Show also guilty philadelphia pa nov henry H holmes was convicted of murder in the first degree at 8 51 tonight for killing benjamin F bietzel Pi etzel he coughed slightly when he heard the worda that was the only sign the jury retired to deliberate at this afternoon according to one of their number thy had reached their verdict before the doors of their room closed upon them for hunger ii badke they ate their aupper first then they took a ballot and without hesitation every man of the twelve answered guilty of murder in the first degree but hofei er atrocious the crime however fiendish the criminal it is hard to send a mau to the gallows in one minutes time so for ake they talked about ane case for a seemingly long period about an hour and d half then word was sent into court that they had agreed this was at 8 15 it took half an hour to get the court in readiness to receive the vcr diet |