New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-11

crowded room. The chattering ceased at the
call of the court crier, and men and women
who hal seats settled back in their chairs. ex-
pectins a feast of oratorical debate with the
prize human life. More than two hundred
persons unable to find seats stood up in the
rear of the ROOM Justice Lambert instructed
the court officers TO make those without seats
leave the room. and IT much cast down
and disappointed crowd that obeyed the man
date.
Molineux. smiling and unConcerned. was
brought in few seconds after Justice Lambert
took his seat. 1t with some difficulty that
the court officers found chair for MIN. The
difficulty settled by General Molneux Civ
ing up his seat to his son, and reporter shar-
ing his with General MoIineux.
MOTION TO DISMISS DENIED
1t took more than twenty-five minutes for the
lawyers to say all that they wanted TO say to
the court. and then Clerk Penny called the roH
of the jury That done. Ex-Governor Black ad-
dressed the court. He began in a voice so low
that it inaudible six feet from where he
stood, but he warmed up to the work in
ment. Counsel thanked the court for his cour-
tesy the District Attorney for his consideration
and the jurors for their attention the evil
| dence presented. Then he started on his argu-
.ment, saying:
1t is fundamental rule of justice. as it is Of
society, that innocence must be protected II IS
equally just that the guilty must he punished. but
were permitted guess things. the innocence
MolinsuX was a director Of the Knickerbocker
ATHLETIC club. where Cornish was employed Mol
Harpster. He had many friends in the club, and.
ineux considered an Improper letter and MoIineux
G0nPlsi]neG ] Gi IT, Nr as 5nst ANY reason So ieP % Mo- %
hcient 70 Kin any man ,n that club Cornish I IN
gentleman, regarding the difference OF their sta.
! TOR and passed on Is that proof of nuF.leEa
20 indicate any motive Molineux coud nave for
The trouble, between Cornish and lolineux. oe-
CURED more than a year before the poison pae
! show that in all that time Mr. Mohneux said ore
| toward Cor sh All the evidence in his case points
away from Mohneux ana 70 2not1er man 1 s4aI ma
case points 10 that man Just as surely a the
trembles with every wind and current. but when
the calm comes 1t sim points 20 the North star
MISS MILLER.s TESTIMONY
In commenting on the evidence. Mr. Black
began with that of Miss Emma Miller the clerk
at Hartdegen's store who sold the silver bottle
holder. He said he had to criticise the attitude
OF the District Attorney toward that witness.
and stamped it as distinctly unfair to make her
admit that she had received $50 for her testi-
mony He continued:
Do you know why Miss Miller was treated in
tased Td ~ tAsitfv ana ba cond oSIy b bro4eht
self She told the'trqth Molineylx did not buy The
If he wanted TO buy such thing 10 send with a
package of poison he would buy il az store
where his personal friend in charge. and where
he was sure 10 meet one or more persons who would
Martin Hons testimony corroborates that of Miss
Miller who saw the BOTTLE holder bought MolineuX
The dsteetiye. Farrell. is the only witness who
holder and the nearest he RrGuEht nj him was three
one has brought him 10 the case
Mr. Black rfdiculed the testimony of Joseph
Koch. the Broadway letter box man. and de-
eIared it the evidence of man who "peddled
his story and his eternal SOUL at the time
He said:
Koch went to the defendants counsel and Mr.
Weeks as any honorable lawyer would have done;
chased him from mis- office and told him 70 tel
his tale 10 the District Attorney What dd hcen
office, he sold il to another newspaper who gave
10 t,'i its truth Koch never spoke Of Moline1x
ing inquired about letter ooXe5 az MS niS SIoFe
and then he sold IT. and put his soul where II be-
longs for $3.50
Ex-Governor Black took up the question Of
writing and called the Washington expert Hay.
"a stupendous fraud when he testified that
none of the request writing made by Molineux
contained characteristic to be found in his
other writing and in the disputed writing Then
he dweIt at great length on the suppression Of
evidence by the District Attorneys office, and
argued that that evidence might point to some
one other than MOlneux- He said
The prosecution has produced here the poison
package wrapper. The envelope 10 the Burns
letter Concede TO have been written by Mol
neux. the envelope TO the Harpster and the Barnet
letters but where the envelopes to the Cornish
letters? Not one Of them has been presented in
evidence Why? Why have they been suppressed?
Every other letter in this has been shown to
you with the envelope, but the envelopes TO the
Cornish letters have beer suppressed. Did they
show too much? You forget to date your
letters. but Uncle Sam never fOrgets. You can
tell from the envelope OF any letter that goes
through the mail where and when was mailed.
Did the Cornish envelopes show much? They
have been suppressed and you We're entitled to
see them
THE TIFFANY ENVELOPES
In MoIineUxs desk in Newark was a package OF
small Tiffany envelopes used for inclosing cards.
The detectives of the District Attorneys Office
found them. but they did not match the envelopes
that accompanied the poison package. and 50 they
You were entitled TO that fact from the prOsecu-
ton. but nothing brought about those
velopes until the defence elected II by accident
Mr.. Black. speaking OF the blue crescent paper.
recalled the evidence presented by the defence
that in 1898 there were 100000 sheets of that
paper sale in nine stores in New-YOrk- Then
he took up the assertion of the prosecution that
cyanide OF mercury extremely rare. and
called the attention OF the jury to the ease with
which four of his associates had purchased the
poison He continued:
II was a crime to murder Mrs. Adams. but IL