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A RULINGJOR HOLMES.
Judge Arnold Favors the Pris­
oner In a Decision.
RAT OP HOPE FOE THE AOOUSED.
The Court Befoses to Admit Testimony
Concerniut' the Murder of Pitezel’s Chil­
dren—Holmes’ Alleged W ife Causes a
Sensation—He Xs Deeply Moved.
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P hiladelphia , N ov. 1.~-For about 30
ninutes yesterday the nerve a t which all
laen have marveled forsook Holmes, and
towed and broken he sank his head into
bis hands and sobbed like a child. Mean­
while the woman he persists in calling
his wife and upon whom he had pinned
his highest hope sat two yards away re­
lating a story th a t seemingly tightened
the noose about his neck.
For 1 hour and 40 minutes she whisper­
ed to the court crier the words that told
how Pitezel had come to the Eleventh
street house, where they were stopping,
the night before the murder, and how
Holmes had been away for five hours of
the next day, coming back flushed and
e x c ite d a n d c a rr y in g h e r h u r r ie d ly off to
Indianapolis. It was the day after this
th at the corpse was found in the Callowhill street house. A t the close of her ex­
amination in chief Holmes asked to con­
duct the cross examination himself, and
standing in a corner of the dock nervously
wringing his hands h e put a few ques­
tions. Then he said he would re s e rv e the
right to call her as a witness for the de­
fense. Throughout her testimony Miss
Georgiana Yoke, for so she calls herself,
n e v e r o n c e b e s to w e d a p a s s in g g la n c e
u p o n the man she o n ce had loved. D u r ­
ing the greater part of it she kept her blue
eyes riveted on the floor, and when it be­
came necessary to raise them she was
careful to shift them so that the pale,
shrunken felon in the dock should not
come in their path.
The case progressed so swiftly th a t but
few witnesses remain to be heard before
the closing of the commonwealth’s case.
Then the defense will open, and in spite
of Holmes’ statement th at he would him ­
self testify and also call Miss Yoke his
counsel privately state th a t the defense
would offer no evidence, bat submit the
case on argum ent alone. And they ex­
pressed supreme confidence in his acquit­
tal. Their first victory was gained, and
it disappointed those morbid listeners who
had counted on viewing the bones of the
dead boy Howard.
During the day several witnesses were
sworn and mainly gave testimony corrob­
orative of the evidence already submitted
by the prosecution.
Holmes’ A lleged W ife TestiAes.
The most im portant witness—at least
the one fam ishing the sensation of the
day—was the alleged wife of the accused
man. She gave her testimony in a whis­
per, which was interpreted by the court
Georgiana Yoke, for so she gave her
name, is a tall, slender woman of about 25
years, with flaxen hair and blue eyes.
She was stylishly attired in black.
For the first time Holmes broke down.
He gazed steadily at her for a few seconds,
while his hands twitched nervously and
his lips opened and closed, but she care­
fully avoided meeting his eyes. Then he
suddenly bent forward over the little desk
in his dock, and the tears began to trickle
down his cheeks. He drew his handker­
chief out and for a moment or two sobbed.
Then, quickly recovering himself, he dried
his eyes and bowed his head, busily engag­
ing himself w ith his notes, but still occa­
sionally giving way to a sob.
The witness testified th a t she knew the
prisoner as fl. H. Holmes and H. M.
Howard in St. Louis in June, 1894, and
came to Philadelphia with him in August,
1894.
Mr. Graham put a series of questions to
fix Holmes’ whereabout on the day the
murder is supposed to have been commit­
ted—Sunday, Sept 2, 1894.
“ I w a s in m y ro o m o n t h e e v e n in g o f
Saturday, Sept. 1.
the time in bed.
I had been ill, part of
The prisoner was at
home. Some one called d u r in g the e v e n ­
ing to see him, and he went down stairs.
When he came up, he said it was a mes­
senger from the Pennsylvania railroad,
and he was to see officials of the company
at the messenger’s house next morning to
close out contracts for copying. A fter­
ward he said the caller was B, F, P ite ­
zel. This was the day before we left P hil­
adelphia.”
“ Was he at home the next day?”
