THe Devil in the White City(9)

5 comments

1. The Assistant District Attorney, Thomas W. Barlow, tried to keep the newspapers from Holmes the day the story ran about finding the girls.
2. Holmes just refused to talk.
3. He decided that writng a memoir in jail would make the people judge him less.
4. He found a journalist named John King.
5. Geyer returned to Indianapolis because he had a feeling Holmes had murdered Howard there.

4 questions
will people start believing Holmes?
does burnham and the rest of the architects know about this?
do you think he'll get out?
where is his first wife at this time?

3 vocabulary words

• demeanor-conduct; behavior; deportment.
• kiln-a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
• articulated- having a joint or joints

2 literary terms
the table was a beeutiful bloddy mess- irony
he paced back and forth in his cell-stage direction

1 overview sentence
Holmes is caught and the kiln with the bones is discovered with bodies of children and dresses for kids.