Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-08
DEATH IN THE BOTTLE
POISON CONCEALED uNDE"
pRoMo-sELTzER LABEL.
Mr.. HARRY CORNISH'S INTERVIEW.
He Tells the Reporters How tho
Drug That Came to Hin was "iFen
TO Mrs. Adams and kfiich her' H''"'
uo,v Two Others Were Hurt.


t1orr,, Cornish. 10 whom was sent the !
co,son which killed Mrs. Kate J. Adams !
asked the newspaper reporters 10 meet
MIN AZ the Kuickerbocker Athletic Cluo
last night. and gave out statement o.
what haprened up 10 the time the ponce
vere called into the case. He said that
Contain McCiusky told him yesterday
that he might tell his story Of the case up
% the time the police began work; beyond
that bo must say nothing. He had a type
written statement. which he read alouH
to the reporters. giving them copies %
hold as he read. The statement is print
ed below. When he had finished reaoins
Cornish said that he would answer any
questions. except such as might bear upon
the work Of the police. That led report
err 10 ask him IL Captain McCusky hao
told him 10 make the statement that ne
had Just read or had suggested that he
make IL. Cornish replied that the cap
tain had told him that he might talk now.
up to now" he said, 1.-THE police would
rot permit me TO talk at all about the
matter"
Cornish said that there was only one
glass OF the mixture in the room at the
time Mrs. Adams took the fatal dose.
There were two glasses, the one he had
put the powder in and the one Mrs.
ADAMS had brought the water I'm. He
drank from the same glass that Mrs.
| Adams had drunk from. The residue OF
the mixture in that glass. he said, was
/ now in tho hands OF the police.
| The statement made by Cornish Is as
| follows:
| HOW HE RECEIVED THE PACKAGE.
ION either Friday night or Saturday
| morning before Christmas l found In my
| mail-box package addressed 70 me- l
| carried It to my Office with the rest OF
nv mail and there opened 1t. IL was
| covered with what appeared To De ordl-
| nary Manila wrapping paper ana was ueo
! with a string. Inside OF this was an orul'
nary Tiffany box and on opening the box
| I found IN one end thereof silver article
! I'm the other end of the box was bottle
of what appeared to be Emersons bromo
| seltzer In between the two articles wa:
! hacked some white tissue paper l tooF
| I'm the silver holder and the bottle. anI
! underneath the bottle found small III
! fany envelope. the kind that is generally
| used for enclosing cards. My first though
was that some one had sent me
Christmas present and that il hac
been mailed az Tinany's. and they hac
perhaps forgotten to mail the caro-.
know that L 9fterward thought OF Wriuni
10 them. recalling the package. and ask
ing if they had not forgotten TO enclose
the card. | took the articles out of the
box and throw the box In the vase
basket under my desk, whore l had pre-
vfouslv thrown the outside wrapper.
! remember Joking about 10 with Mr.. Fin
neran. who was I'm the office nc that time
and il was at his suggestion that l re
gained the outside wrapper ana cut ou
the address. as he suggested that In tina
WAY 1 might eventually determine VIII
had sent it TO me.
81 took the whole affair as a joke on M
when / saw that the bottle was LABELLED
bromo seltzer. This bottle was covered
with what / supposed was the usua
bromo seltzer cover II was sealed at tn
top and had the revenue stamp ON IL
This / remember very clearly. l tried {
put the bottle i'm the condition into th
! silver holders and found that 10 Woul
not fit. therefore / tore on the out5id
wrappcr and threw that away; then the
bottle would 20 On the silver holder, an
1 placed il 10 one side in my desk. 10 re-
NAMED there. and was The source Of muci
Joking during the day. think
WIS on Saturday that Mr.. King mad
some remark about it. saying that p
would take d drink of it. / was wrtin
at the time and paid no further attentts
to it than % shove tho silver holder am
bottle toward that side of my desk, an
I understand that he took II ana put
ON Mr. Finneran's desk, which is next
mine. and then went to the gymnasium
sNs.. ...... An lr "A b faa1
Not finding any water there he gave u
the idea or taking IT, The articles Wet
then placed in my desk
JOKED ABOUT 1T AT HOME.
ION Sunday 1 happened TO remark a
the house that / had received such
present. and both Mrs. Adams and Mr.
Rogers iolted me about il, saying ina
must have some admirer who had ser
me a present Of that kind, and In a John
way limited that / did not dare bring
home. that the senders name was prob,
bly, marked on it, and remarks OF ina
sort. / thought nothing more OF II UNI
Tuesday night, when ! took home VIII
me my dress-suit case. which had been
the club. and which contained some dirt
linen. [ was i'm the clubhouse an tina
evening. and remember playing pllllaro
up TO at least half-past H. on going
il suddenly occurred 20 me that
would take home this present TO sho
them. should have said that on Tue
dav morning / found that / had lost q
kew 10 my desk This was not unusua
as | did not carry It on my key-ring O
kew being one with a solid head, ana
ann I'm the habit Of carrying it I'm n
- watch pocket Of my trousers one
7 the men from the engineers Office open'
/ the desk for me that morning. and u
lock had been pretty badly damaged fro
boing opened i'm the same way from O
q same cause on many previous occasion
r. For this reason I did not hesitate, on fn
p Ing it locked at night. 10 take scre'
% driver and force IL open. which i On
, placing the silver article In my case.
= 81 must have arrived home someWhei
70 I'm the vicinity Of a quarter past u, an
) was lying on my bed reading Wheh MI
Adams and Mrs. Rogers came in. NJ
} Hovey. who had just come from Har
?. ford that afternoon. and who had gor
10 downtown that evening, had uOt return
I ed. / showed the present 90 the ladie
q and Mrs. Rogers remarked that the pa
q tern was similar 10 some toilet piece
/. which she already had. / then told h'
l.. that~the thing was OF no use 20 me, ar
} that she could put it with her other arr
r cles which she did. placing them on n
dresser. The next morning l arose
usual and went 70 the front door 20 tai
in the papers. AS 1 passed the htch'
door I saw Mrs. Adams I'm the dtche
and she had a handkerchief or cloth boui
around her head. and told me that 81
n had a fearful headache. After taking q
% papers ! went to my room and reclin
on the bed to read them, as was my Gu
ie f0rn