The sun., 1899-12-05
CASE. AGAINST MOLINEUX.
STATE DISPLAYS ITS WEE or AC-
CUsISG CIRCUMsTANCES.

Molineut's Bodily Measurements Declared
60 he Those Given In tho Barnet and
Cornish Letters to Patent Medicine Men
Prosecutor Osborne Talks All Day
Allowed to Bring in the Barnet Poison
ing-Biockads at the Court Room Door.
Newspaper correspondents from the prlnci-
pal cities. novelists. magazine writors. and
professional men sat for Ave hours IN the Court
of General Sessions yesterday listening to the
case OF the people against Roland ID. MolincuS.
indicted for sending through the mails to
Harry Cornish the poison that caused the
death OF Mrs. Katherine J. Adams. Fully a
thousand men and women camored for adj
mission TO the court room. Men OF wealth tried
to buy their way In Men about town tried to
get in by pull. The women used every art
OF persuasion they knew The policemen
on duty told them that women would
not no admitted under any circumstances.
Notwithstanding this fact. two Insisted upon
getting into the court room and did get In.
One was a enographer who had done some
work in the case for the District Attorney.
The other was lawyer who got In after max
ing a complaint to Assistant District Attorney
Unger and who declared that as an officer ot
the Court. she could not DO kept out. man
lawyer. Samuel Feldman tried TO get In by
writ OF mandamus. but Justice Beach. TO whom
he applied In tho Supreme Court. would not
give 1t to him. A man with long hair wanted
TO get In to collect material for q tragedy he
was writing. An elderly man in the garb OF
clergyman wanted material for a sermon.
Molineux was led into tho court room few
minutes after Recorder Gofr went upon tho
bench. His father. Gen. Molineux. sat beside
him. Barlow s. Weeks and George Gordon
Battle, counsel for the defendant. shook hands
with the pale-faced young man and whispered
with him. Assistant District Attorney Osborne
and the two representatives Of the District At
torney's ONCE who are helping him. OConnor
aud CollinA. sat inside OF the rail-. Ten ofthe 1O4
witnesses Who viii be called for ths pros ecutlon
were In court They were the three policemen
and the Coroner's physician who on the night
OF the 2Sth Of December had been hnrrledly
summoned to the home OF Ms. Adams to learn
that the crime OF murder had been committed.
They were not called upon to testify. however.
for Assistant District Attorney Osborne was
exhausted at the close OF his address TO the
jury and asked the Courtto adjourn until 10 80
this morning.
when Mr.. Osborne got up to open the case.
two attendants carried In a large black board
and set II aRainst the wall at the head OF the
Jury box. Then came half dozen men In the
District Attorney ONCE with their arms full
flaw books. They were followed BY half a
dozen Central ONCE detectives who brought
in satches filed with letters and manuscripts.
the prosecutions exhibits In tho case. Mr.
Osborne stood up directly opposite the fore
man OF ths Jury and seemed an xious to hold the
attention Of the foreman, during tho course OF
his address.
OSBORNE DEscRrBEs THE POISONING.
He outlined the poisoning OF Mrs. Adams.
who lived with her grown-up daughter. Mrs,
florence Rogers, IN West Side apartment
IS% de SS he had s.d
any desire to kill Mrs Adams. II was by scci-
dent the poison meant for Cornish was given
On the eth OF December. 1893. Cornish had
ESesS CUB ahs n e nsG
i SssuTsS S him Ms. ysns
Ss;,1s S,:.:n;s, and sending them
ss,,: Ss''l' Sss :..5.G ihe !, 4 ss
bEomo seltzsT This boz was wrapped in Ma:
the and iorsS t"a1 snc0sS R
card. The promo sel,Ier suggested a practi.
ssS sfea sSca. sSs mater When ' he SDSss% went
b.s;,sI a:,s hs %sss' GS'sS to ..s NJ
yldSd ouly WnAt NJ WAS hUle TO prove. MT.
G1 1ans fss ne Redofdsf ,'G ssn
q sSssIs sIsss 2. I, Dec Pc r. Mr. Osborn. wen.
s%a mined the e cid e brt that
seltser hs had received and gave i, TO her, be.
szPs tS.. h 'he 5sa bdF ss and Ma d Ad @
fIisht Then Cornish tasted i himseii M Mrs'
;is Adams bsoems NJ INN Hedately; so did Cor;
hour Mrs. ADAMS asd 'c eornsh Gls waa Wan nan
of remarkable physique and his life was
AVE. savea ~ TWO physicians who had been sum-
We have before us said Mr., Osborne, the
ana UronG sp sg alive: Ss
Mrs: Adams: and at the the same tlms taxing
s.Sos; Sose 81 Ih%ss Nsys,.hslss; WIN say
Harry GorSsh e'F Frs ss.y rs iHs
that ,s, the he, man who gave the dose was not the
Mr, r,Weets objected to Mr.. osborne,s romov-
%s SGsda ven s Ssss rss ssa asH9dst r Der
S,ps ;bs ecpSGipinS ~ saif ha. the 5a thing
ion, DID snySady Wish to Xii Xii Ms Mrs Ge Mla%sf
SSain .y t1wyer Weeks Ks Objected and Mr. Os-
work that was done In, the case by DE.
a.d sSys sseS q tn. ss Ghs s q Ss
case.
TRACING THE PoIsoSER TO NEWARK.
And right here. gentleme n" continued Mr..
Osborne, j wish to say that each OF you will
become a Judicial Pranke1stel1 9ni viii be
polsonsr until you sec your own creation OF
the, guilty man. IL you can't do this. nobody
will be convicted OF the crime. But II you nJe
able 10 do SOTO create him out OF the evidence
laid before you,1,then you ought to be satisfied
Nov he's BUILDING the house that Jack
AS Lord Bacon has said" continued Mr. |
Osborne, OF all crimes poisoning is the most
secret, the pOiaOner seeks TO strike Spprptly |
and at distance In this case. he sought to |
lull the suspicious OF the chosen Victim BY dis
guislng the poison under q present The poi |
soner said, I have dlsguscd my, handwriting
the medicine. have sent It to him and what
do care whsther he takes II himself or not
You may be sure that you will never be able TO
trace that poison holder TO the guilty man
1t was acquired cunningly so that " couh
not be traced. The posoner. whoever he l.. in
order 70 make himself periectly safe, must got
holder secretly II he bought either there
would be witnesses; Cyanide of mercury tho
PoiAon he employed, is 80 very rare thnt many |
druggists have lived their lives and died with |