Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-01

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Mr.. Graham then put a series of ques-
! tons to fix Holiness whereabouts on
she day the murder is supposed to have
been committed. Sunday, September 2,
! 1894.
II was in my room on the evening Of
| Saturday. September l. l had been i'll
! part Of the time in bed. The prisoner
was at home. Someone called during
| the evening to see him and ne went
/ down stairs When he came up, he said
! il was o messenger from the Pennsyl-
! Yauia Railroad and he was to see Off
/ ciais Of that company at the messen-
/ gers Office next morning to close out
contracts for copying. Afterwards, he
! said the caller was B. Z. Pietzel This
was the day before we left Philadel-
/ phia.
"Was he at home the next day?"
"Par. of the day. He went out at
( cbout half-past ten in the morning. He
said he had been at N;cetown, a sub
urb OF Philadelphia. He had before
mentioned going away, and said we
would so home TO Indianapolis. We
/ were known here by the name of How
ard. We left on the 1915 train. The
prisoner remained with me i'm Indian
aDoiis for q day or two. Then he went
F away, saving he was going 90 ST. Louis
/ When he came back he weuC with me TO
my mothers home in Franklin, Ind.
From there we returned TO Indianapolis,
/ and o few days af,erWard he went to
Philadelphia, saying ,hc copying deal
had been closed.
He returned from Philadelphia about
fhe oath of the month and he then went
3 ST. Louis 90 meet Lawyer Harvey.
After We came back from Philadelphia
10 Indianapolis D. went twice to St
Louis, and on one of these occasions he
aid he was gc.ng % meet a man from
Fort Worth. who was to buy the block
I'D that city.
"When he returned from this trip he
said he had sold the block for $4,000,
$4,000 in cash aad the balance payable
saml-annually.
After his return from Philadelphia
/ he told me he had met Jeptha Howe on
-he train. He had the little girl with
him and was going % identify the body
OF his clients husband. Holmes told
him 20 call on him .f he was needed for
/ Identification. He told me of the visit
TO the p0uers' field in Philadelphia and
Of the finding of the Identification marks
after the doctor failed 10 lca-e them
"Of the money received for the Fort
/ Worth property, he had sent $4,000 to
/ mis- broker, Mr. Blackman, in Chicago.
| He gave me about $4,000 and a number
/ Of presents.
"He next left me about October 9th
/ or 10th and said he was going TO Gin
/ cinuati. I Went TO my mothers home
in Franklin, Ind, and joined him in
/ Detroit From there We went TO Tor
/ onto on October 18th. We remained
/ there until the 26th, believe. While
/ there ne told me he was going off Oh a
/ pleasure trip
After detailing their travels in Can
: ada and Vermont and the arrest in
/ Boston, she said that during these >rav-
/ els she had never seen Mrs. Pietzel or
| the children.
She identified PietzeTs picture as n
/ man she had known in Fort Worth as
/ B. r. Lyman. Holmes was known as
/ H. M. 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
torrey.
Mr. Rotan of the defense announced
tha, the prisoner insisted on conducting
/ 0he crOss-examinatiOn in person. The
court consented and Holmes addressing
his questions tremulously directed TO
the woman ne calls his wife She
never raised her eyes and gave her re-
plies in a whisper The cTier repeated
them aloud. She said Holmes came in
the house Sunday afternoon, September
2 1894, looking worried and disturbed.
He explained that he walked fast
At this point Holmes told the court
that he would reserve what other ques-
tions ne had until he called the witness
directly fer the defense.
The court took a recess until > o'clock
The court reconyened at o'clock.
The first witness was VIM. J. Killop, of
Burlington, VT. from whom Holmes
rented the house on MinOOka avenue.
He said ne wanted it for his sister and
her child He gave the name Of Jud-
/ son.
Mrs. Pietzel was recalled and iderti-
fed clothing which belonged to her hus-
band
The daughter "Dessa" also idnetifled
them and pictures OF Howard, Nellie
and Alice.
/ Coronor's Physician Sadelbotham
testified he had procured this clothing
from Pietzels body when it was eX-
humed from the Mechanics cemetery,
and Dr. Madern testified that the. body
exhumed from PotteTs Field and from
the Mechanics cemetery were identi-
cal.
Wm. z. Sauer. sergeant Of police, who
was one of the policemen called into
/ the Callowhnl street house, also idenu-
fed PietzeTs pictures as that Of the dead
man found lying on the floor.
Detective Frank p. Geyer, who traced
/ Holmes's movements throughout the
country. identified the letters written
by the children to their mother and
never mailed by Holmes. Later he viii
tell the story of his travels.
Detective Geyer was recalled. He
said he had an interview with Holmes
in The cell room of the city hall on No
vamber 20. 1894. about the body found
in the Callowhiu street house. Holmes
said to him that it was not PletZel
body. but a substitute.
He told me he left the Eleventh
street house on Sunday, September I'd.
in the morning. and went to New York,
where he went 20 a medical student and
procured q corpse. He put IL In q trunk
and had il taken by a furniture car
driver 10 Jersey City, where II was
shipped on the same train 10 Philadei-
pbia that Holmes came over on. He
/ reached lis city about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon AID met PieJZel at the main
I office of the Western Union Telegraph
Comnarv giving him the check for the