The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-17
DpoBING THE ADAMs'MYSTERY
.,~,sH CAME IN FOR A SHARE
OF THE INsINUATION.

denies She said Her Moth
vr,s the victim of a DiabOIicaI
mr.. hitchcock Did Say There
u,d Been DiabOIicaI Crime Com
mitted
Nov York. Feb. 16.-The most important
..,,-. in the inquest in the Adams pol
-, ,,se Yesterday was the testimony
.<Dr + E. Hitchcock. who attended Mrs
,s.r,s in her last moments, was in direct
conflict with the testimony of Harry 5
-.-uisb and Frederick E. Hovey. both of
Inn were in Mrs. Adams fiat when she
s.a DR.. Hitchcock testified that the
NV VINO summoned him told him that he
.as wanted Immediately. as "a party had
been poisoned
One point of which DIR. Hitchcock con-
tr,dicfed the testimony of Hovey related
70 tbe condition of the bottle of poison.
rbs doctor stated that he saw no par
oeire about the cork or mouth of the bot
do while Hovey in his testimony, said
mai the cork was covered with paraf-
fine.
4 mr. Hitchcock described how Cornish
uas taken sick with symptoms similar to
those shown by Mrs. Adams.
Cornish said: Can it be anything else
hit bromo-seltzer?" and the doctor replied
that it certainly could.
Hovey's Wife Examined.
Mrs BERTHA May Hovey, the wife of the
u,irness who was examined yesterday.
was first placed on the stand to-day. The
questions of the assistant district attor-
new, brought out the facts that Cornish
| bad senarated from his wife and that Mrs.
Rogers was living apart from her hus-
4 band.
When Mrs Hovey reached the Adams
Fat she was admitted by policeman. She
met Assistant District Attorney Mcintyre
there Mrs. Rogers seemed heartbroken.
She told witness that Mrs, Adams had
taken bromo-seltzer but never mentioned
poison. nor did she say that her mother
was the victim of a diabolical plot The
fact that Cornish had given the bromo-
setzer to her mother was not spoken of
by Mrs. Rogers.
when was the first time you discover
ed that Mrs. Adams had been poisoned?'
was asked,
81 don't know; did not discover 1t; I
read it in the newspaper"
Witness said she had talked with Cor
nish about Mrs. Adams death but she
could not remember that Cornish said to
her What a fool I am that 1 should
have received that bottle and given some
Of the contents to Mrs. Adams"
Weston Performed Autopsy.
Coroners Physician Weston took the
stand. Dr. Weston testified that he per
formed an autopsy upon Mrs. Adams
body He at first formed the impression
that Mrs Adams came to her death
through taking cyanide of potassium from
the odor of the bottle and from his dag
noss at the autopsy. Subsequently a
chemical analysis showed that death was
due to cyanide of mercury. The bottle
was wrapped in a piece of brown paper
such as lawyers use for their notes The
bottle was three-quarters full when he saw
It, The policeman gave 1t TO him and said
he had got it from Dr. Hitchcock
Witness talked with Hovey on arriving
at the fiat, and Hovey told him about the
case He smelled the contents of the bot
Tie and told Hovey he thought it contain
ca cyanide of potassium. No one else
was present at the time, but a little later
ne saw Mrs. Rogers and asked her about
Mrs. Adams age, etc., so as to fill out
ms report He told Mrs Rogers that her
mother died of poison, and that he would
make an autopsy on the following day.
HOvey Makes COrrestiOns.
Frederick Hovey was recalled to the
stand when DR.. Weston finished. and Mr..
Osborne asked him:
ROW soon after your conversation with
Ut. weston did you see Cornsh?"
Next morning"
Dr' Weston told you two men had been
poisoned?"
nave just heard him say So"
GU told us yesterday that it was three
- Vgrln
yes"
,, nDr' Weston said he told you, and DR..
hitchcock says the same"
do not recall it
Aou say all these circumstances form
YES"
osborne Uses Emphasis.
WIN you kindly tell the jury why. after
une doctors had told you it was poison
ana you had seen one person fall down
p hIiu uie ana another claim land Mr.. Os-
ooihe put a strong emphasis on the word)
son?" " eiea' iiiiPi
an accident" -
., lou said yesterday you examined with
tne greatest possible care the package that
Contained the poison bottle. the wrapper
- - ana wax, and expressed an opinion
tlIdt II was done so well that il would take
an expert TO discover that it was not the
Ulls'haI package. Then you swore there
was no wrapper"
! was mistaken
a., Is 1t not true that there were two bot
out?" anu one Will
anyhow" NiH iiot see theil
1 D.n not Cornish show you bottle with
GU. NO, was perfectly willing to make nv
co C'-.'iiieht mere and have corrected the in
ollect statement made. I made the mis-
perfectly conscientiously.'
MIS-. Adams Deathbed.
~ mat concluded the examination of Mr.
10y ana Mr. Osborne called Dr. Stiles
80 o'I H. VINO was called by Cornish to as
NIr. Dr. Hitchcock at what proved to be
-'Is, ADAMS death bed.
,ha IoUer said that when he arrived at
r. .E4 ms fiat Mrs. Adams was dead.
nnere We're present DR.. Hitchcock Mr. Cor
,,-oI' hr Hovey and Mrs. Rogers. The last
Cornteh 'Iiu MIN that upon her advice, Mr.