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

tween Mir. Rotan and District Attorney Graham, and if the feeling between them continues to grow as the trial ad- vances, there will be many a lively en- counter
 HOLMES STATEMENT TO THE BOS- TON POLICE.
 Then the statement made by Holmes at the time he was arrested in Boston was read by MT. Barlow, who Is assist | ing in the prosecution. In that state- | ment Holmes said that Pietzel was alive; that the body buried in Philadel- phia was not that of Pletzel, but a body that had been brought on from New York, and all for the purpose of deceiv- | ing the insurance company.
 Pietzel had gone to Cincinnati, where he was to remain quiet until after the affair blew over, and then go south and go into business. The body had been 1 brought from New York in trunk. His three children were in Cincinnati at the time; one of them, the youngest girl, dressed as a boy. But Pletzel drank a | little and went in and saw the three l children.
 That was all in the statement as made | by Holmes at the time. It gave details as to how in the outskirts of St. Louis house was hired and the children talk en out to the house, where Pietzel was already in hiding. Subsequently Piet- gel was to go to New York and go south | by steamship.
 | The Pietzel children regarded Holmes | oS In ha statement Holmes said that he had seen Pietzel only three weeks before, and in | Detroit. He was then expecting to hear l from Mrs. Pietzel and learn through her the whereabouts Of Pietzel. He didn't [ know if Pietzel had gone south. ] Pietzel was not to meet his wife in Detroit, according to Holmes, at that | time. Neither was he to see the chil- dren, for fear the children would talk l about having met him. And then Piet- l gel got drunk and lost his caution, not having seen his children for some time,
 He was the accomplice of Holmes, sure enough, but when he drank little he forgot all his caution brushed aside | the warnings of Holmes and plunged | into where he was at the risk of spoil ing everything. Later when he was so- 1 Der, he said it would not do to meet the children again.
 l He didn't, for the next time any of | the children saw him was when Alice helped identify him for the benefit of | Holmes. Mrs. Pietzel still, according to ! that statement made by Holmes, was aware that her husband was in a l scheme to swindle an insurance com pany.
 1 A WITNESS FROM TORONTO. ! When the reading had proceeded to l this point there was a slight commotion 1 in the court. The chief of police of To- ronto had entered tie court rec om bring ing with him MT. Ryves of Toronto. | Ryves lives next ito the house which | Holmes had rented in Toronto and in l which he is said to have killed two Of the Pietzel children.
 Ryves was on hand to swear that Holmes had asked over the beck fence for the loan of spade, and with that spade buried the bodies of the two chil- dren in the cellar and then quicklimed them. The prosecution has the spade and the bleached bones.
 Frequent objections were entered by the defense to Mrs. Pietzel testifying to matters which she only knew by hear say. It was often necessary to repeat the questions asked Mrs. Pietzel, fol the woman seemed in a stunned condi- tion and 1t evidently required some mental effort for her to understand and answer interrogatories. She testified that she employed Howe to collect the insurance money by the advice ot Holmes. At the time Holmes told her that Pietzel was alive and was going around by Puget sound. Holmes told her that her husband had received her last letter, and she replied: "Oh! How could he do so and get me in trouble"
 Holmes took her to the office of Me- Donald x Howe. There were present Mcdonald, Howe, one Cochrane, Adol- phus Howe and a, woman typewriter Howe said: This is a fraud I will wash my hands of it." She went out into the hall and some on called her back into McDonalds private office Mcdonald asked her to sign a paper which she was opposed to doing Nc Donald grew indignant at her suspicious and said he did not want any reflec- tions cast upon the office, as they did an honest business. She was finally persuaded into signing the paper by a MT. Harvey. Howe told her his fee would be $3,000 and then he cut it down to $2,500 for cash settlement. Although ignorant of business, the amount struck her as excessive and she said so. Alone and among these men the woman gave
 way and signed paper that she was asked to put her name to- Holmes bor. rowed $500 from her and then took her out to the bank. As they went out of
 the door Harvey said: Spring nc traps"
 l Holmes took her to the bank under the pretence of paying off note on the Fort Worth property for $5,000. She gave him the money and Holmes gave her a forged note purporting to be the note he had taken up. All the money she got out of the $10000 on her hus.
 bands life was $500.
 l When asked what became of Holmes and Howe after paying her the money
 Mrs. Pietzel appeared to be overcome and could not answer for time. Con. tinuing, she said she went to the ticket office of the railroad company and Holmes extorted another $1OO from hel on the plea that it would be necessary to pay the children's expenses. Holmes