The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-01

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 rented for Mrs Plet2el under the name
 of Judson. Mrs. Pletzel was called to
 the stand, As she was led to the stand
 Holmes looked tlXedly at her. She was
 only called upon to identify the tie,
 shirt and trousers her husband had on
 when he left home and then she was
 excused,
 Dessle Pietzel also identified the arti-
 cles.
 Dr. Henry l.. Sidabotham, coroner's
 physician, identified the clothing as that
 which he took from the body when it was eXhumed,
 Dr. Mattern, who testified yesterday,
 was recalled for the purpose of idenu- flying the clothing as that taken from
 the body of Pietzel
 The court refused to entertain MT,
 Graham's objection to the defence's
 cross examination of the witnesses.
 The examination once consisted in re-
 qulring description of the body from Dr. Mattern.
 Sergeant William M. Sower, one of the policemen called in at the time Pietzel's | body was found identified the latters
 picture as that of the man he saw dead
 at 1916 Callowhill street. Under cross
 examination Sower described the posi- ton of the body and the condition of
 the house. Dessie Pietzel was recalled and identified pictures of her dead sis | ters and brother. Mir Rotan protested
 on this line. Detective Frank F. Gey- CT, one of the commonwealth's leading
 witnesses and the man who unearthed
 the bodies of the Pietzel children was | called, but was stood aside for a mo-
 ment while Detective Thomas E. Craw- | ford was called. Crawford testified that he went to Boston to bring Holmes
 to this city. The prisoner had two tin
 boxes full of papers which were opened here.
 Geyer was then brought back. He l identified some letters taken from these
 boxes. This was all the use MT. Gra-
 ham had for MT. Geyer at this time and 1 he was excused.
 The letters were those identified yes terday by Mrs. Pletzel as those written by her, but which Holmes had sup pressed. Mr. Graham proposed to read these letters to the jury. The defense
 made a stubborn fight against their in troduction. Judge Arnold could not see l that the letters were irrelevant, as they
 would be corroborative of Mrs. Pietzers story, but he refused to allow them to be read at this time He will render his decision later. The refusal of Judge Arnold to allow the introduction of the l letters seemd to upset the common wealth's plan and MT. Graham, MT Barlow and Detective Geyer held an earnest consultation. The result of the l conference was the placing of Geyer on | the stand. Geyer said that he had an | interview with Holmes in this city af- | ter the latter was brought here from
 Boston, Geyer said to Holmes he un- | derstood that the body found at No, | body. Holmes told him that on Sun day, September 2, he went to New York and got the body from a medi- cal student he knew, brought it to this city in a trunk the same afternoon, met Pietzel at the Western Union of fee and gave him the check for the trunk. He then went to his boarding house on Eleventh street and that night went west. Holmes told him that the lnext time he met Pietzel was in the post offic at Detroit. Holmes said that he had given Pietzel instructions how to | prepare the body for the swindle. He was to place it on it's back, one hand upon the breast, one by the side and | to place some liquid in the mouth and cause an explosion. This liquid was a wash for clothing cleaning that they were making. He also told him to burn l the breast and arm. He instructed | Pietzel how by working the arms of the | corpse he could inject chloroform into | the stomach. At a subsequent inter- view Holmes retracted the above state ment and told Geyer that the body was l that of Pietzel. On hearing this Geyer said: 'fHolmes, if that was PietzePs body you murdered him and killed the three children"
 "No, I did not, MT. Geyer," replied Holmes. q will tell you about it." Holmes then told Geyer the story that Pietzel committed suicide and of l his finding him dead on Sunday morn | ing. Holmes went to the house, found | that Pietzel had killed himself by lay | ing a cloth across his face and allow | ing chloroform to rip from a bottle upon the towel. Pietzel left note
 for Holmes telling him he intended to kill himself and advising him to make such use of his body as they had in | tended to do with the bogus corpse After some reflection Holmes said he did this and fixed the body as it was found.
 In explanation of the whereabouts of l the children Holmes said they had gone | to London with Minnie Williams. When asked where their trunks were, Holmes | said he left them in a hotel on West l Madison avenue in Detroit, Mich. At another interview Holmes contradicted himself by stating that he had given | the boy Howard in charge of man named Hatch at Indianapolis and that he had never seen any of them since he | sent the girls from Toronto. | MT. Graham proposed now to have | Geyer tell of the finding of the chil. dren's bodies.