Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-11
MOL|NEUX IS NOT THE MIN
WHO BOUGHT THE SILVER BOTTLE
HOLDER FROM MISS EMMA
e. MILLER.
THE YOUNG LADY TEsTIFIEs


oner is Not the Person who Made
the Purchase, She Could Not Now
Identity the Purchaser Were He
Brought Before Her - Recorder
GoR Questioned the Witness, but
Could Not Elicit Any Further In-
formation from Her.
NEW YORK, January 10.-In the
trial of Roland B. Molineux for thu
murder of Catherine J. Adams, the
most important witness to-day was
Miss Emma E. Miller, clerk at Hart
degan's store, Newark, N. ]. She tes-
titled that on December 81, 1898, she
sold silver bottle holder to man.
She identified the holder sent TO Cor
nish, and which contained a bottle Of
poison, as the one she sold on Decem-
Der 81. The direct examination OF
Miss Miller was brief, and she was
turned over to Mr.. Weeks, counsel for
the defendant.
Mr.. Weeks at once put the witness
and the defendant face to face, ask
ing:
Miss Miller, did Mr.. Molineux buy
that silver bottle holder from your"
Molineux stood up. and the witness
looked at him intently for moment.
Then she replied:
mo, sir; he did not buy the bottle
holder of me-
Are you sure?"
Positive" answered the witness
firmly.
On redirect examination Miss Miller
described her previous meeting with
Molineux when she pronounced him
not the purchaser of the bottle-holder.
She said that she knew when Mo-
lineux came with Mr.. Weeks to see
her that If she identified him as the
man who had purchased the silver
holder, prosecution against Molineux
for murder would follow. When they
called they first saw Mr. Hartdegan.
He came to her and told her that Mo-
lineux was coming. Then Weeks came
and spoke to her and told her that he
was coming.
$50 they did not bring Molineux into
see you until after his lawyer had seen
you" asked District Attorney Osborne.
Eyes"
"And Mr.. Weeks came ahead to
learn what you would say when he
brought Molineux in?"
The question was objected to, but
the witness was permitted to answer
and she did SO in the Affirmative. She
said further that Weeks had asked her
if she could identify the man and she
told him that she did not think she
could. Then Mr.. Weeks brought Mol
ineux in. after Molineux left did
Mr.. Weeks come back and talk to you
again?"
The witness said at first that she
could not remember, but said later that
he had done So Recorder Cor asked
the witness few questions. He said:
do you mean to say that you could
not under any possibility identify the
purchaser of the bottle-holder?"
"Now?"
"Yes."
II don't think I could"
At one time she had a vivid idea OF
how he looked, she said, but she did not
think she would attempt to identify
him now.
Would YOU" again asked the Re-
corder, "be able to identify him IL you
saw him now?"
II could not"
$50 that IL the man who purchased
the holder was to stand before you now
you would not be able TO identify him?"
Il could not"
"Why then are You able TO say tha4
this defendant is not the MANI"
81 can tell much better who Is not
the man, than / can tell who Is"
Two more bank tellers identified the
Cornish" and Barnet" letters and the
poison package address as being in the
same handwriting as the exhibits which
Molineux admits having written.