Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-04-15

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typewriter had key to the room an
that is the way she came to get in q
him. With Miss Haracamp was he
aunt. Mrs. Sara Cook, who had com
to visit Miss Haracamp. Mrs. Coo
was in the family way and Bolmes
in his confession, calls them hi
; eighth, ninth aud tenth cases. H
sprang out, turned on the gas, an
when they were deathly sick. compel
led them to write and promise to fol
o ever leave Chicago, he turned ON tn
full force of the gases and smothere'
them. The bodies of aunt and nice
were turned over to the medics
school.
Ths eleventh victim wac Mis-
Ep1melice Cjgran.l, Of Dwight, H., {:
type~rit.r. Shs wss engaged TO E;
man from Daight and the date o
.hsir wsdding was set, but Holmes
was against it, and on several occs
sions tried to entrsp the young mar
and kill him, but failed. The gir
, hed bsccme this ra;sires, OF Holmes
. and she wss an efficient typewriter
bus, with all that, he determined ths:
sis must die, and on her wedding
dav, wien she csms to his Office 70
bid him good bye, he asked her 10
stop Into the vault-:he desth room
, for some pspe,s for him. Size
, stsDpsd IN, lie shut the door, and
told her ts write TO her husband,
";hss az tie last meIe&nt she hsd
found that it would bs impossible TO
live happily with him acd corsc j..
lGueniIs had lsft Chi:ago" Whsn
Homes promised TO marry ber aad
take her to distant city 20 live she
wrote the letter Then be turned on
the deadly gas and srnothsrsd her.
Her body was sent to this dissoctins
rcom.
The twelfth victim was young
women named Ros;ne VanJsssand,
clerk in bis confectionery store. She
became one OF his nistrssses, snd fer
resscrs known 30 his fisndish natlir.
he poisoned her, but could no. get
her body out of the houss and there
fo,s buried fsr in the store bass
mopt.
His thirtsenth case was Robsr.
Lstimer, an snploye as painter, who
attsmptad to low black ma:l or hush
monsy en- Holm-s for his frs insur-
anca swim lies and murders. Lati-
nsr was Unveiled iato the vau!t-the
death room-and there left number
Of days till be WAS almost starved,
and thcn the gas was turned on and !
he nas smothercd, and bis body VAS
sent to the medical school.
The fourteenth case was that Of
Mrs Annie Belts, to whom he gave |
poisonous prescription from the
drug store. She did not dis IL the
Caat.c but IN houss near By.
The fftaenth victim was Miss Gs-
truds Conner, of MUsrasinc, Iowa.
He gsvs her poisonous prescription
and started her home, whsre Shc die.
shortly after she arrived there.
The sixteenth case was q young
woman from Omaha, who vas the
owner c; valusblc real esta.c iu Chi
csgo. Holmes bscane her agent aud
her with tha belief that
there vas Sosd time to sell real
estate and get q good prica for cash
He sold ser property and she carae
to MS Office, whaye hs paid hsr tbs
cash, took rccsipts in full. lie then
showed her through the Castle, took
her into ths vault, sprsHs cut snd
closed tso door. First, ade ives
lGgry, then ste offered tbs forty
thousand dolIns-ths money OBJ
tsined from the ssie of tie real
sstotc. Holmes turned on tbs gas,
smo:hersa a-d robbed hsr and sent
Ter body to Icsdicsl school.
The seventeenth murder ~ss that
II man named Warnsr, the o'igi-
Gator ct the Glass Bending Company
Warner b i rsceiysa permission.
tro1a Holmes to put up kiln Of fre
brick in the bsssiaspt Of the Casile
fer the purpose Of exhibiting hia
glass bending patterns. Wsrscr had
giysu Holmes two small cdecks 90
two Cbicsgo banks. whers he kept
large dspaai's, but Hoimss did not
present tho chseks iinmsdiately. He
waited until he rad asksd Warner tc
take him down into the basement to
explain the mathod Of firing the kiln.
Warner stepped inside the kiln,
Hois1es shut the dcor and turned on
the oil and stesn. Warner was con
sumed TO ashes in few minutes of
time. Folmss raised tee rent checks
TO thousands and drew TIE money
through a bank in which he had
money on 6epo,it.
The sighteenth case was ths nlur-
der Of wealthy banker as,ei
Rodgers, from town in Wisconzin.
who was sDticsd to come to Chicago
and into the Castle and into the
death vault, the door Of which wss
closed upon him and after starving
him and sickening him with gas, he
gavs checks snd drafts to the amount
of $4,000, with the understanding
that he should be released. In this
transaction Holmes had G partner.
They div d d the money drawn ON
the drafts and checks, turned on the
gas and smothsrsd the banker and
Holmes zen. his body to medical
school.
Holmes ssys he kas forgotten the
mans OF the nineteenth victim, but
sho vas woman who had bScome a
boardcr in the Castls restaurant. A
tenant IN the Castle, married man,
learned that the woman restaurant
bOardcr was a widow AID rich, and
he became 80 attached TO her that his
wife raissd quarrel with him that
threatsd 8 separation OF man and
wits. The man appealed to Holmes