The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-08

the criminal has dropped
1--WE have, then, a man whose mind,
at least, was in Newark, who was a
chemist or color maker. who knew the
bottle holder could be had at Hartde-
gems, whose handwriting was Ike that
in the address of the package. And then
the old maxim of Roman law-cui bono?
Who was to profit? Look for man ans
wering all these woints of description and
who had reason for killing Cornish.
Not blazing, flaring hatred, which is
seen in all men, but steady, continu-
Gus fire. This poisoner dropped many
stitches This case, which was once a
mystery, has become the simplest that
1 ever saw"
1.-The doctors who were called to at
tend Cornish when he had swallowed
this poison knew that he had taken cya-
hide of mercury, because another man
who had lived in the club, and whom they
had attended, had taken the same thing,
and died from it, and his name was H.
G. Barnet"
Barnet lived at the Knickerbocker
Athletic Club. So did Cornish Both re-
ceived effervescent salts containing eva
sent through the United States mails. Is
there man on earth so stupid as not to
know that the man who did one of these
crimes did the other also?
1.-The bromo settler bottle offered no
means of proof They are sold every
where. But the sample box of Kutnow's
powder, in which the poison was sent 10
Barnet, could be gotten-how? Only by
writing for it. Here is the key to the
whole situation: Who sent, in a hand
writing resembling that upon the poison
package, for a sample box of Kutnow's
powder The detectives went with a pho
tograph of that address to the Kutnow
people. and found that the firm keeps all
its letters. The human being who in
tends to poison his neighbor, must, in
deed, possess universal knowledge. The
poisoner did not know that those let
tiers were preserved"
Molineux had now forgotten his smear,
and was watching every movement, list
ening with rapt attention to every syl
liable At this sentence he moved uneasily
and Weeks broke in with a renewal Of
his objection.
another crime"
IF it is apparent" the Recorder an
swered, that the circumstances of the
one crime are relative to the other, they
are admissible. In the prosecution Of a
case of this kind, the District Attorney
must proceed step by step. The COM
plete case can only be developed by in
quiry into details. The case is made up
of a great number of details unimportant
Of themselves, but when blended together,
of great value" The objection was
again denied, and excepting, Mr. Weeks
sat down.
'I am encumbering myself" resumed
Osborne, because I have promised to
find a man who hated Barnet. If he does
not fit Mr., Weeks client, 1 am the one
to suffer" He then spoke of the KutnOw
Letter, which asked that the sample OF
powder be sent to the letter box at No.
1920 Broadway. That letter was signed
H. Cornish
Now, indeed, we have a clew," he
continued. This letter was written Up
on egg blue paper, surmounted by the
three intertwined crests. II was found
that that paper was manufactured by
Whiting & Co., and sold in six depart
ment stores, four of them in New York
and two-where? You know without my
telling you. In Newark. One of these
ought to be a store toward which the
poisoner had his mind directed. Plumb
& Co. Remember that name.
THE detectives went to No. 1920 Broad
way and found that on the twenty-first
day of December a human being had
hired letter box there, in the name of
III Cornish" and that two other let
tiers had been received there thus ad-
dressed one from Frederick Stearns &
Co, of Detroit, the other from the Won
Mohl Co, of Cincinnati. The Won Mohl
letter, in substance asked that the firm
send to that address lone treatment
The Won Mohl Co, deal in medicines
intended to restore lost manhood. Last
ly, then, the man we are looking for is
a man who believes himself to be thus
affected We must seek a man who does
not possess the native hue of ordinary
vigor, but is sicklied Ger by the pale
cast of lost manhood.
Tine letter to Stearns & Co., inquired
regarding A. A. Harpster. We have
here, tten, three letters, all upon the cEg-
blue paper, all in the same handwriting.
all addressed to No. 1920 Broadway.
Why did this bogus H. Cornish write to
Stearns asking a refernce for Harpster?
The real Cornish and Harpster had both
worked for Stearns. Stearns had stop
ped with Cornish in New York, and all
three had entertained one another.
Cornish and Stearns and carried on Ions
correspondence about Harpster, but the
poisoner did not know that.
THAT BODIED no good to Harpster.
Why? Harpster, as collector for
Stearns. had been discharged. He was
employed now as collector for Ballan-
tine & Co
''Who was Harpster? An employe in
the Knickerbocker Athletic Club When?
You know When Barnet and Cornish
were there together. Who was the man
who. knew that? A man who had been
there at the same time
Barnet. club man, handsome,
favorite with the ladies; Cornish, rugged
but honest, an athletic director; Harp
ster. a brawny collector. Three men
whose lives and social affiliations were
as different as they could be. There was
only one link which bound them togeth-
er-the Knickerbocker Athletic Club"
Il care not" he said, whether Barnet
died or not. for the purpose of my ar
gument His poisoning by cyanide OF
mercury showed that the guilty person
intended to dispose Of Cornish and Bar
nat IN the same manner
ION the very day that the bottle hold
er was sold at Hartdegen's store, in
Newark a letter box was hired in the