The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-30
HOW THE DOSE WAS TAKEN
Harry Cornish Mixes Bromo-
Settler in Court.
THE RECORDER INTERPRETERS
He Objects to the Introduction o. a Pan
tomims Show rs Evldence-Adams
Identifies Handwriting on the
Poison Package.

New York, Dec. 2s.-The most inter-
esting incident to-day in the trial of
Roland B. Molineux, charged with the
murder of Katherine j. Adams, oc-
Cured during the cross-examination of
Harry Cornish by Barlow S. Weeks,
defendants counsel. Mr.. Weeks asked
the witness to step from the stand, sit
down at the end of the table occupied
by the attorneys for the state, go
through the performance Of opening
the bottle of bromo-seltzer, show how
he knocked the contents into the glass,
how he poured the water from one
glass into another, being careful to get
approximately the same amount of
water that he used in the preparation
Of the fatal dose ON the morning Of
compiled with the request and pro-
ceeded to show how much Of the mix
ture and also about how much Mrs.
Adams took of the poison. 1t was not
| until Mr.. Weeks asked the witness to
drink the water in this pantomimic re-
production of the scene that the re-
corder interfered. Mr.. Weeks assured
Cornish that the water would not hurt
him, but the court remarked:
This dumb show has gone far
enough"
Assistant District Attorney Osborne
good-naturedly told the witness to go
ahead and drink the water and the wit
ness picked up the glass with the re-
mark: well I will drink it,
At this point Recorder Golf again
interfered with the statement that he
would not permit anything of the sort
to take place in the court room. Mr..
Osborne said that while Cornish did
not like the tactics adopted by the at
torhey for the defense, he had no OBJ
lowed to do SO by the court. This,
however, the recorder would not con-
sent to.
Two of the most important witnesses
for the prosecution were on the stand
during the day. They were John d.
Adams, ex.secretary of the Knicker-
booker Athletic club, and Cornish. Mr.
Adams was the first witness called.
The most interesting point in connec-
ton with his testimony to-day was his
positive Identification of the handwrit-
ing on the poison package as that IF
consisted largely Of detailed descrip-
tons of the scenes of the morning Of
the murder at the Adams fat.
Recorder Golf refused to allow Mr.
Weeks to ask any questions as to the
present whereabouts of Mrs. Cornish,
ZIG wife OL lIlc "ItliSSS, anu Willy MI.
and Mrs. Rogers, the latter the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Adams, had separated
! Few new facts were ELECTED in the at
tempts to trace the poison package
from the Knickerbocker club to the
Adams fiat. 1t was. however, discov-
cred that Cornish deposited the bromo
settler bottle in his desk at the club
in the presence Of P. Fl. Finneran, that
he lost the key to the desk and that
it was afterward found on the floor Of
the Adams fiat, after the death Of Mrs.
Adams; that just before the murder
it was necessary for the engineer of the
club to break open the desk for the
purpose of removing various articles
and the desk was repaired in a make
| shift fashion.
Cornish also testified that he was in
error in his statements to the news
papers Immediately after the murder
l. 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.
Adjournment was taken until next
Tuesday.