The Portland daily press., 1900-01-11
50 Miss Miller, The Clerk WHO Sold
1t, Swears.
Suspicious Action Of
Witness on Stand.
Long List of Witnesses Testified
Yesterday.

New York, January 0-"It II rot my
witness. Mr.. Weeks, it's your witness.
l lost happened to call her first.
With these words Assistant District
Attorney Osborne tcdny in the trial Of
Roland h. Molineux for the murder OF
Mrs.. katherine j. Adams. announced
Il at the testimony Of kmma Elizabeth
Miller, the Newark stenoerapher who,
DIT ring tie holiday rush Of year ago.
fold the silver tcttle holder to the sup.
posed polsoner. could 70 longer lie under
E; cod ss counting for the state as against
Molineux. Miss Miller Is the only person
believed t, have met the murderer facs to
face ard she repeatedly declared In answer
to questions that Molineux was not the
man who bought the silver bottle holeer
from her. The witness wrs ct times in'
tignsnt and angry, at times In tears and
apparently from the beginning to the end
an unwilling witness.
Even wnen the Iecor Ter questioned
Miss Miller in fsthsriy fashion, tho New
ak stenogrnrher did not completely re-
cover ttr gocd nature. She told the re-
corier that In her present state Of mind
she did not think she could Identify her
customer even though he were brought
before her. When the recorder inquired
how It was that under these circum-
arces she was able to say positively that
the defendant was not the man, the wit
n sss replied:
at IL ease. to say taat q man was not
the one than 1t would be to identify the
RI al man."
The witness refused to comply with Mr..
Osborne's reuuest that she write her own
name In court. She was asked regarding
the hour when she made the sale and
the lighting Of the room, and disorepan-
cies wers shown between her statements
In court and statement made to newsra-
per men at the time Of the poisoning Of
Mrs Adams. She was alGo interrogsted
concerning the distarce that she stood
with her Gus onsr from Archibald
Arnold, the head sa'esman. and from tbs
clerks In the fter. Mr.. Osborne drew
from the witness the admission that one
newspaper had paid her = 25 for type
written statement of what she remem-
bered about the affair. She claimed that
the man who bought the bottleholder
from her was OF gentlemanly appearance.
slight build. sandy teard and light com
piexioned. Molineux 10 beArdless, and
dark com ple1 Toned. He appeared more
troubled during tine examination Of Miss
Miller than ever before. The witness
gave Mr.. Osborne witheripg glance as
she lett the count room.
The other witnesses today were Charles
Jacobs, in whose name the lstter inquir-
ing with reference to A. A. Hsrpster
was written to Frederick Stsarns 81 Co,
OF Detroit; Gustav Kutnow Of the firm of
Kutnow Bros. who explained that the
Kutnow powders were a sort Of artificial
Carlsbad salts; Officer John j. Heriley,
who went to Kutnow Bros office to look
up facts connected with the sending out
OF samples OF the medicine; Detective
Sergeant Carey, who turned the kut-
uow powder samples over 10 Prof. Wit
thaus for examination; Leonard u. Levy.
who testified that Robert A. Zeller,a
much wanted witness had not been d.
rectsd by the firm Of Morris Hermann
g. Co, former employees of Molineux, to
cease bringing certain pay rolls to New
York because the police were anxious to
subpoena him; and John q. Emery, re-
ceiving teller of the Seaboard National
bank and Charles II. Vessels. paying
teller OF the Chemical National bank Of
this city, practical handwriting experts.
who testified that the admitted Molineux
letters and the address on the poison
package were written by the sam J., indi-
vidual