The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-02-28

Henry l.. Tolmau, OF Chicago, Ia SCI
writing expert, was the next wltn' IS
hilnts a MIR. Moliueux's handwriting to.
fethcr with lettcTs and do1umt mts
sgned VI. 2. Barnet and Harry Corn ish,
nis0 the inscription ON the wraI per.
Witness said:
'.The same, person who wrote tn &C.
edited writing Of ROLAND d, Mol neuA
wrote tho letters signed II. q. Barnet and
liaesy Corniis,e, also the insoriptie N on
70 yeu realize the gravity of this
''PorfccGyr
Wltocss satI TRAIT all the writin had
lasa wut-ou iy person who as pc
cul n anu Eerruua.
lib writer began with spu II and
NNs unable 90 carry 10 out Ther were
rs 'sTal characteristics Of person OF uer-
soa snoss throughout lie began with a
lsr,, heavy stroke and continue down
until the last letters were quite 81 rail-.
In response 90 further ques ttoning
SUnh ssitatingly my opinion Is that the
inscfiptit N ON The poison wraI PER was
written Ly the same person wh wrote
thu tocurr enfs signed Roland NJ olineux-
There Is a marked similarity of c ODstTuc-
tion and n specific resemblance in the
way of endin,y the letters.
Nv n iu.or2t Could those eifet II be OBJ
tanned by person who might haVe haa
7.
Witness No sir 1t might Al one or
two letters, but it would be il npossible
Tor anyone TO carry it all the wa 7 through
the documents have handled,
Albert :. Osborne, teacht in the
Rpchesfar y y business ins 1tutp and
- hnndvriting expert, testifi ID that he
lad compared tneF Cornish a nd Barnet
letters the writing ON the wra 1pers and
honnelx's acctediUu writing r.d found
written HY the same
hand.
81 have not
Prof Persifor Fraser ,an expert i In hand
writing also testified chat the hand that
wrote FMS letter signed Roland Molineux
IS the hand that wrota the documents
signed Harry Cornish anu II. { Barnet.
Dr William r. Hagun. "a ha ndwriting
expert, also testified that ne naa examined
the three sets of documents IN the case
and tbe letter signed Roland MolineuX
and was convinced that the same hand
prof Daniel b. Ames of Eli Eabeth, y.
j.. an pert in handwriting, gave testi-
mOny in iine Win lhSV GIVEN y. "Vhoi "a
perts.
Molineux listened 10 the ARA synment OF
the handwriting experts wltho at betray
ing any nervou sness. Now a MI then he
smiled as he Whispered snIneth ing to his
cnunsel or his counsel said son lething to
hin, ais father General Mulit nux, how
eyer. seemed almost ON the yer 20 OF col
hams, during the better part of the hear
10y Ais lips worEed conVui siVeiy and
his Ens2Nler gencfaily showed q lat ne was
hara hgsat He bore up well, however,
and declined to leave the court when in .
vtea to do SO by Mr.. Weeks
At 4.35 O'Clock Col Gardiner announced
that the evidence in the hands OF the
people mad been given aud be began to
sum up the case. He expla neu the
reasons FOR the delay in bringin < the case
60 an investigation saying that IL was
necessary TO determine whe Their Mrs.
Adams had IN reality cied of poison.
Prof Wibthaus did discover poison in the
contents 81 the bottle and as soon as IL
was possible for the district attorneys
Office to go ahead with the inquest, it diu
SO
"In consequence OF the Publicity which
the case WAS given. continued Col.
Gardiner, certain persons became sus
pioious and we're put ON their guart We
Tealized that we must have evidence of
the handwriting of the person we sus-
peeted. We suspected also THAI the person
who committed the crime had knowledge
of chemistry.
'Ihe first witness placed on, the stand
(C:ornish) was made TO suspect that we
Thought ne was this guilty party, ana the
evidence he gave was the evidence OF
man full of conservation. Lut we dis
armed suspicion from the really guilty
u rson. The very next man to 90 upon
the stan d (Molineux1 was The person that
the publ NC had settled upon.
s;Wheu this witness was called and my
abIe ASST slant treated him in such an
apolopetic manner 1t was done to disarm
him of susp icion. There was general
feeling Of an ger against the district at
tornpy's oifsoe on this account But we
had eAittv to perform. We were placed in
tha position t. make II appear that Cor
nish sTas reall = the guilty person. Then
the guilty per son seeing that he was not
suspected was perfectly willing to give us
all the hnndwrit ting we wanted and we
got IL. The evidence given by these eX-
merits in handwriting seems to me to be
conclusive There was another element / n
this case Of wunderl al Importance. That
is che circumstRnGlal evidence which was
brguvht out There was the purchase of
the BOTTLE holder. Where was that bought
In Newark on the y Is day of Decem Der.
Roland b. Molneux was In Newark on
THAT day. Where wa it mailed! On the
Broadway sids of the post Office Molineux
was in that vicinity at the time 1t was
mailed
col Gardiner then tola the circum-
stances under when MollneuA met ms
wife and said;
Now shat woman character (lnean
ing Mrs Moliueuxl has been betrayed in
this court room by her own husband. For
thousand years down to the present one,
murders of this kind 1t has been demon |
strnted, have been co nmitted on account |
of two reasons-jealoUsy or hate-and in |
the large majority of instances either by |
a woman "a degenerate.
GCl Gardiner then alluded TO the |
character Of Mrs. Molineux and desig |
mated her as u 'Wonau-
Lady" If you please shouted Roland |
- Mohneux.
lin society now, it is considered at all |
times proper to use the expression |
woman in preference to lady " replied |
the district attorney.
Col Gardiner called attention 10 the |
Yachting trip in which Mrs. Moliueux |
figured.
And there was another woman there |
ard her husband was not with her That |
fixes their character pretty clearly, - he !
said. lie said the deaths Of MIR. Barnet
and Mrs. Adams could not be separated. |