The record-union., 1895-11-01
MURDERER HOLMEy TRIAL.
Defendant Weeps When One Wit
ness is Testifying.
TRIED TO PREVENT HER FROM
GIVING EVIDENCE.
He Had Married Her Undor the Name
of Howard-Efforts to Prevent the
Witness Testifying Useless, the
Court Overruling the Counsel's
EVoenf[OrG.
Exceptions.

this morning with the prisoner looking
as fresh and bright as when be was hrst
arraigned in court. When placed in the
dock he scanned letter, and that the
man is not wholly nerveless was shown
by the way the paper shook in his hand.
After court opened there was quite wait
for the District Attorney. Holmes passed
the interval by consulting with his coun-
sci and chatting and laughing with the
court officers.
Sidney l.. Samuels, Fort Worth, Tex,
lawyer. was the first witness to-day.
MIR. Samuels' testimony showed that
Holmes or Pietzei never Obtained any
money on the $4,000 note. but used it to
extort tho $1,000 from Mrs. Pietzel.
Whether it is possible that Holmes could
have been plotting PietzoPs death in
April or May he only probably knows.
but be certainly had some motive for OBJ
tanning regularly drawn up note.
W m. l.. Geary, the agent of the Fidel-
ity Insurance Company, who testified
yesterday, was recalled for the purpose of
proving that the prisoner has wife in
Willamette. H.. as we'll as the woman
who is in this city an q whom he married
under the name of Howard, so that the
District Attorney might be treo TO place
Mrs. Howard" on the stand. A vigor-
Gus objection was oyerruled, and Geary
testified to the fact OF seeing and talking
TO woman in Willamette who was
known as Holmes wife, and so acknoWl-
edged TO be by him.
The next witness was Miss Georgiana
Yoke, whom Holmes married under the
name Of II. NJ. Howard. For the first
time since the trial Holmes gave way.
and so acute was his emotion that he
wept as the fair blonde-haired girl was
led toward The witness stand. W hen
Holmes saw her he started, and his pallid
face flushed and then grew CHASTITY pale.
He beckoned eagerly 80 his attorneys,
and with tears running down his cheeks,
talked with great earnestness TO them.
Holmes urged his lawyers to use every
means III their power to prevent the wit
ness from testifying, but their efforts
were useless, as the court oyerraled all
their exceptions and ocdered the eXami-
nation 10 go on. Tho witness kept her
eyes cast down, and, like Mrs. Pietzel, a
court officer repeated her low answers To
the Jury. Never once did she glance at
the man she once thought was her hus-
baud. He. OH the contrary, looked long
ingly toward her. and occasionally he
wiped tear away.
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prisoner under the name of Holmes and
Howard. She met him in 81. Louis, and
while he was i'll jail engaged Thomas b.
Harvey and Howe as lawyers 10 defend
him.
District-A ttorney Graham made no
reference to any marriage between the
prisoner and Miss Yoke, but had her go
into detail over their movements from
the time she was with him in Philadel-
phia in 1894 to the time of their depart
ure, when she went 10 her parents home
in Franklin, Ind, and he returned to
Philadelphia. When he came back from
Philadelphia he went to st. Louis, and
upon his return from that city be told her
he had sold his Fort Worth property for
500, coo, of which $4,000 was in cash.
Judge Arnold gave permission for
Holmes to cros-examine the witness him
self, which he did IN courteous and gem
tlemanly manner, but nothing new de-
yeloDed, nor was Miss Yoke's direct tes-
limony changed. Holmes gave notice
that he would call Miss \ oke as his wit
ness later.
At o'clock the court took recess un-
til 2 O'Clock.
Miss Yoke was one of the Common
Wealth's star witnesses, but her testi-
mony was not as damaging to Holmes as
has been predicted. Practically tie only
point OF any particular importance
brought out was the fact that the man
VINO called upon Holmes on North
Eleventh street in this city was out of
the house for good part of the day. The
man alluded to is alleged to have been
Petzel. AS to the rest of her testimony,
it was unimpOrLant as bearing directly
upon the murder.
At the afternoon session William 3.
McKillop Of burlington, W., was the
first witness. He identified a photo
80 hn
Ihat Holmes had rented for Mrs. PietzeI
under the name of Judson.
Mrs. PietZel was then called to the
stand again. AS she was led to the stand
Holmes looked fixedly at her as he did
yesterday, and Incredible rs it probably
is, it seemed as If he was trying TO inliu-
ence her by the power OF his mind over
hers Mrs. Pietzel gives ground for some
such belief as this by the way she avoided
Holmes glance, and the terror and
shrinking IN her face when she doescatch
his look. Mrs. PietZel was only called
upon TO identify the trousers her hus-
band had on when be left home and then
she WAS excused.
Bessie Pietzel also identified the articles.
DR.. Henry l.. Side botham identified the
clothing taken from the body when it
was eXhumed.
DR.. Mattern, who testified yesterdy,
was recalled for the purpose of Identity
ing the clothing as that taken from the
body of PietZel.
Here Mr.. Graham met with another re-
butt from the court, who refused to enter
tain his objection to the defense cross
examining as witness. The witness was
Detective Frank Il. Geyer. one of the
commemorative leading witnesses, and
the man who unearthod the bodies Of
the PietZel children. Geyer said that he
bad an interview with Holmes in this
city after the latter was brought here
from Boston. Geyer said to holmes tlat
ne understood that the body found at 1916
Callowhlll street was substituted body.
Ii dimes told him that on sunday, Sep
tember ID, he went TO New York and got
the body from medical student he
knew, brought it TO this city in u trunk
the same afternoon, and met Pietzel at
tho Western Union Office at Tenth and
Chestnut streets and gave him the check
for the trunk. de thon went to his board
ing-house on Eleventh street and that
night left for the West.
holmes told him that the next time he
met PletZel was in the Poslofiice Ut De-
troit. Holmes said that he had given
PietZel instructions how 10 prepare the
body for the swindle. He was To place it
on lis back, one hsnd upon the breast.
one by the side ana to place some LIQUID
in the mouth and cause an explosion.
This liquid was wash for cleaning
clothes that they We're making. He also
told him 10 burn the breas, arm. He
also instructed Pietzel how by working
the arms OF the corpse he could inject
chioroforin into the stomach. At a SUBJ
sequent interview Holmes retracted the
above statement, and told Geyer the
body was that OF Pietzel. On hearing this
Geyer said:
Holmes, if that was Pietzefs body,