Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-16

alleged murder of Mrs. Katherine J.
Adams, District Attorney Osborne as
serts that the end of the prosecution
is near. 1t is expected that the state
will rest its case no later than the
middle of the week. Mr.. Osborne ex-
pected to have closed his cas- last
week, but the course of events caused
the postponement of calling several
important witnesses. Among them are
Herman B. Koch and Nicholas Heck
man, the private letter box men. and
it is also rumored that the state will
call William Hepner, a wig-maker and
an, expert in all sorts of DISCUSSES,
who, it is said, will be asked to offset
the testimony of Miss Emma Miller,
who testified that the purchaser of the
b~ottle-holder wore a sandy Vandyke
beard. Koch and Hickman probably
will be called to the stand some time
during to-day's session.
MucAzinterest is being displayed in
the naturs of the defense that is to
be madefby Messrs. Weeks and Bat
tie, counsel for Molineux. Their line
Of action indicates that they will be
satisfied with merely creating a doubt,
but it is asserted that Mr.. Weeks has
some surprising testimony that he will
introduce. He is said to have intimat-
ed that if everything points to the
feasibility of such action, he will per-
NIT Molineux to take the witness
stand in his own behalf, but he will
not make an absolute statement to
that effect.
A~feAsfKaB1e sceHe followed soo1
after the opening of the trial to-day.
Rachel Green, a colored servant was
sworn. She testified to having worked
where the Cheseborough family had
apartments. She said she knew Moli-
neux then as "Mr. Cheseborough."
Molineux Is now the husband of Miss
Cheseborough. The colored woman
was asked to point out the man she
had known in the 10th house. She
walked down the crowded court room
and singled out the defendant without
hesitation. She added that when she
left her service place in January 1898,
Molineux had a dressing case which
his valet had brought in Miss Cheese
borough's room.
Minnie Belts, another colored woman
employed at a house where Miss Cheese
borough had lived on West End ave-
nue. was introduced. In reply to an
objection entered by the defense to
some of his questions the District At
torpey made direct allegation against
Miss4Blanche Cheseborough, now Mrs.
MolineJx. He said: "The witness has
sworn the defendant lived with Blanche
Cheseborough in 1897, and I am going
to show he didn't; that there vas an
other man interviewed.
sIll show that this man was Barnet
and that he and this defendants wife
lived together as man and wife from
November 2 to January 1, and that lat
err she left him and married this de-
PENDANT"
II shall establish the motive"
eyes, but Barnet is not Cornish"
said the Recorder.
mo, but this will help establish
that Molineux wrote the Barnet let
tiers and therefore wrote the address
on the poison package"
by these letters it was shown that
this defendant was in no philanthropic
state of mind toward Barnet and that
Barnet received cyanide of mercury
and that the State lost an important
witness.
'In the case Of Cornish we have a
complete scheme. We know how he
received the poison. All the known
facts in the Barnet case throw white
light on the Cornish case. Connection
with one will prove guilty knowledge
in the other and this connection is
proven by the parallel of the facts.
sMotive established in the Barnet
case will show that this defendant did
away with Barnet.
'aThe testimony now being taken will
establish this motive and it will clear
he present case when this motive we
ire now discovering is established"
go on" Said the Recorder.
Rachel Green, who testified that she
had at one time lived at 257 West
seventy-ffthstreet where a Mrs. Bell
lived. Asker il she knew the defend
Int she. replied that she knew Mr..
Cheseborough, who lived there with
Mrs. CheseboFough. Asked If she saw
Mr.. Cheseborough in the room. she
walked through the court room in front
of IL Rscorderss desk, stepDed up TO