The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-31

| PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Oct Sour
ing four long hours today. under the
scrutinizing gaze of a court room
crowded with strangers to hear, a pale
woman underwent an ordeal which
well might have broken the
nerve of many strong man.
She was Mrs. Carrie Alice Pit
eel With bravery and fortitude she
stood the test, in spite of the fact that
her physical system had been so shat
tered by the battle of woes under which
she has all but succumbed, that she
was obliged to interrupt her pitifuI mar
rative at frequent intervals to accept
spoonfulls of medicine from the
trained nurse who attended her. In q
voice broken with grief. she told the
whole distressing story of how her hus-
band was spirited away from her and
murdered out of sheer greed of gain;
how she bade her little ones good bye.
confiding them to the care of the man
Holmes in all truthfulness. little think
ing that when she next should see them
the two little girls would be lying side
by side on the marble slab OF a mOrguc.
cola in death, and the boy a parcel Of
Wondering bones. Between her bitter
sObs she related every detail-from the
first meeting with Holmes almost up
10 tOday-and SO affecting was this that
District Attorney Graham. long used
to tales Of grief and distress, paused in
the examination to wipe away fur
tive tear. The WOman's physical cOndi-
ton was such that the court had to
Repeat Her Testimony
after her, because of her weak voice
Throughout ii all the shrunken, pallid
feature in the dock, who, to one un~
familiar with the shocking story would
never be taken for the arch-criminal of
the age sat unmoved. Not a muscle
quivered. not lash moved, even when
the strain became so great that the
hearing halted to give the wretched
woman an opportunity to recover her
self Indeed. once. or twice. as soma
statement from her lips struck a chord
in his breast-if chords there be in such
Il mana malicious sheer played
around his thin, bloodless lips, but
never once did the woman look towards
him. During every moment of the
long examination she kept her eyes
riveted on the commonwealth officers.
or the counsel for the defense. as if
fearing to shift them to either side lest
in their course they should fall upon
the face Of the man in the dock. There
we're other witnesses called. but natur-
ally Mrs. PitzeIs testimony was the
feature of the day She went on the
stand at 2:30 in the afternoon, immedi-
ately upon tie re-assembling of court
after the lunch recess and remained
there, except for the evening intermiS-
sion, until $50 o'clock.
The other incidents of the day were
the reading of statements made by
Holmes to the Boston police, when frse
arrested there on November II last,
Telling the story of the Conspiracy
to swindIe the insurance company out
of the SO 900 on PitZeIs life. The cross
examination of the witnesses was con-
Quoted actively by Messrs. Shoemaker
and Rolan, the lawyers whom Holmes
dismissed on Monday and recalled last
night, but it was apparent that it was
really Holmes himself, who was con-
Quoting the defense. He continued to
take copious notes, and almost mo-
mentarily his attorneys were at the
dockside, accepting suggestions from
him. Interest in the case. instead of
tagging, has grown with each success
sive session. and it is not confined to
the morbidly curious general public,
for during the greater part of the day
Judge Arnold was at intervals receiv-
ing we'll known men on the bench,
while in the court clerks enclosure, sat
q group of gaily dressed society ladies.
friends of the commonwealth" gazing
curiously at the various actors in the
clse and drinking in every word Of the
testimony.
In the opinion of all those who heard.
except possibly Holmes and his attor-
neys. the evidence of today is strong
enough to send him to the gallows.
Slowly but none the less surely was
the chain forged around him, q chain
which will be hard to break.
There win be a pretty point Of law in
the case presently-if anything asso-
ciated with it can be called So There
is law here that a wife cannot testify
against her husband. In spite Of this.
Mr. Graham declared that he would
call the aged Mrs. Holmes, or Howard
to the stand. This is WHY he has been
combating Holmes assertion, that this
woman, who Mr.. Graham persists in
calling Miss Yorke is his lawful wife
The Trial Proceedings.
was Susan Hurley. who keeps a board
ing house at 1O4 Race street. She said
Pitzel boarded at her house for a week
i'm August, 1894.
Mrs. Alice Pierce of No. 1904 Callow-
hill street, identified PitzeFs picture as
that Of the man who lived at No. 1916
She had known him through his buy
ing cigare at her store
o. La Forest Perry. assistant to the
president of the Fidelity Mutual Life
association, was then called. This is
the company that was swindled out Of
$4,000 for which PttzePs life was in
sured. and it was Perry who began the
investigation into the gigantic conspir-
acy. He first identified the policy is
sued, in which Carrie z. Pitzel, the
widow, is the beneficiary. 1T is dated
Nov. 9, 1898. Next Perry identified a
receipt for $9,715, the amount Of the
policy, less expenses paid to and re-