Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-03
THE POLICE TESTIFY
Officers Engaged on the Molineuz
Case Tell Their Story.
TRACING The SELLER HOLDER
j. Y Yocum Tells How to Obtain
Cyanide of Mercury.
THE Blue WRITING PAPER

NEW YORK. January 3-The Molneux
ease WIS resumed today. with Policeman
John n. Palmer on the stand. Palmer was
called int" The Adams fiat shortly after
Mrs Adams death He testified today that
;,5 Dr Htfcncock's house he was given
Ircmo ~.Irz,r bottle and bottle holder.
l1, said shut IL took them back to the
NdauS Hai and gave them To Coroner's
Physician Weston. who was present AT that
,-rr. H. al" GOT from DR.. Hitchcock the
piece of wrapper on which the address was
written. Ny. Osborne showed the witness
,Ntibii A The poison package address,
III. ho,JI, ard the bottle holder. and asked
l.u IT they were the articles given to him
ny pr- Hitchcock and which h. gave TO DIR.
Weston. lie answered in the affirmative,
and was thou asked about his police duties
liy said Ia, vas simply the officer post.
Mr. Weeks asked the policeman if he
mao" any search for he tumhler in which
III" medicine had Leen taken. He said he
did NOT. There a number of glasses
uH the side board, but he did not pick out
the one that had been used. He asked
Mr.. Hov"y where the tumbler was kept
Mr. Hovey said there had been great deal
e.. excitement ard that it had been lost.
MI Weeks asked the policeman if Mrs.
Rogers said anything to him about employ
Ing Assistant District Attorney Mcintyre
counsel.
She said that Mr. Mcintyre was their
counsel and he had given Instructions TO
her To not say anything without consult
ing him
Redirect Examination.
In The redirect examination the officer
said Mrs. Rogers told him the dead woman
lad taken brOmO-seltzer and that the doc
r"r had taken the bottle holder and bottle
away. She then said if the officer wanted
70 know anything more he would have to
ask the hall boy.
Detective Sergeant John ]. Herlihy testi-
led I" having taken a small bottle in a
>"alsd envelope from Capt McClUsiley and
G-livcred it to Prof. Witthaus.
This the evening of December 81,
1NiS- Prof. Witthaus gave him receipt
tor IT, He did not see the address on the
iacksge. h said.
The two DETECTIVES afterward made a
iSit tn the mouse of Miss Emma Miller
in Newark. a steEographer and saleSwoman
in Hartdesan's- ON January the detec-
-.E-S wer= given the bottle that figured in
'h"' case and were sent around to try to
ind out where it was obtained. on Janu-
Any ~ Herlihy sent to the business
place uf Eutrow Brothers.
Detective Carey there when he ar
r.v~d- They were met by Herman kut-
u"w. aud >ho!n a letter which detectives
.i-rect-i Mir kutnow To keep locked in the
safe
ne "f ih.- forged Cornish letters. asking
.ur d SfmI, "t salts. and identified il as
,'u- having been seen by him at the office
81 NuJupw Brothers Later. On January
- lSE' he was given the letter by Capt.
Met husky tu take to W. ]. kilsIcy. the
handw rit.ng expert. for examination. The
letter had previously been given into the
custody II M"Clusky by the kutncw Pow
'sc COmpiny- Up To that time the witness
had r"t been 81 the knickerbocker Athletic
,Tiub He went to the club about January
/. n wit i'm LOT
sons who had applied To kutnDw Brothers
for samples Of powder. and compared these
applications with the writings Vi members
~ the club.
Visited Private Letter Box.
He also visited the private letter box con-
c"rH at lG2" Broadway. In tracing the
r'hin-esg blue writing paper which has
dgured III the case Detective EerIihy said
he could find ii in only four stores in New
York. However. at all the stores, with the
exception If TWO. To- which he went he was
t'.Id that th@y had the paper IN stock pre-
Three firms N Newark sold The manor
y" search was made in other cities for
th, reason that the makers OF the paper
nal n" record OF sales outside OF New York
ana Newark
John Fl YocUm. the friend OF Cornish.
Was ca!lef- He said he had known Cornish
since lN;"j He said that he had had room
N Mrs Rogers house at 66rh street and
Park avenue.
Did You see Cornish on Dece ulbe~ Is. the
tsA Of Mrs. Adams dvath?'
Yes, in my Office. He came into nv Of
ASe just after l had IuncheG looking So
Ialn and peaked that ] made Il remark
about his appearance. He told ne of Mrs
ADAMS death He stayed abort half an
hour, an! then We went out and had a
rink 1t didn't set well on his stomach
ami h threw il off at once. II was a little
milk AMI Whisky. | gave him the KEY to
my room. and told him to 20 there and lie
down II. I'D l had my dinner. and when
j went 10 the room hi wanted 10 go to the
HAT. tol him no. he could not go out and
want myself There l saw Mrs. Rogers.
Mrs HoV=y and Howard Adams. l knew
,h-In all very we'll
Mr. IOcum told the court that Il was very
easy 70 make cyanide Of mercury. He
ua med large number of dry Col9rs from
which tn. p iSOn might be made He had
made an experiment in his office in the
presence Of detectives, getting tht. crystals
IN few moments 10y making 4 solution of
some dry cnlors and hltcring through the
crystals on the altering paper.