The age-herald., 1899-02-11

porters previous to the commencement of the examination Cornish when asked if he knew Mrs. Mollneaux and if she could have any connection with the case, said that he wished the assistant district attorney would ask him that question the stand.
 "A man is supposed to perjure himself for a woman,' said Cornish, but I am here to tell the truth if they ask me such a question:
 Seemed Significant
 This seemed a significant statement at the time and Assistant District Attorney Osborne put those very questions to him to which Cornish made the following answer:
 "I never saw Mrs. Molineaux to know her and never saw her when she was Blanche Cheseborough." He made the statement that he had suspected Molineaux of hav- ing prepared the poison because a chemist, a friend of his had suggested on account of q sediment having been left in the glass frorsg which Mrs. Adams drank that the Bromo-Seltzer preparation had been put up by half-chemist, a man who had some knowledge of chemistry, but not a com plete, knowledge and that as Molineahx knew something of chemistry his name naturally suggested itself. This was the reason Cornish said, and the fact that he had quarrel with Molineaux was another reason.
 Cornish gave way on the stand tempor- arily to Molineaux. MT. Osborne asked the witness abruptly if he was innocent of the poisoning of Mrs. Adams.
 Innocent of the Crime
 Moiineaux replied: q am absolutely in nocent."
 Molineaux told of his connection with the Knickerbocker and New York Athletic clubs, and said that he had left the for mer club largely because of his quarrel with Cornish. He was asked if he had known Henry c. Barnet and replied that he was a warm personal friend of that man, friendship that had lasted several years. He could suggest motive why any one should send poison to Barnet
 Molineaux then described the rooms at the Knickerbocker Athletic club on the sec ond floor occupied by himself, Barnet, Cor nish and Adams, after which the yachting trip on A. J. Morgan's yacht Victor, which has recently been introduced into the case, came up for consdera ton. Molineaux said that he had been on several cruises on this yacht, but that Barnet had never been with him. He met Miss ChesDrough on one of these trips, being introduced to her by her married sister.
 At this interesting point the hearing was adjourned until Tuesday morning next.
 The first question that Assistant District Attorney Osborne asked Cornish was some what abrupt:
 An Abrupt Question
 twill you tell me-" he said, "all your req sons for supposing Molineaux committed this crime?"
 Cornish answered as he did yesterday, that the idea came to him when he exam ined the handwriting on the package con- taining the promo seltzer bottle and the poison.
 "You don't believe now that Molineaux wrote that address? querried MT. Osborne.
 NO, l don't" replied Cornish, shortly Cornish also denied that he thought Felix Gallagher wrote the address.
 Cornish said that he had learned from the police that whoever prepared the promo seltzer bottle must have been a chemist. Besides Molineaux there were in the Knick- erbocker club two chemists, Jokum and Futile.
 ''Jokum," said Cornish, told me that it was evident that the poison. compounder was only half chemist"
 The question: How did Jokum see the poison?" brought out the fact that Jocum was quite intimate with the Adams family, and had examined the poison before the po- lice took it away.
 Mir. Osborne asked Cornish if he had any opinion as to who wrote the address on the poison package. Cornish said he had not.
 Did you not tell Col. Gardiner that you thought Felix Gallagher wrote that ad- dress?" asked MT. Osborne.
 q told him the experts said the letters were written by the man who addressed the poison packages, and felt sure Galla- pher had written the letters" And you think he wrote the address on the package?"
 Handwriting on the Package '.No. I think there is a resemblance in the writing I cannot say who wrote the address. The experts said the handwriting was the same" Cornish produced what purported to be fac simile of the address on the poison