The Portland daily press., 1899-12-12

New York, December 1l.-Whsn the
trial OF Roland II. Molinsux who 10 &C.
cused Of the murder Of Mrs. Kate Adams,
was resumed today. Mamie Melando Of
Newark, was called to the wituess stand.
She Is the young woman who cared for
Molineux's rom In ths factory In which
the defendant was employed In Newark.
Barlow s. Weeks, for the defense. OBJ
jecssd. saying he had not finished with
bis exanination Of Expert Kinslsy. he
said that neither the prosecution nor the
defenss had completed the examination
of kinslsy and that 1t was unfair to call
RAJ &c witness ct this junctura Mr..
Osborne declared that the woman haa
been in the house Of detention for some
time. that she was . stranger In this city
asd that 1t WAS unfair to kesp her her
any longer. Recorder Con took the same
view and allowed the woman to take the
stand. She testified that she had %. n
blue tinted, intsrwoven crescent paper IN
Molineux's bedroom. This was the kind
Of paper on which applications for
samples Of medicines wsre written an
which were offered In evidence BY TIE
prosecution.
Miss Mslando said she had seen the blre
crescent paper in . side board In MoIi-
neux's room In Newark. Sh, had used
some OF the paper herself and mad lest
two sheets Of 1t bsfore Christmas, 1898
The witness sa,d Molineux had always
been kind to her.
"You have done nothing to be sshamei
of, have your" asksd Recorder Golf.
"No, SIR" shs replied.
"You have always been an upright
young woman
"I have always tried to be-"
"Then there is no reason for your be.
Ing afraid to speak the TRUTH"
The youns woman
THEN BEGAN TO CRY,
but the recorder continued the questions
After much questioning, during which
the witness turned her chair 20 Is not &c
face the defendant. she replied that Mr.
Weeks had spoken to her about the plpi
In January, 1899, and that Molineux was
In Mr.. Weeks office at the time. She had
been In Mr.. Weeks office only the one
time, and saw him only onoe she said
She told Recorder Gofr that she got her
knowledge that Molineux was In trout bic
from the newspapers and that abe nams to
Mr.. Weeks office because he sent for hsr
and because she felt sympathy for Mcli-
neux. She was asked II the defendant
ever said or wrote anything to her prior
to his arrest about the trouble and she re-
piled that he had told h,r not to worry.
or something to that effect. This, she
said, he told her on the day he was ar
rested. She also aaid she talked to the
defendant about ten days preceding his
arrest, but did not get any letter fr ow
Aolineux since his arrest. She did get
one before that she admitted, but could
not remember what 1t contained. =
She was asked II she ever received any
valuable presents from the defendant and
said, "only dress"
Mr. Osborne asked Miss Melando few
minor questions, after which she was ex-
cused. MIR. Weeks at onoe asked::that q
objection and an exception be gran ed
him on all the questions put by the curt
to Miss Melando on the statutory ground
that they were ''inoompstent. immaferial
and Irrelevant" and on the further
ground that the testimony was improper
at this stage Of the rroces dings.
DIR. Lsdsirs was CALLED t, the stand.
Recess was then announced.
At the beginning of
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr.. Weeks said that the defense acknowl-
edged that the handwriting on thirty
three exhibits, the numbers Of which he
rsoited was the genuine handwriting Of
the defendant.
The exhibits comprise several personal
letters written by the defendant, among
which ars ths letters to Mrs William
Soheffler, one addressed my Dear Aus
ten." one to patent medicine company
and several bills on the bill head OF Nor
ris Hermann & Co, and endorseinsnts OF
several checks. Expert Kinsley was then
einired to make plain the similarity be-
tween the word ''obligs" in ths admitted
handwriting Of the Burns letter, and
some word OF came Of the "Bar net" and
.sCornish" letters. The witnefs said
when questioned that he was strongly of
the opinion that all these forms Of tbs
wild "oblige" were written by one and
the same man.
Mr.. Kinsale stated that he did not think
1t was possible tor more than one human
being to incorporate in his handwriting
all Of the oharaotsristios In this hand
writing.
Mr. Weeks objected vigorously but was
overrukd.
Peoples exhibit "F" formerly In evil
dence merely 90 an exen plicaticn Of