The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-28

/ that Barnet used kutnow powders.
! MolineuX, he said was that person.
| 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 believed
that Cornish occasionally took a dose
| OF bromo-seltZer; some of this was
mixed with cyanide of mercury and
sent through the mail to Cornish.
Now, in the killing of Barnet, where
was the motive? We have it by circum-
stanttal evidence. Barnet was atten-
| tive to Blanche Cheeseborough."
He wined her and dined her, invited
| her 10 his room, and she accepted. They
We're, in fact, on the closest terms OF
intimacy. 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 10
place, with no apparent means Of sup
port, and no one to care for her. And
now we come TO one of the most re-
markable things connected with the
case"
Col. Gardiner then read the letter
written to Barnet While he was i'll, and
he said: rs that the language of one
ordinary friend to another?''
Gen. MolineuX interrupted him by
crying out: Yes, it is"
The coroner silenced him, and the
district attorney resumed. He dWelt
upon the fact that Mrs. Molineux had
sent flowers and a letter to Barnet only
~ days before her marriage and dis
credited the statement of Melineux that
he had paid for the flowers.
1t is a clear case that Mrs. Molineux
loved Barnet but knew Molineux had
good prospects, and she wanted to be
taken of Tao1gT1ev- i-
sad Col. Gardiner. Col. Gardiner here
took up Molineux's hatred of Cornish,
ana spoke of MolineuX's visit to China
town, and his intimacy with persons
there.
Coming down to the hiring Of letter
boxes, Col. Gardiner said:
In one year the box was rented in
the name Of Fl. c. Barnet You have
heard a witness on this stand today say
that he saw MolineuX there 10 or 20
times, and Identified him as hiring the
box in Barnet's name. Then there was
another letter box hired in the name
OIL Harry 5. Cornish, and a letter was
received there from Frederic Stearns,
OF Detroit, in answer to one written bv
II. ). Cornish, making inquiries about
Harpster. If the person who wrote that
letter of inquiry had known that Cor
msh was acquainted with Mr.. Stearns,
ne would probably not have selected
Cornlsh's name. Now you have seen
witnesses go upon the stand as experts
IN handwriting and heard them testify
that the man who wrote those letters
signed Harry Cornish and H. C. Bar
net wrote the address on the package
of poison.
rs there any doubt in your minds
that Roland B. Molineux did it?"
Col Gardiner then SAID that the let
tiers to his mind had been written by
a degenerate.
AT 5.15 o'clock Col. Gardiner conclud-
ed his summing up, and after a brief
charge to the jury by Coroner Hart,
the case was given into the hands Of
the jury and the eleven men went out
to deliberate.
The jury came in with its verdict at
S.4S p. m. 1t was as follows.
We find that the said Catherine ]
Adams came to her death on Dec. %,
1928, in 81 West S6th street, by poison
by mercuric cyanide, administered by
Harry S. Cornish, to whom said poison
had been sent in Il bottle OF bromo
seltzer by Roland b. Molineux."
The coroner Immediately issued
warrant for the arrest of Molineux,
and the latter was at once arraigned
before him. Through his attorney, Bar
tow S. Weeks, he demanded an imme-
date hearing, but Assistant District
Attorney Osborne objected, saying Il
was impossible to proceed with the
hearing. The hearing was then set
down for Wednesday morning at 11.30
o'clock.
Molineux was committed to the
Tombs without bail