The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-30
ALL IN DUMB SHOW
Cornish Opens Poison Package
and Measures Out Doses
Before the Jury
TRIAL ADJOURNED
OVER NEW YEARS
Adams Tells About MoIineux'S
Connection With the ANA
teur Circus

New York, Dec. 29.-Late this after
noon Recorder Golf adjourned court in
the trial of Roland B. Molineux until
next Tuesday on account of the New
| Years holidays. The most interesting
event in connection with today's pro-
ceedings occurred Immediately before
! the adjournment. Harry Cornish wSs
on the witness stand and Mr.. Weeks
was conducting the cross examination.
Suddenly Mr., Weeks asked the wit
ness to step from the stand, sit down at
the end of the table occupied by the at
torneys for the state. go through the
performance of opening the bottle of
bromo-seltzer, show how he knocked
the contents into the glass; and how he
poured the water from one glass to an
other being careful to get approximate
ly the same amount of water that he
used in the preparation of the fatal dose
on the morning of the murder of Mrs
Adams.
| Cornish complied with the request and
proceeded to demonstrate about how
much he drank of the mixture, also
| about how much Mrs. Adams took of
the poison. 1t was not until Mr.. Weeks
asked the witness to drink the water
that the recorder interfered remarking:
This dumb show has gone far
enough"
TWO IMPORTANT WITNESSES.
Two of the most important witnesses
for the prosecution were on the stand
during the day. They were John d.
Adams and Cornish. Interesting points
in connection with Mr.. Adams testi-
mony were his request that the minutes
of the house committee of the Knicker-
booker A. c., which he explained he had
procured with considerable difficulty
and which were incomplete in charac-
ter, be placed in the custody of the
court where they would be accessible
to the jury; the statement that Molin-
euX prepared the program for the anna
teur circus in the spring of 1897, the ad-
mission for Identification of letter
which the witness said had been stoler
from him, letter which he claimed re-
lated to fraternity matters only the
assertion that he did not know whether
or not he was responsible for the first
mention of the name of Roland B. Mol
ineux in connection with the poison
package address, and his positive iden-
LITIGATION of the handwriting on the
poison package as that of Molineux.
TESTIMONY OF CORNISH.
The testimony of Cornish consisted
largely of detailed descriptions of the
scenes on the morning of the murder
at the Adams fiat. Recorder Golf re
fused to allow Mr. Weeks to ask any
questions as to the present whereabouts
of Mrs. Cornish, the wife Of the witness
and whether Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, the
latter the daughter of Mrs. Adams, had
separated Few new facts were elected
in the attempts to trace the poison
package from the Knickerbocker Ath-
letic club to the Adams fiat.
1t was however, discovered that Cor
nish deposited the bromo-seltzeT bottle
in his desk at the club in the presence
Of p. S. Finneran, that he lost his key
to his desk and that it was afterwards
found on the floo- of the Adams fiat
after the death of Mrs. Adams, thar
just before the murder it was necessary
for the engineer at the club to break
open the desk for the purpose Of remov-
ing various articles and that the desk
was repaired in a make-shift fashion.
Cornish also testified that he was mis-
taken in his statement to the news
4 papers Immediately after the murder as
to the time when he brought the poison
package from the club to his room at
the Adams apartments, and that he had
refreshed his memory by talking with
Mrs. Rogers concerning the matter.