Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 1 November 1895 — Page 1

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-VOL. I. NO. '293.

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His Wife's Testimony More Than He Could Stand.

FOURTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

Miss Yoke Tells the Story of Her Connection With the Prisoner —Detective Geyer Takes the Stand and Tells His Story.

Several Other Witnesses Examined in the Famous Case.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1.—The fourth day of the Holmes trial opened with the prisoner looking as fresh and bright as when he was first arraigned in court. When placed in the dock he scanned a letter, and that the man is not wholly, nerveless was shown by the way the paper shook in his hand.

After court opened there was quite a wait for the district attorney. Holmes passed the interval by consulting with his counsel and ^hatting and laughing with the court oftcers.

The testimony of Sidney D. Samuels, a Fort Wort (Tex.) lawyer, showed that Holmes or Pietzel never obtained any money on the $16,000 note, but used it to extort the $5,000 from Mrs. Pietzel. Whether it is possible that Holmes could have been plotting Pietzel's death In April or May, he only probably knows, but he certainly had some motive for obtaining a regularly drawn up note. The way he retained possession of it was to tell Mr. Samuels that he had lost the original note and another one was drawn up, leavinf the first in his hands.

William F. Gary, the agent of the Fidelity Insurance company, was recalled, and testified to seeing and talking to woman in Willmette who was known as Holmes' wife, and so acknowledged to be by him.

Mr. Gary said that he had seen at the prisoner's house in Willmette, Ills., a woman representing herself as Mrs. H. II. Holmes. He identified a photograph of her. Last December he saw Holmes in Moyaniensing prison, this city, when he told him of his visit to Willmette. Holmes then said he wanted to write a letter to his wife and did so, asking the witness to mail it. The envelope was not addressed—Holmes leaving it to the witness. Subsequently witness had spoken to Miss Yoke, known as Mrs. Howard. She was not the woman lie had seen in Willmette. Holmes told the witness he had deposited §1,000 of the insurance money with a Mr. Blackmail of Chicago, his real estate agent, so that "Mrs. Holmes" could draw upon it.

J.ne defense entered a formal objection to all of the evidence of Mr. Gary concerning Miss. Yoke, but was overruled The letter was read to the jury. Two other letters were offered, written by Holmes, one from Columbus to H. M. Cass, Chicago, agent of the insurance cor-ipr.'-.y, giving him a detailed description of Pietzel for the purpose of identification.

At this point aside door in the room was opened, and Mis Yoke, or Mrs. Howard, the alleged wife, was ushered in. She was at once called to the stand and testimony in a whisper, which was interpreted by tlie crier. For tlie first time. Holmes broke down. He gazed steadily at her for a few seconds, his hand:? twitched nervously and his lips opened and closed, but she carefully avoided meeting his eyes. Then he suddenly bent forward over the little desk in his dock and tears began to trickle down his cheeks. He drew his handkerchief out, and for a moment or two sobbed. Then quickly recovering himself, he dried his eyes and bowed his head, busily engaging himself with his notes, but still occasionally giving way to a sob.

