The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-10

| case?'
mo" replied Mr. Cornish.
'Did DR.. Philips say your symptoms
| wre similar to Barnet's?"
'Dr. Philips told you Barnet was
taken with terrible vomiting?"
And you were?"
"How long was it after Mrs. Adams
death before he told you about Bar
nets death?''
q don't know"
"Your symptoms were similar to Bar
sent anonymously, as also did Barnet.
You say DR.. Philips did not say to you
that your cases were alike?"
mo"
when you learned Barnet had been
poisoned in a similar way. did you go
down and tell the police?"
mo, think I told the police in my
room.''
Did you tell Mr.. McIntyre?"
81 think not.''
Mr. Cornish could not recollect the
date on which he made a statement to
Captain McCluskey of the police bureau.
HAD NO PERSONAL QUARREL
Mr.. Cornish said that he never had
any personal quarrel with any members
of the Knickerbocker Athletic club, but
twice charges had been preferred
against him. He was accused, he said.
of saying things about two members of
the club to third member. The
-. u.
and the names of the two members in
volved in the quarrel were Roland B.
Molineux and H. c. Barnet. That was
two years ago and the witness could
not remember further details
Mr.. Cornish said he was employed by
j. Herbert Ballantyne, president of the
corporation that conducts the Knicker-
booker Athletic club. That corporation,
said the witness, is the Pequa club as
SociatiOn.
What did Hughes say to you of
1nli
borne, the assistant district attorney.
He said that I said that Molineux
had made his money by the improper
ark. He said L accused Barnet of i'm
proper practices with women
did that mean that Molineux let his
house for purposes of prostitution?
THAT and his gambling. 1 should
think, was what 1 meant. The charges
were dismissed
Mr.. Cornish was asked if he was ac-
cused of saying that a member of the
knickerbocker Athletic club was in the
habit of sending women to a disorderlY
house kept by Mrs. Stern, in Forty
seventh street. He said he had heard
it said. He knew there was such a
place and such woman. He had visit
ed the house once. He denied again
and again that there was any truth in
the charges preferred against him. He
said he understood that at a conference
held after dinner at the Union League
club, Mr.. Molineux had declared that
letic club unless he (Cornish) was dis
charged from it's employ
Mr.. Osborn's cross examination was
mercileSs, and Mr.. Cornish got mixed
up in his dates. First he said he knew
nothing of the informal charges against
him by Molineux until after December
28 and then he said he knew of Mol
ineux's statement just after the Union
League club dinner.
Mr.. Cornish fully explained that he
did not consider that Mr.. MoIineux's
statement 0OIl1d he He'd oh Ja
said that either Mr.. Ballantyne Mr..
Sears or Mr.. Adams told him of Molin-
euxs statement.
Did you have any idea who sent you
that box?" asked Mr.. Osborn suddenly.
Il have no idea. 1 was not in posi-
tion to know
reading from typewriter statement
''it came over me in an instant when I
thought of Molineux-that's just the
fellow who sent that box to me?''
1T WAS HIS IMPRESSION.
Cornish replied that that must have
been his impression when he made the
statement to Mr.. McCluskey.
He could not think of any other man
on earth with whom he. had had any
kind of q quarrel that could leave
feeling of vindictiveness Molineux
had tried to cause him to lose his posi-
ton. When witness heard about the
handwriting it struck him that the writ
ing on the wrapper was like the
writing of Molineux. He had not the
original of the wrapper, but the fac
Smile in the newspapers reminded him
of Molineux's writing. Adams was
really the first man to put the thought
into his mind. Witness did not know of
any disagreement between Molineux and
Adams. Witness had never had quar-
rel with Molineux in his life.
''Then the only points you had against
Molineux," said Mr.. Osborn, were that
he demanded your discharge from the
Knickerbocker Athletic club, and that
Mr.. Adams suggested that his hand
writing was like that published in the
newSpapers?"
THAT is true"
''Well, before you made the charger"
''I did not make any charge"
Don't you think it was a charge
when you told the chief of detectives
of New York that the only man in the
world who could have done it was Mol
ineux?"
said to McCluskey was made as a suS-
gestion to aid him in his work.
Cornish said he had heard that Mol
ineux, since he left the Knickerbocker
club, had written a letter about him.
In answer to Coroner Hart, Cornish ac-
knowledged that he had said that DR.
Philips told him Barnet was poisoned
Witness knew of no one who had a
common cause of enmity toward him
self and Barnet. He knew Barnet very
slightly. During Barnet's illness he had
heard that the patient was not being
properly cared for.
Mr.. Weeks produced a letter and Mr.
Cornish read it and said it was the letter
ten by Molineux to w. W. Schieweler
IT Qlrrestad that CorniSh ha diSofDIfn1l7