The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-20
NO MENTION OF MRS. ADAMS.
The Moiineux Testimony Yesterday
Related Only to Barnet

| NEW YORK. Jan. 19-Roland b. Moli-
| neuX was on trial again today for the muir
| der Of Henry C. Barnet, not for the murder
| OF Mrs Katherine ]. Adams. The name OF
| Mrs Adams was not mentioned once in
court, and there was no reference to the
! Adams case. DR.. Beaman Douglass. the
| physician who attended Barnet in his last
illness. was the principal witness and was
on the stand nearly all day.
Although Assistant District Attorney Os-
borne had promised to finish his presenta-
tion OF the case for the prosecution today,
when court adjourned he said he still had
a number of witnesses to call and that 1t
would be absolutely impossible for him TO
get through before the first of next week
As Prof Hagen resumed the stand in the
morning session and it was announced posi-
lively that there would be no more hand
writing experts, young Molineux, the de-
PENDANT leaned back in his chair with a
sigh and said:
We'll, this is the last blow at Molineux"
DR.. Beaman Douglass, the physician who
attended Barnet to the day of his death
and who gave a certificate to the effect
that Barnet's death was due to cardiac
weakness. following an attack of diph-
iberia, was called TO the stand. The de-
fence made the regular objection that the
defendant was not on trial for the killing
of Barnet: that he Barnet case had alb
solutely nothing o DO with the crime with
which he is charged, and the recorder. as
usual overruled the objection and let the
evidence in.
Mr.. Osborne started right In to discredit
DR. Douglass. He produced a copy of the
report to the board of health regarding
the case that was made some days after
Barnet's death. when a complaint against
IlQuplagg ma
porting Barnet's case as one OF diphtheria
DR.. Douglass identified the report. and then
began a war between the witness and the
assistant district attorney. Mr.. Osborne
would pick out half n sentence in the doc
tors report and demand a categorical an
swer. The doctor would insist upon hav-
ing the whole of the sentence, or upon
being allowed to make an explanation that
would set him straight
The doctor stuck to his position how
ever, and his last assertion to Mr.. Osborne
was:
Il never had any idea that cyanide of
mercury played any part in the case of
the death Of II. c. Barnet / followed that
case from the sick room to the grave;
have followed the case as it has pro-
crossed here. | have heard the testimony
of your chemist and have read all the tes-
timony in this case as it has been printed
In the papers, ana | am forced to say
that my belief in the case OF Barnet's
Illness and OF his death is not shaken in
the least He died OF cardiac weakness,
which followed diphtheria."
The last witness Of the day was Or.
Andrew II. Smith, a professor in the
Postgraduate College, The day Barnet
died DR.. Douglass called him in for con-
sultation. Mr. Osborne put a long hypo-
thetical question to him, asking If. in his
opinion. Barnet had died of cyanide of
mercury poison. The doctor said that that
was his opinion Then Mr. Weeks put
long hypothetical question to him. assum-
ing a lot of other things that were left |
out of Mr.. OsbOrne's question. and the |
doctor was inclined to be stumped. But |
he did not want to retract his first opin- |
ion. Things were cleared up finally by his |
admission that he had never seen a case |
OF cyanide of mercury poison; that he had |
never seen case OF mercury poison that |
had resulted fatally, and that he had never |
used anti-toxine in the treatment of diph-
iberia.
The case will be continued Monday ut
1920 o'clock.