New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-08
HANDWRITING TEST FAILS.
rxprRr WORK GIVES NO AID IN ADAMS
MYSTERY.

onprss ON THE POISON PACkAGE BENT ~
oopv,sH UNLIKE THAT OF ANY PERSONS
SUSPECTED IN THE cAsE-woRK OF
THE POLICE ALMOST AT
A sTANDsTILL.
Aver work OF the hardest kind for ten days
.,s notice are now apparently no nearer the
soutIon Of the mystery surrounding the poison
,s of Mrs Kate J. Adams than they were
u,ben the case was put into their hands the day
s,tsr her death Considerable energy was ex-
randed In following up the clews and circum-
s,or,,al evidence connecting one man with the
.asa Int developments Of yesterday and the day
h.,ore weakened the case against the man to
,uch an extent that Captain McClusky and
,,s men once more turned to several other clews
=, ,,s case and are now working in entirely
direrent direction.
The handwriting the package supposed TO
o,ta,n the poison which was sent to Harry s
Cornish has not yet been connected with any
ons person under suspicion. In fact, the ex-
merit Mr. Kinsley. who has the wrapper with
,be address on 1t under inspection along with
tho handwriting OF several suspected people,
has failed entirely to connect any one or them
Ii, the case As a result Of this Captain Nc
clusky is determined to give out publicly photo
Sraphic copies of the address on the wrapper
With the hope that he can obtain some new
oeus in this way He announced yesterday
that he would furnish copies Of the address on
the wrapper to all newspapers this afternoon
In answer 10 the allegations made in several
newspapers yesterday that political influence
was having considerable weight in the case
cantain McClusky said most emphatcally that
This was not true and that he had not been
approached by any person who had suggested
the shielding Of the guilty one
That no arrest in the viii, take place for
everal DAYS at least is admitted by the Detec-
tive Bureau and last night the feeling was that
II might be weeks instead Of days before the
noisoner Of Mrs. Adams would be caught No
date has as yet been set for the inquest by the
Coroner and none will be set until Professor
Witthaus has completed his analysis of the con-
tents OF the bottle and Of the viscera OF Mrs.
Adams The systematic search Of drug stores
for clews TO the purchaser Of the cyanide OF
mercury has practically been abandoned by the
detectives The reason for this was the dis
covery by them that druggists and chemists
seldom had the poison. and that IT was more
commonly used by photographers. and that they
purchased 1t from Photographic supply estab-
lishments. to which places it was hard to trace
the purchase Of the amount used In the bottle
sent TO Mr.. Cornish.
INQUIRIES IL me CALlIAGf1AN DOis
Newark. ~ j.. still seems to be q field OF in
vestigation for the detectives who late Friday
night went TO Garrigan's drug store, in Broad
ST where as has been told. a man purchased
two bottles of bromo-seltzer on the day the sill
yer match holder was sold. The detectives
asked for Joseph Callaghan. the boy who sold
the two bottles Young Callaghan had gone
home to bed. but the detectives insisted on see
ing him. and went TO his house. at No. 81
Bleecker-st. and awakened him. They showed
the boy the photograph OF man wearing a
small mustache and small side whiskers. and
asked him II he could recognize the photograph
as that Of the man who had purchased the
brorno- seltzer. CaIlaghan said that the picture
was more like the man than any he had seen
before. but that he did not recollect the side
whiskers. And besides" said Callaghan to
the detectives. II would rather hear the mans
voice before 7 decide
Captain Cosgrove. Of the Newark police, said
last evening that he did not expect any arrest
in Newark in the Adams case. unless something
al present unforeseen should happen He said
that every effort n ade to identify the person
under suspicion by the New-York detectives mad
failed. and that they would have TO look IN an
other direction for the posoner captain COS
grove stated that some occasions storeKeep-
ers met the New York suspect by ponce ar
rangement. when he knew nothing Of it, yet all
declared that he was not their customer
CAPTAIN Cosgrove stated that all the Newark
storexeepers agreed on the size. build and attire
cf the bearded man who made the purchases;
But there were not two OF them VINO aereeu
As 10 the face of the man before ne put on tne
wig and beard Some thought he had no size
whiskers while others said he mao, ana they
differed also 10 whethe- or not the man "ao
a musfache -, .~
policeman William Barnett, who for six years
has been stationed at the Market-st station Oh
the Pennsylvania Railroad in Newark salu w.
terdsy that r. b. Molineux' whose Sc. ha az man
been dragged into the case. was not the man man
who approa ched him about three weeks ago anu
incurred where he could find costuiheI' - i,
said that he directed the stranger 10 go up lo.'
~ .cLs inteo6ine that ne should visit Fiscners s.
policeman Barnett is acquainted with MOiiheuA,
having known him for several years nc 49,,
Policeman Barnett saw, ne says Wos "a rs
buld about five feet eight inches In heieh', 80
,rou Dire ssed wore a derby hat. and mao d piaeh
mustache turned UP at the ends ms US 20 hps
ton TALES with that given by flscher u ais
visitor ,.or FISCHER
The failure of the Newark wigmaker flscner'
and others 10 identify Roland r. MollneuA'
whose name was brought into the case py p eop't
outside Of the Police Department. plat,s ~,
aliroina,ad his name from all consideration py
the detectives who are following up me cas- cas-
One result Of the mention OF Mr.. Monneu Sis
name ir various papers has been 10 pr0s'latS NJ
NE u.ho ;s now i'll at their home. in west Emu
ave Mr. Molineux did not go 10 MS oushess ~
Newark as usual yesterday out n,raro,,sIv
home with his wife VINO wh'ie no ne attack on
ILL., has been greatly shockeu ny Wv
her husband 81, , counsel
Cantain McClusky is keeping his own couhsei
&c - nrocress on the case and is almost mac
cessble to reporters When he does see tiiI ia
he masses through the corridor al Ponce Ileau
quarters from his office to that OF Chlei ~ o,,as
he has onlv one stereotyped reply TO an ques-
tons and that is. We are making soiiie paoS
ress on the case. but at present nav h IA boy
the shape Of news TO give out. I,e W,,tnou
ever take time to deny the story that hn ors,
powder similar 10 that which Henry - ~ rorl
took was found in the bottle sent 10 MI w
nish