Developments At Chicago

Chicago, Aug. 1. - The pólice have been informad that at the time Holraea was first supposed to have left Chicago he did not gu any farthur away than the stockyards district, where he opened a restaurant under the name of H. H. Howard. He employed a number of young women waitresses, and is said to have had a new forcé nearly every day. Among thera were two girls who oacne f rom Wisconsin. A few nights at'ter they began work the neighborhood was starcled by female soreams coming from the Howard restaurant. Several men ran to the building and were in time to meet two girls as they ran out of the hallway leading into the house. They were ciad only in their night clothes, and it was soine minutes before they could be quieted sumclently to teil their story. They said they had been sleeping together and had been awakened by a man who gained entranee to their room and who had placed a wet cloth over their faces. They chought the cloth had been saturated with chloroform. Before the pólice had an opportunity of arresMng Howard he disappeared. Experimenta were made with the liquid found in the bottom of the vat in the cellar of Holmes' house and it was found that whenever mixed with benzine or kerosene it would emit a vapor so deadly that no human being could live in ir. Whether or not Holmes xised thU vapor for suffocating hís victima is noc known. Henry Walker, of Greensburg, Ind., is now beiieved by his friends to have been a victim of Holmes. He carne to Chicago, and it ia said was induced by Holmes to have his life insured for $10, 000 in Holmes' favor. Ia November, 1SÜ8, his letters to friends ceased and search in Chicago revsaled no trace ot him. Philadelphia, Aug. 1.- H. H. Holmes was seen in his cell by a reporter and tulked freely about the charges made againsl him relating to Emily Cigrand. He admitted that he had betrayed the girl in Chicago and that. he afterwards took her to an obscura placa in Minnesota and marriod har under on assumed name, the ceremony being fraudulent In May, 1893, the prisoner continued, Misi Cisrand left his employ and went into a convent, where she now i8. Quinlan, he aBserted, knowa all about her ud can produce her at any time.