Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-06
MORE POISON FOUND.
New Evidence In the Adams Case In
New York.
POWDERS IN A LETTER BOX.
Was There to BE q Third Victimg
Barnct's Body to BE Exhumed
Tuexday-Inquestt to BE Search.
inG-GalIngher's Statement.

oon1ng case the week ended with kind
Of faction fight IN the newspapers. one
side maintaining that the murderers
were sheltered in particular athletic
club and the other that rival athletic
club harbored them. Meanwhile the po-
lice are looking for two entirely new
men. one of them an habitue Of China
town, the idea being to confront them
with the private letter box proprietors
to see If one of them did not hire the
boxes to which drugs were ordered sent
by letters signed Cornish" and Bar
net"
The district attorney has one new bit
Of evidence in the case In the letter
box hired by III. Cornish" at 1920
Broadway there has been found at least
one package of powders which had been
poisoned with cyanide of mercury. This
leads the district attorney to infer that
the poisoner of Barnet and Mrs. Ad-
ans may have intended to poison a
third person. 1t might also be surmised
from this that the poisoner was getting
his poison delivered by some other per-
son In disguise form and ready for i'm
mediate use. II this be true, then an
altogether new field is opened for inves-
tgation.
1t will be recalled that none of the let
ters or packages delivered at 1920
Broadway for H. Cornish" was ever
called for. The things that va accu-
| mulated in the box We're secured by the
district attorney, and among the pack
ages he found the powders which
chemical analysis shows to contain cya-
hide of mercury.
Will Exhume Bnrnet's Body.
It is probable that Barnet's body will
be exhumed on Tuesday. He was buried
finally decided to exhume the body.
Professor Witthaus has examined the
| remaining contents of a package of
Kutnow powder which was anonymous
ly sent to Barnet about two weeks be-
| fore he died and of which he took one
| dose. Professor Witthaus reports that
| he found considerable quantity of
cyanide of mercury in the powders. The
| undertaken who buried Barnet made af-
| 6davit that no preparation Of mercury
| was used in preparing the body for
| burial.
| 1t Is said that the work Of the chem
| ist will take two weeks or longer. Coro-
|
from along Third avenue of late. In
| this case his secretary, Mr. Kelly, will
canvass Wall street the wholesale dry
goods district and the section between
| Broadway, Sixth avenue, Eighth and
Twenty-third streets and choose jury
for the inquest from among bankers,
brokers, lawyers and wholesale and re-
tail merchants. AS nobody is yet &C
cused of a crime the only thing that will
be regarded as making a man Ineligible
who is qualified to act is membership
in either the New York Athletic club
or the Knickerbockcr Athletic club
| Speaking Of the inquest. Coroner Hart
said:
1T will be as thorough and as search
ing as I know how to make it. The
subp9nas will be served by officers
from the district attorneys office, not
by officers from the detective bureau.
do not purpose that technicalities
shall hamper us in getting at the truth.
Witnesses will have the greatest lati-
tude in testifyng. I purpose to include
all testimony that can throw any light
on the mystery"
It is stated that while the inquest is
in progress warrants will be issued for
the arrest of three persons by District
Attorney Gardiner after he has secured
the statements of certain witnesses I'M
der oath.
GnIIugher's Statement.
Felix J. Gallagher, for whom Roland
3. Molineux secured a place in the New
York Athletic club after both had left
the Knickerbocker, sends this letter to
the press:
During the past week l have been
subjected to much unpleasant notoriety
in connection with the terrible poison
ing which resulted in the death of Mrs.
Adams, which notorety is due solely to
the fact that my official connection
with the Knckerbocker Athletic club
gave me acquaintance and some time
association with those whose names
have been mentioned in the papers in
the reports of that dreadful affair.
II wish to state that, as God is my
Judge, l do not know who sent the
packages to Fl. G.. Barnet or II. 5. Cor
nish or who wrote the superscriptons
on either package. / have in the pas'
seven days been subjected to the mos'
rigorous examinations and thorough
tests by the police detectives. and fee
sure that their chief, Captain McClus'
XIV. will bear me out in my statement
that | answered every question put &c
me fairly, fully and truthfully. Sew
oral times l wrote letters at the dicta'
ton of Coptain McClusky. and once
wrote a long letter and dozens OF names
and figures in the presence of Writing
Experts Kinsley and Carvalho. The!
also had me write from their Dictator
comics of letters which had been sem
Van Mohl and other drug houses.
don't think any man was ever subjected
"a -. moro thorough test Of this char
sc+er than I was, and when it was al
aver both experts said that they were
nositive that the writing on the Barne
and Cornish packages was not mine
r.ntain McClusky also told me that III
exonerated me from having written Ell
Their supers"ription. Captain McCiosh.
kno,ys that while I was unwillingl!
dragged into this affair ! nave hei'
myself at all times in readiness 10 re
spond to any call for me- 10 answe
any question put to me or 10 give mn
any information IN my poeeess.o" ~,
II have never In my lie reh'eo W.
in any private postohce. ~
az have lived all my life IN brooklyn
md I never was arrested VI ",'Aeu VI
IN any questionable aHalr' ana = my
Il, as a measure OF 1ustlce' Una. pun
10 opinion be suspended IN my case VI.
III th. legal Investigations OF 'n's nuI
D. .,hle affair are over, "nen hho" ~ =,
!. od name / have always ooihe W., t.,
md still unstained by any h"o"'eNe
u Of murder or poisoning"