Meanwhile the woman he persists in calling his wife and upon whom he had pinned his highest hope, sat two yards away, relating a story that slowly but surely tightened the noose on his neck. For 1 hour and 40 minutes she whispered to the court crier the words that told how Pietzel had come to the Eleventh street house, where they were stopping, the night before the murder. "Was he at home next day?" Miss Yoke was asked. "Part of the day. He went out at about half past 10 in the morning and stayed about eight hours. He said he had been to Nicetown, a suburb of Philadelphia. We were known here by the name of Howard. We went to Indiauapolis, and after a day or two he went away, saying he was going to St. Louis. When he came back he went with me to my mother's home in Franklin, Ind. From tlie.'e we returned to Indianapolis, and a few days afterward he went to Philadelphia, saying the copying deal had been closed. He returned from Philadelphia about the 24th of the month and lie then went to St. Louis to meet Lawyer Harvey. After we came from Philadelphia to Indianapolis he went twice to St. Louis and on one of these occasions lie said he was going to meet a man from Fort Worth who was to buy the block in that city. "When he returned from this trip he said he had sold the block for $35,000, $10,000 in cash and the balance payable semi-annually. "After his return from Philadelphia he told me he had met Jeptha Howe on the train. He had the little girl with him and was going to identify the hr.-r?-of his client's husband. Holmes told him to call on him if he was needed for identification. He told me of the visit to potter's field in Philadelphia, and of the finding of the ideutificatinn markafter the doctor had failed to locate them. "Of the money received for the: Fort, Worth property,-he said he had sent $5,000 to his broker, Mr. Blackmail,liti Chicago. He gave me about $2,000 and a number of present^. "He next left me about Oct. 9 or! 10, and said he was going to Cincinnati. I went to my mother's home in Franklin, Ind., and joined him in Detroit. We stopped at she Hotel Normandy until the next ni/ht and then went to a rooming house-i. Park Place. On Oct. 18 we went :.o Toronto. Wo remained there uotil the 26th, I believe. While there he told me he was going off ou a pleasure. tup."

After detailing their travels in Canada. attri VR mnnt. and the arrestin Bos-

GKEEMlELii INDIANA fiiiDAY EVENING NOVEM U&il 1,' 1895,

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tare as !*-tnanehe had known in Fort

tWor tb.,#sr.• ~T. -Lyman. Holmes was known as H. M. Pratt, and this he explained by saying the business arrangements about property were complicated

and he thought it best to use that name. "Gross-examine," said the district attorney...

Mr. Rotan of the defense-announced that the prisoner insisted on conducting the cross-examination, in person. -The jj court consented, -and- Holmes addressed his questions tremulously direct to the woman=he called' his wife. She never -raised her eyes, and gave her replies in 9, .whisper. The -crier repeated -them aloud. She

:said

Holmes- came in the

house Sunday afternoon^ Sept. 2, 1894, .i looking worried and disturbed. He explained that he walked fast.:

At this point-Holmes told the court |. thathe would reserve what other questions he had until he called the witness directly for the defense.

The court took a recess until 2 o'clock. The court reconvened at 2 o'clock. The first witness was William J. Killop of Burlington, Vt ,-from whom Holmes rented the' house on Minooka avenue. He said he wanted it for his sister and her child. He gave the name of Judson.

Mrs. Pietzel was recalled and identified clothing which belonged to her husband.

The daughter, Dessa, also identified them, and pictures of Howard, Nellie and Aiice.

Coroner-'s physician, Seldesbotham, testified he had procured his clothing from Pietzel's body when, it was exhumed from the Mechanics cemetery, and Dr. Mattern testified that the body exhumed from potters' field and from the Mechanics' cemetery were identical

William^ F. Sauer, sergeant of the, police,' who was one of the policemen called intrvthe Callowhill street house, also identified,Pietzel's picture as that Of the dead man found lying on the flOOr.w

Detective Frank P. Geyer, who traced Holmes' movements throughout the country, identified letters written by the 49 children to their mother and: never j-Jf. mailed by Holmes. Later he will tell 1 8 the story of his travels. I'S •Detective Geyer was recalled. He said he had an interview with Holmes 8 in thecellroom of the city hall 011 Nov. gf 20, 1894, about the body found in the if Callowhill street house. Holmes said to him that it was not Pietzel's body, but 8 a substitute. "He told me he left the Eleventh street house on Sunday on Sept. 2 in 8 the morning and went to New York & where he went to a medical student and I procured a corpse. He put it in a trunk, 8 and had it taken by a furniture car

entli street house and that night went West. The next place he saw Pietzel was in Detroit, where he met him at the postoftiee. I asked him where Pietzel 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 that the student was supposed to be dead, as years before he and Holmes had swindled an insurance company out of §20,000. Besides the student was a prosperous man of family. He would only give his name in the event of being brought up for murder. He said he 'had told Pietzel how to prepare the substituted body to place it on the floor with the arm on the breast, pu fbo liquid in the mouth aud set fire to ii.^vbo ..i-.cid .v.-eu used for cleaiiiirj 1 "A few auys before his arraignment for conspiracy, to which he pleaded guilty, I saw him in the cell room and he said the story he had told me of the substitution of a body was not true, and the corpse found in the house was that of Pietzel. I said: 'Well, Holmes, if that's the case, then you murdered Pietzel and the children.' He said: 'No, I did not.'"

