The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-01

| MIN 20 call on him " no WAS nended Tor
Identification. iIo told me OF the visit
70 PolteTs iield IN Philadelphia and aI
| the dndihg of the identification rsmassa
after tho doctor had iailod 10 locate
them.
"Ot tue money received Tor tho Fort
Worth property, ho had sent S5,000to
his broker, Mr., hlaekman, ia Chicago,
He gave me about S2 900 aud q number
oil PRESENTS.
eHe next left me about 0ctober 0 OF
10 and said he was going 10 Cincinnati.
wont 20 my mother 9 home IN Frank
lin, Ind, and Joined him Ia Detroit.
From there We wentto Toronto on 0c-
toher lS. We remained there until the
Goth, beliaYe. While there no told
me he was going of on q pleasure trip
Alter detailing their travels in Canada
and Vermont and the arfeatin Boston,
she said that during these travels she
had never seen Mrs. Pletzel or the
children.
She identified Pietzella, picture as q
man she had known in Fort Worth Rs
=, \. Lyman. Holmes was known as
ii. M, Pratt, and this he explained by
saying the busineaH arrangement about
| the property were compiieated and he
thought 1t best 10 use that name.
"orosl'examinei" said tho district at
torney. iia
Mr., Rotan. Of the defense. announced
that the prisoner insisted on conducting
1.-THE crosEexamlnation in peEson. The
court consented, and Holmes addressed
his questions tremulously direct TO the
woman he calls his wife. she never
raised her eyes and gave herrepliesin q
whisper. The crier repeated them
aloud. She said Holmes came in the
house Sunday afternoon, September 2,
1894, looking worried and disturbed. 2
At this point Holmes told the court
that he would reaarva whAtother quas,
tioua he had until he called the witnesi
directly for the defence.
The court took recess unit 2 o'clock.
IDENTIFICATION or piErzEL,s BODY.
The court reconyened at 2 o'clock,
Mrs. PIatzel was recalled aud identi.
fed clothing which belonged to her
husband. Tie daughter, Dessa. also
identified them and pictures Of Howard,
Nellie and Alice.
Corenera physician sedalabotham
testified he had procured this clothing
from Pletzeps body, when 1t was ex.
hnmed from the Mechanics' cemetery.
and DR., Mattern testified that the body
exhumed from Potter's held aud from
the Mechanics' cemetery were identical.
William i. Sauer, sergeant OF police,
who was one OF the policemen called
i t..k Natlas.vHfIl
identified Pietzel'a picture as that Of
the dead man found lying on the floor.
Detective Frank p. Geyer, who traced
Holmes movements throughout the
country, identified the letters written
by the children TO their mother and
never mailed by Holmes. Later he will
tell the story OF his travels. Il
Detective Geyer was recalled. Ho said
he had an interview with Holmel In
the cell room Of tue city hall on Novatn.
ber 20, 1894, about the body found In
the Callowhill street house Holmes
said TO him that it was not PIetEel's
body but substitute. ' X
cHARoBp WITH NURpRR.
few days before his afraigament
for conspiracy. to which ho pleaded
kgullty, Iaaw him in the cell room. and
I he said the atory he had told me about
the substitution Of a body was not true,
and thai the corpse found in the house
was that OF Pletzsl. ! said: Well,
Holmes, II that's the case. then you
murdered Pietzel aud the children He
said: No, Idld not.
The detective then related how
Holmes found Pietzels body, as already
| published in a statement by Holmes.
Detective Geyer was hero temporarily
withdrawn. and Mr.. Graham offered to
prove the finding OF the bones Of Hoi-
ard In lexington. q suburb Of Indian.
apolis, and the bodies of the girls ia q
cetter OF tho horse at No. 81. Vincent
atree., Toronto.
The defense objected and the jury
we're taken to their room, while a
lengthy argument Of tho admisSibillty
Of their testimony was made on both
sides.
judge Arnold caused a wild sensation
by deciding thatthe killing Of tho chill.
| dren had NO connection with tho trial
Of Holmes for the murder OF the father,
aud that no such evidence could bs il-
lroduced.
This was tho first turn in favor Of
Holmes aimee the beginning Of the trial
and decided setback tor the common
wealth. The prisoner, however, made
no sign when he heard tho decision.
GeyeF was then put under crois.ekauni.
nation.
He was asked but few questions
| and chrrobofatad his former atAtnoIlka.