New-York tribune., 1899-02-14
ADAMS INQUEST AGAINTO-DAI
DETECTIVES FOLLOWING NEW CLENS
N THE CASE.

|
The game Of blind mans bun whch II oe''e
| nIoved bv the District Attorneys om'c peio'e
| -. 14or, will be continued at 1870 a. m.
| to-day The object OF the game II 10 '''u ou'
vho rued Mrs Kate j. Adams With poison
/ 60. r,.oo,nber The Ccroners inquest. so styled
out Of courtesy 20 the Coroner. was adjourned
| lot Friday with Roland B. Molineux stu on
tbe stand TIE Dietrct-Attorney has DECIDED
! =, Len Nr ,toIineux on the stand all OF to-
| DAYS session and then recall Harry Coiiisi
| THE WAS the programme made pubic Iast
| ,cbt hut Ike others Il is subject TO change
and at the last moment IT may be decided 10
change the order of giving testimony ana SUD-
r,it TO the Jury the fact that Mrs. Adams II
| actuallv dead. and that she was killed ny TAX
| ing a dose Of cyanide OF mercury under 'he
q,,iso Of brono-seltzer. If this change II hhaue
u will devolve upon the District Attorney Of
fee the duty Of proving that all the eNhipits J"
the case were properly taken care OF pY AS
sistant District-Attorney Mcintyre, VINO went
TO the fat where Mrs. Adams died before the
| nolice we're Informed that she had been poi
soned
According TO the testimony OF Mr.. Cornish
tho declarations Of Captain McCusky and the
statements Of Drs Potter and Hitchcock the
tracing Of the exhibits will be diihcult mat
| ter and may cause serious legal complications
which il will take scme time 10 unraVeL ITS
Potter and Hitchcock in their statements i"a"e
| 10 tho police DO not entirely agree Win "ha'
Mr Cornish said the witness-stahd AZ 10
| bo,,. ~. poison was administered and what be
came OF the glasses which were used Wheh ]"
was gwen Is also a matter of dispute ABOUT
which Mr. Cornish. Mr. Mcintyre Captain Nc
C,rek,. and Deputv Coroner Weston all make
different statements.
Coroner Hart has nothing to say about future
developments and refers all to the District
Attorneys Office Both District Attorney Daf-
diner and Assistant strct-Attorney OSBORNE
CAV. that they are not satisfied with MI. Cor-
nish's testimony so far and that the whole case
is I'M 70 him" and threaten him with all sorts
of questions when he again takes the Stanu
They say that he did not tell on the staha unue.
oath what he told them before the inquest ""u
that the, propose to find out the reason why.
Cornish answers them by saying that II they
usa ANY bulldozng tactics" he will refuse 10
answer any more questions
Cornish places all the fault OF the failure oi
hts examination on Assstant District-AttorheE
osborne. and Colonel Gardiner. while uphoio-
ing Mr.. Osborne In his work on the case say ,
that possibly IL little more discretion had
been used more information would nave peeh
obtained from Mr.. Cornish
This condition Of affairs has caused consid-
cradle gossip among lawyers who are frequent
visitors at the Criminal Courts Building, ana
thoy poirt 20 the fact that there T. really lack
Of material in the Dstrlct-Attorney' Office 10
| ,,osocuta i,ruortant cases. With the exception
! ~ Mr. Osborne and Mr. Mcintyre. the large
number Of Assistant District-Attorneys In the
/ office are Young men with limited legal expert
cree and not IN position 10 handle cases Oh
tbo r1agnitude Of the one now on. Mr. Mcih-
| tire being in the position of an important VII
ness is not able to take part IN the PioSe'"-
ti0.. . ., .t,
ie il is. there IS a certainty, II all the wit
| ncsses are called that the testimony VIII ue oi
a sensational character Nhether or h hoi an;
/ f1inr I'm the way OF a sensation Will be
b-ought out to-day will depend on now
/ long-drawn- out the examination or l'oianu
/ Noincaux will be- II It is short and TO the point
! II can be completed before the morning session
is ended and then certain important queStlohs
can be nut 10 Mr.. Cornish, ana NJ can DE- ulS-
! posod OF IN time TO call som" other "lthes'e,.
! who may furnish rather lively testimony, but II
! the case rs conducted as 1t vas on the Hrst Two
! drys f. N0linoauX and Nr Cornish VIII "c-
cup, the attention Of the court for al least tHree
Ghe detectives under Captain McClusky are
! feeling in high good humor over the results 50
/ far obtained by the Dstrict-Attorneys once
/ ard are wearing an 'I-told- you-so" expression.
/ Al the Same time they are working on new and
/ important cews IN the case. which may accom-
plish more than the District Attorney drag net
! system OF inquest. The CLOVIS on which the de-
| tectiyes are WORKING are connected and logical
/ i'm their relation to each other. They begin back
| of the time when the first Barnet letter was
/ written and show a motive rs 10 the possible
! poisoning Of H. 9. Barnet. They also tend to
j show motive for getting rid of either Mrs.
! Adams or Harry Cornish Samples OF hanGwrit-
/ ing exactly ike that the Cornish package a
! knowledge If chemistry and ability to obtain
| cyanide Of mercury without making a purchase
al a store where the sale would become public
are also included in the now clcws the detectives
! are now following
The clews do not lead to any person yet pub
! licly mentioned a suspect.
THE HiRPOON Gun N WRECKTNG WALLS.