The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-10-30
HIS COUNSEL RECALLED F.!
Holmes Gives Up the Attempt to Conduct
His Own Defense.
TIE TAKING OF TESTIMONY BEGUN
Forging a Chain of Evidence to Show That
Pitezel Was Murdered District At
torney Graham Believes the Trial
Will Last Month or More.

ing Ol Ju0 I1OlIlleS UElbl yesterday llSUrlCG
Attorney Graham announced that "the
woman known as Miss Yohe and Mrs.
Howard was sent for, saw the prisoner,
and had ample opportunity for an inter
view with him" This is the woman who
Holmes declared on Monday was his wife,
charging that Mr.. Graham had done all
in his power to separate them. Holmes
said that he had had only three minute
interview with the woman, and asked that
it be renewed during the recess. His re-
quest was granted.
Then the prisoner asked that a plan be
produced of the Callowhill street house in
which he is alleged to have murdered Pito-
eel. The district attorney said such plan
was in court and would be produced at
the proper time.
81 also ask, " Holmes continued, "that a
quantity of tho liquor which Mr.. Graham
said | used in my efforts to exterminate
the Pitezel family be submitted to analy-
sis. I want to prove that while it contains
small quantity of nitro glycerine it is
entirely harmless, and Is sold in every drug
store"
"Do you mean the liquor you left with
Mrs Pitezel in Burlington, VtY
eyes"
'"rhat has never been in my possession
Then the prisoner wanted to know
whether, during the testimony of one wit
ness, all the others should not be excluded
from the court room. Judge Arnold ans
wered that this would be done if the ex-
igency arose.
Jeanette Pitezel, "Dessa," the 17-year-
old daughter of the dead man, was the
first witness called. She was called merely
to identify several large crayon portraits
| oP hon. fotbar vuhich sb did Holmes
asked her if they were good portraits of
her father, and she answered in the affirm
ative.
Eugene Smith, who found Ptezel's body
in the Callowhill street house on Sept 4,
1894, then told the story of his discovery,
which has been already fully published.
Holmes submitted Smith to a long exami-
nation, dwelling upon every point of the
| testimony adduced by the commonwealth,
| but the witness was unshaken
AT last, becoming exasperated at his in
ability in this respect, and in consequence
of an immaterial remark thrown in by
Mr. Graham, Holmes exclaimed; II OBJ
| iect to the bloodthirsty manner in which
the district attorney and this witness are
trying to draw the inference that | rushed
into this potter's field and nutilated the
dead body of my friend"
"You are drawing the differences your
self" said Mr.. Graham.
DIR. William ]. Scott was called and at
this juncture Holmes renewed his request
that all witnesses except the one on the
stand be excluded from the room
Mr.. Graham objected to tlis and Holmes
sarcastcally said: 81 would like to know
whether you, Mr.. Graham, or the honor
able court is to make the rulings in this
to I-,, 4 Il l.,
since the trial began"
Judge Arnold upheld the district at
torney and Holmes asked for and was
granted an exception to the ruling. Holmes
then asked that the witnesses connected
with the murder Of Benjam f. Pitezel
be excluded. This was granted him. After
the witnesses had all left the room Holmes
asked if his wife was to be a witness.
"Again l must ask, said the district at
torney, (which wife you meau'
'You know" responded Holmes; "the
woman you see fit to designate as Miss
Yohe, thereby casting a slur on her and
myself That woman is my wife.
"You cast a slur on her, Mr.. Graham
retorted, ''when you married her with two
wives living. l call her by the name she
gives me, which is Miss Yohe."
"That is for her to say said Holmes.
"Well, she is not in the court room" "
concluded the prosecutor "and / decline
to say whether or Iot she will be wit
ness"
DR.. Scott was then permitted TO tell his
story, which concerned his having been
called in to examine PitezeRs body after
its discovery, He explained the 'itua5iO n
of the room and the arrangement of the
windows so that the SUMS rays should fall
upon the corpse and hasten decomposi-
tion. The doctor dwel5 upon the discov-
cry of chloroform in the stomach, and said
that large quantities of the drug had been
used, and from the cong5sGsd condition OF
the lungs and the emo " heart it was ap-
parent that the man had met a sudden
and violent death from chloroform poi
soning
AT l:1O an adjourn nent was taken until
$3.50 when DR. William K Mattern, cor
Oners physician, was called Holmes i'm.
mediately arose and begged the court to
grant him continuance until today, on
the grounds that DR.. Mattern would prove
most important witness, and he felt un-
equal to the strain at present. This was
denied
DIR. Mattern said he made the first post
mortem examination at the NOR que on
Sept. IA, and the conditions were as dis
covered by DR.. Scott He spoke of the
scenes at the pOtter's field, where in the
presence of the insurance company's Of
ficers and Pitezel's daughter the prisoner
took lancet and cut off portions of the
corpse.
In cross examining the witness Holmes
asked him to read his notes of the result
of the autopsy in their entirety. This the
witness did. He was then submitted to a
long series Of technical questions touch
ing the probable cause of death, the effects
Of chloroform, etc, DIR. Matten declared
that death was due to ohloroform poison
ing The cross examination continued
for nearly two hours and "A half.
DIR. Henry Lehman, well known as an
ANALYTICAL chemist. as next called on tC