The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
Adams Case Mystic.
rious as Ever.
INQUEST GOES ON
DR.. Hitchcock and Mr.. Ho.
vey Examined Yesterday.

New York Feb. 15.-Frederick Hovey
and DR.. Hitchcock were the only wit
nesses examined in the Adams inquest
today. The witnesses were repeatedly
led up to point where it was thought
something startling might be evolved,
when the attorneys branched off on a
different line of questioning. DR.. Hitch
cock said that he was positive that
Mrs. Adams had not been poisoned by
strychnine.
DR.. Hitchcock was still on the stand
when court adjourned until tomorrow.
1t lis now believed that Mrs. Molineux
will not be called to the witness stand
before Friday
Frederick Hovey, who was in the
q Adams apartments when Mrs. Adams
died, was the first witness. He was ex-
amined by Assistant District Attorney
Blumenthal. He knew Mrs. Adams and
her daughter, Mrs. Rogers, very well.
He was also well acquainted with
Harry S. Cornish. He had never met
Henry Barnet.
Mr. Blumenthal told witness to tell in
detail everything that happened in the
apartments on the day of Mrs, Adams
death, how he came to be in the house,
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the case. Mr.. Hovey made long state
ment, in which he said he had been in
business in New York, and Mrs. Rog-
ers was visiting his wife in Hartford.
1t was arranged that he should stay
while in New York in Mrs Adams
apartments. His wife was to meet him
later in the week. When he arrived at
the house on Eig'hty-sixth street, he
found that Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Rog
erS were going to the theatre, and he
escorted them as far as the door and
left them there. He returned to the
fiat some time after 1 o'clock and went
directly to his room.
He heard nothing until the next
morning at 8 o'clock, when ne heard
voices in the dining room, just across
the hall from his room. He heard Mrs.
Adams say: wait a minute while l
get a glass of water There was an
interval of few minutes, and he heard
Mrs. Adams say she was sick at her
stomach He heard Mrs. Rogers call
from the bathroom; "Come in here and
you won't disturb anybody. Then he
heard the sound of retchtng and Mrs.
Rogers cried to Cornish to Come and
help Mamma" He heard Cornish go to
the bathroom and then Mrs. Rogers
called witness to help Cornish Mrs
Adams was not a. large woman, but
Cornish seemed to have difficulty in
lifting her and was taken sick as he
helped carry her.
Hovey helped and they put Mrs.
Adams on the lounge in the dining
room, opposite the bathroom Cornish
called to the hall boy to run for a. doc
tor, and he himself ran into the dining
room, took the bottle of powder off the
table and rushed to drug store When
he came back he handed Hovey g. vial
and said: olive her 20 drops in water"
Mrs. Adams was not conscious, and it
was impossible to get anything into her
mouth.
The doctor did not come and Cornish
ran out again. Hovey sat On the sofa
and Mrs. Rogers knelt beside it. They
chafed Mrs. Adams hands, which were
getting cold. Then the doctor came
He said the case was serious and took
some medicine from his pocket Hovey
did not remain in the room and did not
know what the doctor did after he left
Mrs. Rogers did not seem to realize
how serious her mothers condition was.
DR.. Potter was subsequently sent for,
although so far as witness knew, he
did not administer any medicine. The
doctors and Cornish talked about the
contents of the bottle.
Now, that is just what we want to
know. Tell us what was said" said
Mr. Blumenthal
IT cannot remember just what was
said. 1t was a general conversation,
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said"
Mr.. Blumenthal-"Oh no; oh, no, we
cannot infer anything. Do tell us what
was said"
Mr.. Blumenthal appeared nettled, and
the witness became perceptibly uneasy.
Mr.. Blumenthal began to go over the
same ground again. beginning with the
time Hovey arrived in the city and his
subsequent visit to the Adams fiat He
yisibly embarrassed the witness by call
ing on him to explain his movements
after leaving the fiat, and how he spent
the time before his return.
Witness insisted that 1t was nobodys
business where he spent his time.
IL was an idle night for me and I
spent II TO suit my own pleasure, and,
as 1t has no bearing on this case,
snall decline to answer. 1t is simply
lule curiosity on your part in asking
such questions
We're your actions of such a nature
mat night, and were the places you
VISITED OF such a character that you
feel indisposed TO have them known?"
witness insisted that such was not
the case: put ne held that the line of
questioning followed could throw no
light upon the case az
Mr.. Blumenthal withdrew his ones
tioh' ana handing witness a diagram of
me nat IN which Mrs. Adams lived.
sskeo IN, nun me location Of the room he
occupied the night i'm question. and its
relation to the room occunied btt 60
nish, and to those occupied nv Mrs
Adams and Mrs Rogers, -' q
MT: f1oVey said that the room whore
Cornish slept was next to his and fbat
-9rs. ADAMS ana her daughter, Mrs.
ptogers, occupied room together 81
the opposite end of the fiat,
when you entered the bathroom. af
Iter leaving your room, and found Mre
nuahlS ,pfostfate upon the floor and