The detective then related how Holmes found Pietzel's body, as already published as a statement by Holmes. "I asked him where the children were," continued tlie detective, "and he said Minnie Williams had them in London. 'The last time I saw Howard,' he said to me, 'was in Detroit on the Wednesday preceding my departure for Toronto. Minnie Williams took dinner with me at Giese's hotel, and I gave Howard to her. Then I took the girls to Toronto. I put them on a train there and left them at the first station outside the city. Before leaving Alice I pinned $400 011 her breast. Alice was to go to Niagara Falls, and wait for Minnie Williams and Howard, when they would all go to London. If you go to New York the shipping department there will show you that two boys, a girl aud a woman went to London. I told Minnie I to cut off Nellie's hair and dress her as a boy so as to divert suspicion.' 'I asked him what he had done with I the children's trunks and he said that when he left Indianapolis to take the

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The defense objected and the jury were taken to their rooms whiJe a lengthy argument of the admissability of the testimony was made on both sides.

Judge Arnold caused a mild sensation by deciding that the killing of the children had no connection with the trial of Holmes for the murder of the father, and that no r.uch evidence could be introduced.

driver to Jersey City, where it was & shipped on the same train to Philadelphia that Holmes came over on. He (9 reached this city about 4 o'clock in the 4' afternoon, and met Pietzel at the main S office of the Western Union Telegraph

company, giving him the check for the 2? trunk. Then he went up to the Elev-

children to Chicago he left the trunks in a hotel on West Madison street, aud never took them away. "In June, in company with Mr. Perry, I saw him in prison and then ho I cold us he had given Howard to a man named Hatch in Indianapolis and that

the last he had seen pf him. The last he saw of tlie girls was in To- 1 ronto."

Detective Greyer was here temporarily withdrawn, aud Mr. Graham offered to prove the finding of the bones of Howand in Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis, and the bodies of the girls in a cellar of the house at 6 St. Vincent street, Toronto

I'Ma woo fho -firefc t.nrn in favor nf

I SPOT CASH.

Holmes since tne Beginning or nie mm, and a decided setback for the commonwealth. The prisoner, however, made no sign that lie heard the decision.

Geyer was then put under cross-ex-amination. He was asked but a few questions and corroborated his former statements.

Superintendent of Police Linden of this city testified that Holmes had made a statement to him in his office about Jan. 6 last. Holmes had requested the privilege of making the statement without the knowledge of his counsel, if possible. In this, he said that having failed to get a body in New York, he came back to .Philadelphia, and 011 Saturday

nighi, Sept. 1, he met Pietzel. The latter was despondent, spoke of his sick children and said there was nothing for him to live for, or words to that effect. 1 Mr. Graham here said that with the exception of two or three witnesses the commonwealth was ready to close, and it would perhaps be better to go on in the morning. Court then, at 5:20 p. m., adjourned.

The MJnister^Who Married Them. DENVER, Nov. 1.—Rev. E. J. Wilcox,

pastor of the Fifth Avenue M. E. church in this city, said lhst night that he married Holmes, 011 trial at Philadelphia, and Miss Georgiana D. Yoke, Jan. 17, 1894. Their license was regular in every respect. In it the man's name was given as Henry M. Howard of Fort Worth, Tex., and the woman's residence as Franklin, Ind. They were strangers to Mr. Wilcox, and came to his residence in a carriage. He married them in the presence of members of his household.

FRANCE'S NEW CABINET.

