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- City directories also listed at Holmes's address the office of a doctor named Henry D. Mann, possibly a Holmes alias, and the headquarters of the Warner Glass Bending Company, which Holmes formed ostensibly to enter the booming new business of making and shaping the large sheets of plate glass suddenly in so much demand.†
p. 71.8alias = alternative name
- Bertillon believed that each man's measurements were unique and thus could be used to penetrate the aliases that criminals deployed in moving from city to city.†
p. 122.7 *
- The Cigrands and Lawrences would have found their anxiety intensified manyfold had they known a few other facts: That the name Phelps was an alias that Holmes's assistant, Benjamin Pitezel, had used when he first met Emeline at the Keeley Institute;†
p. 190.6alias = alternative name
- When Holmes met Minnie, he was traveling on business under the alias Henry Gordon and found himself invited to a gathering at the home of one of Boston's leading families.†
p. 200.9
- Minnie was to refer to him in public as Henry Howard Holmes, an alias, he explained, that he had adopted for business reasons.†
p. 202.4
- Minnie loved her husband-to-be and trusted him, but she did not know that Alexander Bond was an alias for Holmes himself, or that Benton Lyman actually was Holmes's assistant Benjamin Pitezel—and that with a few strokes of his pen her beloved Harry had taken possession of the bulk of her dead uncle's bequest.†
p. 204.2
- The suspect was a physician whose given name was Mudgett but was known more commonly by the alias H. H. Holmes.†
p. 339.5
- That Holmes would use an alias seemed beyond doubt, so Geyer brought along his photographs, even a depiction of the children's distinctive "flat-top" trunk.†
p. 343.3
- Howard was one of Holmes's more common aliases, Geyer now knew.†
p. 346.3
- The judge ruled that Graham could present only evidence tied directly to the Pitezel murder and thus eliminated from the historical record a rich seam of detail on the murders of Dr. Herman W. Mudgett, alias Holmes.†
p. 384.3alias = alternative name
- No stone or tomb marks the grave of Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes.†
p. 387.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(alias) an alternative nameIn some contexts, an "alias" refers to a false name -- as in one used by a criminal. In other instances, it may be a common name by which someone is known, but which is not on their birth certificate.
In computer software, aliases are commonly used to provide shortened names that identify files within a local scope. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)