New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-05
DRAWING NEAR AN ARREST.
FOUR PEOPLE UNDER SUSPICION IN THE
ADAMS CASE.

NEW cI.Ew rURNrsHED BIZ A NEWARK WIG
MAKBR-DR- K STYLES PorTER's NOTES
ON THE oAsp-cAPrAIN McLUsKr
has GLASSES FROM WHICH
POISON WAS TAKEN.
Complications and mystery still surround the
Adams poisoning case although the evidence
even IL rather disconnected. is accommodating IN
the hands OF the police and will. II their plans
are not frustrated. result in an arrest within a
short time. Whether this arrest will be or the
actual sender OF tho poison or OF some person
around whom circumstant!al evidence has so
gathered as TO make II appear that either ne
or she committed the crime OF sending the poison
under the guise Of bromo settler to Harry Cor
nish and eventually causing the death or MIS-
Adams. may only be brought out in the trial
Of the case That the police are confident
they now have important clews in the case there
ia no doubt although Captain McClusky says
that he has no statement TO give out at present
The fact that Professor Witthaus found that
the bottle contained cyanide Of mercury ana not
cyanide Of potassium has materially aided the
police. as cyanide OF mercury is comparatively
a rare drug and sold by few druggists and this
fact has reduced the scope OF their search Tor
the poison. They are in possession OF the racts
connected with the sale OF the original wrapper
Of the bottle OF bromo settler, or at least know
at what store II purchased. and these facts
were obtained from the war revenue stamp
placed on the wrapper. This stamp gave the
date Of the sale OF the bromo settler and the
druggists initials selling the original bottle the
wrapper OF which was used on the bottle OF
poison What druggist sold this bottle. and
when the police refuse to state. but they admit
that they know where It was purchased
The bottle used to contain the poison was not
q regular bromo- settler bottle but one or ike
appearance. though smaller. The label OF the
bromo- settler bottle had been carefully removed
and placed on the bottle containing the poison.
and then the regular wrapper OF the promo
settler bottle was placed around It. On this
wrapper was the revenue stamp. which was one
OF those issued when the war revenue law was
frst passed. and used by druggists to place
on such proprietary medicines as they had in
stock.
One Of the latest moves made by Captain Nc
Clusky and his detectives the obtaining OF
the notes OF DR.. f. styles Potter. who was the
second physician called IN 10 attend Mrs
Adams when she took the poison. Dr. Potter
made these notes Immediately on his return
from attending the case. but for some reason or
other neither the detectives nor the District-At-
torney's Office at first paid any attention to the
fact that DR.. Potter was IN the case. The de-
tectives however. called at his ONCE. IN West
Eighty -seventh-st.. early yesterday morning
and obtained the report on the made
by him.
DR. PoTTER's NOTES ON THE CASE.
Eighty-seventh-st.. last night by Tribune
reporter DR.. Potter said:
When returned home from attending Mrs
Adams I made a number OF notes on the case
! did this because It struck We being de-
cidedly peculiar and one that showed clearly
that a crime had been committed. I made these
notes for the use Of the police. but II was not
until to-day that they called for them OF
course I cannot make public all my observa-
tons which were noted down for the benefit
OF those who are hunting for the person who
sent the poison AS you know, DR.. Hitchcock
was first called in to attend Mrs. Adams. He
at once sent for me when he found that II was
a case Of poisoning The hallboy Of the apart
ment- house did not come for me as has been
incorrectly reported. but 1t was Mr. Cornish
who came to my Office and asked me to come 10
the house. He did not appear to be I'll. but he
was very pale. IL from excitement.
II went with him TO the house. two blocks
away and as far as saw. he did not appear
10 be suffering from poison. There were two
glasses on the table In the diningroom which
were supposed TO contain the poisonous doses.
The one from which was told that Mrs. Adams
had taken the drink had a whitish sediment on
the bottom. The other glass. out Of which Mr..
Cornish said he had taken some OF the contents
lof the bromo- settler bottle had a clear liquid
IN II. The glasses were on the table during part
of the time I was at the house. but were re-
moved before Dr. Hitchcock and myself went
away We intended taking them with us. but
fha,-r oh fror
sight and so We neglected taking them. This
IS all care to say about the case now. as my
report in detail is with the police. and they
can give 1t out OF they, see fit.'
DR.. Potter added that he thought Mr.. Cor
nish's actions somewhat peculiar
DR.. Hitchcock. when seen at his ONCE, at No.
~ West Eighty-seventh- St, said that he did
not know where the glasses supposed TO contain
the poison had gone. as he did not take them
away from the house. AS TO Mr.. Cornish's Ill
ness he said that Mr. Cornish had told him he
had taken poison. and he had accordingly given
him an emetic but. so far as he knew. Mr.
Cornish had shown no signs OF nausea until
after taking the emetic. DR.. Hitchcock also
added that, as he Informed that Mrs
Adams had taken poison he took his stomach
pump with him to the house and was about to
use II. when her daughter. Mrs. Rogers, asked
him not to- saying that her mother had vomited
repeatedly and so thrown everything off heI
stomach Il attended the autopsy" said DIT
Hitchcock 1T disclosed the fact that Mrs
Rogers must have been mistaken, as the stom-
ach was by no means empty.
POLICE HAVE THE GLASSES.
While the physicians say that the glasses
which were supposed TO contain the poison are
missing Captain McClusky says that this is not
the fact. THE police have the glasses he saic
yesterday afternoon. in answer to an inquiry
made on that point. He declined TO say wner
they obtained them. but added that Mr. Cornisf
bad sared them for The police As the Polio,