Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-07
WAS A STAR WITNESS
MRS. HANNAH sTEPHENsoN- GRE
-.TEs SENSATION IN SECOND
MoL1NEu1 TRIAL.
SAW POISON PACKAGE. MAILED
Declared the Man who Mailed i.
Wa. Not Mol1ncur.
THE MAN LOOKED LIKE CORNISH.
To the Best of Her Recollection. the
wItne.. said, Harry Cornish Was
the Mnn-witner. Identified the
Wrapper of Poison Package n.
the One She Had seen-Prosecution
Questions Her Sanity.
Declared the Man who Mailed It
Was Not NIolincu1.
THE MAN LOOKED LIKE CORNISH.
Questions Her SAINT

! Questions Her Sanity.
NEW YORK, November 6.-The great
est sensation in the second trial of Roland
B. Molineux, charged with the murder OF
Mrs. Adams, came late to-day, when MRS.
Hannah Stephenson, the wife Of a Brook
the defence and testified positively that
Molincux was not the man who mailed
the now famous poison package at the
general postoffice on the evening OF De
cember g. 1895. Then the witness practl'
cally identified Harry Cornish who was
asked to stand UP in court, as the man
whom she saw standing in front of her
/, in the line at the postoffice and holding in
his hand a package addressed to Mr..
Harry Cornish. knicllerbocker. That
was all she saw. Her Identification OF
Cornish was not positive. She said he
looked very much like the man, but hesi-
tated before replying atfirmatively when
asked if she did not think he was the
man. The witnesses account Of her move
| ments on the evening of December 23
and her reason for not appearing at the
first trial. were given in detail.
The prosecution on cross examination,
brought out the fact that Mrs. Stephen
son had suffered from attacks of nervous
prostration within the last two years. and
had carefully read the details OF the
former trial. The questions OF the assist
ant district attorney rendered to snow
that an effort would be made to prove
insanity or delusion under hysteria. 1t is
said that an effort will be made to prove
an alibi for Cornish. Mrs. Stephenson
until tomorrow.
Carvnlho,s Views.
When court opened to-day in the
| Molineux murder trial. David n. Car
valho,, the handwriting expert. who
was on the stand when adjournment was
| taken last night, resumed his place in the
| witness chair. He said he did not believe
! that NIolineux wrote the poison package
! wrapper. or any Of the disputed writings,
! and then in great detail he explained TO
the jury his reasons for his opinions
AS soon as the direct examine ton of
Carvalho was completed, Mr.. Osborne,
assistant district attorney, made another
! attempt to get the Barnet diagnosis
| blank in evidence. but Justice Lambert
declined to reverse his earlier ruling, cx-
| Guiding it.
The so-called diagnosis blank measure
ments and other data of a man suffering
| from a trouble the patent medicine ven
ders. to whom the blank was addressed;
| part of the cross-eXaminatlon OF the VII
ness was finished. counsel asked Carvalho
| If he had compared the disputed writings
nish and Rudolph Heiles. both OF whom
| have been shown to be interested in the
case. Carvalho said he had:
| did Cornish write the address on the
poison wrapper?'' Mr.. Osborne asked.
'He did not replied the expert without
hesitation.
1"Did Heiles write it?''
| "Mr. Carvalho,' said Ex-Governor Black,
| '.you answered a question here as
psychologist. You were asked Whethsr
| dress on u poison package would disguise
his writing and you replied yes. Let me
ask you another psychological question:
| DO YOU think a man sending poison
| nackase to himself would write the ad-
dress at all with his own hand?'
| Mr. Osborne objected and the court de-
| c]ined to let the witness answer. Court
| adjourned for recess after the defense had
| sworn it's next witness, Edward F.
! Scherer. assistant paying teller of the
! Metropolitan Savings Bank.
Handwriting Experts.
| After the recess seven witnesses teStl-
| fled that Molneux did not write the poison
package address. These witnesses were
Clarence Foote, David w. Torrey. Samuel
/ n. Mcdowell, and George Duncan. hand
writing experts from banks F. D. Bush
nell, who was chairman of the knicker-
hooker Athletic Club House Committee.
and had seen Molineux write; Professor
| George Golday, of Princeton University.
who had corresponded with Molineux,
and Samuel Pettinger. cashier of the New
York Athletic Club.
| Louis jacobson, who worked IN a New
| York drug store, testified that he knew
Cornish and Mrs. Rogers well. and that
he frequently saw them together. lie
said he had sold bromo seltzer to Mrs.
t Rogers. Cornish, in his testimony, sWore
/ he had never tasted bromo settler, and
/ Mrs. Rogers said she had never bought
any of the stuff.
| The Assistant District Attorney, in
/ cross-examining Jacobson, got the W.T.
! ness to admit that5he could not remember
| the names of any others Of his custom
ers who drank bromo seltzer. The de-
! fence then called William j. Liell, pro-
prietor of a drugstore near the house
| where Mrs Adams had died. Cornish
| testified that when Mrs. Adams became
sick he ran to Liell's store and Liell gave
| him aromatic spirits Of ammonia. l1leil
| cOrrObOrated ttlaL sCSStltlOUy. SI1e otiit
| Cornish seemed very much excited, but
/ that he did not look sick.
Emma Miller testified she sold the
| bottle-holder in which the poison was
sent after the store lamps were lighted.
and Barton Huff, a travelling salesman,
said he was in Hartdegen's store at the
| time He said a man brushed by him and
/ asked to see silver bottle-holder. but
/ witness did not see him buy 1t. He de-
! scribed the man. his description tallying
/ with that OF Miss Miller
Sensational Testimony.
Mrs. Anna c.. Stephenson. of Brooklyn.
i the eagerly-awaited witness, who says
1 she saw the poison package mailed by a
man not Molineux, was called late in
4 the afternoon. Men and women stood
on their seats to see her, but order was
quickly restored in the courtroom.
Replying to question as to what she
did Friday, December 49, s1ss. Mrs. Ste
phenson said she went to the main post
sI Office in New York to mail a package.
and got in line with ether persons. "A
i man in front Of her with a package
! aroused her curiosity because hes seemed
livery nervous and she saw the name