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Mudgett was a schemer and a fraud. He chose to use a different name in Chicago in order to continue his fradualent emterprises. The name "Holmes" came from the novel character who was introduced that year.

He caught a train for Chicago but quickly found that he could not work as a druggist in Illinois until he passed a licensing examination in the state capital in Springfield. There, in July 1886, the year Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced his detective to the world, Mudgett registered his name as Holmes.