Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-31
DELAWARE GAZETTE AND STATE JoURNAL-WI


Philadelphia, Oct. ~. Ihere was |
but one question passing from lip 70
lin this morning when the Holmes trial
was resumed. What will the next
sensation be?'
The strange and startling develop,
ments which have come pushing and
crowding each other since Monday,
morning have worked the nerves OF
every listener to such pitch that
whatever may come hereafter, however
bizarre or weird, will not be marveled
at The interest never flags for an in
slant. in or out of court. People are
| talking. writing, dreaming of the
strange story, with its central figure,
SO cold, SO pale and withal SO marvel
ously calm.
/ all or any of the crimes hanging over
| his head, there can be on doubt that
| the man IS genius, an abnormal
Last night he recalled the lawyers
whom he dismissed the day before, but
IL is apparent that there presence is
oven now superfluous. 1t is Holmes
J who is trying the case. Scarcely a
question is put to a witness without
being first framed or suggested by him
to his counsel, and should they take
the liberty to ask anything without
first consulting him and the query does
not STRIKE him as felicitous one, he
hesitates not to manifest his displeas-
ure by an irritable tapping with his
pencil on the railing of the dock.
Sharp at 10 o'clock, Holmes, with
his quick stride, came swinging along
the steel barred cage leading from the
cell rom, and under tho escort of a
big officer took his seat in dock. A
moment later, the jury was ushered in
from the cell room, for 30 long as the
case lasts. the twelve .'good men and
truen are under lock and key in the
big jury room of tho City Hall.
Messrs Shoemaker and Rotan, who
t achieved notoriety on Monday by with
drawing from the case under Holiness
! orders, in spite of Judge Arnold's
threats, and who came back TO their
, client last night, held whispered con
. sultations with him before taking OF
Y the testimony was resumed.
]. The first witness to-day was Susan
! Hurley, who keeps boarding house al
' 1904 Race street. She said PiteZe
boarded at her house for week in
n August, 1894.
4 street identified Pitezel's picture az
She had known him through his buy
o ing cigars at her store. On crosse x-
animation she said Pitezel was not |
man of cheerful disposition.
n o. LaForest Perry. assistant to thu
n president of the Fidelity Mutual Lift
o Association, was then called. This il
e the company that was swindled out o
" the $40, COO for which Pitezel's life wa
n insured, and it was Perry who began
# the investigation into the giganti
. conspiracy He first identified tn,
"a policy issued, in which Carrie Il
- Pitezel, the widow, is the beneficiary
Il, 1t Is dated November 9th, 1893.
Next he identified receipt 10
/. so. 715. So, the amount of the policy
h less expenses, paid to and receipte
"a for by Jeptha D. Howe, the st. Loui
10 attorney, who represented Mrs. Pite
q eel. This is dated September Gath
by 1894. Perry was present when How
Z. received the money.
After the payment of the money
81 the matter was closed unit lettt
); was received by President Fouse of til
insurance company from Superinteno
q emit of Police Harrigan of st. Louis
This contained the declaration of Het
"a speth, the train robber that while
IL iail in ST. Louis he had overhear
ii Holmes and Pitezel talking Of formir
m conspiracy to defraud the insuranc
n. company out of $4,000 by the subst
Ia tuition Of corpse for Pitezel.
Orrington N. Hanscom, deputy supe
he intendent of police Of Boston said
al directed Holmes arrest on Telegram
.le from Fort Worth, Tex, saying he W;
ed wanted there for larceny of OF
iv horse.'' Holmes smiled at this test
er mony.
' When arrested, Holmes said he d
ct not want to go to Fort Worth, but tn
he would go without a requisition
ed Philadelphia, where he had defraud,
or the Fidelity Insurance Co., of $40, 90
he This was entirely voluntary on Holme
49, part.