Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-06-20
h Rests With the Seven
rn Who Constitute Court
of Appeals.
IE ARGUMENT CLOSED
Senator David B. Hill Makes An
Jmpassioned Plea On Behah
of the People.
> Court Will Not Give Down lts
Decision Until Ii SITS
In the Fall.

gufTalo- y. Y. June 2o.-The rare OF
Maland b. AIolineux. convicted Oh hiu'
- ,s the paisoner of Mrs Katherine
Adams nj New York in Decelnber'
sas. il in the keeping OF the So
s1dres of the court OF appeals, VINO ioi
Ear days past listened TO the "i
Mnenfs for and against new 1Eiai-
r. appesl was dnally submitted iate
Ksst..r,lax afternoon. and the deelsioh
Eviu not be announced until SOME
JCrnonths hence. when the coui'
ID 1albany for the fan term :.
e rrha strange crime with its coiiph-
& ,.a,ad nlot and manifold mystery re-
81 taips strong hold upon popular III
u tarest. The crowd that sought aoiii's
s,a,, 10 the courtroom yesterday was
d ,argar and more determined than ever
81 and the bailiffs had To resort 10
70 restrain the multitude. The prih,
III cipal speaker was iorhiei -
1 SC senator Hill, advocate OF tbe
y cause of the people. who had th'et ii'u.e '.'.
4 and fifteen minutes of ms aiiotiee I'm
left John u. Milburn, attorney ioi
! Molineux. was heard for 20 minutes ~
| concise reply.
= NJ nh, was again forceful and elo-
oupur He declared tlat the dueS'toA
r. of guilt was the main issue III 'lie eaSe
4 and warned the court not TO nee" .
| plea that dealt in technicaiitst my
| ,r.ad objections to acts aho iuiiii-
tbat had not substantially aHec'eu LIZ
as RIGHTS of the accused II tile Soui
: a wore 10 be thus swerVed iFoin IL
re- nathway of duty he suggested siiait IL
en- nurderers might organize trus' d"
Is oil eniov freedom. In aisSef'a'io
,rx -, Tho law he led the court down
res ~, line of authorities and decision
in IN o;,ned nj sustaining the use OF u
yell p.rnat evidence and the policy OF u
s,zSSStsauMuzAms11ez 81 Asosts
- the adfnfsessaf the sxl.1. g e. -.
A-. prove perjury on the part of the In
! less claimant and the policy of
Va struction on the part of the defer
the In finally summing up, Mr. Hill
and viewed the points made by him
4 at day before and step by step traced
said the main features of the theory of
and people. He reviewed the correspo
idle ence with the patent medicine deal
: the and proclaimed Molineux as the
CON thor of the letters, the enemy of Ha
utiff Cornish and Henry c. Barnet, the CO
lived FOUNDER of the rare cyanide of II
said curry used In both crimes and the n
have who mailed the fatal potion that xii
liant. / Mrs. Adams.
and Mr.. Miiburn's reply was largely
de- voted TO an answer 10 personal c
,reat icism and particularly 10 Mr.. I'll
MIND allusion 10 the fact that through
great his speech he had not once expires
mage his personal conviction of the in
sum cence of the man for whom he pie
ed The strongest nature of the re
was the indication of three points
weakness in the case of the peo
He drew attention to the fact that
| claim that Henry G.. Barnet had
tn ceived poison rested solely upon
Mn hearsay testimony of DR.. Dougl
Nj. also that Molineux had not bought
bottle holder. and had not been il
titled as the man who hired the X
oyne Ietrerbox without which II was i'm
sible, Mr. Milburn said. to fix e
rlrou him.