The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-28
YOUNG MOLINEUX ARRESTED1
CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OK
 MRS. KATE y. ADAMS.

Against Him nt s.43 Last Night--C Com- mitted to the TOmbs Without Rail-
 Is tho Prospective Heir to . Great l Fortune.
 New York, Feb. 27.-Roland Bernham
 Molineux, son of General Leslie Moli-
 neux of Brooklyn, was arrested tonight
 charged with the murder of Mrs Kath-
 crime J. Adams in this city on Decenl-
 Der 2S, 1898. He was locked up in the
 Tombs without bail. The arrest follow
 ed the verdict of the coroner's jury, ac-
 cusing him of the crime. While the in- quest was into the death of Mrs.
 Adams, it also went into the circum-
 stances of the death of Barnet of the
 Knickerbocker Athletic club, who was
 poisoned by powder received through
 the mail, as was Mrs. Adams The
 cases are so closely connected that they
 ceedings of the final hour of the inquest
 were sensational. The case has drag
 ged along monotonously, witnesses be- ing examined for the sole purpose, as 1t { seemed, of contradicting Harry Corr
 nish's testimony in minor details, or of
 eliciting suggestions as to a motive that
 might have led Cornish to commit the
 crime. The newspapers from the be-,
 ginning had stuck to Molineux as the
 person most to be suspected. but the
 prosecuting officials apparently never
 harbored such thought. The examin-
 CT was kind and gentle when Molineux
 was on the stand; severe when dealing
 with Cornish
 The curtain rose on the last act of the melodrama this afternoon. A. s. Harp
 ster, who rented private letter boxes,
 was positive that Molineux was his customer using the name of HI. c. Barr net" It was proved long ago that bot { ties of medicine had been sent to that letter box. Then the handwriting ex- perts were called, and one after another declared that Molineux wrote the ad- N dress on the poisoned package and forg- ed the name of Cornish and Barnet to letters sent to drug firms ordering pow der medicines. The experts were abso- lutely certain in their Identification of @ the penmanshp, and would make no qualification of their statement. Dis- trict Attorney Gardiner then summed up the case, directly accusing Molineux. He defended his office from criticism, saying that a consistent policy had been followed and that complete case had now been made out against Molineiix ~... dence and declared the motive and commission of the crime had now been made, plain,
 The verdict of the jury was brought in at S.43 last night. It was as follows: we find that the said Catherine J. Adams came to her death on December 2S, 1898, in 61 West Seth street, by poi- son by mercuric cyanide, administered by Harry s. Cornish, to whom said poi- son had been sent in bottle of bromo- seltzer by Roland B. Molineux.''
 The coroner immediately then issued the warrant for the arrest of Molineux and the latter was at once arraigned before him. Through his attorney, Bar tow s. Weeks, he demanded an imme- diate hearing, but Assistant District Attorney Osborne said it was irnpossi- ble to proceed with the hearing. The hearing was then set down for Wednes- day morning at il: 80 o'clock. Molineux is member of the New York Athletic club and was, until his quarrel with Harry Cornish, prominent member of the Knickerbocker Athletic club, from which he resigned because of that quar- rel MolineuX's father is paint man. ufacturer, and is reputed to be a mill lionaire. The prisoner has gone into good society being of excellent address and manners and prospective heir to d great fortune. His counsel is Bartrow s. Weeks, of the New York Athletic club, and a personal enemy of Harry Cornish.
 Interesting Summing Up of Case.
 The details of the last part of the trial were very interesting. Molineux lis- ened to the arraignment of the hand~ writing experts without betraying any nervousness. Now and then he smiled IS he whispered something to his coun- el or his counsel said something to him.. lis father, General Molineux, however, seemed almost on the verge of collapse turing the better part of the hearing. lis lips worked convulsively and his V manner generally showed that he was lard beset. He bore up we'll, however, nd declined to leave the court when in- 'ited to do so by MT. Weeks.
 It was 435 o'clock when Colonel Gar- liner announced that the evidence in he hands of the people had been given nd he began to sum up the case. He xplained the reasons for the delay in ringing the case to an investigation, aying that it was necessary to deter nine whether Mrs. Adams had in real y died of poison. Professor Witthaus i'd discover poison in tho contents of he bottle and as soon as it was pos- Ible for the district attorneys office to O ahead with the inquest it did so. "In of the publicity which the ase was given" continued Colonel Gar iner, certain persons became suspi- ous and were put on their guard. Ger ain methods had therefore to be adopt- d to disarm suspicion. We realized nat we must have evidence of the of the person we suspected. ye suspected also the person who com litted the crime had knowledge of hemistry