Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — FILLED WITH LIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FILLED WITH LIES.

Police Characterization of H. H. Holmea’ Confession. Murderer H. H. Holmes' complete, •copyrighted confession of twenty-seven murders which he thinks he committed, and stories of six Intended victims who got away, has put thorns in the easy chairs that the Chicago police have been holding down so comfortably since the •arch fiend's conviction of the horrible Pitzel murder in Philadelphia. In Holmes’ confession the murderer of the Pitzel family lays claim to the glory -of being a wholesale murderer. He says that he has killed twenty-seven people in all, while he tried to kill six more, but they got away from him. He gives the names of nineteen and describes two more, though he claims to have forgotten their names. The remaining half dozen of the twenty-seven he claims to have killed he makes no further mention of, except to Include them in the totals of his list. The list Includes nine young women, eight men and four children. Holmes describes most of his murders ▼ery briefly and incompletely. Only in the murders of the Williams girls and the Pitzel family does he go into details. That HVhnes did not tell the truth, the vhok truth, and nothing but the truth in

his confession is generally believed by the police officials and Hie newspaper men of Chicago, who spent a month last summer Investigating Holmes’ career during his few years’ residence in the city. It seems to be the generally accepted idea that Holmes has'exaggerated.the number of his crimes in his almost insane craving for notoriety, and his morbid", desire'to be talked about and looked upon for the few

more brief weeks that remain to him on earth assa fiend incarnate. The police point out that several of Holmes' self-claimed “victims” are still alive. Robert Latimer, the ex-janitor of the “castle,” Is doing business with a red flag and lantern at an Englewood railroad crossing daily. Warner, another of his alleged victims, is reported to be .alive.— ——; ■■■;■ —; —■■ ■ ■ ■'; -

H. H. HOLMES.