Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-30
AN INTERESTING INCIDENT WHICH
WAS ON THE STAND.
ENACTED A DUMB SHOW.
HOW HE OPENED THE BOTTLE OF
BROMO sELTZER.
Demonstrated to the Jury His Exact
Took the Fatal Dose-The Witness
stopped Finally by the Recorder.
jOurned Until Next Tuesday.

NEW YORK, December 29-The
most interesting incident to-day in the
trial Of Roland B. Molineux, charged
with the murder of Katherine J.
Adams, occurred during the cross-ex
animation of Harry Cornish by Barlow
S. Weeks, defendants counsel.
Mr.. Weeks asked the witness to step
from the stand, sit down at the end of
the table occupied by the attorneys for
the State, go through the performance
of opening the bottle of bromo settler,
showing how he knocked the contents
into the glass, how he poured the water
from one glass to another, being care
full to get approximately the same
amount of water that he used in the
preparation of the fatal dose on the
morning Of the murder of Mrs. Adams.
Cornish complied with the request and
proceeded to demonstrate about how
much he drank of the mixture, also
about how much Mrs Adams took. OIL
the poison. 1t was not until Mr.. Weeks
asked the witness to drink the water in
this pantomimic reproduction Of the
scene on the morning that the Recorder
interfered.
Mr. Weeks assured Cornish that the
water would not hurt him, but the
Court remarked: ''This dumb show
has gone far enough"
Assistant District Attorney Osborne
then good-naturedly told the witness TO
go ahead and drink the water, and the
witness picked up the glass with the
remark: "Well, I will drink it," At
this point Recorder Golf again inter-
fered with the statement that he would
not permit anything of the sort to take
place in the court room.
Mr. Osborne said that while Cornish
did not like the tactics adopted by the
attorney for the defendant, he had no
objection to drinking the water if al
lowed to do so by the Court. To this,
however, the Recorder would not con-
sent.
Two of the most important witnesses
for the prosecution were on the stand
during the day. They were John D.
Adams, ex-secretary of the Knicker-
booker Athletic Club, and Cornish. Mr..
Adams was the first witness called. The
most interesting point in connection
with his testimony to-day was his posi-
tive Identification of the handwriting
on the poison package as that of Mol
ineux. The testimony of Cornish con-
sisted largely of detailed descriptions
of the scenes on the morning OF the
murder at the Adams fiat. Recorder
Golf refused to allow Mr.. Weeks to ask
any questions as to the present where
witness, and why Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers,
the latter the daughter of Mrs. Adams,
had separated. Few new facts were
elected in the attempts to trace the
poison package from the Knickerbocker
A. C. to the Adams fat. 1t was, how
ever. discovered that Cornish deposited
the bromo settler bottle in his desk at
the club in the presence of p. S. Fin
neran, that he lost his key to the desk,
and that it was afterward found on the
floor of the Adams fat, after the death
of Mrs. Adams; that just Before the
murder it was necessary for the en-
gineer at the club to break open the
desk for the purpose Of removing vari-
Gus articles, and that the desk was re-
paired in a make-shift fashion. Cor
nish also testified that he was mistaken
in his statements to the newspapers i'm
mediately after the murder, as to the
time when he brought the poison pack
age from the club to his room at the
Adams apartments, and that he had re-
freshed his memory by talking with
Mrs. Rogers concerning the matter.
Adjournment was taken until next
Tuesday.