The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-28
MoLINEUx IN THE ToMBs.
ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER OF
MRS. ADAMS AND BARNET.

Coroner's Jury sRid He sent the
Poison 10 COrnish-AIIeged That n
Motive Was Found in the Enmity
of MOIIneux TO Barnet and Cornish.
Last Days Evidence Developed the
Cnse-MOlineux Is the Son of "A RE-
puted millionaire.
New York. Feb. 27-Roland Burnhan
Moilneux. son Of Gen. Leslie Molneux oG
Brooklyn. was arrested tonight. charged
with numbering Mrs. Katherine j. Adams,
in this city on Dec. 2S, 1898.
He was locked up In the Tombs prison.
The arrest followed the verdict of tho
coroner's jury accusing him OF the crime.
While the inquest was into the death oe
Mrs Adams, IL also went into the cir
eumstanees Of the death Of Henry c. Bar
net OF the Knickerbocker Athletic Club,
who was poisoned by a powder received
through the mail, as was Mrs Adams.
The cases are SO closely connected that
they can scarcely be considered separates
iy. The proceedings of the final day oe
the inquest were sensational in the high-
est degree The case had dragged along
monotonousiy, witnesses being examined
for the sole purpose, as IL seemed of cons
tradictlng Harry cornish's testimony Ia
minor details or of ellciting suggestions as
TO a motive that might have led Cornish
TO commit the crime.
The newspapers from the beginning had
stuck TO Moneux as the person most 10
be suspected but the prosecuting officials
apparently never harbored such thought.
The examiner was kind and gentle when
Molineux was on the stand, grum and se-
we're when dealing with Cornish.
A shopLeeper Did 1t.
The curtain rose on the last act OF the
melodrama this afternon. A shopkeeper
who rented private letter boxes swore pos
itively that Molineux was his patron using
the name Of III. c. Barnet" II was
proved long ago that the bottles OF medl-
cine had been sent to that letter box.
Then the handwriting experts were calls
ed, and one after another declared that the
hand that wrote the address on the poison
package and forged the names OF Harry
Cornish and II. c. Barnet to letters sent
to drug firms ordering powder medicines,
was the hand Of Roland B. Molineux. Tho
experts were absolutely certain IN their
Identification Of tho penmanship, ana
would make no qualifications Of their states
rhents.
District Attorney Gardiner then summed
up the case, directly accusing Molineuxs
He defended his Office from criticism, say-
ing that a consistent policy had been fol-
lowed, and that complete case had now
been made out against Mollneux. He re-
viewed the circumstantial evidence and de-
clared the motive and the commission Of
the crime had now been made plain.
The Jury said He Was Guilty.
The jury brought in a verdict charging
Moineux with the murder, and he was
at once arrested and committed to the
Tombs without bail. Their verdict fol-
lows:
I'VE find that the said Katharine J. ADJ
ans came to her death on Dec. 2s 1898, in
81 West Elghty-sixth street, by poison
by mercurie cyanide, administered by
Harry s. Cornish. 10 whom said poison
had been sent in a bottle of bromo-selt-
ger by Roland b. Moineux."
The coroner Immediately issued war
rant IOF lne arrest OF MOnneu& ana tn0
latter was al once arraigned before him.
Through his attorney, Barlow s. Weeks,
he demanded an immediate hearing, buy
Assistant District Attorney Osborne OBJ
jected, saying II was impossible to proceed
with the hearing. The hearing was then
set down for Wednesday morning at II 80
o'clock. Mollneux was committed to tho
Tombs without bail
Molineux is a member Of the New York
Athletic Club and was, until his quarrel
with Harry Cornish,a prominent member %
the Knickerboeker Athletic Club, from
which he resigned because OF that quarrel.
Molineux's father is paint manufacturer
and is reputed 10 be millionaire. Tho
prisoner has gone into good society, being
of excellent address and manners, and
prospective heir to a great fortune. Ills
counsel is Barlow S. Weeks, of the New
York Athletic Club, and personal enemy
of Harry Cornish.
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