New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-16
a.-Dld they have a room at that houss' A.

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o-what was your position at Mrs. Bels's? A
o.--How long did you know, Mrs; chesebrough?
isss Sn' ie'' IRON november 1877 to January
ODD you ever hear the name of Molineux at
o-Where? AFTER they, left in January
Q.-What room did Mr.. Chesebrough occupy In
that house? A-The same room his wife occu-
Odd he have any baggage then? Ale had
Q-Anything else? Ale had comb and brush
and other things.
A young man named Fiske who was asked to
stand up in court, was identified by the witness
being the valet who brought Molineux's dress
suit to the house. The witness said the
only difference she saw in Fiske was that he
had grown stouter. Finally Mrs. Greene said
she never heard of any trouble taking place be-
tween 'Mr. and Mrs. Chesebrough" before they
left. Mr.. Weeks did not cross-examine.
ESTABLISHING A MOTIVE
The Recorder questioned Mr.. Osborne as to
the evidence. and in reply counsel said he would
call another witness who would show that an
other man had interviewed. He had been
charged. he said. with not having established a
motive for the crime, and he was going to prove
that after the woman moved TO West End-ave
she received visits from another man. That man,
he added was H. c. Barnet.
Minnie Belts was thereupon called. She is a
colored woman, and said that in 1898 she was
employed as a servant by Mrs. Bellinger, at No
275 West End-ave She said Miss Chesebrough
boarded at the house and that she and Mrs. Bel
linger went away in the summer of 1898
Q-Do you remember when Miss Chesebrough
QWhom did she marry A0Mr M9 hdgern they
Q.-Had you ever seen Mr. Molinen& before 'He'
Q-Though she lived in the house nearly a year?
QEShere did Mrs. Molineux live after the mar
riage? AT Mrs. Bellingers.
ON the same room she had had before she was
married? Ayes sir.
did not know who he was.
Q.-Deseribe him.
Mr. WeeIs's objection was sustained. and then
Mr. Osborne handed to the witness a photo
graph and asked her If it was the picture of the
man who called on Miss Chesebrough. Il don't
know whether ii is not" the witness an
swered; but it looks great deal like him.
Then by framing his question in a different
shape than before Mr. Osborne succeeded IN
getting in evidence personal description of the
man. The witness said he was tall, had brown
hair and mustache, and was nice looking man;
She said she had never heard OF MolineuX until
a week before his marriage to Miss Cheese
brough. In answer to Mr.. Weeks the witness
said the defendant might have called at the
West End-ave. house without her knowing it.
MORE EXPERT TESTIMONY.
Herbert H Jackson, the undertaken who pre-
pared Barnet's body for burial, testified that the
Osborne, handwriting expert from Rochester,
was called. He occupied the stand for the rest
of the day Like the experts who had gone be-
fore him, he expressed his opinion that the de-
PENDANT wrote the poison address and the dis
puted letters, and at great length permitted
to recount the reasons which led him to that
conclusion
The trial will be resumed to-day at 1890 a.
THE CASE THUS FAR
The following summary of the progress of the
case and the trial may be found interesting:
December "a 1S9S-Harry Cornish received pack
age through the mail containing bottle of bromo
setter and 3, silver holder .,,.,, 49, ,,.o... .,
december ZS-Corn1sh, peneVlng ne c91Iehts %, OF
]. Adams. with whom he boarded. She died almost
settler was afterward found to be mixed with
February n. 1S9S-Roland B. Molineux arrested
on Coroner's warrant. Indicted in March. lndlct,
ment set aside in April rearrested and reindicted
November 14-Trial opened before Recorder Golf
in General Sessions The selection of Jurors was
| not completed until November 29
jury. Molneux also accused of having sent poison
= December 5EDr, Edward F, Hitchcock proved
death of Mrs. Adams. and said she had died from
of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club denti6es
numerous specimens Of defendants handwriting nd
ne siS5se' 'Di''''e
te sasnc to pede e2pe4s TAKEN M GP
Kinsey, John F. Tyrre of Milwaukee; Henry l..
Francisco francis swore that Molineux wrote letters
signed III, C. Barnet and III. Cornish, addressed
! to advertising medicinal firms, asking for samples
of remedies and that he wrote, also, the address
December i2-Mary Meando deposed to seeing
blue colored writing paper, bearing crest of three
interlaced crescents in the DEFENDANTS apartments
| written on this kind of paper.
| had seen Miss Blanche Chesebrough now Moli-
neux's Wife in Barnets room In the Knickerbocker
December 29-John D. Adams secretary Of the
| Knickerbocker Athletic Club related that differ
mating in the latter leaving the club. Dr. Wendell
| G. Phillips said that Barnet before he dieG had
| symptoms of mercurial poisoning Cornish told the
| story of Mrs. Adamss death after she drank the
| bromo settler.
! January 3-Cornish. cross-examined, denied he
| was the cause of separation of Mrs. Adams IS
| daughter from her husband, and admitted that he
| had first accused Felix Gallagher of writing the
| January 3-John H Yocum described the obtain
| ing OF cyanide of mercury from prussian blue and
oxide of mercury Cross-examined, said his labora-
| January 4-Dr. Henry Seaman Douglas testified
| that H. c. Barnet died of heart failure, caused by
| Committee of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club said
Cornish and Molineux quaTrelled over club matters
| had prussian blue and cyanide of mercury in his
January S-Morris Hermann. defendants en-
ployer, contradicted Aliens evidence. He said
i in stock. but admitted that defendant commute
| Gated with an enamel firm which dealt in these
January s-Dr. Persifor Fraser, of Washington
| p g, handWriting expert, and bank clerks de-
January 1O-Aliss Emma Miller saleswoman al
leweIry store where silver holder was bought,
| that MoHneux was not the man TO whom she sold
| January 11-Mrs Rogers corroborated Cornish,
account Of her mothers death Professor Rudolph
| Witthaus, chemical expert, said he had fount
| ache powders taken from Barnet's room
January 12-Professor Witthaus continuing sail