The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-06-18
ARGUING FOR A NEW TRIAL
FIRST DAYS HE4RING ON THE
MOLINEUX APPEAL.
Court Room Crowded-Entire Session
Taken Up by Counsel for the Accused
Recorder G0f Arrntgned for His
Rulings on Evidence Nj cd n ods of
District Attorneys STAFF Attacked.

Buffalo June 1.-THE court of ap-
peals to-day heard the first argument
for a new trial for Roland r. Moli-
neaux, the young New York club man,
athlete and chemist under sentence Of
death for poisoning Mrs. Katherine J.
| Adams in December, 1898, who was the
unintended victim of plot yelled by
the use of the American mails to take
the life of Harry Cornish, manager of
BARTLETT, Gray, O'Brien, Haight and
Werner, grave in their gowns of black,
sat upon the bench to hear the famous
case and down at the counsePs table
were Former United States Senator
David Bennett Hill, who holds the
brief of the people, and John G. Mil
| bourn, president of the Pan-American
exposition, who espouses the cause of
the young prisoner at Sing Sing. With
| Hill sat Assistant District Attorney
Lebarbier Of New York and grouped
about Milbourn were George Gordon
Tended Molineaux at his trial, General
Molineux, father of the prisoner and
David N. Carvalho, handwriting ex-
pert, who advised the defense. Many
more than the court room would hold
crowded into the corridors to hear the
story of the almost fascinating crime
linked with the double mystery of the
death of Henry G. Barnet and the Off
GERS of the court barred the outer doors
and admitted the favored ones by a
rear entrance. MilboTn. for the ap-
pellant, talked during the entire ses-
sion Of the court, gaining a hearing at
10:30 O'Clock when a civil case closed
and speaking until 2 o'clock when the
court arose for the day. He has anoth-
er hour to speak, it having been agreed
that each side should have four hours
Senator Hill sat through the entire
speech without an interruption that
called him to his feet. Mibourn's ad-
dress of three hours duration was di-
rected largely to the alleged error of
the lower court in admitting evidence
as to the death of Henry G. Barnet and
he spared neither Recorder Goff, the
trial Judge, for his rulings on evidence,
nor the district attorneys staff for its
methods in securing the admission of
evidence. He srent nearly two hours
in a review of the known facts preg-
nant with doubt and mystery and
sought to show what he described as
the finsy fabric upon which the entire
case rested He rediculed the idea that
the Cornish theory of revenge. and the
Barnet theory of Jealousy could be re-
conciled and disclaiming desire to
cast suspicion in any direction advance
ed the opinion that the man who pois-
oned Mrs. Adams had two accompices.
one the man who bought the bottle
holder at Newark and the other the
man who at the same hour hired the
Koch letter box. He denied that the
trouble a the Knickerboc<er club was
sufficient for Molineux to desire the
life of Cornish or that there was any
thing in the rela tions of Molineux. Bar
net and Blanche Chesborough that |
warranted suspicion of jealousy to |
the point of a desire to kill a rival on !
the part OF Molineu&. He drew atten- |,
tion to the failure to identify Moli- !
neux as the purchaser of the bottle
holder and questioned the identified
ton of Molineux as the man who hired !
the Koch letter box. He also denounc- |
ed the introduction of evidence as to
the relations of Molineux with Blanche
before their marriage.