The sun., 1902-11-07
SHE THINKS IT WAS C ,gNIsH.

ant and tell me u ne II lle u siii WIN i."'''
the poison package
sHe il no, ;" said he witnc s. promptly.
SHE THINKS IT WAS C ,gNIsH
Mr.. BLACK didn', cxa min, further and
every one was sur Drised. People seemed
10 think that he would nJ, he witness TO
pick out the man who did u an the package
and there well up in froig, where every
body could see him. saI Con nish, 'orhlsh
had come back to be piclce.' out, and he
too was surprised He sinh'd, however
when the prosecutor began his examination
as follows
O DO you think you could Identify the
man who did mail thi, pnokag" you say you
Q But do YOU know | have seen a
man her" who LOOKS hk" ,im orr;sh ia ,hc
mani 4 We'll. he loo L. lS" him. ,,.
O But will YOU say ne T. the man, iha'
IL a pretty hard thing to say under "ath
Mrs Stephorsan was now testl Wig IN a
voice that could ror he heard hyJ idge, jury
or LAWYERS Every answer she made had
TO he read ou' by he itenngraph"r she was
very nervous Thr prCS"o utor told Cor
nish 10 stand up ard Cornish Jumped 10 his
feet AZ orce and looked ~ the witness.
IKE bm IT. that ''" "'"' \ It LOOKS very 'n"r" n
O Are YOU sure that IT is the mani A II
O Are You ,urn' \ cannot max" any
better answer than bay" mad"
address you saw ON the p1ckaE" in ~" street
that afternoon \ Yes
HAS BEEN Ill WITH NERVOUS PRosTRArIoN.
Cornish sat-,own. a grim sinile on his face.
ard the prosecutor brought ont the fact
that Mr.; Stephenson was III during The last
trial a good deal of the time, and after
ward had nervous prp>t-a ion. IN" al
mitted that she was alir.g when sh" told
Ger NolineuN her story. She read all ~"
Acc cunts of IN" crime ana Of IN" inquest
IN the paperS sh" Naid. aisi Admitted that
what she had seen was very m,ch on h"r
mind
90. Isntra fact that outside. of that glimpse
rDu sot OF 81. run YOU thi' h was Cornish,
On sle -Irs'' y rcc"Wh"r lsnS. YOU didn't
eea CorniaO again until lg)? \ Yes
> Yet you are riily a'lr Ia rccosnl.,c him
ns the man you saw ON IN" street! IA Yes
glimpse Of the handwriting on the pa.kaEe
as the man brushed by YOU. You ar" ahl" To
pick out the haudwritlng no" four years
later and TO toll just what II said; \ Yes
Mrs. Stephenson said that she saw Cor
nish at the first trial of Molineux as he left
the courtroom and walked over To an ele-
vator. The minute ,he >aw him, she SAID.
she felt he was the man sh" had seen on the
Nreet She then described again he cloth
Mp thar the man woTp all she had noticed
bring his brown oVercoat and brown derby
nat. She denied that ST." had an abnormal
Interest in criminal trials and said she had
never taken any interest IL TN" Florence
Burns examination. Asked about the
Folsom package she said the-o were three
Aampe on il, IN "A row There are five
stamps on the package. three in row on
Top and two below. She said she hadn't
noticed the lower two AZ the time. Her
eyes didn't 60 down that far. she said.
y HAD DIVINE INSTRUCTION
4 After Mrs, Stephenson had tried 10 read
HE poison address With the naked eye and
then with the prosecutors glasses, and had
answered som" questions about her eye
Ii
vas asked if she had ever been examined
a. to her sanity She replied that she was
quite sure that she had not.
. O. You are o Christian Woman' 4 Yes
Q. And YOU say your prayers \. Yes
Q, How often do you pray? 4. Every
O. Now didn't you pray for divine instruc-
Qon. in this matter of what you had seen?
SO And didn't you get divine instruction
"a n result OF your PRAYER \. Yes
To result eonr Of and "s dEe Hdrns NrE Cn
of the court room and said That is the
man. didn't you; \. didn't know it was
Cornish then
The prosecutor asked great many other
questions. which Mrs Stephenson answered
i'm voice that could scarcely be heard
two feet from the witness chair. She was
very nervous and several times seemed
near collapse, but al no line was She con-
fused in he- answers When the prose-
cutor dropped her Mr.. Black asked few
more questions. He brought out that the
thing she wa. worried about during the
first trial Of MolincuN was the marriage
of her son, which she regarded a. an un-
wise one. Neither the prosecution nor the
defence had any more questions to ask
Mrs. Stephenson and she left the court
room on the arm Of her husband.
WHAT CORNISH SAYS.
Cornish was not in the least disturbed
by Mrs. Stcphen~on's testimony.
"The thing that surprises me il that
the defence should have considered this
woman's story at all, he said. As soon
as ! heard what she was going To testify
to several days ago ! went to Mr. Black
and furnished him with "A detailed account
of my movements on the afternoon when
she thinks she saw me mail this package
Ii will be remembered that at the last trial
: / showed that | could not have been in tn"
Post Office al the time that this package
was mailed Mr. Black has had an uppor-
tunty TO verify what | told him and has
done so. ! was in the office of James +.
Sullivan on Park place that afternoon AT
AIS o'clock. a. he, Jim Mitchell, sam Nelson
and others can testify didn't leave there
until after o o'clock, either"
MIR. sullivan said last night that he re-
membered Cornish being IN his Office at
the time that Mrs. Stephenson thinks she
saw him mail the poison package. Mitchell
remembered it, too, ana when he heard
that Mrs. Stephenson had said that Cornish
wore a brown overcoat, he said
Then she is mistaken. for Cornish had
no oveTcoat on AT all at the time"
The prosecutor said that he believed
Mrs. Stephenson was actuatcd by religious
motives and that witnesses of that Kind,
really believing what they said 10 be true,
we're the hardest kind of witnesses TO
handle.
Mr.. Black and the defence believe tie
testimony will stand any kind of test and
declared that after Yesterday no jury could
convict Moneuy of the murder Of Mrs.
Adams.
BARNET LETTER SHUT OUT AGAIN.
At the outset Of yesterdays tession
David n. Carvalho was recalled TO con-
tinue his explanation Of why, in hi judg-
ment, MolineuN could not have written
the disputed writings IN the case
The prosecutor began his cross examina-
tion by handing the witness Barnet"
letter. known as the diagnosis blank, and
asking him IL had ever seen it before Mr.,
Black Objected 10 the question, because,
he said il was another attempt to force one
of the excluded Barne, letters into evidence,
Justice Lambert Sustained him and District
Attorney jerome Immediately jumped up
and. declaring that tho status Of the letter
had been changed by recent testimony, do
mandod 70 be heard.
This diagnosis letter is one in which the
writer. who signed himself H. c, Barnet"