New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-04


chemist employed by the United States Leather
Company. He in charge Of their works In
Newark. but in 1898 his office in this city. Mr.
1ocum said he friend OF Cornish. and IN the
summer OF 1898 he boarded with Mrs. Adams when
she lived at Park-ave. and Sixty-sixth-st. De-
scribing Cornish's visit his office Ferry-st. on
the day Of Mrs. Adamss death, the witness said
Cornish looked pale and peaked When Cornish
left him he gave to him the key to his room at
the Knickerbocker Athletic Club and told Cornish
TO go there and lie down. He Cornish later in
the evening in bed being attended by two physi-
clans Cornish wanted TO get up and go to his
fiat. but the witness persuaded him to remain
where he was. he himself going to the fiat where
he saw Mrs Rogers, Mr.. and Mrs. Hovey and
Howard Adams.
CYANIDE OF MERCURY TAKEN UP.
Asked by Mr.. Osborne IL he knew much about
. cyanide of mercury, he said that he did as a
chemical. His attention first called TO Ii
when he read DR.. witthaus's report that Mrs.
Adams had died from it. Yocum said the poison
easy to make, in fact il was the easiest thing
he had ever .Tied to make. He explained that he
had first made It in his laboratory in the presence
OF Detective Sergeant McCafferty. All he had TO
do was TO boil mixture of prussan blue and yell
low oxide of mercury. filter the solution and there
remained precipitate which crystallized.
In cross-examinaton Mr.. Weeks proceeded to
show first that the witness wrong In describing
prIssian blue and yellow oxide of mercury be
dry colors. such as the defendant engaged in
manufacturing
Q-Dc you say prussian blue is a dry color? A
calir, u is said by authorities be dry color,
Q.,-where did you get the yellow oxide from?
Al A. had it for a long time before in my labora-
0,2You pad the prussian blue in your laboratory,
Q1What did you the next time? A.-The
suIphate OF mercury. queens yellow;
thorities so cali it. but have said 1 color
.,o-Did you succeed the first time you tried with
the prussian blue? Ayes.
Odd you make any tests with the crystals?
o-what did you do with them? Al gave them
10 Defective McCafferty.
we're CYANIDE of mercury set uee mads
some more by the same method and made the
81 -What test did you make? A;;-with guphuric
sci ia FROM this got the smell of hydrocyanic
THE CRYSTALS AND TESTS
Mr.. Weeks questioned the witness closely as to
the tests he had made TO determine the crystals
he had got were cyanide of mercury. The witness
said he recognized "Bloxom's Chemistry" as a
standard authority, whereupon quoting from the
work Mr. Weeks showed that cyanide of mercury
crystals only four sided
Q-Do you stin say you found eight sided
o.-And You believe that you had cyanide of mer-
curry? Yes ANYBODY who knows anything
sometimes come indscrimnately four six and
eight sided. So long as they are even sided the
9It dSes sss @ake any difference then to the
was seven sided crystal it would be of impor-
lance. But among eight sided crystals you often
Q.Did you say that Prussian blue double
Q-The .stenographer says you did. Al never
said II. though. He mistaken.
low oxide q mercury had it foT {f Se
ago If You viii look IN the files of the papers se yoa
will see that that was spoken. of then Q
Q.-Is the yellow oxide a dry color? Al don't
Q--Is it not too heavy for dry color? Al
that Cornish when You first Saw him was rattiei
O'clock: had just come in from my luncheon.
POsTMARKS ON THE EXHIBITS
Henry C. Lockwood a clerk of the city delivery
department of the General Postofice was next
called, and on examining the cancelling marks and
lettering on the stamps of the poison address he
said the package was mailed December %, at the
General Postoffice on the Broadway side. 1t
fourth class matter, and there enough stamps
on TO carry ten ounces. The witness then received
the envelopes of the disputed letters. and he test
fed that all of them had been mailed in the after
noon between and o'clock Cross examined, the
witness said there nothing In the cancellation
mark to tell in what year the envelopes were
mailed The stamps might have been cancelled in
December. 1885, or in any year in the same months
for five before.
Miss Elsie Gray of No. 40 West Twenty fourth
St, employed as cashier and bookkeeper for
Kutnow Brothers, sworn. and said she
membered detectives visiting the firms offices In
January. 1888. Persons, she said, could get samples
OF the medicinal powder either by writing call
Ing and leaving name and address. In 1898 samples
distributed Asbury Park n. J., that in
that year there three ways of getting samples.
She identified a specimen tin box which used
send samples For selling purposes she
said the powder was placed in bottles, which
corked, sealed and capped. The sample boxes
not sealed. On the occasion of the visit of the
detectives Miss Gray said that after searching
through 10000 letters communication was found.
which she identified in Exhibit Z, OF the let
tiers signed HI Cornish" which the prosecution
asserts written by the defendant
Miss Agnes Evans. who at time employed
by a engaged in selling advertised remedy,
followed and identified Exhibit 2 in the admitted
handwriting OF Molineux, having been received
by her employer. The letter written the
ton for the remedy in question. Mr.. Osborne en-
bsrrassed the witness considerably with questions
he put to her concerning the remedy.
George A. Salmon and Henry H. Wotherspoon,
jr eorroborated Cornish's testimony regarding the
receipt Of the poisoned package.
A. a. HARPsTER CALLED.
he was at one time employed a clerk in the
Knckerbocker Athletic Club.
Ode you know H. s. Cornish? Ayes.
Glow long did you know him? Aver since
Odd you leave the club in January 1898, and
go into the employ of Balantine Co., in Newark?
Ayes; until February 1872 i was d collector
Odd you ever apply TO Charles Jacobs e. Co.,
of this city for situation? A.-No.
Q.-To Rudolph Heiles? A.-No.
DIDO you ever work for Frederick stearns