The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-28
YOUNG MOLlNEUX ARRESTED
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I (Continued from First Page.) was the person that the public had set
 tied upon. When this witness was
 called and my able assistant treated | him in such an apologetic manner, 1t was decided to disarm him of suspl- cion. There was a general feeling of anger against the district attorneys of | flee on this account. But we had a duty to perform. We placed in the po-
 sition to make it appear that Cornish was really the guilty poisoner. Then the guilty person seeing he was not sus-
 pected was perfectly willing to give us
 all the handwriting we wanted, and we got it. The evidence given by these ex- perts in handwriting seems to me to be
 conclusive. There was another element
 in this case, of wonderful importance.
 That is the circumstantial evidence
 which was brought out. There was the
 purchase of the bottle holder. Where
 was that bought? In Newark on the first day of December. Roland B. Mol
 ineux was in Newark on that day
 Where was it mailed? On the Broad
 way side of tke postoffice. Molineux
 was in that vicinity at the time it was
 mailed"
 Colonel Gardiner then told the way
 in which MolineuX admitted he met his
 wife, and said: Now, that womans
 character (meaning Mrs. Molineux) has
 been portrayed in this court room by
 her own husband For thousand years
 down to the present time murders of
 lN Nfc 1rt. l,~r ,@nI
 have been committed on account of
 two reasons-jealousy or hate-and in
 the large majority of instances either
 by woman or a degenerate. Mir. Gardiner then alluded to the character of Mrs. Molineux and designated her as woman"
 Lady if you please" shouted Roland B. Molneux. "In society now it is re- garded at all times proper to use the expression woman in preference to
 lady" replied the district attorney. Colonel Gardiner called attention to. the trip in which Mrs. Molineux figured. And there was another woman there, and her husband was not with her. That fixes their character pretty clear ly" he said. He said the deaths of Barnet and Mrs. Adams could not be separated. Barnet had been poisoned by powder sent through the mail, and the one who sent it must have been in- tinate with him and acquainted with the fact that Barnet used Kutnow pow~ der. Molineux, he said, was that per- son. "Everything went off easily in that case,' said the district attorney, land it appeared to be easy to get rid of the other enemy The poisoner be- lieved that Cornish occasionally took dose of promo -seltzer. Some of this was mixed with cyanite of mercury and sent through the mail to Cornish.
 "Now, in the killing of Barnet where was the motive? We have it by cir cumstantial evidence. Barnet was att tentive to Blanche Chesebrough He wined her and dined her, invited her to his room, and she accepted. They were, in fact, on the closest terms of intima- cy The other man who was on the yacht wanted her to marry him, and she finally consented to do so, but she loved Barnet. She came to New York and went to live from place to place with no apparent means of support ana no one to- care for her And now we come to one of the most remarkable things connected with the case.'
 Colonel Gardiner then read the letter written to Barnet while he was Ill and he said: "Is that the language of an ordinary friend to another?" General NLolineux interrupted him by crying out "Yes, it is." The coroner silenced him and the district attorney resumed. lie dweit upon the fact that Mrs. Molineux had sent flowers and a letter to Barnet l only nineteen days before her marriage and discredited the statement of Moli- neux that he had paid for the flowers. Tt is clear that Mrs. Molineux loved Barnet but knew Molineux had good and she wanted to be taken care of. Jealousy is the motive" said Colonel Gardiner. Colonel Gardiner here took Molineux's visit to Chinatown and his intimacy with persons there.
 Coming down to the hiring of the let ter box, Colonel Gardiner said: Tn one | instance the box was rented in the name of HI c. Barnet You have | heard a witness on the stand to-day | swear that he saw Molineux there ten | 1r twenty times, and identified him as hiring the box in Barnet's name. Then here was another letter box hired in he name of Harry s. Cornish and a etter was received there from Freder- ok Stearns of Detroit in answer to one written by HI. s. Cornish, making in- luiries about Harpster. If the person who wrote that letter of inquiry had | lnown that Cornish was acquainted with MT. Stearns he would probably not lave used Cornish's name. ''Is there ,ny doubt that Roland Molineux did t?' Colonel Gordiner then said that he letters to his mind had been written ,y a degenerate. At 5:15 o'clock Colo lel Gardiner concluded his summing ID and after a brief charge to the jury y Coroner Hart the case was given nto the hands of the jury and the elev- n men went out to deliberate.
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