The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-28
AMES SURE IT'S MOLlNEUX.
nrAy OF EXPERTS ADMITS THAT
HE'S SOMETIMES MISTAKEN.

. p.uphist He Wrote Ridiculing the Per
,op, Of tho Trinity Sprung on Him and
the Jury and Ruled Out By the Recorder
Weeks Cots in Some Errors by tho Wit
n... IN Noted Cases-A Break in Ex-
,.rt,.m To-day but There's More Behind.
rhs breaking OF the time record for length OF
dsys OF criminal trials in New York county was
moi celebrated in tho case OF Roland d. Moli-
neux Yesterday by the completion OF the line OF
,xpert testimony that Assistant District Attor-
ney Osborne has interjected out OF the ordinary
ain of things In n murder trial. When the
court adjourned last night an expert was still
ON the stand and he will be on the stand again
his morning. Mr.. Osborne promised that
.ner he had finished with this expert he would
c,ll some doctors. but he intlmated that after
be had finished with these two doctors he
rould again resort to handwriting experts. the
number Of which he expressed when asked
,hou, IL by throwing out both hands In front
n, him and saying: "0h. any number; In
numerable.'
The doctors who are likely to be examined
to-day are CONN and Phelps. the man who at
tended H. c. Barnet and the man who attended
II s. Cornish,
Yesterday was a mighty warm day for the
Hon. Daniel T. Ames. the dean OF the hand
writing expert business OF America and the
mariner OF william J. Kinsley. the handwriting
sxpert FIRST employed by the police to hunt out
the sender Of the package OF poison. dose OF
which killed Mrs Katherine J. Adams one year
ago to-day. To young Mollneux. the prisoner.
now accused OF sending the package. the day
wns as satisfactory as 1t was warm to Mr.
Ames There were times when. II facial
EXPRESSION can be said to BIO stand
arl from which feeling may be judged.
Molineux was positively happy. His face
bore smiles that reached from side to side. He
was in excellent spirits His father. too-the
old General whc sat by his side as he has sat
every day since the beginning Of the trial-was
evidently more than satisfied with the way
things we're going. They talked together q
great deal. and with George Gordon Battle.
Mr. wseks's partner in the defence. They en-
joyed the occasional ureasiness OF Mr.. Amos.
YOUNG Molneux has had decidedly better
arpearance the last day or swo than he had
last week. The reason for the improvement
probably Is the fact that he now
gets necessary exercise evory day. whether
the afternoon session OF the trial adjourns
early or late The doctors In court say that
exercise makes heap OF difference 10 a mans
appearance. even IL It Is given in homeopathic
doses.
For the 0rst time since the beginning OF the
trial the crowd that demanded admttance at
the doors Yesterday morning was small: proba-
bly, there were no more than enough persons
than would have filed the court room, but
there was no letting uN in the strtngency ot
the rule that only those should get IN who had
business, who were members OF the bar. or
who had pulls AMI the result was that when
the crier announced his Honor. the Recorder.
there were many vacant seats in the court
room. The Recorder was on tlme not half
the Jury had arrived. the District Attorney was
not represented and altogether there was an
Indication that an overdose ~ handwriting cX-
pertlsm had caused petering out OF interest.
Moneux came in followed by keeper OF the
Tomts. and escorted by the Captain Of the
Court squad he made his way 10 the table OF
rs ns Snd FAY sde9 ni hs c
was longer than usual and for attecn or twenty
minutes MoneuN read and reread IT, smiling
a. himself.
EXPERT AMEs GOES on EIPERTISG.
Assistant District Attorneys Collins and
oConror.who assist Mr.. Osborne in the prose-
sution. were the lirst sepre,entatlves Of the
waited for Mr.. Osborne few minutes. and
then as the Recorder was getting impatient
WEAKNESS OF spirit at the line OF the hand writ
SENS re sa sas
Pick Sut said he; s9e Peepli ,hat 81
not already been gone into by other experts
and explain those 10 the Jury. Don't go over
had IDEAS en ow xon and dis
regarding this admonition he started in just
Ts5s s 81 IN s, TnssaaS Kan psS With
pert has spent some h ours in telllaE about He
jumped from che vs. 70 tn. poison pack
tia, ar are the last line in the address. and dis
sected them letter by letter. curve by curve.
quarters OF an hour when the Recorder leaned
forward in his chair and In n tone OF absolute
Mr. Ames. is It necessary to go, through the
comparison Of all these things IL. detailr"
oh. no.. said Mr: hme1. mo; ! merely
The n. Recorde order sat back with a sigh and Mr..
AGes pEo.seded Just as i he had not been
in. He heard what The Recorder had said and
ct the first opportunity he sought 10 check the
W wHI by h What Ss 8y the
A cha acteristc IL any departure from the
standard that tho writer learned at school
fsct Wiling that 4 is tsush; and avery ins,aree
Of departi rs from The tsughs wwttins shows
Then he proceeded 10 tro' around the black.
board and draw illustrations, He took for his
sa IKE and S Il The 9 "a and M2%sSt
Two Kinds q dollar marks are used One is e, O.
Th S yetra 6 5hF@nGs he
iIca stroke. MI Ames dsscanted, on this a,
crest length. and then all Of a sudden discov.
wantsd to talk about at ali, but the number
mark. So all that he had said went for nauRht
and and alanGh to9wsd the discovery q his mis-
and he said quickly:
j have hundreds OF other points OF simtlari-
ties that have noted that are OF impo rtance
But see that there. is an imnatience at thi,
sort Of thing and J. think l have illustrated
fully" He appeared about to dcsist when III
said suddenly:
oh, but there Is another point 1t has beer
noted that some one might have attempted u
simulate another's handwriting in addressing
this poison package: that Is. might have triet
% make IL look like the writing OF the other
This is Impossible to believe in this case. II
person had tried to simulate the hRndwrtini
~ the defendant he would not have change'
the slant and he would have done everything
give the writing the same pictorial effect a
the handwriting Of the defendant.
AMEs AT FIRST SUSPECTED CORNISH.
He proceeded. and made a speech to tn
Jury. which he emphasized with gestures mad
with both hands. When he had concluded h.
walked around to the witness chair and sa
down. After n couple Of thoughts he said tina
ht first he had been ~ the opinion tina
cornish had written the address on the poisO
Package because Of the similarity OF tn
writing Of the letters signed - Cornish. whlc
The Prosecution asserts Cornish did not write
with the writing or the package. Mr.. Osborn
got rom lin statement that hs q rst conclu de'
thht Cornish wrote the poison package and the
that he wrote the Barnet letters. and IL was no
Until alter he learned that the Cornish an,
barnet letters not written by COrDlS