The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-11-07
THE FIEND in TEARS.
Holmes Lost His Nerve Wher
His Wife Testified.
HER WORDS TIGHTENED MOOSE.
For One Hour and Forty Minutes she
whispered Damaging Evidence Testi-
mony Concerning the Alleged Murder
of the Pitezel Children Barred.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. For once. for
about 30 minutes, the nerve at which
all men have marvelled has forsaken
Holmes in his trial, and, bowed and
broken, he sank his head into his hands
and sobbed like a child. Meanwhile
the woman he persists in calling his
wife and upon whom he had pinned
his highest hope, sat two yards away,
relating a story that slowly, but surely
tightened the moose on his neck
For one hour and 40 minutes she
whispered to the court crier the
words that told how Pitezel had come
to the Eleventh street house whore
they were stopping the night before the
murder, and how Holmes had been
away for five hours of the next day,
coming back flushed and excited and
carrying her hurriedly off to Indian
apolis. It was the day after this that
the corpse was found in the Callowhill
street house At the close of her ex-
animation in chief Holmes asked to
conduct the cross.examination himself,
and, standing in the middle of the
dock, nervously moving his hands, he
put few questions. Then he said he
would reserve the right to call her as a
witness for the defense.
She said that after he took her so
hurriedly to Indianapolis she went to
her parents home in Franklin, Ind,
and he returned to Philadelphia.
When he came back to Philadelphia he
went to st. Louis and upon his return
from that city told her he had sold his
Fort Worth property for $4,000 Of
which $4,000 was in cash.
Holmes cross-examination Of the
witness was unimportant.
Holmes urged his lawyers to use
every means in their power to prevent
the witness from testifying. but their
efforts were useless, as the court over
ruled all their exceptions, and ordered
the examination to go on. The fact
that she was testifying against him
evidently caused him to lose his nerve.
Throughout her testimony Miss Geor-
giana Yoke, for so she calls herself,
never once bestowed passing glance
upon the man she once loved. Miss
Yoke is a tall, slender blonde of the
subdued type and demeaned herself
like woman of refinement and in
telligence. She was tastefully dressed
in deep black.
Holmes other wife in Willamette, Ills
Detective Geyer told of conversa-
tion he had with Holmes, in which the
prisoner said the body in the Callow-
hill street house was dead one he
had secured in New York. Later he
acknowledged that it was Pitezel's
body. He also told the detective con-
fiicting stories about the Pitezel chill
drens whereabouts
The case has progressed so swiftly
that but few witnesses remain to be
heard before the closing of the COM
monwealth's case. Then the defense
will open and. in spite of Holmes
statement that he would himself testify
and also call Miss Yoke. his counsel
has privately stated that the defense
will offer no evidence, but submit the
case on argum ent alone. And they ex-
pressed supreme confidence in his ac-
Quittal.
Their first victory has been gained.
The defense strenuously objected to the
introduction of any further evidence
touching the alleged murder OF the
children. The jury were temporarily
taken to their room and elaborate argu.
ments followed, at the end of which
Judge Arnold sustained the contention.