The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23
rs STILL A MYSTERY.
THE CELEBRATED CORNISH
MURDER CASE.
0ustice Baf1ed by Roland Molineux's
Release, and Other Clews Must Now
BE Followed A Review of the
Famous Sensation.

mystery SClll o the COTulSu
case, or, more properly speaking, the
Adams poisoning case, which probably
awakened public interest than
any recent event in the annals of Grim
tnology. With the failure to bring
Molineux to trial it seems further from
solution than ever, and it is likely that
The murderer may never be found.
The remarkable series of occurrences
leading up to the murders Of Barnet
and Mrs. Adams began with the rent
Ing of a private letter box over a year
ago by a man giving the name of H. G.
Barnet. Large quantities of mail adj
dressed to H. c. Barnet were received
at this address, and the nan who rent
ed the box called for it nearly every
evening. The mail came from patent
medicine concerns. The man who rent
ed The letter box wrote to firms all
over the country asking for samples
and %inclosing money to pay for them.
Nearly all of these letters ppear to
nave been written in a disguised hand.
Many of them have been secured and
nave been passed upon by experts in
handwriting. The man who rented the
letter box in Forty-second street was
not Henry Crossman Barnet, who was
employed in a brokers' office in Broad
street, for the renter of the box called
for mail after Henry C. Barnet had
died Of poison. Barnet made his home
IN he Knickerbocker Athletic club.
One of his most intimate friends was
Roland B. Moljneux, the son of Gen.
Molineux Of Brooklyn, who is reputed
to be worth 81, 0Q0, 900, and is a man Of
the highest standing. Roland Burnham
Molineux is one of the best amateur
gymnasts that this country has ever
kncWn. AS 4 horizontal bar performer
he has few equals among professional
performers. He possesses extraordinary
strength and daring, n is extremely
graceful. 1t is said that he has mas
tered every trick on the horizontal bar
that he has ever seen. Molineux had
studied chemistry in the Boston Poly
technic, ana supplemented this with a
course in the Cooper Union night
school. He passed two years as a cow
boy on a ranch. Molineux was en-
ployed as a chemist by a New York
paint firm. His duties were not exact
Ing. and he had as much money as he
cared to spend. He was fond of pleas
ure, but was never dissipated, because
of his fondness for athletics.
The trouble between Molineux and
Harry S. Cornish began when the lat
ter was made physical director of the
Knickerbocker Athletic club. Cornish
makes his living out Of athletics. He
is a man of ability in his own line, and
has a better education than most of
the professional athletes. He has ex-
ecutive ability and an original mind.
Cornish and Molineux had some differ
ences about the conduct of the gymra-
SUM. Cornish paid no. attention to
Molineux, although the latter was on
the gymnasium committee. The tenn
permanent of the men made them enc
mics. The affair which made Molineux
leave the Knickerbocker Athletic club
was a letter written by Cornish insult
ing Barto S. Weeks then president of
lAC 4NSW 1olh AIIllSllC CluD duu MOll-
neux's personal friend. Molineux made
the issue that either he or Cornish
must leave the club. Cornish was sus-
tanned. Molineux resigned and Joined
the New York Athletic Club. Molin-
eux's wife then Miss Blanche Cheese
brough seems to have been the cause
of I'M GOODNESS between Molineux
and Barnet though if they wei quar-
relied over her no facts have come
forth to prove it. On October ~ last
Henry C. Barnet received anonymous
ly' through the mail a package sup
posed to contain a headache prepara-
ton. He supposed it a sample sent
by the makers and took some of it
without suspicion. 1t contained poison
cyanide of mercury as was demon
strated by exhuming his body.
Barnet died on November IL. The
attending physician gave diphtheria as
the immediate cause of death. There
was no talk about it at the time. A
few days before his death Barnet re-
ceived a note and some flowers from
Miss Cheesebrough. He told his nurse