Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-20
DR.. DOUGLASS CALLED
Physician Who Attended H. G. Bar
net on the Stand.
INQUEST In ADAMS POISONING CASE
Cornish viii Be Given Another
Chance to Testify.
81. A. KINGS TESTIMONY

| NEW YORK, February 20.-The inquest
| into the death of Mrs. Kate j. Adams. who
died on December 2s from the effects of
| poison received from the hands of Harry S.
Cornish, was resumed today.
| District Attorney Gardiner said today that
| he did not believe the inquest would be CON
| cluded this week. He expressed the rclief
| that as a result of the inquest an in3ict-
| mnt will be found by the grand jury. Pub
| lie interest in the inquiry has not lessened
| The corridors of the coroner's office were
crowded with persons anxious to obtain adj
mission to the court room, and all the
available seats in the court were filled by
10 o'clock. For the first time since the in
quiry opened there were several women
| among the spectators.
| Those Directly Interested Present.
| Every one directly interested in the in
quest was on hand early, but the court was
as usual, late in beginning the work of
! the day. Gen. Molineux was among the
early arrivals. Mrs. Rogers had a short
talk with Mr.. Blumenthal and Mr. Osborne
/ the associate district attorneys. Dr. Hitch
| cock was also present, and the father and
| mother of Harry Cornish occupied seats in
the of the court room.
Mrs. Roland B. Molineux will not be ex-
amined until Thursday Friday. Cornish
| 1t is expected, will be put on the witness
stand in a day or two and given an oppor
tunity to clear up the poison mystery, as
| he has said he would do if permitted 10
| testify in his own way.
Harry A. King, a stock broker was
| the first witness called to the stand TODAY
| He was the first person to whom Cornish
showed the poison bottle and holder
| Mr.. King said he was a member of the
| Knickerbocker Athletic Club He knew n
Z. Barnet, but only by sight. On Saturday
December II, at the club Cornish showed
he hnt of
holder and said something about it being
Christmas present.
Came Near Tuisiag the Poison.
| Witness said: Il have slight headache
and l think III take some" Cornish push
| ed the bottle and holder toward him, and
he took 1t over to the water cooler There
was no glass there and no water in the
| cooler, 50 he returned thu bottle and holder
! to Cornish's desk, saying; Il don't think I'll
| bother with it,
''You first stated II at there was no water
| IN the cooler; now you say neither water
nor glass" observed Mr.. Osborne
There was neither water nor glass"
Witness denied that his testimony had been
made to conform to the statements made
| by Cornish and Finneran.
Mr. King said he talked about the case
| with Cornish in Mr.. Yccum's room at the
club on the night of Mrs. Adams death.
Cornish was very sick. He and witness
recalled the incident of the bromo~seltzer
Dottie ana witness remarked that it was
lucky thing for him that he hadn't taken
any OF the contents of the bottle. Witness
denied that in his talk with Cornish any
comment was made on the similarity of the
deaths of Mrs. Adams and Barnet. Witness
said he had taken b1 1omo-seltzer several
times, but he was unable to give an accu-
rate description of a bronlo-seltzer bottle.
he had noticed if the words "bromo
seltZer that are blown into a genuine
promo seitzer bottle were in the bottle he
saw IN Cornish's office. Cornish told him
he had received the bottle by mail. A bot
tie was shown to him, and he was asked
II 1t was the one he had seen in Cornish's
possession. He said he would have be-
lleved so if he had not read that it was not
the same bottle; that a different one had
been shown to a witness. The bottle hand
ed to him by Cornish was in a holder at
the time.
DIR. Douglass Called.
DR.. Henry Douglass, who attended H c.
Barnet IN his last illness, was the next
| witness. Taking several pages of typewrit-
ten manuscript from his pocket, Dr. Doug
lass began to read aloud when Mr.. Os-
borne informed him that it was not per-
msslble in court to read ones testimony
uhtl al that is known of the case has
peen given from memory.
Dr. douglass then told how he had dag
nosed Barnets case as one of diphtheria
ana OF having discovered dphtheric exude