The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-24
ISCHEERFUL AND RETICENT.
HOLMES FEELs BETTER SINCE HE HAS GOT COUNSEL.

It Is Not Known When the Trial of He.
 Mrs. Pitsei aud Howe will Begin-Pitzei
 is Beiievedto to be Alive and onioers arc on
 His Track.
 Philadelphia, Nov. 23.-Herman W. Mudgett. alias Harry H. Holmes, and Mrs. B. F. Pitzei. the accused insur- ance conspirators, were still confined In the city hall to-day. Superintendent of Police Linden stated, however. that later in the day they would be ar raigned probably before Judge Bregy In the quarter session court, and ball fixed for their appearance. If bonds- men should not be secured the prisoners will be taken to Moyamensing prison to await trial.
 No date has yet been fixed for the trial of Holmes, Pitzel and Lawyer Jeptha Howe of St. Louis, who yester- day was admitted to ball in the sum of $2.50O.
 Since Holmes learned last night of the engaging of Lawyers Shoemaker and Hawkins to defend him, his mood has become more cheerful, and he Is now correspondingly reticent. He paced his cell whistling until late hour last night and then retired and slept soundly until this morning. Holmes attorneys have not yet decided upon a line of defense for their client.
 District Attorney Graham stated this afternoon that he could not say when the trial would begin.
 "The affair Is in the charge of this office" he remarked, but we have come to no decision yet as to when the ac- cused will be tried. For the present we are merely considering the evil dence as 1t develops"
 "Is the delay due to doubt whether you will bring the graver charge of murder?" was asked.
 To this the district attorney evasively replied, "There has been no delay in the case. The finding of the indictment and the extradition course that was pursued hurried the entire case along much more speedily than it would have received had It passed in the regular channel of accusation before a magis- trate"
 "Will 1t be postponed then because you are considering the evidence bor- dering upon murder?" ...
 The district attorney then admitted that he was considering the question of murder, and was examining all the evidence bearing on that phase of the case Beyond this" MT. Graham con- cluded, q know of nothing that can, with propriety, give to the public"
 Holmes and Mrs. Pltzel were removed this afternoon from the Central police station, where they had been since their arrival 4 .,
 Howe was in consultation with his at torney to-day He will return to St. Louis tomorrow. Lawyer Hawkins, one of :, the attorneys engaged for Holmes admitted to-day that Holmes had strong friends in Philadelphia, and that they were bending every effort to aid him. MT. Hawkins received an ad- dftional fee of $25O to-day for undertak- ing the defense of Holmes, but he de- clined to say from whom the money had come
 Lawyers Hawkins and Shoemaker had long conference with Holmes to- day. At the beginning of the talk the lawyers informed their client that he had acted "the part of fool, pure and simple" in unbosoming himself and making such startling confessions as are alleged to have been made to rep resentatives of the Fidelity Mutual Life association. Holmes declared to his attorneys that Pitzel is alive and said that his whereabouts would be To- cated when his Holmes) mail shall be forwarded from Chicago. He was given to understand by his lawyers, however, that they would not defend him if murder charge should be made.
 Lawyer Hawkins to-day wrote let ter to Superintendent of Police Linden declaring that the action of the author ities in secreting Mrs. Holmes (who is said to be the arch-conspirator third wife) and preventing her from seeing her husband was a wrong. He stated that unless the woman was produced at an early date writ Of habeas cor pus would be applied for to compel the police to produce her.