The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-11-11
Monday Morning.

New YORK. november Inc taklnS
of evidence in the second trial OF Ro-
land B. Molineux for the murder OF
Mrs. Katherine J. Adams. was ended to-
day and court was adjourned until Mon
day when the arguments Of counsel VIII
be made. A verdict :s looked for On
Tuesday.
The sensational turn given to the tes-
|. timony for the defense yesterday. when
Mrs. Anna Stephenson. wife OF a Brook
lyn policeman, SAFE she thought Cornish
was the man she saw mail the poison
package, was continued today. Cor
nish was recalled TO the stand and was
asked whether he had q brown overcoat
in 1898. Mrs. Stephenson said the man
she saw mail the poison package wore a
brown overcoat. Cornish saiu today he
had no overcoat at all that winter and
then Mr.. Black read from the minutes
of the last trial to show that Cornish
had testified at that time that he had
only one overcoat and that IL was
brown.
w. NJ. K. Olcott. one Of Molineux's
counsel. testified that ne had purchased
cyanide of mercury without difficulty
at a drug store in this city, by saying
that he wanted il for photogia pnIc ex-
periments. Two other witnesses gave
similar testimony. Professor Vulte, of
Columbia University, gave evidence to
the effect that MolineuX was IN his COM
pany from noon until alter dark on the
day the poison package Was mailed.
The package vas mailed during the af-
ternoon.
II. E. Terry, a reporter. gave testi-
mony to contradict hat Of Joseph
Koch, who identified MolineIx as the
man who hired the letter box from MIN
In September 1898. Witness was asked
If Koch went to a newspaper office and
offered to identify Molineux as the man
who hired the letter box II witness
would pay his $1,000. Witness said he
did.
The decree of divorce granted to Mrs.
Rogers was put in evidence to show
that it was granted after Tie death of
Mrs. Adams, and then by consent of
the prosecution. Ex-Governor Black
submitted a table compiled by one OF
his clerks, to show that although the
written exhibits are m3de up of several
thousand individual letters. the prosecu-
ton has based its contention that Mo-
linaux wrote them all upon the similar
ity found in some seventeen letters.
That closed the case for the defense,
and Mr.. Osborne calle1 Joseph Farrell.
the hitherto missing Newark detective.
as his first witness in rebuttal.
Mr.. Farrell, replying 20 a question by
Mr.. Osborne. sale he was sure the EVIL
dence he had given at the first trial was
correct. At that trial he testified that
he met Molineux near a railway sta
ton in Newark on the afternoon the
bottle-holders was bought. Molineux
has testified at the present trial that
he could not remember meeting Farrell
tina day.
George H.. Baker. a clerk in the en-
p'ov Of the Newark postofice. testified
that the Burns letter, the conceded
writing of MO1inaTy was mailed AT
Newark within a half mile of Moli-
neuk's office. The letter was on the
much described blue paper and the OBJ
ject was to throw doubt on Molineux's
statement that he could not remember
where he wrote 1T, but was sDhe that he
had none of that paper at tn, factory.
Then Mr.. Osborne set about unset
trno Mrs. ~Stephenson's identification Of
Cornish and ~substantiating the account
Cornish has given Of his whereabouts
on Friday December Ord when Mrs.
Stephenson said she saw him at the
postoffice.
John Yokum was the first witness Mr..
osborne called for the He
said he met cornish about noon and
lnuched together. At about 2:30 they
went to the office of James e. Sullivan
to talk over athletic matters. Mr.. Sui
Ivan was secretary for the amateur
ahthletic union. Yokum said he re-
manned in the office until 4:30 o clock
and that Cornish was there all the time
, He aid Cornish did not wear an over
coat. Mrs. Stephenson'' man had on a
; brown overcoat. He said Mr.. Sullivan's
office was about 300 feet from the gen
!, eral postoffice.
> James Mitchell the hammer -thrower
: and a writer of sporting topics. testified
that he was at Sulivan's effiCe that day
and saw Cornish there. He believed he
was there all the afternoon.
Harry g Cornish denied absolutely
thot he was at the postoffice when Mrs
Stephenson said she saw hirl and de-
L clared that he never left SuiEvan's Of
: flee from the time he vent there, until
I after ) o'clock. Witness slid he did
not veal an overcoat on December %
1898 in reply to a question by x Gov
+ ernor Black. Cornish SAID he was DOS
! itive he did not own Hne a. that time
Mr.. Black asked the witness If he did
not own a brown overcoat in the fall
and winter of 1898 and .he reply was "a
{ did not" Then Mr.. Back re9d to Cor
. nish an ahctroct F-"-0 MS testimony al
, the last trial as follows:
' During the f" / no inter OF 1898.
wore the same overcoat 1 have got over
there. indicating a chair in the rear OF
the court room). 1t is a brown over.
T coat. / did not wear a white hat at al
last year"
Cornish said he was Fnre II was be-
. fore 3 O'Clock when he reached Sulli-
Z vans office. When Mr.. Black referred
d to the minutes Of the last tria' he found
Q that Cornish then PLACED lie hour of his
J visit at S~ullivan's office at before
$ o'clock.
+: Howard Adams, called by the prose
cution, said he was citing near Mrs
Starheneon in court Yesterday and saw
two men indicate Cornish to her as soor
: a. Cornish entered the CUR room and
she said:
2 Us it?" Witness also SAID "A mar
with gray hair said TO Mrs SteDhen
son That's Cornish aid she replied
Ts it?' Later a young man said,
3 That's Cornish and again she said
Z Is it? where?"
Mr.. Osborne announced that the pros
cution rested and .x-Govefnor Blaci
called Mrs. Stephenson In rebuttaL
Mrs. Stephenson denied to Mr.. Os.
d borne that any sum occurrence a.
Adams described had taken place. Tn