The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-02
lMOLINEUX IS CALM
REFUSES TO BE RUFFLED IN
 MIR. OSBORNE.
Attorney Draws from the Defendant the Story of the Lat
 ter's Courtship-|Adjourn-
 ment to Wednesday.

New York. Nov. 1.-The cross cxamina- .tion of Roland Molineux by Assistant Dis Htrict Attorney Osborne. which was re- 'suned at the opening of court today. was finished within few minutes after it's resumption. MT. Osbornes first question today was:
 Did MT. Barnett pay your wife at- kentionT'
 Not at all" was the reply.
 Did you not so testify at the inquest? ?'' Molineuxs reply to this was that Bar I *aett had paid attention to Miss Chezbor- bugh in the spring and autumn of 1898, before she became Mrs. Molineux. The Defendant was in the best of humor. When MT. Osborne asked him if he gave ; his wife an engagement ring at the time S of his engagement, and his answer was < not to the prosecutors satisfaction. he #aid, smilingly:
 "I can tell you better than you can 3lrag it out of me-"
 T don't wish to drag it out of you," said MT. Osborne.
 < Molineux then said he bought an en- kagement ring on November IS, 1s98 Yes #erday he testified that he and Miss Chez borough became engaged in September. S9S
 At Christmas, 1897, he gave her Mig bah" ring and when he became engaged September. 1898. he wished to buy her &n engagement ring, but did not do so *lntil November.
 A letter to Miss Sadie Sheffler, in which &ioineux spoke of his engagement and Forthcoming marriage as a romance" nd said also that 1t was sudden. was Then identified and admitted in evidence.
 MT. Osborne ceased his examination |ather abruptly after several questions
 to the prisoners connection with vari- bus medical associations.
 AS Molineux resumed his seat behind
 lis lawyers. the Rev. Lindsay Parker of brooklyn, shook hands with him. and his Rather. General Molineux, patted him af- ectonately on the shoulder and said:
 Good boy"
 Mir Black called Max Gumpert. a hand Eriting expert as his first witness against Hiolireux. Mir. Gumpert told of his quail &cations as an expert, He said he had *tudied handwriting more than thirty ears and had testified in many import mt cases among others the Riegand Becker forgery ;the Sharon will case; the 3arah Althea Hill controversy in Cali zornia and the Rice will case in New Eork He declafed that the conceded and #isputed writings were not written by Me same hand. Mir. Gumpert said 1t was
 Is helief that the address on the poison # as in the natural hand of the writer.
 On cross-examination Gumpert said he ,ouId expect the sender of a poison pack
 qe to disguise his handwriting. He knew
 no case in which a poison package had
 cen sent to anyone without trying to
 onceal his identity. MT. Osborne got the
 itncss to say that the ''u" and "c" in
 cIub'' written by Molineux had many Xbaracteristics in common with the ad-
 ress on the poison package wrapper. He
 ornd also in the top of the letter "c" in
 ornish in the wrapper and like shading
 the .'r' of the word club in various
 t inc conceded writings.
 pr David Ewell handwriting expert,
 as the next witness. He said he had
 ,ade careful studies of the disputed and
 ,nceded writings and was convinced they
 sa not heen done hv the same hand
 D. rweu was s''II nn he stard when
 ccurt was nliourned until wednes-
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