WHOLESALE MURDER

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1788, 20 November 1895, Page 2

WHOLESALE MURDER

STE4HGB BISeOTEEIES IN CHICAGO.

The arrest of a chemist named Holmes on a charge) no less than eleven pAoplb; |nd the strange discovfp -been madeiby the police havb giwn the Chicago , people; something to talk about. _ Holmes lived in alarge house and took in Boarders, and<i it was the mysterious disap-' pearancp of several • of his lodgers which first aroused suspicion.- The building was , discovered by the police: tO; bP plannedand- fitted with, remarkable completeness with" a view of enabling mjigders to be ?carried ;out scientificauyrand the Bodies of- the victims to be safely disposed of. Amongst the rooms were closets cased with steel and' asbestos, and without light or air, a hanging godni to which entrance could only be hadtby a trap door in the floor from above, and from which thejro was no exit but a shbok' -leading"* to' -the. cellar; ; The secohd floor was a labyrinth of mazes, doors and passages. It opened through one room on the death shaft, by which bodies could be lowered into the cellar and froin a hidden passage led, to the sealed chamber. The cellar,w:here large quantities of human re.mains ha&e been discovered, contained every provision for destroying bodies including an Apparatus for, their cremation. sTw® large vaults f of quick dime, one ; of ; .them containing, some human bones, were found beneath the'floor, and bones of all kinds have been turned*- up'Tßy the police in their explorations. A hidden tank was also found, which contained what is des-. cribed as a deadb' ,oil, and'this exploded when it Vas* dug up,' three iof. the. workmen being; nearly Ttilled. The print, of a woman’s foot in the quicklime, is supposed to have been made by Holmes secvetar}',. a young; girl -whose sudden'disappearance had been notedVwith .suspicion. The course of; American, justice 4s ' notoriously slow, but it will surely , hasten its progress when it is called upon to deal with this monster; whose deeds have eclipsed those of Deeming.