Rock Island Argus., 1895-11-19
ZEAL WASHIS RUIN
Holmes Lawyer, Shoemaker, in
Serious Trouble.
PUTS UP A VERY NEAT LITTLE JOB,

Hut discovers Too Late That the Prosecution
Has iic.n Assisting Him-faI.e An,dayit
For which the Mur,ierer's Counsel Paid
$50 to Tool Of. tho state-win Prob
ably Cost the Young Man His Authority
to Practice Law.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1g.-The evil spirit
which prcsidcs over the dcstinics Of II. II.
Holmes, king Of murdcrers, and eventual.
~ destroys all who ally themselves with
him, has found another victim. The first
twift turn this extraordinary case took
was on the first day Of the recent trial,
when the nrch-criminal dismissed his law
yers ard the prisoner at the bar became
counsel for the defense. Yesterday the
tables were turned, and senior counsel for
the defense became n prisoner at the bar.
William A. Shoemaker, the young attor.
ncy whose first association with the case
IL obscurcd in the mystery which cnvelops
it, every detail passed through an ordeal
MS severe rs any his client has been called
~ ofacc. and the crisis came when he was
held under 81, 800 bail % answer charge
of subornation Of perjury.
Puts Up some Bogus Evidence.
This means that he manufactured eyi-
Scncc tending to prove that Benjamin +.
pitzcl, Of whose murder Holmes was con-
victcd two weeks ago, committed suicide,
and that he, Shoemaker, paid a woman
40 TO sign and swear to this But the
commonwealth had supplied the woman
although Shoemaker was ignorant of
this-and after he had produced this i'm
portant evidence and read il with great
cinprcsscrncnt to the court he asked that
tho argument on the motion for new
trial bc postponed to give him and his
associate counsel. Samuel T.. Rotan, time
To run out this and other clues recently
obtained. Then II was that District At.
torncy Graham arose and exposed the
plot His declaration came like thun-
dcrbolt. The court stared in widc-cycd
amazcmcnt; the spectators turned In their
,hairs and gaspcd; the accused lawyer
sank back in his scat. livid and trcmulous,
while his innOcrnt associate glarcd at him
with unveiled horror.
Aud Holmes smiled with Scorn.
But the prisoner in thc dock rested his
cold blue eyes on the shrinking figure of
his legal representative and smiled with
scurn. Briefly told the details of the
charge are these: The trial for the pitzcl
inusdcr was not two days old when Shoe
maker approached n private detective
named John Schwcichlcr and asked him
to procure ~ woman who lived around
Twelfth or Thirteenth and Callowhill or
Vine streets who would swear to certain
fncts IN connection with the finding of
PityCl's body ut 1916 Callowhll street.
SchwciChlcr ns>Cntcd, but instead Of
strairhtwny getting tho woman he told his
story 20 Detective Gcyrr, who submitted it
to District Attorney Graham, and IA most
skilful trap was prcparcd-a trap which
has brought about the ruin Of the opposing
attorney.
Lies as Cooiiy "a Holmes.
Under instructions Gcycr went to Mrs.
Margaret Rcah, matron in the Fourth
district police station, and she, under the
name of Blanche a. IIannigan, was taken
to shoemaker by Schwcichlcr. Meantime
Shoemaker had prepared an affidavit stat
ing that the dcponcnt had known Pitzcl
and thnt IN her he had expressed his in.
tcntlon of committing suicide. Mrs. Han
nigan readily signed and sworc to this,
and Shoemaker gave her two ten dollar
bills for doing 80. On each bill she
marked the initials I'D. \. H." and she
exhibited them III court. Shoemaker
walked into the trap blindfold. When he
read the affidavit To the court he declared
that its contents had been dictated to him