Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-06
SURPRISE READY.
Belief That M0|ineux's Counsel
Has One for Prosecution.
ENa mination OF CorniSh Concluded;
Discrepancies Acknow wlcdScd -.
Medical Testimony Concludes
Days Work.

New York Jan. 3.-Thc trial of Poland
b. MolineuN opened Yesterday with the
REORGANIZATION of Harry Cornish ~
finished. These interested in the case
believe that Barlow 5. Weeks has some
surprise in store for the pr' sccution.
Assistant District Atturne! Osborne
does not admit that such can b. ihe case,
but ii is apparent, nevertheless, that he
is more watchful of the legal tactics of
the defense that lie has been before.
Mr.. Weeks started in yesterday asking
Cornish about the hour of his return
home from the knickerbocker Athletic
club on the night of Dec. -, 1898. Cor
nish acknowledged he was mistaken in
previous testimony as to the hour. The
witness was compelled to run Il gauntlet
of questions regarding his relations with
the various members of the household of
Mrs. Adams.
Cornish testified that he could rot re-
member who first told him that Mrs.
Rogers, the daughter of Mrs. Adams,
had separated from her husband. He
said that he went to Chicago in 1898, and
that his wife obtained divorce from
him in March. 1897. Under severe
cross examination he admitted that he
knew "A Mrs. Small: that she had died in
1894: that her real name was Mrs. Pat
terson: that he had sent the woman to
hospital before she died. and that he hn,!
with her burial. Cornish, apparently
i,,,,it toI h,. hn ;.>,,e
asked by Mr.. Weeks, retorted. You
ought to know all about that. The ply
sician told your detectives { Il about it,"
Mr., Weeks asked Cornish if he had
gone to Chicago to find out about what
the detectives had done. Cornish ac-
knowledged that he had Cornish was
closely questioned concerning his visit
to the office of Mr.. Yocum, whom Cornish
styled his 'best friend" He was asked
as to the route he took in going from
Yocum's office uptown on Dec %. This
line of questioning was significant, as it
developed the fact that Cornish passed
the general pOstot!ice. and that he had
thus been given the opportunity of mail
irg the poison package himself Cornish
never iiinched, but acknowledged being
In that vicinity on the afternoon of the
day before he received the fatal pack
aSe.
Mr.. Weeks next made the witness ac-
Knowledge discrepancies concerning the
time of the receipt of the bromo seltzer
also errors in his statements to the
HeWspapers as to the manner in which
he was dressed at the Adams apart
ha or
Cornish also acknowledged that at one
time he thought Felix J. Gallaghc" wrote
the Harpster letter. When interrogated
regarding certain statements given out
to the reporters Cornish said that he had
searched for manifold copies and notes
at the clubhouse, but they had been
stolen. He denied offering to sell to a
representative of the New York Journal
for $1,000 a story as to who sent the
poison, but he acknowledged meeting
the repre- sentative for the purpose of as
certairiHG who first gave Molineux's
name to The Journal.
Nlr. Weeks got the witness to az.
Knowledge that in 1897 he wore a white
alpine hat with a black band, but he
lenied wearing a hat of this character
'''' i''so io'o' HSSc IucSlNbIS were re-
garded as significant chiefly because Of
the fact that person wearing a hat
Of this description is known to have
rented a private otter box and re-
ceived letters which have figured in this
case. Cornish testified that the con-
nection between the poison package ad-
lress and the handwriting Of MolineuX
was first mentioned by John d. Adams.
He denied purchasing works on chem
istry in December, 1898.
Assistant District Attorney Osborne
again took Cornish in hand and asked
him whether he had ever heard Mr..
Carvalho. the handwriting expert, say
that Cornish could not have written the
poiscn package address. Cornish said
that he could not remember When
Cornish said that the poison box had
been tied with a string Juror Edgar re-
marked that ii must have been trans.
ported as open mail matter. Mr. Os-
borne thanked the juror for the sug-
gestion, and added that he would en-.
1savor to follow it up.
The days proceedings wound up with
medical testimony, which the prosecu-
lion had heretofore kept in the back
ground. Coroner's Physician Albert T.
Weston, who performed the autopsy
upon the body of Mrs. Adams told in de-
tail the story of the post mortem. Mr..
Weeks oss-eXamined the witness at
great length. lie ELECTED the fact that
DR.. Weston had not made microscopic
examination of any part of the body of
Mrs. Adams, though the physician him
self acknowledged the Importance of
this.
Mr.. Osborne on the redirect eva ma
ton, took ~. Zaga of the cree s-ey
animation of Ml. W ,e.' to bring in the
name of II. c. Barnet. Mr.. Weeks
strongly objected. but despite his efforts
Recorder Goff allowed the witne7. to
testify that the last hydrocyanic autopsy
which he had performed had been upon
the body of Henry Gresham Barnet at
Greenwood cemetery on Feb. 2S 1899.
Mr. Weeks continued his pleadings with
the recorder and his objections dntil
Mr.. Osborne remarked that he would
desist and let the witness go. Court
then adjourned