The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-30

was eNhumeu,
THE defendant was there" said the
witness, land they wanted to Identify
the body. Alice Pietzel was there,
Doctors We're there, They looked for
marks of Identification, The doctors
couldn't seem to find them. There was
a wart on the neck and mark in the
bone of one leg and some other marks.
The body was much decomposed.
Holmes took the Doctors gloves and
started to examine the body for the
marks. He took a knife, turned the
body over and cut the wart out of the
neck. He scraped the skin from one
leg and showed the mark in the bone.
He handled the body himself"
Then this in many ways remarkable
man, Holmes, arose and said he wanted
to ask few questions, and expressed
the fear that he might take up TOO
much of the time of the court.
Don't mind the time of the court"
said District Attorney Graham. "Time
is nothing when your life is at stake.
You ought to think of that"
WEAK AS A CROSS EXAMINER.
Holmes sat down suddenly, looked
over his notes a moment, and then be-
gan to cross examine Smith, who, prop
erly handled, would have gone all to
pieces in a short time. But Holmes
didn't produce any effect of that kind.
He quoted one or two things the wit
ness had said, and District Attorney
Graham said that Holmes was wrong,
and practically accused him of having
| no cd CHI
ed not shade of annoyance, and the dis
trict attorney at the moment might just
as we'll not have been in the room, so
far as any interest in him by Holmes
went
He kept his eyes on Smith and asked
a question or two about the times men
toned by the carpenter, which showed
that the district attorney was mistaken.
That's the way I remembered it,"
said Holmes, and without so much as a
glance at Mr.. Graham, or Mr.. Barlow
his associate.
Holmes then wanted to know just
when it was that Smith had seen him,
the defendant, or, as he puts it, "the
defendant, myself" in the house occu-
pied by Pietzel. Smith told him, and
the answer was such that skilful law
yer could have Knocked it into flinders
in no time.
Holmes didn't see his opportunity
there, not having had sufficient expert
ence in courts to know a good chance
when he saw it. If he goes on as he
began to-day he will be practically COM
hitting suicide, for he is literally TAX
.,,,J Ia,
| for his conviction, it seems is certain
enough, whether he takes the stand
himself or not.
AN ARISTOCRAT IN CRIME.
There are those who think that
| Holmes would fittingly close his career
as an aristocrat in crime by thus DELHI
| erately taking his own life.
| Holmes requested to see diagram OF
| the house. as he wished to question
Smith with that before him. District
| Attorney Graham, anxious to give
Holmes every chance, put Smith aside
and called as a witness a draughtsman
who had drawn diagram of the int
| rior of the house.
| That brought the diagram into evil
/ 49,
| the defendant He took the diagram
| in hand, Smith was recalled and Holmes
endeavored to show by the witness that
Smith had not been able to see the de-
| PENDANT pass up the stairs of the house
| in which Pietzel lived.
SAW HOLMES WITH PIETzEL.
Smith said he had seen Holmes pass
| Ia; 40 fp1
low him. BY the diagram Holmes tried
to show that it would have been i'm
possible for Smith, sitting where he said
| he had sat, to see them passing up
| stairs.
Smith stuck to 1t, however, and, be-
coming indignant that he should be
doubted Iblurted out once:
ooh, there wasn't any place that you
could hide yourself"
Now. / object to that answer" said
Holmes petulantly. HE says I could
not hide myself"
Neither you could" held Smith stur-
Oily
ooh, he means that you didn't get out
of his sight" Clipped in the district
attorney, and Holmes was appeased and
dismissed that particular subject.
Smith, in his cross-examination, said
that after the body of Pietzel had been
exhumed and identified Holmes had of
fered to pay $50 to have the body OF
Pietzel cremated. Holmes seemed to
avoid that in his cross-examination.
Instead he went on another tack
which resulted with disaster to him.
self
"You told me- said Smith in answer
to question, "that you had come on
to identify the body. I asked you how
YOU had heard of Pietzel's death and
you told me his wife had telegraphed tC
you j asked you how she had beer
able to locate you so quickly if you were
a travelling man, as you told me. Yoc
didn't answer me, and Stunned me af.
ter that
lHoLMEs REMARKABLE UNCON
Germ.
The most remarkable thing about the
| cross examination of Smith by the de-
PENDANT was the fact that Holmes stood
up in the cage so long and asked the
questions as if he of all was least con.
cerned, His questions, for the mos
part. were trivial and took on import
ance only when the answer given was
unexpected.
Holmes did bring out a new point