New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-25

/ Club. then called. cornish III MS pie" VII
Thursday brought Colonel Austen's name lh'o
the case. saying Il also heard that at the Al
lantic Yacht Club Barnet started out ostensibly
to go on a cruise. but he came back shorty
/ afterward ard one of his friends who knew ne
/ Intended to go said to him. ] thought you VIZ
! going off on a cruise He says. / went 10 tne
| boat but found Molineux had been invited anu
so | wouldn't go. . ,,,sh
/ said he believed il was Colonel Austen ana AT
! least il Colonel Austen aid rot tell the story 10
! him he told il to some person who told IL TO
! him Cornish Colonel Austen, VINO Is an OF
/ fcer Of the Atlantic Yacht Club and was a per
/ sonal friend Of Barnet. was asked apout 'hiS
statement OF Cornish
QNow tell about that story that B lar Sto Ts
fused TO go on a certain yaSht oqfSuse ne never
heard of it until saw IT in the papers. r
| OFT is fact? Alt Is aosoiu'eN untrue
! Colonel Austen then told OF his friendship for
/ Barnet and said that when he was first ILL., Bar
! net told him that ne had taken some powder
! and thought It might possibly be poison The
! Colonel also said that he had never criticised
! the treatment given Barnet by the physicians
! further than to suggest a consultation OF physi-
/ clans the day Barnet died.
He told in detail Of the friendship existing be-
tween Barnet and Molineux. and how late last
/ summer they were still fast friends. He said
that Molineux had retained his room at the
D
/ tended to in order that ne might hold 1t for
Barnet who wanted the room but was not
! ready to take il when MolineuX first proposed
/ 10 give it up.
Colonel Austen further said that he had seen
I Mrs Molineux at the Knickerbocker Athletic
/ Club when she was Miss Chesebrough. and that
he had seen her in Barnet's room with num-
/ Der Of other guests
MIR MOLINEUX AGAIN.
Roland r. MoIneux followed Colonel Austen
on the stand. He was asked TO identify all the
/ letters he had written which were in the pos
session of the handwriting experts A number
/ Of slips Of paper on which he had written at the
/ request OF the experts in their presence were
! also identified by him. OF one OF them he was
/ asked:
Q.-Is this n your ordinary handwriting? Alt
/ Is "How aid YOU write It? Al was told to write
! in vertical style. ! said ! could not. and Nj
/ Kinsley instructed me TO Turn the paper nan
/ The paper was put in its proper position again.
objected to the pens AS being too fine. ana he io'd
] me 70 do the best could
After Mr.. Molineux had identified a large
number Of specimens Of his writing. Assistant
/ District-Attorney Osborne took up typewrit-
ten list Of questions which had been submitted
~ him hy a newspaper with the request that
they he asked Of Moineux There were ~ OF
, these questions and they covered every con
/ ceivable thing which might have happened from
! December ~ to December "a. lN9N. some OF
/ the questions ran ike this.
! O-On December p. 1895 where were you when
YOU awoke in the morning!
! Q-Who called you in the morning? 49,.
| Q-Have you any special recoHecuoh Oh De'ei'
Der q OF seeing anybody?
This list Of questions excited considerable
laughter among the jurors, and none of the
! questions were of such a nature as 20 throw any
| light on the death Of Mrs Adams
Before he had got halfway through the
questions Mr. Osborne apologized two or three
times to the witness for asking such apparently
weak Questions. and said: II wish to say that
since the District Attorney has made the sug-
gestion that he would be pleased TO have any
| questions from anybody to be asked the wit
nesses on the stand in this case sent to him. he
has received q great mlny. These are some Of
them. I wish we could get more l should be
| pleased to ask any question that would tchd 10
throw light upon this case
Mr. Weeks arose and said: do understand
that these suggested questions will be asked
precisely as they are written? I understand
from my own observation that some OF the
questions which have been submitted have not
been given to the witnesses as they have been
written. l can't see why such questions as are
| being put to the witness now should be asked
They are silly and haYa no bearHg upon the
case apparently"
You don't know this case evidently" said
Mr.. Osborne.
II am frank to say that I do not. If those
questions have anything to do with &c. but II
had as broad an understanding Of it as you
have Mr. Osborne. I'd get through with II
pretty quick" retorted Mr.. Weeks
The examination was then resumed.
Do YOU know why Mr.. Barnet refused 70
room with YOU at the NewYork Athletic Club?
A-Why yes he liked his room at the Kncker-
ssf,H. ffs1 hot
You studied chemistry. ala you not? A
Yes. studied it at night at Cooper Dnlon q,
never tried
DID you ever read ANYTHING about crimes,
which I found to be very dry.
Mr.. Osborne here said he had read the work
himself and thought 1t was in all good libraries.
Q-What was the other book that Mr.. Cornish
mentioned Yesterday IN connection with what al, ne
termed your obscene library? Alt was Cha
! patha Sexualis" This book was presented 10 me
'oD'rhat is a scientific book Is IT not? Alt is.
! Q.-Did you have any other books in your Oh
0~rs there anything further that you would
IKE 20 say about your opium smoking? A
old you ever use any hard words threats
against Cornish? A.-No
Mr. Osborne apologzed to the witness for the
next question. saying that It had been given to
him to ask but that he did not know for what
reason. The question was:
i Q.-What the last date you shaved off your
rnustache. and why aid you DO IT. Al shaved
IL OFF the first part Of last June, because almost
always do in the summer.
Odd you ever have a photograph taken Of
you since then? A.-Yes. sir. friend named
Ginnani, a member OF the New-York Athletic
Club. took the pictures OF several Of US in group
last September We were turning somersauhs
and standing hands.
, O.-DO YOU know any who ever
had a quarrel with Barnett Al do not.
Odd You ever have any trouble with him
F. Al never did.
, Mr. Molineux was then asked concerning the
meeting he haC with Mr.. Moran a Sixth
r ave. car, when he spoke 10 him regarding the
reason he did not go to the circus. The witness
explained that he did meet Moran as was testi-
fed to, and that Moran asked him why he did
not go 10 the circus. and he responded, Be