The age-herald., 1901-06-20
Arguments in the Application for Trial Ind and the Case
 is Submitted
NO DECISION IS ANNOUNCED
Former United States Senator Hill and Mir. Miburn Review the Noted Case-M oIineaux's Aged Fa-
 ther Conspicuous Figure.

Buffalo. N. Y. June 1s-The fate of Roland B. Molineux, convicted of murder as the poisoner of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams at New York in December, 1898. Is in the keeping of the seven judges of the Court of Appeals, who. for three days past have been listening to the ar- guments for and against new trial. The appeal was finally submitted at 1:3o 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 It's complicated plot and manifold mystery retains a strong hold upon popular interest The crowd that sought admission to the court room this morning was larger and more determined than ever. and the bailims had to resort to force to restrain them The principal speaker was former Onitee States Senator David B. Hill, advocate of the cause of the people, who had three hours and fourteen minutes of his allotted time left when court opened at 10 o'clock. He spoke until 1:O5, and John M Milburn. attorney for Molineux. was heard for twenty minutes in concise reply.
 MT. Hill was again forceful and elo- ouent. He declared that the question of the guilt was the main issue in the case and warned the court not to heed the plea that dealt in technicalities and urged objections to clauses ad rulings that hau not substantially affected the rights Of the accused. If the courts were to be thus swerved from the pathway of duty he suggested that the murderers might organize a trust and all enjoy freedom In q dissection of the law he led the court down a long line of authorities, l all aimed at sustaining the use of the Barnett evidepce. and the policy of the l lower court toward the exhibits of hand l writing at the trial This, in an adEsiT' | ably told story he made frequent ref | erence to similar cases In England trac- | ing likeness In the admission of certain writings to prove perjury on the part Of Luckless claimants and in the policy of objection and obstruction on the part of the defense. In finally summing up. MT. Hill reviewed the points made by him yesterday and step by step traced out the main features of the theory Of the people He reviewed the correspondence with the patent medicine dealers and proclaimed Molineaux as the author of the letters. the enemy of Cornish, and of Henry Barnett, the compounder Of the rare cyanide of mercury. used in both crimes and the man who mailed the fatal poison that killed Mrs. Adams.
 MT. Milburn's reply was largely devoted to an answer to personal criticism, and particularly to MT. Hills allusion to the fact that throughout all his speech he had not once expressed his personal conviofion of the innocence of the man for whom he pleaded. The strongest feature of the res ply was the indication of three points of weakness in the case of the people. He drew attention to the fact that the claim that Henry c. Barnet had received poison rested solely upon the hearsay testimony of Dr. Douglass; also that Molineaux had not bought the bottle holder and had not been identified as the marswho hired the Koch letter box. without which 1t was impossible. MT. Milburn said. to fix guilt upon him.
 A conspicuous figure during the argu- ments was General Molineaux the aged father of the prisoner, whose face told of the strain that the always spirited and at times bitter review of the case had been to him.
 Both Mir Hill and MT. Milbourn were proffered enthusiastic congratulations for their notable efforts.