The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-08
CLOSING OF MOLINEUX CASE
ATTORNEY WEEKS ENDS HIS ARGU-
 MENT FORTHE DEFENSE.
Wants No Compromise Verdict-Prose- cutting Attorney Osborne B-ginn His Reply and Will Resume To-dRy--Ju- TOT MeyrOwitz Denies the Sensational Report That He Had Talked About the Case.

New York, Feb 1.-The most interest ing event of the day in connection witt
 the trial of Roland B. Molineux for the
 murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams was
 the circulation of the report that one o1
 the jurors had disobeyed the commands of the court and had talked about the case, announcing that he would not
 hang dog on such evidence" The
 rumor achieved such widespread public ity that Emil B. Meyrowitz, an opti-
 clan, and the person to whom the re-
 mark is alleged to have been made, was
 summoned before Recorder Golf. Un-
 der oath he denied the truth of the re-
 port. He admitted that he had talked
 with juror recently, but claimed that
 the juror had never made any state-
 ments, directly or indirectly, bearing on
 the Molineux case.
 Barlow s. Weeks, the attorney for the
 defense, to-day concluded his argument
 in behalf of Molineux. In the severest
 terms he condemned the proprietors of
 the letter boxes who had testified
 against Molineux, the police in the
 manner in which they had handled the case, and the handwriting experts for
 their willingness to convict @ man of murder upon the evidence submitted to them. When he referred to the state mente regarding the relations of the de- fendant and his wife before their mar riage he inquired Was not the grief of his old father enough, was not the burden borne by this defendants moth- CT and young wife enough, without hav- ing the testimony of a colored waiting maid from a boarding house introduced to help the prosecution blot the home of this family? Why did the assistant dis trict attorney send to Washington to get this girl? Why did he not call the landlady herself?"
 Then Molineux's wife broke down for the first time during the trial and cried The prisoner leaned gently towards her and placed his arm around her in a vain attempt to comfort her. This ringing denunciation of the meth ods of the assistant district attorney was broken only by a significant query from MT Osborne: "Why didn't you deny that Molineux lived there as MT. 
 Because it was not necessary" re- torted MT. Weeks angrily. Even the court ordered it stricken from the rec ords and told the jury to disregard Rachel Greene's testimony. It had no bearing on the case How did you dare it? It was an infamous thing to do. It was not only false-it was vile IS we'll"
 MT. Osborne again blamed Mir Weeks for his failure to call any witnesses while MT. Weeks was referring to the character of the handwriting expert for the defense, David N. Carvalho. The recorder angrily stopped MT. Weeks when he referred to the Oreyfus case, saying he had forbidden him to mention he testimony of handwriting experts in his case and that he expected his 1n- to be obeyed.
 After claiming that the prosecution lad utterly failed to show a motive MT. Weeks declared: We don't appeal to you through any maudln sentiment or but as a man to his fellow nen. and ask you simply to do unto ,thers as you would they would do unto ,ou.'" Then after telling the jury that he defense wanted no compromise ver- lict Mr. Weeks closed a magnificent ,eroraton with the words: Gentlemen, he fate of the prisoner is in your hands. What shall 1t be? Guilty or innocent? life or death?" Though the wife and he mother of the prisoner were in tears. he father of the prisoner, General Mol i neux, and the prisoner himself sat ap- | arently unmoved.
 Assistant District Attorney Osborne | n commencing his reply was full of | athos and dignity. He said that he 1 cit at times the keenest anguish when e thought of the bitter things he had | cen compelled to say in conducting the ase. He had the profoundest pity for he prisoner the wife, the mother, the ray-haired father-an emotion so trong as to almost bias his sense of ght and justice. Nevertheless it was ecessary for him R do his duty, and e proceeded with ah elaborate analy- is of the facts in the case. MT. Os- orne had not finished when court ad turned for the day, but he announced nat he would in all probability close is arguments tomorrow.