The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-02


row night the world will probably
know whether or not Holmes viii hang.
| Incidentally. Holmes. who is now a
part of the world. but a mere shrunken
figure with a number, a cage and all
mems enmity. will know himself.
Apart from this, a small army OF
exhausted men, lawyers, court officials
and newspaper reporters, will offer up
thanks for the termination of in many
respects the most extraordinary case
tried since Lady Justice bandaged up
her eyes and started in business.
When the trial began last Monday
everybody anticipated a siege of at
least two weeks; but yesterday the
case took a sudden turn, and today
another. which will help to push it to
| swift conclusion. The decision of
Judge Arnold that no testimony would
be admitted other than that bearing
directly on the murder of Benjamin f.
Pitzel, had the effect of keeping out a
/ group of gruesome exhibits and silenc-
ing about thirty witnesses brought
! here from Canada. New England and
/ the west and supported for six days at
! the commonwealth expense. 1t pre-
vented the Offering in evidence of the
| u
Pitzel the stove in which he was
! burned, the clothes he wore when he
/ had a body to put inside of them. the
( toys he played with, and the trunk
I which smothered out the lives of the
girls, Alice and Nellie. Besides, it put
d quietus on Detective Geyer. whose
detailed account of his travels over the
| continent in a successful search for
| evidence of Holmes destructive move
ments, would have made a thrilling
| tale. District Attorney Graham fought
/ as hard as he knew how to get this
evidence in. but the law was against
him and the defense scored it's first
victory.
When he found himself bested he
said he would close his case this
morning, and he kept his word. He
! did not even exhibit the skull of Pit
eel, thereby disappointing a lot of
people who
Love to Reve1 in the Horrible.
That is our case had scarceIv fall
len from the lips of the com MON
wealth's prosecutor before counsel for.
/ the defense had calmly arisen and
made what mary persons characterize
as bold bluff" and many more as
/ PLAYING the last card left.
! They confidently told the court thar
/ the commonwealth had not made out
/ - SeN7N anu dONCU Juu2e ARNOLD tn
tell the Jury so and wind up the trial
then and there.
District Attorney Graham smiled an
official smile and said this was too alb
surd TO answer, but Judge Arnold ex-
pressed no opinion other than that the
case would have to proceed.
Then counsel made the astonishing
statement that they wanted time to
lind out what the defense was going
to be. because they had been so tusv
listening to the evidence against them
that they had not had a chance to pre-
pare an answer to it. The court was
| not very anxious to create another de-
lay, but finally suspended business and
gave the attorneys an hours talk with
Holmes.
This over they came back 10 court
and pleased every body except The NOR
bid mob peering over one another's
head in the room, by declaring mat
they would call no witnesses and would
submit the case on argument alone.
This will begin tomorrow morning and
the lawyers said would end before the
day is over.
There is an impression that Lawyer
II. o. Moon VIII Do the Talking
for the defense, and his forensic abiI-
ity is of no mean order. 1t was he
whom Holmes called upon last Monday
y. II.
Moon declined the TASK through lack Of
time for preparation. He admitted be-
ing familiar with the main facts, and
will be well qualified to address the
jury.
There was no change in Holmes de-
meanor today, although a keen observer
might have perceived a deeper Fallor
on his cheeks and in his blue eyes the
subdued glare of a wild heas5 tracked
to earth at last. But it needed q keen
eye to detect it if it was there.
Today's session was begun by the re-
calling of Mrs. Pitzel Mr. Graham
asked her if there was any cuffs to
the shirt she identified yesterday as her
husbands and she replied th9t Holmes
had taken them from the trunk end
destroyed than.
ON cross-examination Mr.. Shoemaker
rigidly questioned the unfortunate wo-
man concerning her travels with
Holmes and her subsequent arrest for
conspiracy His apparent intentioB
was to show that Mrs. Pitzel had been
the controlling influence during the
ramblings throughout the country, and
that she carried Holmes about in an
attempt to evade arrest.
She Was Trilby By Silent Admission
"You want to prove that she was not
Trilby. but Svengali," suggested Judge
Arnold, that she led him..
This remark was drawn out by a
dispute over the relevancy of the cross
examination, which was not pushed
farther.
John King of New York, who said
he had no business, and looked az IL