The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-25
EXPERTS
AT WORK.
Studying Signature Of Mr..
and Mrs. G. Barnett .
on Washington Hotel
Register.
PARASOL In HANDS OF POLICE
Yarns of Yellow Journals
About the --latest Phase
of Adams Barnett
Cornish Case.

Eperts are busily engaged today study
ing the signature, "Mr. and Mrs. Z.
Barnett, New York. discovered on the
register of the Hotel Washington, which
with the parasol left behind District At
torney Gardiner thinks win solve the
Adams-Barnet+Cornis poisoning mys-
terry This phase of the famous case was
given three days ago exclusively by ''The
News
1t was publicly hinted by the New York
officials that the Mrs. Barnet who stopped
at the hotel was no other than Miss
Blanche Chesebrough and now the wife of
Roland B. Molineux, now under indict-
ment for the murder of Mrs Adams. To
that attack Mrs. Molneux has made a
reply, which will be seen in another col
umn of this paper.
The parasol is in the hands of the
police Messrs Hamblen & Son, proprie-
tors, were at first, as the News" said,
unwilling to hand over the parasol, believ-
ing that they were not justified in dis
posing of property left in their care by
guests and their caution was approved
by their counsel. At last, however, they
surrendered it and it is now in the GUS
tody of the police.
Most amusing have been the descriptions
of this now famous parasol by yellow
journals, who pretend to have seen it.
Some vividly described it as one which
any fashionable lady would carry; another
said it was green plaid: fourth, blue
satin, and SO on. As a mater of fact, no
one excepting Chief Murphy and Messrs.
Hamblin have seen it, and they re not
giving and descriptions or exhibitions of
it.
Messrs. Hamblen very willingingly
hand over their hotel registry for in
Expert William ]. Kinsley, employed by
Col. Gardiner, is positive, so he is quoted
as saying, that the man who wrote the
signature on the Hotel Washington's s
register in June of last year and
previous periods was from a handwriting
experts point of view, of Henry Crossman
Barnet. j.
AS further proof that it was the dead
member of the Knickerbocker Athletic
Club who stopped with young lady at
the Hotel Washington, the New York de-
tective, who has been hunting up this end
of the case, says that H. C. Barnet owned
white bull terrier, and he who was a
guest at the hotel had one also.
The New York papers in their frantic
endeavors to tell something about the
case have invented all sorts of wild yarns,
and one of them is that Mr.. ]. P. Ham
blen, Jr., personally knew H. C. Barnet
and when he was at the hotel was with
him frequently as well as at Asbury
the principal hotel in that place, the
Devonshire. AS a matter of fact Mr..
Handle did nothing of the kind
and having many Barnets as patrons Of
the hotel he was unable to determine
which was which, at last SO far as the
presence of well dressed people at the Ho-
tel Washington is a matter of everyday
occurrence at that place, 1t being one of
the leading hotels in the State and pa
tronized by the best people of New Jer-
sey.
Nevertheless the yellow journals have
settled it that H. c. Barnet was the guest
at the hotel and they identify his COM
panion as 1.-The wife of a very prominent
New York merchant, who was infatuated
with Barnet ana at one time was engaged
to be married to him. One paper, which
stops at nothing. pretends to have let
ter from her to Barnet, and compares it
with the signature in the Hotel Washing
ton. Needless to say that it is a clumsy
fake. deceving nobody.
1.-THE lady who accompanied Mr.. G.
Barnett last June said patron of the
Hotel Washington Il remember because
l was living at the hotel then, always
wore veil and her features were not
easily discernible. She was we'll bred and
there was an air of distinction about her.
opposite to the table at which she and
Mr.. Barnet had been sitting. They rose
as my wife and | entered and it was then
I observed her slightly"