The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-20
ARGUMENT CONCLUDED
MoLINEUx's CASE SUBMITTED
 TO JUDGES.
Ex-senator David B. Hill Yesterday Finished His Speech for the People and Milburn Made
 His Reply.

Buffalo, N. Y, June 19.-The fate of Roland B. Molineux. convicted of murder as the poisoner of Mrs. Klathe- rine J. Adams, at New York, In De- cember, 1893, is in the keeping of the seven judges of the Court of Appeals, who, for three days past. have been listening to the arguments for and against a new trial The appeal was finally submitted at 1:S5 o'clock this afternoon, and the decision will not be announced until some months hence, when the court sits at Albany for the Fall term.
 The strange crime with its compli- cated plot and manifold mystery re- tains a strong hold upon popular inter est. The crowd that sought admission to the court room this morning was larger and more determined than ever, and the bailiffs had to resort to force to restrain them. The principal speak CT was former United States Senator David B. Hill, advocate of the cause of the people, who had three hours and fifteen minutes of his allotted time left when court opened at 10 o'clock. He spoke until 1:05, and John M. AIilburn, attorney for Molineux, was heard for twenty minutes in concise reply.
 MT. Hill was again forceful and elo- quent He declared that the question of the guilt was the main Issue in the case, and warned the court not to heed a plea that dealt in technicalties, and urged objections b acts ard rulings that had not substantially affected the rights of the accused, If the court s were to be thus swerve from the path way of duty. he suggested that SLe murderers might organize a trust and all enjoy freedom. l1 a dissertation on the law, he led the court down a Tor 2 line of authorities anl decisions, aa aimed at sustaining the use of the Bar net evidence, and the policy of the lower court toward the exhibits of handwriting at the trial. In this ad- mirably told story, he made frequent reference to the Tic1born case in Eng land, tracing a simIla"ity in the ad- mission of certain writings to prove perjury on the Dart of the lockless claimant and m the policy of objec- tion and obstruction on the pakt of the defense.
 In finally summing up, MT. Hill re- viewed the points made by him yes terday and step by step traced out the main features of the theory of the people. He reviewed the correspond ence with the patent medicine dealers and proclaimed Molineaux as the au- thor of the letters. the enemy of HarG ry Cornish and Henry Barnet, the compounder of the rare cyanide of mercury used in both crimes and the man who mailed the fatal potion that killed Mrs. Adams.
 Mir. Milburne's reply was largely de- voted to an answer to personal criti- cism and particular yto MT. HnPs al- fusion to the fact that throughout all his speech he had not once expressed his personal conviction of the innocence of the man for whom he pleaded. The strongest feature of the reply was the indication of three points of weakness in the case of the people. He drew at tention to the fact that the claim that Henry c. Barnet received poison rest ed solely upon the hearsay testimony of Dr. Douglass; also that Molineux had not bought the bottle1-holder and had not been identified as the man who which 1t was impossible. MT. Milburn said, to fix guilt upon him.
 A conspicuous figure during the ar guments was General MolineLx the aged father of the prisoner whose face told of the strain that the always spir- ited and at time bitter review of the case had been to him.
 Both MT. Hill and MT. Milburne were proffered enthusiastic congratulations for their notable efforts.