The Portland daily press., 1900-02-07

New York, February 6.-Ths une 4
peotsd happened today In the trial Of
Roland u. AoliEeux fer the N urder Of
Mrs. X. J. Adams and the defense rested
upon the cass made by the prosecution.
without tho examination Of a single wit
ness. This explains the statement made
BY handwriting expert CarvAlho month
ago to the effect that he would not 60 up
on the witness stand for the purpose Of
refuting the expert evidence regarding
handwriting given by the witnesses for
s. Weeks. attorney for the defense that
NO additional evidence would be intro
duced disappointed the large crowd that
had gathered at ths court room hoping
that both Nolinsux and his wife would
be called for the purpose Of making clear
certain opsourities and discrepancies be-
tween testimony Of Molineux at the time
Of the ooronsr's ing usst and evidence In
troduosd BY the prosecution during the
past two months. Gen. Molineux, Mrs I.
L. l.. Molineux and Mrs. Blanche Chsess-
brough Molineux, the father, the mother
and the wife Of the defendant wer all in
the So,cr. AMI listened intently to the
srenmsnts sa,snoed by Mr.. Weeks. The
csfsndant appeared the same calm. cool
collected individual that no -nss seomeu
from the very beginning of the tffs,. Al Al.
ter q number of motions In which Wee4f
asked the court to strike out certain testi-
mony introduced by the state, most Of
which motions were denied BY Recorder
COZ. the attorney for the defense pro-
csedsd with an analysis Of the evidence
already introduced and now before the
court. Perhaps the most important, the
most Sensational and the most telling
thrusts were made when Mr.. Weeks re-
ferred to Harry 5. Cornish. The attorney
for the defendants appeared willing to
the assistant district attorney In his in
ferential In Iuiries Of "if Moiineux didn't
do 1t, who did?''
Mr.. Weeks pointed ont that 1t had been
proved that Cornish passed the general
post Office on the Broadway side at $50
u. M, on the day when the poison pack.
age is alleged to have bean sent to his ad-
dress ct the Knickerbocker Athlttic club.
he called attention to the faot that tie
silver bottle holder exactly matched the
silver toilet articles on the dressing table
in the rooms of Mrs. Rogers, the daush-
ter Of & he dead women, the rooms whera
Cor nish resided. He also brought out the
tendance fer Cornish, though the physio al
director VI the knicksrbocker Athletic
club, claimed to have swallowed portions
Of the poison which killed Mrs. Adams
Captain MoClusky's statement to Cornish
after hearing his story, "Well. you have
got to find the mar. who sent that poison
paokage TO you," was taken as the text
Tor another attack upon that individual.
During the afternoon Mr.. Weeks called
attention to the fact that Cornish in
making copy Of the Harpstsr letter in
court had mis-speiled Harpster In ne
identical way In which 1t was mis-spellsd
In the original Harpster letter. He also
attacked in the ssverest terms the hand
writing experts and the proptietors Of the
priyats letter boxes.
few minutes before five O'Clock Mr..
Weeks asked for an adjournment. ex-
planning that his Voice was giving out.
This was granted, Mr.. Weeks saying that
he would probably require all Of tomor-
row to complete his summing up.