The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-18
HOW r. b. MOLINEUX'S NAME WAS
BROUGHT INTO THE CASE.
DR.. Hitchcock Anxious to Take the
terry of the Two Glasses.

terry of the Two Glasses.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 17-Without making
very great progress toward the solution or
the mysterious Adams poisoning case, the
coroner's inquest this afternoon adjourned
over until Monday. The most important
developments connected with to-day's ses-
sion were the testimony of John d. Adams,
the secretary of the Knickerbocker Athletic
| Club, who went on the witness stand and
told how he happened to mention Roland b.
Molineux in connection with the sending OF
the brono-seltzer to Cornish; the request Of
Cornish to again go on the stand, and the
statement of DR.. Hitchcock that if he were
again put on the stand he could clear up the
mystery of the two glasses Shortly after
the noon recess to-day Harry Cornish sent
a friend to Coroner Hart asking for a pri-
vate conference. The coroner sent back
word that he saw no need of a private con-
| ference, and that he could tell publicly all
he knew by resuming the witness stand.
! Cornish announced his immediate readiness
to testify again. What shall disclose will
help immeasurably in soeEing this mystery"
! he said 1t is very probable he will give his
| evidence on Monday
report emanated to-day from the dis
! trict attorneys office to the effect that the
persons who had murdered Mrs. Adams and
! Henry G. Barnet were known, and that the
! State had sufficient evidence to convict
them This evidence has not yet been sub
mitted to the grand jury, nor will any of the
lawyers at the district attorneys office or
Colonel Gardiner himself explain the delay
Assistant District Attorney Osborne to-day
| said that Mrs. Roland B. Molineux would
certainly be placed the witness stand
| Patrick f. Finneran the assistant in
! structor of the Knickerbocker Athletic
| Club was the first witness on the stand
| to-day. He testified that he was in Cor
nish's Office on Dec. "a, when Cornish came
| in with the mail and box. Cornish ripped
| the string and wrapper off the box and
opened it. 1t contained two packages. Cor
nish took out one of the packages and
showed a silver object, saying: What can
this be?'
Witness said: "It looks like candle
stick"
NO" said Cornish, IT guess it IS for
matches" Then Cornish opened the other
package and showed bottle Of bromo-
| seltzer. 1t was in a blue wrapper, sealed
at both ends with wax.
SAVED THE ADDRESS.
Mr. Finneran continued: "He took the
| wrapper off and threw it in the waste paper
! basket. 1 asked him if he had an idea who
| sent it. and he said no. 1 suggested that
some one had sent it to him in joke, and
| that he had better save the wrapper to iden-
tify the joker. He picked up the wrapper
and cut out the address. Shortly afterwards
| George Salmon came in, and then Mr.. King.
Cornish showed his present and Mr.. King
| do VII aIo fol of
the bromo-seltzer, but there was no glass
at the water cooler. That same day went
! to Boston. I returned the day after the
death of Mrs. Adams and heard that Cor
nish was in Yocum's room, sick. / went to
the room and Cornish said the stuff in the
I bottle must have been pretty strong stuff;
| Mrs Adams had died almost Immediately,
but he hoped to pull through He looked
very bad Finneran was sure the bottle was
| a regular bromo-seltzer bottle.
Mr.. Osborne submitted the holder, and
| Finneran said it looked like the one he saw
| Cornish have
Harry S. Cornish was called, and said to
! the best of his knowledge and belief it was
the same holder.
Mr.. Osborne then produced a bromo-
| seltzer bottle, placed it on top of the holder
and showed it to Finneran, who said he
| identified it as a bromo-setzer bottle Then
Mr.. Osborne showed that the bottle was so
much larger than the holder that it could
not be forced into it.
You saw it fitted in yourself, did you
not?" asked Mr.. Osborne
Il did" replied the witness.
Mr.. Osborne questioned the witness very
closely as to why Mr.. King had not taken
a dose of the drug when the package was
CHI i'm hU Arc >
asked Mr.. Osborne that the reason was
that there was no glass at the water cooler?"
1T was either on that account or be-
cause there was no water" was the reply.
Undertaken Brown testified that when he
went to the Adams apartment in response
to a call he found Dr. Hitchcock and Cor
nish eating apples. He did not see Cornish
vomiting.
A CHEMISTS STORY.
John II. Yocum testified that he lived at
the Knickerbocker Club, was a professional
chemist and that he was an intimate friend
of Cornish. Witness said he did not know
that he had ever seen cyanide of mercury.
1t was so rare that it was a chemical curl
osity 1t could only be made by an ex-
pert. AS far as he knew II was not used in
the arts. Cornish was not frequent visitor
to witnesses laboratory. and never talked
with him on the subject of chemistry. Yo-
KUN said he recollected the time of the Bar
net death, and that the cause was given as
diphtheria.
Was it not common talk about the club
that Barnet had received Kutnows pow
ders?"
NO. I did not know it until this case
came up"
did you ever have any talk with Cornish
about chemicals at any timer
mo. not before the death OF Mrs Adams
Since then / talked 10 him only once. when