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


What have you been doing for the
past six months?"
travelling about the country most
Of the time"
"And the balance of the time?"
Reading the manuscript of the DOOR,
Holmes Own Story
Where was it published?
mo. SOC Chestnut street. 1 had
charge of the manuscript and read the
proofs"
From whom did you get the manu-
scr:pt?"
The defense here objected to every.
thing in reference to the DOOR, pul
were overruled and the witness an
swered:
II got some of it from Mr.. Shoema-
ker. Holmes lawyer, and some from
Miss Long. typewriter in ms once
and published just what l received;
AMY Long. the typewriter referred 10,
said she received the manuscript OIL tue
book from Mr.. Shoemaker IL was Al
pencil and the handwriting wa u,
known to her A specimen of Homes
handwriting was shown her anu She
identified it as the same.
Agent Perry of the insurance COM
many was called to Identity HOLMES
handwriting.
ne+ective Geyer, recalled, said he mao
been sent down to Holmes cell ABOUT
five weeks ago to see If there was any
noison concealed there. While making
search he came upon the manuscript
of the book and brought it to the DIS
trict attorney. He also found IN
Holmes cell. besides the manuscript,
letter to John King about the sale Oh
the book.
DIR. Lehman was recalled and an
swered a number of questions ABOUT
the effects of chloroform:
The commonwealth offered IN eVl,
dence the letters, papers, pictures and
THO Holmes book. and rested IT'S case.
Miss Yorke Recalled.
The defense here asked to recall Miss
yorte for cross-examination on the
question of her marriage with Holmes.
which was not brought out IN mes SIX.
animation yesterday. She was brougnt
into court and given seat on the Wst-
ness stand.
Mrs, Holiness began Mr.. Rolan to
the woman who calls herself Miss
Yorks. 'awere you ever married to the
prisoner"
@T was"
when and where?
ION January II, 1894, at Denver, by
Rev. Mr.. Wilcox. 80,
AT the time of this marriage oid
,,ou know of the existence of this Will
jeanette woman?"
"I believe I did"
WAS she called Mrs. Holmes!
''I don't remember
srYou were sure when you marrsaH
him that he was not married to the
Willamette woman
az knew nothing of the woman
"Did you know anything of any
other MARRIAGE asked Mr.: Grahaih'
ar had heard of another"
ITO whom?"
''I don't know the name"
-%Where?'
"Gilmanton, n. H"
.rWhat. did Holmes tell his family
To Excuse His Marriage
with YOU when he had a wife at Gill
~ was not with him when he vis-
tied them"
TO her about it,"
''She did His sister told me that
he had told her he had been injured
in a. wreck and lay a long time in
bosnital. that I was a patroness of the
hosnital. and had asked the physician
to perform an operation on him, which
saved his mind. and that l had mar
ried him before he realized who he
was I never met the Gilmanton wo-
man"
ssWhen you charged him with the
matter, what did he say?"
He said he had received word that
she was dead"
told you?"
Not any truth.
"When you married him you be-
lieved you were becoming a lawful
wife?"
"or w You would not have married
him?"
st would not"
Now tell what deception he used to
bring about this marriage. What did
he representa-"
He told my mother that his uncle
had died and left him certain prop2-ty
in the south, the west and in Fort
Worth, providing he took his uncle's
name. Henry Mancill Howard. He
said he had no relatives living except
an aunt in Africa. I found that he
had a father, mother. two sisters ard
two brothers. He explained his TAX
ing the name Of Pratt in Fort Worth
by saying his business complications
required it,
Counsel Objects.
Counsel for the defense made OBJ
lection to the admission of this tes-
timony, or anything that did not re.
late to the murder of PitZeL They
also asked for an exception to the ir-
relevant matters mentioned by the
district attorney in his opening argu-
ment, but Judge Arnold said that was
not a matter of record, and overruled
the motion.
Miss Yorke, at the conclusion of hel
testimony. retired to the crier's desk
and laid her head in her hands on the
back of a chair. Then she was LED
from the courtroom. Her presence
did not move Holmes any.
Court at l o'clock took an hours re-
cess.
Immediately upon the reassembIine
of court Mr.. Rolan advanced to the
bar of the court and said: MAY il
please the court the commonwealth
has closed its case and we feel sure
that it has not proved the case It is
incumbent upon the commonwealth
10 prove murder beyond a reasonable
doubt. They have not done So
''They have proved" continued Mr.
Rolan, that these men came here tc
carry out a fraud but their testimony
does not show that this man was killed
by somebody else. 1t may have beer
suicide: it may have been a killing
but we feel sure under the ruling
that there is a reasonable doubt first
as to whether Pitzel was killed; sec
ond, as to whether the prisoner killed
him. They have not made out what
the law calls a corpus deficit. They
have proved that a body was found
but not that anybody killed it. We