The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-10-30
Ills COUNSEL RECALLED.
Holmes Give Up the Attempt to
Conduct His Own Defense.
THE TAKING OF TESTIMONY BEGUN.
rorsInE CHAIR OF EvIdrnes to Show That
Ritexel Was Murdered = District AZ
tornsy Grshain Believes the Trial win
l.st Month or More.


last Month or More.
PHiLADELrHfk, Oct 80.-At the open
ing of the Holmes trial yesterday District
Attorney Grahllin announced that sstho
woman known as Miss Yohe and Mrs.
Howard was sent for, saw the prisoner,
and had ample opportunity for an inter
view with him. This is the woman who
Holmes declared on Monday was his wife,
charging that MIR. Graham had done all
IN his power I'd separate them. Holmes
said that he bad had only three minute
interview with the woman, and asked that
II be renewed during the recess. His re-
guest was granted.
Then the prisoner asked that plan DO
produced of the Callowhill street. house In
which he 10 alleged to have murdered Pite-
sci. The district attorney said such plan
was in court, and would be produced at
the proper time
II also ask" Holmes continued, "that
quantity Of the liquor which Mr. Graham
said used I'm my efforts TO exterminato
the Pitezel family be submitted to analy-
SIS 1want to prove that whlleit contains
asmall quantity Of nitro-glycerine, 1t ID
entirely harmless, aud Ii sold in every drug
store"
DO you mean the liquor you left with
Mrs. Pitezel In Burlington, Vt.f"
Eyes"
THAT has never been in my possession"
Then the prisoner wanted to know
whether, during the testimony Of one wit
ness, all the others should not be excluded
from the court room. Judge Arnold ans
wered that this would be done II the en-
igcncy arose.
Jeanette Pitezel, ODESSA" the 17-year-
old daughter o. the dead man, was the
FIRST witness called. She was called merely
10 identify several large orayon portraits
Of her father, which she did. Holmes
asked her II they were good portraits Of
her father, and she answered in the affirm
ative.
Eugene Smith, who found Pitezel's body
In the CallowhIli street house on Sept. 1
1894, then told the story Of his discovery,
which has been already fully published.
Holmes submitted Smith TO a long exami-
nation, dwelling upon every point Of the
testimony addicted by the commonwealth,
but the witness was mistaken.
At last, becoming exasperated at his In
ability in this respect, and in consequence
Of an immaterlal remark thrown In by
Mr.. Graham, Holmes exclaimed, IT OBJ
ject to tho bloohthirsty manner In which
the district attorney and this witness arc
trying to draw the inference that rushed
into this potter's field and lnutilated the
dead body of my friend"
'You are drawing the differences your
self" said Mr.. Graham.
DIR. William p. Scott was called, and at
this juncturo Holmes renewed his request
that all witnesses except the ono on the
stand be excluded from the room.
Mr.. Graham objected TO this, and Holmes
sarcastically said: 81 would like to know
NH fbar Mr. he
able court il to make the rulings In this
case. have been anxious to know this
since the trial began"
Judge Arnold upheld the district at
torney and Holmes asked for and was
granted an exception to the ruling Holmes
then asked that the witnesses connected
with tho murder Of Benjamin r. Pitezel
DO excluded. This was granted him. After
the witnesses had all left the room Holmes
asked IL his vile was to be q witness.
again must ask, " said the district al
torney, (which wife you mean"
"You KNOW responded Holmes; "the
woman you sed f1t to designate as Miss
Yohe, thereby casting q slur on her and
myself. That woman Ia my WIFE"
"You cast slur ON her." Mr.. Graham
retorted, "when you married her with two
wives living. I call her by the name she
gives me, which is Miss Yohe."
''That In for her TO say" said Holmes
''well, she n not in the court ROOM"
concluded tho prosecutor, "and I decline
TO say whether or not she will be wit
ness
DR. Scott was then permitted to tell his
story, which concerned his having been
cs,led in TO examine Pitezels body after
It's discovery. He explained the situation
Of the room and the arrangement Of the
windows SO thht the suns rays should fall
upon the corpse and hasten decompesi-
ton. The doctor dwelt upon the discov-
cry of chloroform in the stomach, and said
that large quantities Of the drug had been
used, and from the oongested condition Of
the lungs and the empty heart 1t was ap-
parent that the man had met q sudden
and violent death from ohloroform pol
soning.
At 1:10 an adjournment was Saken until
e:3O, when Dr. William X. Mattern, cor.
oner's physician, was called. Holmes i'm
mediately arose and begged tho court TO
grant him a continuance until today, ON
tho grounds that DIR. Mattern would prove
o most important witness, and he felt I'M
equal to the strain at present. This was
denied.
DIR. Mattorn said he made the first post
mortem examination at the morgus on
Sept. IA, and the conditions were as dis
covered by DIR. Scott. He spoke Of the
scenes at the potter's field, where in the
presence of the insurance company's Of
ticers and Pitezel's daughter the prisoner
took lancet and cut off portions Of the
corpse.
In cross examining the witness Holmes
asked him to read his notes of the result
Of the autopsy in their entirety. This the
witness did. He was then submitted to a
long series Of technical questions touch
Ing the probable cause Of death, the effects
of chloroform, etc. DIR. Mattern declared
that death WINS due to ehloroform poison
ing. The crpss examination continued
for nearly two hours and half
DIR. Henry Lehman, well known as an
analytical chemist, was next called on to
testify. In reply to question from the
district attorney he declared Ii was i'm
possible for |. man to flx himself in an
attitude as feposeful as that In which
Piteze's body was found after having
administered chloroform to himself.
Holmes asked Dr.. Lehman only few
questions, but reserved the right to call
him as q witness for the defense.
The next witness, Coroner Samuel H.
Ashbridge, produced two affidayits sworn
to by Alice Pltezel and Holmes, identify
ing the body of the girls father.
The court then announced q recess until
Up. m, whereupon Holmes asked that two
instead Of three sessions hs hsld because OF
his weak condition