The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-31

was busy at her school. Holmes regis tered the party at the hotel under the name of Adams. She remained at De- troit until October IS. In explanation of her husbands absence, Holmes told house in Detroit for her to meet her husband and she would not like to see him before lot of people.
 Holmes said the children were in In dianapolis and were well and going to school and had a comfortable home with a widow. Holmes would never tell her the name of the woman he said the children were with. Holmes borrowed a big trunk from her and on the morn ing of the 18th started the party to To- ronto Holmes declined her to send Des- sic to Indianapolis and the girl went with her to Toronto. It was by means of the old will-o- -the-wisp of meeting her husband in Toronto that she went there. At Toronto Holmes took the party to the Union house and registered Mrs. Pietzel as Mrs. Adams. When she did not meet her husband Holmes told her he intended to rent a house and furnish it and that Pietzel was waiting in Montreal to hear from him to come on. One day Holmes told her that two officers in plain clothing were watch ing the house he had rented and it
 would not be safe for Pietzel to show up. Holmes brought her note writ
 ten in cipher that he said came from one of the children. He read it to her and as far as Mrs. Pietzel could recol- lect it was as follows: Sss
 Dear Mama-We are well and going to school. Howard won't mind Alice. Will get dirty. We have plenty to eat and the woman is real good to us"
 Whether this note was really from one of the children Mrs. Pietzel did not know. On October 25 she went out to do some shopping and accidentally met Holmes on the street. Holmes was startled and told her he wanted her to
 leave Toronto that night. She and the
 two children that night went to Pres
 colt, Can, where they stayed at the
 National hotel. From there they went
 to Burlington, Vt, where Holmes met
 them. He was angry because she did
 not come on the train he told her to
 take and he said to her:
 "Whenever I tell you to do a thing
 I want you to do it."
 Holmes took the family to a house
 that he had rented and left them.
 Holmes told her she should be known
 as Cook" Again he put the woman
 off with lies and held out to her the
 hope that her husband would appear in
 day or two. Mrs. PietZel accused Holmes of lying to her. He denied that
 he had ever told her a lie and succeeded
 in soothing her suspicious. Holmes dis
 appeared for a day or two and when
 he returned he told her that the chil-
 dren were in Toronto. He dilated upon
 how happy the children We're in the
 house at Toronto and said Howard was
 wearing his heavy overcoat and the
 girls their heavy coats. Holmes told
 her to write to her husband and he pre-
 tended to take the letter to him. He brought back letter in cipher, which he pretended was from Pietzel She recognized the figures as Holmes and told him so and he admitted that it was his writing, but said that he had
 been compelled to copy it for Pietzel as the latter had been drinking.  The witness stated that Holmes wrote to her from Boston to go to Lowell. Tn the letter Holmes told her that there was a bottle of dynamite in the cellar under the potato bin. He asked her to take the bottle into the attic and leave it there. He added that there would be no danger. Mrs. Pietzel instead of car rying the bottle into the attic put it under the easement. More than once during her testimony Mrs. Petzel was asked if she did not wish to rest, but she stuck consistently to her task Holmes, she said would not allow her to mail any letters herself, but took them from her and promised to post them for her
 A bunch of these letters to the chil- dren that Holmes had never mailed were shown her and she identified them Holmes not only did not mail the let ters, but he also opened and read them In Burlington Holmes was known as Judson. Mrs. Pietzel seemed about tc break down when asked to identify the handwriting of her dead girl but she bore up and amidst a deathlike silence in the court room named the writer of each letter as it was shown. The recol- lection that the letters were written by her murdered children then over- powered her for a moment. With a strong determine tion she recovered her self and nodded to MT. Graham to go or with his examination.
 She left Burlington for Boston, she said, with a man named White, who brought her letter from Holmes. Ir Boston she saw Holmes under arrest and he said to her:
 You need not take it so hard. Der and I are the ones who will have tc suffer"
 MT. Graham asked: When did you last see your husband?"
 In voice choking with emotion, Mrs Pietzel said: "I have never seen my husband since the 29th of July or heard from him in his own handwriting since August 29."
 Then MT Graham in a solemn voice asked: Have you ever seen any ot your three children since you gave then l to this man?"