Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1914 — DIES WITHOUT “PEACHING." [ARTICLE]

DIES WITHOUT “PEACHING."

Quinlan Relieved to Have Known About “Holmes Castle.” Chicago, March 7. ; Patrick Quinlan, who is said to be one of the few men who might have explained the mysteries of ‘THolnies Castle," which was famous in the annuals of Chicago crime, is dead at his home near Portland, Mich., according to dispatches received here today. Before his death he told physicians he had taken poison. i Quinlan was a carpenter, and was employed by Herman W. Mudgett, better known as Dr. J. J. Holmes, to build the structure which later became known as the “Castle.” The police held him for a time as a possible accomplice in the five or six murders 'for which Holmes tvas convicted. Quinlan acted as agent for the “Castle” until Holmes was hanged. Trap doors, false > partitions and numbers of wires were part of the equipment found in the “Castle,” in which the police believed many crimes had been committed. “He couldn’t sleep,” was thfe reason given by relatives for Quinlan’s death.