First Meeting llell ami Their Policy Outlined. PAHIS, Nov. i.—The new minit-ftv..so

far as formed, is as follows: M. Bourgeois, minister of the interior and president of the council of ministers M. Ricard, minister of ."justice and worship M. Cavaginac, minister of war M. Lockroy, minister of marine M. Berthelot, miin.-'.lev ox education M. Doumnr, minister of finance M. Gnyot d'Essaigne, minister of public works M. Mesuer, minister of commerce M. Combes, minister of the colonies.

The new cabinet held a meeting yesterday evening, lasting late into the night, at which several questions of policy were formulated which it has been determined to pursue. It was resolved that there should be a thorough investigation of the affairs of the Southern railway. A motion to do this was the technical cause of the fall of the Ribot cabinet.

An endeavor will be made to secure a modification of the Madagascar treaty without sending out anew expedition. The cabinet also decided to favor the creation of a colonial army and the introduction of an income tax into the budget for 1896. The foreign portfolio will be offered to Baron de Courcel, Dresent ambassador in London*

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TELEGRAPHIC TAPS.

Condensed \Xews ly Wirr Fno IliJl'creut 1'arts of the Globe. i| A New York Herald correspondent atf Rio, Brazil, confirms the report that Brit-1 ish troops have passed through the state j| of Para en route to Venezuela.

The liabilities Jof Bamberger. Bloom & Company, who recently tailed at Louisville, are $1,250,000. It is Dot believed tks assets will realize over 35 per cent «f this ff amount.

George O'Brien, who olaims to he the §j son of Martin O'Brien, a wealthy Chic*- $ goan, is in jail at San Francisco charged with forging ,a check onj the Anglo-CaHr f! fornia bank. |f

The will of the late Henry Worthiagton of Covington, Ky., is to be contested by his son, H. S. Worthington, and a daughter, Mrs, Lillie Stuart. The estate amounts to about §1,000,000.

The monument of Abraham Lincoln is Oakridge cemetery, Springfield, III#.. which was built in 1874 by popular silkscription and cost about $200,000, wilt have to be torn down, as it is beyond repairs.

Peter Le Clair of Thorpe. "Wis., wh# has five wives, has been sent (meed to two &s years' imprisonment for bigamy. He is 50 years old, and the complaint Is made agains him by the latest bride, who is 17 years old. .-.«

IHiss Flagler Indited.

WASHINGTON, NOV. 1.—Miss Flagler, daughter of General Flagler, whose shooting and killing of a negro boy, who 5 was stealing fruit several months ago, created a .sensation, was indicted yesterday for manslaughter.

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Fair wear her, preceded by local showers westerly winds.

E A E S

Keview ol' the Grain aud Livestock Market* lor November 1. ....

Pittsburg.

Cattle—Prime, $4 80@5 00 good, $4 4 50 good butchers', $3 80(.«4 00 bulls, stags and cows, $1 50(cd3 10 rough lnt, 4'1 50(^3 T.j fresh

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aud springers $15

@40. .Hogs Prime light and medium weights, £4 05i®4 10 common to i'air, fc.'i 05 roughs, $3 00@3 50. Sheep Export, $:3 8u(gi: 00 extra, $2 80($3 10 good, 5J0(fj!v 50 l'air, 51 -10©2 00 cominon, oUco^l 00 spring lambs, 25@4 5iC» veal calves. ^5 00(^0 ~5.

Cincinnati. s. Vi

Wheat—•'".j'ijwZ'iiTc. Coru—21 Cattle—Selected butchers, $3 !X)@4 25 fair to medium, $3 25(^3 85 common, $2 00. Hogs—Selected a,nd prime biitchers, $3 65@3 75 packing, |3 50@3 65 coramou to rough, *3 00@8 45. Sheep—$1 00@3 76. Lambs— 50®8 85.

Chicago.

Hogs—Selected butchers, $3 85(03 75' packers, 13 35($3 75. Cattle Poor to choice steers, |3 00@5 25 others, $3 4 85 cows and bulls, $1 25@3 50. Sheep —$1 25@3 50 lambs, $3 50gii 50. ...-,

New York.

Cattle—$1 2rm 25. Slieep-Jl 50(3i3 60 lambs, $3 00(^4 50.