The Portland daily press., 1900-02-12

bis seat General Molineux said 10 him In
tones loud enough 10 be heard By alli
Keep up your nerve," and Moiineux
replied with q smile: Yes, don't be
afraid"
MoIinsux's mother and his wife, I'M
able to bear the strain Of logger waiting
for the verdict, had lefs the court room
soon after the jury went out
Mr.. Weeks asked on behalf Of General
Molineux that the latter b, permitted to
visit his son and the Recorder made an
exception In this case and granted per-
mission.
Foreman Martin stated that the jury
had agreed among themselves 10 absolute
ly refrain from the discussion OF any OF
the proceedings In the jury room. A
tremendous crowd waited In the corridors
Of the court room and about the building
until sftsr the return Of the verdict and
when Moiineux was brought out by the
deputy sheriff, somebody called for three
cheers" for Molinsux and remarkable
demonstration with cheering followed.
Many women were In the crowd and
took part In the denomination. ~
seemed TO please Molineux for he smi,e1
and bowed and all the way through the
great crowd that pressed around him. he
hnd occasion to smile and bow numbsr
Of times for TIE cheers were repeated
rain and again. There were calls for
Cornish also but the cheers for Molinsux
ovsrtopped these cries.
Regarding the verdict Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Osborne said: 81 am con-
fident that the verdict will stand. Upon
the presentation Of the case a. furnished
me by the police department. there could
not have bsen any other verdict"
Barlow s. Weeks, Molinsux's counsel,
would say nothing about the verdict.
Harry Cornish saidi 81 do not see how
twelve men could hear the evidence given
and rynder any other verdict. / cannot
say any thing else about the verdict and
furthermore will not" .
The announcement of the verdict OF
guilty was received In the uptown dis
tricts and about the clubs apparently
men seemed to be staggered by the an
nounoen emit and II was the main topic Tor
discussion for the night.
As the convicted man was being leo
away from the court room after having
learned his fate, General Aoiineux SAT
with mouth set and teeth clenehed.
There was no suspicion OF moisture In his
eyes. There were defiance and determi-
naticn Is be looked over the jurors who
had condemned bis son. As they Tiled
out ne said: 1.-THE verdict neither de
stroys my faith In my boy nor my belief
In his Innocence. 1t 10 . shook and sur
prise and 1 cannot understand ~" DE
t6nuOQ ovbE W oaItOW -
though to soy something. This WINS af.
ter Mr.. Weeks haa ssked the Recorder the
second time to instruct the court onc-
ials TO print the General 10 confer with
his son. When thu permission was grant
Cd, the old soldie. showed the tension he
was under; he yrasped his coat and
wanted to hurry at onoe TO the son who
had bsen led firm tie court room down
to the prison pm.
The proosedinGs were late In getting
under way. IL was almost eleven clook
when Recorder Con assembled the hench.
General Aolinsux with his wife and
daugh tsr-i n.lew had passed into their
regularly opened to the public. Both
women showed signs of having passed a
slssepless, tarful night.
George Cor ion Battle, counsel for
Molinsux, handed In the REQUESTS"
which he said were suggested by the
summing up of the distrjc, attorney. II
took the Recorder nearly ten minutes TO
read the list and he commented ssrclsti-
osliy upon MIR. Battles handwriting
which he was unable to read In several
instances.
In opening his charge, Recorder Goff
told the jury that the rules OF law are
to shape their Judgment. He said he
would not comment on the facts OF the
case. The presumption Of Innocence, he
said, remains with the defendant until
bis guilt is proven beyond reasonable
Recorder Goff stopped In his!chasge and
asked Lawyer Weeks II he wished him to
detiue the various charges Of manslaught-
er and murder. Mr.. Weeks answered that
he did not; that 10 was murder In this
first degree or nothing. Recorder Col
continued:
"If you think witness has testified
falsely you are not compelled to reject all
Of It. You may reject all OF 10 or only
part as you deem proper. You may IND
Q verdict OF murder In the first or second
degree; ynu must not use your power ca
priciously."
The Rsoordsr went over the indici :
ment and Its several counts. and then
said:
ar you find that Molineux sent the p oil
son, he 10 lust as guilty as II Cornish had
died instead Of Mrs. Adams.
Did the defendans send the poison
package to Cornishf Upon that control
ling questl on the whole case hangs. II be
did not, then all the 9th er questions are
disposal Of. If you are satisfied he did
not then You shall acauit"
The Recorder went az length Into discus
sion and mentioned the experiments OF
experts during the trial. Coming to the
days subject, to the death OF Mrs.
Adams. the Recorder went step by step
over the evidences submitted, showing the
sickness OF cornish, the WORK OF tue po-
lice. the futile attempts to secure n
Identification of the man who purchased
the silver DO tile holder In Newark. and
piece by piece the letters sent to the med
icine firms.
Gsneral Molineux and the defendants
wife sat calmly Watching the Recor der
as he spoke. Molineux WAS apparently as
we'll satisfied and as unooncerned as he
had been all through the ordeal bnt bis
mother made 70 prstsn Of unconoern.
She was plainly miserable and apprehsn-
sive. The Recorder got little mixed ss
to his statement of the Koch letter box
incident and MIR. Weeks and Mr.. Osborne
Interrupted him t3gt ther. Both agreed
that Koch had not identified Molineux AS
the man who hired the tox at 620 Broad
way but had declared him to te the man
who called at the place between the 18th
and 18th OF May, 1895, and made inouir y
as to hiring letter box.
The Recorder read the opinion of the
medical experts as to the quantity OF
oynAide OF mercury necessary to cause
death and the testimony as to the manu-
facture OF that posion. Then he resumed
his judicial address.
A"In the case before you, Recorder Con
said, "you must consider all the evidences
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