The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-14
MOLINEUX'S WIFE NAMED.
vEosECUTToS INDICATES IT'S PUR-
POSE TO BRING HER IN.

II Construction Of an Episode At the Attn
Ietie Club Dispeiicd on Cross-E1amina-
tior OF Man who Produced n Genuine
barnet Lettsr-Recorder Coz at Last
Allows n Comparison Of Two Dis
puted Bandwritings-Tbi. Taken as an
Assumption That Molineux Wrote
the Barnot and Cornish Letters.
There were two sensational happenings in
the Molineux poison trial yesterday. The first
was the bringing In Of the name OF Mrs. Roland
n. Molineux. the wife OF the man who Is on
trial for his life. Tho second was the action Of
Recorder Con. the presiding Magistrate. in the
lac, few minutes OF the days session. He per-
nItted the comparison OF the address on the
poison package with the letter known In the
trial az Exhibit f. one OF the letters signed
III. Cornish" which the prosecution as
,er's was written by Moineux. From the
beg inning OF the trial the prosecution had
used its best endeavurs 10 have this comparison
made. For the defence. lawyer Weeks has
quoted several decisions OF the Appellate divl-
son OF the supreme Court and OF the Court OF
Appeals to the effect that under the law II Is
permissible for experts to testify to a compare
sor OF disputed handwriting with standard
or genuine handwriting. but that IL is not
permissible to compare disputed hand writing
with another disputed handwriting. The
District Attorney has frequently handed TO his
expert. Klnsley. three pieces OF handwriting at
once; one q speclmen Of the admitted
handwriting Of Moncux. another letter
signed II. {. Barnet" which the prosecution
declares Moneux wrote and the third SINH
lar letter signed II. Cornish" The expert
was ask ed to compare Them and after the rain
O. objections the Recorder has every time de-
sided that the export could compare each OF the
disputed letters with the admitted handwrit-
ing hut has forbidden him to compare dis
prted hand WRITING with disputed handwriting.
He has made this distinction plain. and In al
most the language OF the decisions OF tho upper
courts. Yesterday he permitted sreh q COM
parison OF two disputed handwritinRs. and
heard no argum ent In the objection raised by
Mr.. Weeks. Lawyers said that the ruling rrac-
usall, took away from tho jury the question
wketbsr or not the letters signed H. Cornish
and II. O. Barnet were written by Moliueux.
aAd decided that they were written by Moll-
neux and that the ruling therefore was vital
one.
The name OF Mrs. Molineux was brought into
the case BY Assistant District Attorney Osborne.
who afterward asserted that Mr.. Weeks was
responsible for II, and that he didn't see
why Weeks did such things" protesting that
he himself would never have done II II he had
not been forced to It. Tho feature OF the testi-
nony regarding Mrs. Mollneux was the innu-
sndo OF the prosecution In the redirect exam
nation OF the witness who mentioned tho
woman's name. The recross-examln alton
showed that the innuendo was not justified.
After the session was adjourned yester-
day Detective McCafrerty took man
into the room OF Assistant District At
torney Osborne The detective remained on
guard outside the door for two hours while Mr.
osborne and the man were alone. Neither the
detective nor the Assistant District Attorney
would say anything about the man or his bust
ness. hut TINT he 10 In soma way connected
with he case Is certain. MolineuS sat beside
his father as usual ", en- the tria was resumed
He was apparently cheerful and busled HIM
se!f With his daily letter
A soon a. young MolineuI had finished his
reading. and had been seated Recorder Goa
called Mr. Osborne's attention TO tho fact that
tel, minute; had been wasted doing nothing
Mr. o,tcrre directed EIper, Kinsley to re.
sumo the stand and again was begun the seem:
breaks between letters 81 words. OF spacing. Of
sentences ard OF everything else that BY tho
be likely 10 ts a, CSsrae,eristis Of any lind
letter written by MoIineuI to Cornish. re.
lating to club matter. was analyzed 10 dstal
breaks that the expert had found In Other ad-
mi,ted hapdTritinss q The defendant; In 70.
d. @ I'M IN 1.-THE the .dS,'.d 6snasrsins ing e u
No,Iin euX and in the letters signed II; Cornish
to MAKE ;s i sa oSp h IN n. 81: .ss
Ell nothing more than nervous twitch."
DO you reg ~ Il as a common characteristic
la2r and his nervous twitch for an 's.'7' asked
II coEsif Ter it. said Mr.. Ki,.l.y. e. decidedly
unusual characteristics. have seen IL In 40
other HANDWRITING that has appeared In this
case, nor do remember IN al my experience as
i 1t c}'sF' ever having seen such character
DR.. Ernest J. Lederle. who has taken all the
photographs Of the eIhibts in the case, sat
Of letters written by Henry c. Barnet and OF
Mrs nma e before the murder
POSED. Dr. Leierle was directed 10 put one OF
The SAMPLES away This was sample that at
le some !"t-haEd writing that had appeared
IN ne case already and this prosecuting offlcer
We are not going TO show any more hand
TTtttngs In his case than W. are compelled TO:
proposes 70 Tx the crime on and prove that he
did IT, We are not going to run MolineuI
against the field to suit him"
LETTER MoLrSEux WROTE IN HASTE.
Mr. Kinsley gave interesting testimony In
In The "a,s a. Exh.e.t. 80 and 81. Th.yweI.
ti'imhHH u 70. 10 u man named dawes
regarding some apparatus not described. The
lrst one was written on Dee. 3 and the second
on Dec. - 1903. Mrs. Adams died on
the morning OF Dec. y. and in the papers
next day the fact Of her death and
many ol the circumstances were printed.
whoever sent the packHg" OF poision to Cor
n.Sh i he read the papers must have known
On Dec q that the dose that be had intended
Cornish to take had been taken by an innocent
person and had caused her death. When the
letter written on Doc. 3 was handed 70 Expert
klEsley. he anayzsd 1t and spoke OF II as q
ROod sample OF Molneux's handwriting, Then
the District Attorney banded him tho letter Of
pee ~ and asked him to analyzs that This
Is the letter:
IErySp, DAVIES: The apparatus has the oil i style
nara ruCbor ring and am sure will not do. VIII
you exchange hem for onos which have the soft
thS iEsioadf Where can n Get and sIchapge1
Yours In great haste, II.
The witness said There is shown In this
exhibit OF handwriting a lack 81 control,
y the Eritng itself This IL evident in
,he third word on the third line. the
WORD has You will see that IL waA
written first Is and the n and the "a were
written over II. Then we come 10 the word
ring The e II oyerwrittsn. There Is q
nervous. twitchy stroke In all the writing. Tbs
wore soft, was written originally sotf.' the T.
snl the e being transposed. and then 1t was
corrected to real soft The e. In the word
eNchanpp which tyyio oil No