The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-10
WILL GO TO JURY TO-DAY
1LL ARG UMENTS FINISHED IN THE
 MOLINEUX CASE.
Recorder Golf to Charge the Jury This Morning-CIosinE Words of MT. Os- borne for the PrOsecutiOn-His FicEce Attack Upon Mrs. MoIineux-Biamcs Weeks for Bringing Her Into Court.


 New York, Feb. 9.--Assistant District
 Attorney Osborne tonight completed
 his argument in the trial of Roland B
 Molineux for the murder of Mrs. Kath-
 crime J. Adams. Recorder Golf will
 charge the jury tomorrow morning and
 the twelve men are expected to take up
 at once the question of the guilt or in-
 nocence of the prisoner. Whether a
 verdict will be reached tomorrow will
 of course depend upon the ability of
 the jurymen to agree. On account of
 the illness of Juror Mannheim Brown,
 despite the immense cost of this cele-
 brated case, reaching as it does into
 the hundreds of thousands of dollars,
 it Is not anticipated that the recorder
 will insist upon severe measures, or
 require that the jury be locked up for
 any considerable length of time even
 though they should fail to reach an agreement.
 Undoubtedly the most dramatic event of the day was the attack which As sistant District Attorney Osborne made prisoner. This attack was somewhat unexpected, since Barlow s.. Weeks, the attorney for the prisoner, had already characterized the mere introduction of evidence concerning the fact that Moli- neuX lived with his wife before mar riage under the assumed name of MT. Cheseborough" as "low mean and vile" But MT. Osborne elected to pick up the gage of battle thrown down be- fore him by the counsel for the de- fendant. The war was on in an in- stant to-day when MT. Battle, who Is associated with MT. Weeks in the de- fense of Molineux, objected to MT. Os- borne's saying that Mrs. Molineux was the sole motive in the case, that Moli- neux had been trying to marry her, and that she had only consented to marry him suddenly after Barnet who had been devoted admirer, was in his grave. MT. Osborne had just finished reading a note signed Blanche" sent by Miss Cheseborough to Barnet dur ing his last illness and when MT Bat tie interposed his objections, MT. Os- borne turned quick as a flash towards Mrs. Molineux. There is the woman. There is the motive" he exclaimed, in tones dramatic because of their fierce intensity
 MT. Battle still continued to object upon the ground that the statements had not been supported by the evi- dence, MT. Osborne's voice again rang cut: Let the galled jade vince. I do not blame counsel for objectng. But that woman is the living, concrete form of the motive in the Barnet case. and it is undisputed that the man who sent the poison to Barnet sent the poison to Cornish. I hate to have to>speak in this manner of this woman It is shameful that MT. Weeks brought these subject of which I must speak It is a continuation of the cowardly crime and shows the nature of the man who would consent that his woman-kind should hear such words"
 General Molineux left his seat at the conclusion of this attack, leaned over the back of his wife's, chair and patted his daughter-in-law fe-assuringly on the shoulder. Molineux himself never moved. As for his wife, she sat with dry eyes, flushed face and tightly con- Osborne said, Remember the Frank enstein; remember that he was built up with backbone and muscle, but his creator could not give him soul. The defendant has no soul or he would not laugh as he has laughed in this court room under circumstances that must break the hearts of his father and mothef"