| Show HOLMES HOLDS BEA DEATH CHAMBER police po are unveiling the greatest criminal of the age a bodies of one man kan arid and 4 two women turned T ur neol over ver to him by holmes tak taken ell r from r oln 0 a dark room in the castle did the r lend murder minnie Brot brother laer too alil chicago july 27 inspector il ay iy fitzpat bicic rl believes it to 10 bs be least certain that tha it at thre murders were 16 committed in the th castle 1 of 1 holmes and through witnesses cs tha i t 1 found tu day it Is ahn li thought K letnow now that at holmes can be convicted of murder in tills city the lice have found fd a man whose name they refuse la 10 to divulge lee but who was ika brought ht to tile the ole office 0 f the e inspector L this afternoon lie he told me file police that lie i had mounted three skeletons for holmes olmes II and that tile the 9 01 gunj were aloni bodies taken from the house ol of holmes ln in Sixty third street one ot of these he said was the body of a man and the other two were women they were taken from a dark room in holmess house in ill the night time and two of 0 the mounted skeletons were returned to holmes olmes II the third thir d skeleton Is now in the possession 0 of inspector ahe llesh ot of the bodies had not been stripped from the bones when the bodies were given to the new witness but the faces were so badly lacerated and torn that identification would have been impossible the police also found an today to day who was wag able to give what is believed to be important evidence the name of 0 the Is charles humphrey and in the month ot of june 1893 lie he was hired by holmes to deliver a box and a trunk at the union depot in this city the alie box according to humphrey was taken from a dark room and had the appearance of 0 a collin box this was expressed to philadelphia while the trunk was sent in another direction THE SKELETON the story ot of the man who articulated the skeleton la Is to the effect that in june idaj he was sent tor for by holmes who at that time was going under the alias ot of gordon and asked it he would articulate the skeleton ot of a man whose body was in the possession ot of holmes he accepted the job and was taken by holmes to a room which would have been dark even in the day time stretched out on a table in the middle ot of the room was the body ot of a roan man the skin had been entirely removed from the face but in all other respects the body was in good condition the articulator and holmes had bad somo some talk as to the best way ot of taking the body out ot of the house as holmes said he did not want the neighbors to see the body removed it was finally f agreed that the articulator should cut olt oil the arms and that holmes would provide tor for the removal ot of the rest ot of the corpse this was done and the articulator left aft the house carrying the arms with him in a sack he had just reached his house and was preparing to go to bed when he was called to the door by a loud knocking he went down and found holmes and another man they had the balance of the body which had been cut in two pieces after the articulator had left the house holmes left after remarking that he would have another lob job for the man in a short time true to his word in december he sent tor for the articulator a second time and upon the arrival ot of the latter at the house ot of holmes he was taken to the same dark room where on the same table where the body of 0 the man had lain on the occasion of his first visit was the body of a young woman the face of this corpse had been disfigured it in such a manner that it was impossible to tell what she had looked like when alive 1 1 in january 1892 1893 the articulator was sent tor for a third time by holmes and in n the same room on the same table he foux found id the body ot of a second young woman from whose face ace all the skin had been removed the articulator had this body taken to his home where lie he stripped the bones and mounted the skeleton when he called on holmes for his pay the latter refused refuse d to give it to him and was moreover somewhat in arrears on the bill for mounting the two previous skeletons the two men could not come to terms and the dispute finally ended by the articulator retaining possession of the third skeleton and he still has it in his house he removed the skull tonight to night and brought it to the central police station where it now Is the articulator will be kept under close surveillance lor for some days yet as the police do not think he be has told all he knows about the murders in the castle the police declare now that they have almost positive proof that the first female body was that of emeline cl grand and the second that of annie anni e wit williams it Is the skull or of annie williams that tha t la is now at the central station |
