The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-02-21
L0NG DRAWN OuT.

A Number of Witnesses In the Adams
Poisoning Case Examined, and tho
Mystery Seems to be as Deep as
Ever.
NEW YORK. Feb. eo-The inquest
into the death OF Mrs. Kate ]. Adams,
who died on December IS, from the cf-
fects OF poison which she received
from the hands of w. H. Cornish. was
resumed to-day. 5a
District Attorney Gardiner said to-
day that he did not believe the inquest
would be concluded this week. He cx-
pressed the belief that as result of
the inquest an Indictment will be found
by the grand jury. Public interest has
not lessened in the inquest. The corri-
dors OF the coroner's ONCE were crowd
ed with persons anxious to obtain ad-
mission to the court room and all the
available seats In the court were filed
by 10 o'clock. For the first time since
the Inquiry opened there were several
women among the spectators.
Harry A. King. a stockbrokcr, was
the first witness to-day. He was the
first person to whom Cornish showed
the poison bottle and holder.
Mr.. King said he was member OF
| the knickerbocker Athletic Club. On
Saturday, December "a. at the club,
Cornish showed witness the bottle OF
bromo seltzer and holder, and said
something about 1t being q Christmas
present. Witness said: "I have a sllghi
| headache. and think I'll take some"
Cornish pushed the bottle and holder
toward him. and he took 1t over to the
water cooler. There was no glass there,
and no water in the cooler, so he re-
turned the bottle and holder to Cor
nish's desk, saying: II don't think I'll
bother with it.
Mr.. King said he talked about the
case with Cornish in Mr.. Yocum's room
at the club. on the night OF Mrs. Adams'
death. Cornish was very sick.
DR.. Henry Douglass, who attended
H. c. Barnet In his last illness, was the
next witness. DR.. Douglass told him
how he diagnosed Barnet's case. as
one of dlphtheria. Barnet improved
| under treatment. but later the witness
discovered evidences OF mcrcurial poi
son. II asked Barnet about this. and
he told me that he took some Kutnow
powder. which gave him sore throat.
and put his stomach out OF order. He
said he had received it through the
mail. ! found the box Of Kutnow
powder, and took il 10 chemist, who
told me that 1t must be cyanide OF mer-
curry. went back to Barnet's room,
and told him that the powder contain
ed cyanide of mercury. He told me
TO keep the box, and that he would at
tend to It when he got well.
During Barnet's illness he persist
emily refused TO carry out my instruc-
tions. over-exerting himself physic-
ally. Thirty-siX hours before he died
he showed marked evidences OF heart
failure"
Witness told DR.. Phillips as soon as
the analysis had been made, and Phil
lips said: That explains the vomit-
ing"
Mr.. Skunk, juryman. asked whether
witness had diagnosed the case as one
OF mercurial poisoning. and he replied
that he had never thought mercury
had played the slightest part in the
death Of Mr.. Barnet.
Barnet died from heart failure" the
Witness said.
Douglaassexcuse his failure. tor
report the case as diphthcria to tho
board of health by saying that the pa
tient was Isolated. and there was no.
absolute danger OF contaSion. He had
not refrained at the suggestion OF any
one connected with the Knickerbocker
Athletic Club. No one had intimated
TO him the desirabilIty of not reporting
the case.
Edward P. Hughes. stenographer.
read from his notes the statement Cor
| nish made at the Knickerbocker Ath-
letic Club on the afternoon of the day
of Mrs. Adams death. It was sub
stantialiy the same as Cornish testified
to on his examination.
After this statement witness read an
other. made by Cornish at police head
quarters. TO Captain McCluskey. at
which time Cornish accused Molineux
OF sending the poison. When the wit
ness had concluded the reading from
his note book. Coroner Hart said:
How sick did Cornish appear to you
when you took his statement in his
room % '-ass==-
He did not appear to be very sick"
Mrs. Florence B. Rodgers, daughter
OF Mrs. Adams. was called TO the stand.
She was accompanied by her sister,
Mrs. Hovey. Assistant District Attor-
ney Osborne invited her TO tell all the
| circumstances OF her mothers death.
, and she told almost the same story that
Cornish and Hovey had told Of the
occurrences OF the morning OF Dccem-
Der IS. She said Cornish was sick in
the bath room. and DR.. Hitchcock had
given her I tablet for him.
Mrs. Rogers told of the receipt OF the
holder and poison bottle by Cornish, as
told by Cornish himself. She saw the
handwriting on the wrapper, and saic
1t looked TO her like Il lady's handwrit-
ing, disguised.
When Mrs. Rogers had reached this
point in her statement, Mr.. Osborne
said he would leave the cross-examina-
ton until Tomorrow
An adjournment was then taken I'm.
til Tomorrow.