“ P a rt of the day. He went out a t about
half past 10 in the morning and came
back between 3 and 4 in the afternoon.
He said he had been at Nicetown, a sub­
urb of Philadelphia. He had before men­
tioned going away, and said we would go
home to Indianapolis. We were known
here by the name of Howard. ’’
The witness testified regarding her sub­
sequent wanderings w ith Holmes and his
final arrest in Boston.
Another sensation was furnished when
Holmes rose to cross question the woman
■whom he c a lls h is w ife. She testified to
nothing new, however, and the court took
recess.
F m 0 A l f . M O T I^ M B E IK X, i 6 » d
and met Pitezel a t the main office of the
Western Union Telegraph company, giv­
ing him the check for the trunk. Then
he went up to the Eleventh street house,
and th a t night went west. The next place
he saw Pitezel was in Detroit, where he
met him a t the postoffice. I asked him
where Pitezel and the children were, and
he said in South America. He refused to
give me the name of the student from
.whom he got the corpse, saying th at the
student was supposed to be dead, as years
before he and Holmes swindled an insur­
ance company out of f 20,000. Besides,
the student was a prosperous man of fam­
ily. He would only give his name in the
event of being brought up for murder.
He said he had told Pitezel how to pre­
pare the substituted body—to place it on
the floor, with the arm on the breast, put
the liquid in the mouth and set fire to it.
The liquid had been used for cleaning
clothes. He also told him how to force
the liquid into the stomach by working
the arms. He said Pitezel had told him
th at after he left the Callowhill street
house he was walking through the city
hall and threw away the hat he had been
wearing and put on a silk one,
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Geyer Sees Holmes In Prison.
Tbe Bam Katabdin Tested.
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official trial, and, although the result will
not be positively known for 48 hours or
more, it is believed the final official record
will show that she has done better than
the 17 knots required by the government.
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Judge Arnold caused a mild sensation
by deciding th a t the killing of the chil­
dren had no connection w ith the trial of
Holmes for the murder of the father, and
th at no such evidence could be introduced.
This was the first turn in favor of
Holmes since the beginning of the trial
and a decided setback for the common­
wealth. The prisoner, however, made no
sign when he heard the decision.
Geyer was then put under cross exami­
nation.
He was asked but a few questions and
corroborated his former statements.
Superintendent of Police Linden of
this city testified th a t Holmes made a
statem ent to him in his office about Jan.
6 last. Holmes had requested the privi­
lege of m aking the statem ent without the
knowledge of his counsel if possible. In
this he said that, having failed to get a
body in New York, he catne back to Phil­
Jo h n Iioem ing,
adelphia, and on Saturday night, Sept, i,
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P it t s b u r g , N ov. 1..—A n explosion of
molten metal a t the Carnegie blast fur­
nace a t Braddock fatally burned Joseph
Sohwapps and Mike Goski and slightly
injured a number of other workmen. The
cause of the explosiort is not known.
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(4 to 7 doses) ,
Callowhill street house.
To any one sending name and address io
He identified
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William F. Sauer, sergeant of police,,
was one of the policemen called into the
Pitezel’s picture as the dead m an found
lying on the floor.
Detective Thomas G. Crawford, who
was sent to Boston to bring Holmes here,
said he also brought his papers and effects
in two tin boxes.
Detective Frank P. Geyer, who traced
Holmes’ movements throughout the coun­
try, identified a number of papers taken
from these boxes. They were the letters
w ritten by the children to their mother
and never mailed by Holmes.
Detective Geyer said he had an inter­
v ie w with Holmes in the cellroom of the
city hall on Nov. 20. 1894, about the body
found in the Callowhill street house.
Holmes said to him th a t it was not Pitezel’s body, but a substitute. “ He told me
he left the Eleventh street house on Sun­
day, Sept. 2, in the morning and went to
New York, where he w ent to a medical
student and procured a corpse. He put it
in a trunk and had it taken by a furniture
car driver to Jersey City, where it was
silipped on the same tra in to Philadolpliia
that Holmes came over on. He WAOhod
this city about 4 o’clock in the afternoon
A S cb oon er W r e c t e d .
