The times., 1899-12-28
MOLINEUX'S LONG TRIAL
The Testimony of Expert Ames
Serious for the Accused.
The Handwriting of the Various
Specimens In Evidence Submitted
to Searching AnaIysis-Defendan
Lawyer Springs n Surprfse-End
of the Prosecution Not in sight.

NEW YORK Dec. 2I.-The breaking OF
the record for the time limit Of criminal
trials in New York county was not cele-
brated in the case of Roland B. Molineux
today by the completion OF the line Of ex-
pert testimony. When the court adjourned
tonight an expert was stTl on the stand
and he will be on the stand again tomorrow
morning.
Mr.. Osborne promised that after he had
finished with this expert he would call
some doctors. but he intimated that after
he had finished with these two doctors he
would again resort to handwriting experts.
the number Of which he expressed when
asked about it by throwing out both hands
in front Of him and saying: "Oh any num-
ber"
Mr. Ames was the first witness called.
and he started in just where he had left OF
on Tuesday night, with the peculiarities of
the letter " that every expert has spent
hours in telling about. He jumped from
the " to the poison package, and he took
up the words, New York city" that are
the last line in the address. and dissected
them letter by letter, curve by curve, space
by space Mr.. Ames said that at first he
had been OF the opinion that Cornish had
written the address on the poison package
because of the similarity of the writing of
the letters signed Cornish, which the
prosecution asserts Cornish did not write.
with the writing on the package.
Mr.. Osborne got from him statement
that he first concluded that Cornish wrote
the poison package aud then that he wrote
the Barnet" letters, and it was not until
after ne learned that the Cornish and
Barnet" letters were not written by Cor
nish that he arrived at the conclusion that
they were written by Molineux. Mr.. Os-
borne summed up the great number OF
exhibits that the experts had and from
which they formed their opinion, and
asked:
rs it possible for a competent expert
who has all these exhibits and who care
fully studied them to make a mistake as
20 the writer OF any one OF them
1T hardly seems TO me said Mr.. Ames.
that competent expert could make
mistake"
In ross-examination Mr. Weeks asked
the defendant II he were the author OF
pamphlet entitled Biblical Myths. & Rs-
itonal Exposition of the Same. by Prof.
Daniel T. Ames.
Yes. sir. said Mr.. Ames.
Are you the author OF this2' demanded
Mr.. Weeks, opening the book and reading:
Again ignorance and fear trembled and
was PROSTATE before self-seeking cunning
and fraud. and, accordingly. the firm OF
Moses Jehovah and Company, unlimited.
became re-established; articles OF copart-
nership, perpetual powers, OmuipOtent. In
finite scope, realms terrestrial and CeIestiaI;
Moses its general master, inanCie-, and
treasurer
This question was just about half out OF
Mr.. Weeks mouth when Mr. Osborne was
on his feet shouting objections and denun-
Citations and the recorder was leaning over
the desk saying, Objections sustained. %
and directing the jury not to permit the
question to have any weight in the cOnsid-
Grafton OF the testimony that MIR Ames
had given. Mr.. Osborne was gasping about
about prejudice, unfairness. wickedness.
etc. Mr. Weeks was demanding, Does not
that go to the eredibility OF this witness2' o.
and the recorder was giving his admOni-
tions to the jury. Things We're red-hot for
a few moments, but the recorder was IN
moved
The rest of Mr. Weeks cross examination
OF Mr. Ames was conducted in the Gus
tomary line concerning cases in which the
expert had either failed to convince the
jury OF subsequently, had been proved
wrong.
At the close Of his testimony. much to
| the surprise of the courtroom. Expert Tyr
reI was recalled 10 the stand. and was still
there when the court adjourned.