The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-24

started stories about members of the
Knickerbocker Athletic club.
AS to a motive, Cornish stated that
| Mol1neaux, being in q. rival club, was
| jealous of him. He declared that the
| coroner must search the athletic clubs
of New York city for the murderer of
! Mrs. Adams. He suspected Molineaux
| of having sent Kutnow powders to
Barnet. He testified that Mrs. Moli-
neaux's statements that she had not
| been in Barnet's room alone Were
| false. He knew of a person who had
seen Mrs. Mol1neaux and Barnet drink
| ing wine. in the latter's room, when
no other person was present Witness
stated that Molineaux was his bitter
enemy, and the only man he knew Of
who could have motive for wishing to
| take his life.
| Cornish was very earnest in testify
ing, and contradicted much that he
said when he was first examined by
the coroner.
Cornish was asked several times to
give the names of men who had told
! the stories that he repeated about
Molineaux. He said that he could not
remember them all, but he had no
doubt these men would come forward
and substantiate his story as soon as
| they heard he had told it.
MOLINEAUX ACCUSED.
The first question asked Cornish was:
do you think you can show any mo-
| tive for the killing of Mrs. Adams?'
Yes replied Cornish, and he then
went on to tell the story Of the events
which led up to the quarrel with Molin
eaux. The statement was interspersed
with derogatory remarks regarding
Molineaux Much was based on things
Cornish had heard other people say.
Cornish denied that the statement pro-
duced as his by the police was correct.
ct sounded" said Cornish, like
Capt McCluskey's recollection Of my
conversation. 1 was and am most anX-
ious to find out who sent the poison. l
believe it was intended to kill me.
| beneve that the police will admit that
I aided them considerably"
"At first continued Cornish, Il
could not think that 1 had any enemy
who had it in for me enough to want
| to kill me. I have had squabbles with
many over business. The quarrel with
Mr. Weeks was such squabble, and
| the statement in the letter shown that
| L would get even with Weeks meant in
an athletic way. There was an athlet-
| ic rivalry between the Khickerbocker
! and New York Athletic clubs.
1.-The handwriting was shown to me,
| but not the signatures, but if we could
| have had before us letter from Molin-
| eaux written to me. TO Friend Cor
nish,' and compared it with the clip
ping from newspaper, any one would
have sworn that the same man wrote
both. After that it came over me like
a flood or by intuition. and I said:
That's the man who sent the stuff to
| Barnet
COMMON CLUB TALK.
About jan fifty men in the club
name was connected with the case on
all sides. l could not think of any one
On earth who had shown the same ami
mostly to me. He had lied about me
and got Mr.. Hughes to make charges
against me. Mr.. Hughes has since told
stand how he had been led into the
| matter. I have since heard that the
reason Molineaux left the board meet
I ing was because he learned he had been
nominated for governor of the New
York Athletic club. He has carried his
enmity right along. When I began to
make inquiries about him 1 heard