The sun., 1900-02-08
ARGUMENT BY Mr.. Weeks
Strong Address to the Jury by
the Attorney For Roland
B. MOlineux.
ATTACKS STATE EVIDENCE
The Lawyer Declares That the Three
Crescent Paper Was Not Traced
to Accused and Demands
to see the Envelopes
Containing it.

New York, Feb. 7.-Mr. Barlow s
Weeks, counsel for Roland &. Molineux,
who is accused of the murder of Mrs.
Katherine j. Adams, had another large
audience when he continued his argument
before the jury on behalf of his client.
The defendants wife and mother were
present. His father has been by his
side at every session. Molineux in CON
verSation with his friends laughed and
chatted as If he gave no thought to the
fact that his life was in the balance.
The jurymen entered from the Astor
House, where they were sequestered all
night. A rumor was current that one of
them had said he would not convict any
body on such testimony as that present
ed, but this could not be confirmed. Aft
er the converting of the court the recorder
called the counsel for both sides and
talked to them. Others also engaged his
attention. and it was some time before
Mr.. Weeks resumed. He said:
AT the time, of the recess l was talk
ing to you aborIt the letter box Mt 1920
Broadway. l don't know that | have
anything else to say about that other
than to call your attention to the stamp
on the letter of Jan. 2.
This rubber stamp was interlined with
ink. Mr.. Koch did not explain this.
want to call your attention to the fact
that the letters to the Koch letter box
were all on the three crescent paper and,
too, to the fact that the envelopes of the
letters We're not produced There is moth
ing to show where they were mailed
What has become of those envelopes?
Why were they not produced in order to
show where and when they were mailed?
Most of the envelopes exhibited in this
case show that they were dropped in the
postoffice on the Broadway side. And
yet there is not one syllable of evidence
to show thS the defendant ever called
at the postoffice or ever had business to
go there.
The only piece of paper connected
with the defendant is. the James Byrne
letter, written in June, 1898 Ii is a
half sheet of paper incloBed in a white
envelope. By whom is it signed? Roland
Il. Molineux. Where? No. 6 Jersey
street, Newark. N. j. Is there any
secrecy about it? No.
The Three Crescent Paper.
"Now. as to this three crescent paper.
Mamie Melando said she found six sheets
of this paper. Where? Any place where
the defendant would be likely to nut
them? She said in the drawer of side
hoard and she took three of the six. In
that drawer were kept, she said. maga-
zines and things. That drawer was not
where he would keep writing paper, but
where some servant might keep letter
paper. Mamie Meando left in the spring
Who Kept the rooms afterward? The
defendant had rooms in the factory. but
nNl,
shows that the room was not exclusive.
Others might have kept the paper there.
"'Fhe paper is not such as any par
ticular person would use. What have
they proved? That it was sold by Plum
y Go. of Newark and that Hermann &
e. bought their paper Of Plum & ca.
But they have not proved that the de-
fcndant bought the paper or showed
that Plum x Co. ever had n record of
the sale of such paper to Hermann &.
Co."
Mr.. Weeks here read that part Of tbc
testimony Of the defendant at the coro-
ncr's inquest relative to the three eros
cent paper. 1T was an explicit denial of
his ever using it., seeing it or knowing
any club or association that used il.
Then, picking up the James Burns letter. !
he said:
This is a half sheet, evidently casual
~ picked up. 1t is three crescent paper.
and admittedly the writing is his. Now.
Is it remarkable that the defendant
should have failed to recall his use of this
paper casually? You may have written
upon the same. l may have used it, but
| cant recall that | ever did so.
Now, this Burns letter was written in
June, 1898. The witness, Hickman.
'wore that the defendant used his letter
box in the preceding May under the
name of III. c. Barnet. Why should he
Use that letter box and write as H. G.
Barnet for remedies when he had inst
before written under his own nameY
Hickman swore that the man whom he
knew as IL. G. Barnet and as whom he
las identified the defendant wore
sandy mustache and hair of a lighter
shade. Gentlemen. look at the defend
int and see whether his hair could ever
De described as of lighter shade than
sandy.
Hickman swore that he had seen tbe
defendant lao times. Yet he failed 10
'ecognize him in three photographs and
o identify him at the Sinclair House"