similitude Is.
almost completed"
Holmes confession from :his on speaks
OF his early experiences. of his boyhoof
days on the farm up in Vermont, and t:e
lite he led until he entered college to study
medicine in Michigan
IT was not until after he was graduated
and fully equipped with the knowledge o:
persons and the easiest way to sever the"
thread of lie, that Holmes began his ca-
,eer as a murderer and muti]ator.
When he begun, he admits himself, he was
ruthless and never once halted until he
took q lives.
"And would have committed six other.
MURDERS" he added, had not certain oc-
currences INTERVIEWED"