The times., 1899-12-09

NEW YORK, Dec S.-The first weel, Of
the fight for the life Of Roland b. Molfn-
cux. that is being waged by Assistant Dis
1rict Attorney Osborne, who is convinced
that &0lireuX sent the poison that kill
ed Mrs. Kate J. Adams. closed TODAY with
5he actual trial hardly begun. Reams Of
testimony had been taken, but no sem
blance Of order had been followed: in fact
II had 10 connection with anything il par
tlcular II the entire testimony of the week
We're put together in book and given TO
the cleyerest man that ever lived to read,
unless he had some previous knowledge
OF the case, he might read it from end to
end and never suspect that he was read
ing the evidence in a murder trial. Aside
from the opening address Of Mr.. Osborne
there has been no evidence that a murder
was committed. The lack Of order In the
conduct Of the trial Is unprecedented That
il is possible to give an intelligent dc
scription OF what goes on is due entirely
TO the fact that for year the case has
been in the public mind and the main fea-
lures Of il have been threshed over and
over in the newspapers.
Today session ia the court brought
out from the defence one sensational as
sertiOn and one sensational admission The
admission was that Molineux had written
the following letter:
Dear Sin: Enclosed fnd . cents. iar which
please send remedy and ohiigc
ROLAND NtOLINET Y
Jersey Street, Newark. y. j.
This letter was written on egg blue
paper with three crescent monograms at
the TOD The prosecution has asserted
that the letter signed H. Cornish and the
letter signed H. c. Barnet. written on this
Taper, were written by Molineux. and that
he was the only man who ever used or
ever had paper of this kind. The admis-
sion came today when Mr.. Osborne pre-
sented 10 William l. Kinsley. the hand,
writing expert, who was on the stand. the
original letter quoted above Mr Kins-
ley was asked to say whether it was in
The handwriting of M0lineux While he
WIS looking at il Mr. Weeks and Mir.
Battle and MolineUx, their client. talked
together Before Kinsley replied dr.
Weeks arose and said:
There Is no necessity to question the
witness about that letter. We admit that
il was written by the defendant
The remedy asked for is a salye manu-
factured by a man named Burns in Column
bus Avenue The Importance Of the ad-
mission lies only in the question OF the
paper On which ii was written and that
fact indicates that the lawyers believe they
can prove that other persons than their
client used egg blue paper with these cres-
cents intsrWined
The assertion that created a sensation
was a virtual declaration on the part OF
Barlow s. Weeks. MoIiReux's counsel. that
when the time came he would produce
handwriting samples that were unquestion-
ably those OF the man who addressed the
poison package and that he would prove
who thar person was. The assertion was
made IN the course Of an argument over the
comparison Of the handwriting OF various
letters that had been offered IN evidence.
The third feature Of the days proceed
ings was the positive declaration by Hand
writing Expert Kinsley that MolineuX
wrote the address on the poison package
This was the first bit Of evidence to tLat
effect that had been offered during the
trial
feature Of the case that did not come
out In the course OF the trial was the ar
rest of woman witness, who the Prose
cUtiCn declares, is an important witness
She is Mamie Mullando. II is said tha
she used TO be q servant IN the employ o
MolineuE in Newark, n. J. The state
meuts made today were to the effect tha
she had been deoOyed over the New Gorl
State line by Captain McClusky's detect
ives and then arrested. The case was ad
5Ourned until Monday