The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-01

''Of the money received for the Fort
Worth property he said he had sent So, coo
TO his broker, Mr.. Blacknan, in Chicago.
He gave me $1,000 and number of pres
ents.
He next left about October or 10, and
said he was going to Cincinnati. / went
TO my mothers home in Franklin, Ind,
and Joined him in Detroit. We stopped
at the hotel Normandy until the next
night and then went to a rooming house
on Park Place. On October Is we went to
Toronto. We remained there until the
26th 1 believe
While there he told me he was going
off on a pleasure trip"
After detailing their travels in Canada
and Vermont and the arrest in Boston,
she SAID that during these travels she
had never seen Mrs. Pitzel or her child
rem.
She identified Pitzel's picture as man
she had known in Fort Worth as B. 7.
Lyman. Holmes was known as H. NJ.
Pratt, and this he explained by saying
the business arrangements about the
property were complicated and he thought
it best to use that name.
'CrOSS-eXamine, said the district at
torney
Mr.. Rolan, of the defense, announced
that the prisoner insisted on conducting
the cross-examination in person.
The court consented and Holmes adj
dressed his questioss TREMENDOUSLY to the
woman he called his wife. She never
raised her eyes and gave her replies in
aloud. She said Holmes came in the
house Sunday afternoon, September 2,
1894, looking worried and disturbed. He
explained that he had walked fast.
At this point Holmes told the court
that he would reserve whatever ques
tons he had until he called the witness
directly for tip, defense. The court then
took recess until o'clock.
Afternoon Session.
The court reconvene1 at o'clock The
Of
burlington, VT. from whom Homes
rented the house on Minooke avenue He
said he wanted it for his sister and her
G f51ii He gave the name Of Judson. Mrs.
which belonged to her husband. The
daughter, Dessa, also identified them and
pictures of Howard, Nellie and Alice.
Coroner's Physician Sedels Botham testi-
he'd he had procured this clothing from
PitzePs body when it was eXhumed from
the Mechanics cemetery, and Mr.. Mattern
testified that the body eNhumed from the
potter's field and the Mechanics cemetery
were identical.
Detective Frank p. Geyer, who traced
Holmes movements throughout the
country, identified letters written by the
chilren to their mother in Denver mailed
by Holmes. Later he will tell the story
of his travels.
Detective Geyer Was Recalled.
He said he had an interview with
Holmes in the cell room on November 20
1884, about the body found in the Callow-
hall street house. Holmes said to him
stitute.
He told me he left the Eleventh street
house on Sunday, September 2, in the
went to a medical student and procured
a corpse. He put 1t in trunk and had it
taken by furniture cart driver to Jer-
sey city where it was shipped on the
same train to Philadelphia that Holmes
fif1 oh
o'clock in the afternoon, he said, and
met Pitzel at the main UfAa of the West
ern Union telegraph company and gave
him the check for the trunk. Then he
went up to the Eleventh street house and
that night went west. The next place
he saw Pitzel was in Detroit, where he
met him n at the ,postofice. I asked him
he said in South America He refused to
give me the name of the student from
whom he got the corpse, saving the
student was supposed to be dead as years
before he and Holmes had swindled an
insurance company out of $4,000 Re
sldeS the student was prosperous man
of family. He would only give his name
IN the event Of being brought up for
murder. He said he had told Pitzel how
TO prepare the substitute body; to place
it on the floor with the arms on the
breast, put the liquid in the mouth and
get fr T to it. The liquid had been used
A few days before his araignment for
conspiracy, to which he pleaded guilty. |
saw him in the cell room and he said
the story he had told me about the sub
stitution of a body was not true. and
that the
Corpse Found Was That of Pitzel.
said. Well, Holmes. in this case then
you murdered Pitzel and the children
He said, No l did not
fo Inc q BtefI.. then related how Holmes
statement Holmes
Il asked him where the children were"
continued the detective, land he said,
Minnie linz Williams had them in London
to me. was in Detroit, on Wednesday
preceding my departure for Toronto.
Minnie Williams took dinner with me at
Geise's hotel and I gave Howard to her.
Then l took the girls to Toronto. put
them en- train there and left them at
the first station outside the city. Before
leaving Alice / pinned $500 on her breast.
Alice was to go to Niagara Falls and
when they would all go. to London. IF
you go to New York the shipping de-
partment there will show you that two
don. l told Minnie to- Gut off Nellie's
hair and dress her as a boy SO as to
avert suspicion.
Il asked him what he had done with
when he left Indianapolis to take the
children to Chicago he left the trunks
in a hotel on West Madison street and
never took them away. In June, in COM
pany with Mr., Perry, l saw him in pris-
on and then he told us he had given
Howard to a man named Hatch in In
and that was the
Last He Had Ever Seen of Him.
The last he saw of the girl was in To-
ronto.''
Detective Geyer was here temporarily
and Mr.. Graham offered to
bones q HnW9
at Irvington, "a suburb of Indianapolis,
and the bodies of the girls in cellar of
a house in Toronto. The defense OBJ
1ected and the jury were taken to their
room. while lengthy argument of the
of the testimony on both
sides took place.
Judge Arnold caused a mild sensation
by deciding that the killing of the chill
dren had no connection with the trial of
Holmes for the murder of the father,
and that no such evidence could be in
troduced.
This was the fret turn in favor of
Holmes since the beginning of the trial
and a decided setback for the common
wealth. The prisoner, however, made no
sign when he heard the decision. Geyer
was then put under cross-examination.
He was asked but a. few questions and
his former Statements. Su
city, testified that Holmes made a state
tnent to him in his office about january
6 last. He had requested the privilege of
making. the. Statement withorst the !
said that having failed to get a body in
New York. he came back to Philadelphia
and ON Saturday night. September l. he
met Pitzel. The latter was Respondent,
was nothing for him to live for. or words
to that effect.
Mr.. Graham said that with the excep-
ton of two or three witnesses, the com
r. Il