CLOTHES POLES
he m et Pitezeh The latter was despond­ Of US if our goods are not marked as
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story of his visit to the house on Sunday of Hats in the city for Ladies’ and Chil­
and discovering the body—the same he dren. And WG extend a special invita­
told to Detective Geyer.
Mr. Graham here said th at w ith the tion
exception of two or three witnesses the
commonwealth was ready to close, and it
would perhaps be better to go on in the
morning.
The court then adjourned until 10 a. m.
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Threatened Trouble In Arabia.
L ondon, Nov. l . —-A dispatch to The
Standard from Constantinople says that
disturbances are threatened in Arabia,
and the ministers are hurrying re-enforce­
m ents to the Red sea. The Arabs, the
correspondent avers, dislike the Turkish
rule as much as the Armenians do.
K illing o f Pitezel Children Immaterial.-
When the court reconvened, Mrs. P ite­
zel was recalled and identified a necktie,
a piece of shirt and a portion of a pair of
trousers which had belonged to her husThe daughter Dessa also identified them,
and pictures of Howard, Nellie and Alice.
Coroner’s Physician Sidebotham testi­
fied th a t he had procured these articles
of clothing from the body of Benjamin P.
Pitezel when it was exhumed from the
Mechanic’s cemetery by direction of the
Postage Stamp Forger Arrested.
C in c in n a t i , Nov. 1.—Captain Porter of
Chicago and William Burns of Columbus,
both of the secret service and under orders
from Chief Hazen, have arrested Charles
O, Jones, leader of the forgers of postage
stamps. The gang was caught in Chicago,
where W. T. Thompson is still held. Chief
Hazen caught Mrs. Tinsey McMillin in
Toronto. Jones jumped $5,000 bail in
Chicago. Chief Hazen located Jones here
visiting his parents and sent P orter and
Burns after him.
“ A few days before his arraignm ent for
conspiracy, to which he pleaded guilty, I
saw him in the cellroom, and he said the
story he had told me about the substitu­
tion of a body was not true, and that the
corpse found in the house was th a t of
Pitezel. I said, ‘Well, Holmes, if th a t’s
the case, then you murdered Pitezel and
the children.’ He said: ‘No, I didn’t.
When I left the Eleventh street house at
11 o’clock on Sunday morning, Sept. 2, I
took the Tenth street car and went to the
Callowhill street house. I opened the
door w ith a key I had, and not finding
Pitezel there I went up stairs. On the
third floor I found him. He was lying on
the floor, his arms across his breast and a
cloth over his face. Near by there was a
bottle of chloroform, with a thin hose in
it so placed th a t the drops of chloroform
would fall on the cloth. I put my head
to his heart and found th at he was dead.
Then I went down stairs and found a note
telling me to look inside a bottle in the
closet. I did so and found a note in it,
in •which Pitezel said I should take his
body and do just what I had wanted him
to do with the substitute corpse. I went
up stairs again and dragged his body down
to the second floor, where it was found,
placing the broken bottle and the pipe in
position and burning the face just as I
had told him to do.’ ”
Geyer further testified regarding the
statements of Holmes as to the where­
about of the Pitezel children.
District A ttorney Graham offered to
prove the finding of the bones of Howard
Pitezel in the house in Irvington, a suburb
of Indianapolis, and the bodies of the girls
in the cellar of the house a t 6 St. Vincent
street, Toronto.
The defense objected, and the jury were
taken to their room, while a lengthy argu­
m ent on the admissibility of the testimo­
ny was made on both sides.
District Attorney Graham contended
th at the murder of the children was so in­
tim ately connected w ith the killing of
their father th a t it was part of the same
transaction, and that it was Holmes’ pur­
pose to exterminate the entire family, in­
cluding Mrs. Pitezel, Dessa and the baby.
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recently by boys and hunters, who fre­
quent that locality. He is described as
being dressed in garments made of skin,
with the fur outsi'' \ and wearing a coonskin cap, to whh.-: he has attached im­
mense amounts . ‘ horsehair strands,
which hang down like a bush, covering
his back. The man makes his living by
hunting and trapping game.
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