The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-11-02

Holmes offered $50 to have the corpse
cremated, and asked Howe about it.
The lawyer answered that the widow
would first have to be consulted.
Holmes told the insurance people Of
the marks Of Identification, and after
the body had been dug up he pulled
out a lance and cut a vert and other
marks from the corpse. At this time
the witness had recognized Holmes as
the man he had seen go up stairs in the
Callow Hill street house.
Holmes, on cross-examination, asked
a number Of immaterial questions, but
showed much legal skill in their con-
struction. Holmes subjected Smith to
a long and searching cross-examina-
ton, dwelling upon every point Of the
testimony adduced by the common
wealth, but the witness was mistaken.
WITNESSES KEPT OUT.
DR.. William J. Scott was called, and
at this juncture Holmes renewed his
plea to have all the witnesses except
the one on the stand excluded from the
room.
Mr.. Graham objected. Holmes COM
promised by asking that the witnesses
connected with the murder Of Benjamin
r. Pietzel be excluded. This was
granted him, and as Holmes called out
the names of those witnesses they left
the room.
The examination of DR.. Scott was
about to be resumed when the dis
trict attorney asked that all the wit
nesses connected with any part Of
the case to retire. After the witnesses
had all left the room, Holmes asked if
his wife was to be a witness.
again I must ASK" said the district
attorney, (which wife do you mean?"
"You know" responded Holmes. with
flush Of anger. 1.-THE woman you see
fit to designate as Miss Yorke."
"Well, she is not in the court room,"
concluded the prosecutor, land I de-
cline to say whether or no she will be
witness"
DR.. Scott was then permitted to tell
his story concerning his having been
called in to examine Pietzels body af-
ter it's discovery. He explained the
situation Of the room and the arrange
ment Of the windows so that the sun
rays should fall upon the corpse and
hasten decomposition. The doctor
dwelt upon the discovery Of chloroform
in the stomach, and said large quaint
ties of the drug had been used, and from
the contested condition Of the lungs
and the empty heart, it was apparent
that the man had met sudden and VIC
lent death from chloroform poisoning.
DR.. Scott was then turned over to
Holmes for cross-examination.
''Are you prepared to say" he asked.
that the decomposition of the body
would not have occurred had it been in
a darkened room?' eyes, sir; had it
~, \ r4i
cation would not have come SO quick
ly.'
did you, at that time, express any
opinion as to the length of time that
he had been dead?" IT said from all
appearances he had been dead three or
four days"
Holmes then subjected DR.. Scott to
a lengthy and detailed examination,
touching the effects Of chloroform, but
obtained few answers that would tend
to throw the balance in the slightest de-
gree in his favor.
At the conclusion Of DR.. SCOTS test
imony, DR.. William K. Mattern, the
coroners physician, was called. The
witness said he had made the post
norton examination at the morgue on
September 4, and the conditions were
the same as described by DR.. Scott.
There had been paralysis, indicating
sudden death, and evidences Of chloro-
form in the stomach.
Holmes began cross-examining DR..
Mattern by requiring him to read his
notes of the result of the autopsy, IN
their entirety The doctor unqualified
ly declared that death had been caused
by chloroform poisoning.
The crOSs-examina ton consumed