Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-22
NRS.R0CERS TESTlP]BS
Denles She Said Cornish knew Reason
For Silence.
WHY SHE HIRED LETTER BOX
oeoinres II Was Done to Conduct
Business without Her Husbands
knowledge - Says Weeks
Threatened Cornish.

New York. Feb. 22-David Murdoch
VINO swears that Mrs. Rogers hired a
ietter box from him under the name oil
MISS Addison. was the first witness
wnen the Adams inquest was resumed
ne testified as to money paid him by
MRS. Rogers for the letter box. Mrs
Rogers, who had already told her story
OF her mothers death. was then recalled
to the stand. Mr.. Osborne conducted
her examination.
/ she stated that she was cousin of
Harry Cornish by marriage. She said
her mother was not the cause of her
separation from her husband. In an
swer to question regarding the rea-
sons for her hiring the private letter
box. she said:
II had confidential business that did
not care to have my husband know Of.
This business was conducted by man
named Mccain, and the matter that
passed between us was purely of a BUSH
ness character. The papers are now in
my possession, and ! will produce them
n 1t is necessary. That is why had
| that private letter box"
Did you receive any letters from any
members of the New York Athletic
club?"
Never"
Did you receive any from the Knick
erbocker Athletic club"
mo"
"You say your mothers relations with
Mr.. Rogers were always friendly?"
YES"
80 he would have no cause for taking
your mothers life?''
None"
she was also friendly with Mr. Cor
nish?"
"She was"
A Question Protested.
She denied that she and her mother
had left the Adelaide flat on account of
complaints by the other tenants. A pro-
test was raised at a question asking
how she maintained their apartment
This protest was overruled and Mrs
Rogers said her husband sent her $50
month and that a brother of hers con-
tributed to the support of herself and
her mother. This brother was employed
by L. H. Cornish, a cousin of Harry
Cornish.
In answer to a question she said she
y
she was a little girl.
You believed Cornish when he said
the bottle and holder came to him anon
ymously?"
II did,
AT the very time your mother took
the fatal dose of bromo settler every
paper in New York contained accounts
Of the Botkin case in California, and
you knew that, did you not?"
mo; don't recall that l did"
did you not read about woman
being poisoned with candy sent her
through the mail by Mrs. Botkin of San
Francisco?'
Yes; read the headlines in the pa
pers, but don't think l paid much at
tention to the particulars"
Says Weeks Threatened Cornish.
Mr. Osborne asked her:
do you know of any of Mr.. Cornish's
enemies?"
II never heard him speak of anybody
but one man, about whom he sometimes
spoke jokingly."
"Who was that MANI
'Bartow Weeks. He alwaps spoke OF
him, though, in laughable manner, as
If he considered the affair joke
did he ever say Mr.. Weeks had
threatened him?"
why. yes"
What threat did he make?"
"Mr. Cornish said that Mr.. Weeks had
said he would run him out Of town in
year"
Have you heard Mr.. Cornish repeat
any more threats?'
Eyes. Mr.. Cornish has told me since
this affair that man had told him that
Weeks had said he would finish him
now"
He would finish Cornish now?"
That's what he said.'
did he tell you the name of the man
who had told him that Weeks had said
this?"
He didn't. He didn't go into any OF
the Details
Mr.. Osborne took up the testimony Of
DIR. Potter
Did you ask him not to talk about
the matter so that it would not get into
the papers?"
II might have said something about
the matter not getting into the papers,
Did you say to Harry Cornish to
keep quiet?"
mo"
"And that he knew the reason why?"
II do not forget that ] am under OATH
and I tell you that I never made any
such statement 1t is absolutely false"
"All of it?"