People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Holmes Pleads Not Guilty. [ARTICLE]

Holmes Pleads Not Guilty.

Philadelphia, Sept. 23.—Herman M. Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, was arraigned before Judge Fineletter in the court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday on the indictment charging him with the murder of Benjamin F. Pitzel on Sept. 2, 1894. Upon the advice of his counsel the prisoner pleaded not guilty. The trial was set for Monday, Oct. 28.