The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-07
Woman Points Out Cor
nish as Package Sender.
he IS READY WITH AN ALIBI.
New Witness Says Red-Bearded
Man Bought Bottle Holder.
Druggist says lie Sold Br0mO.SeltxeP
TO Cornish and ,irs. Rogers Honesty
OF COrnish's Idcniincr Not CUES.
toned - CrOss.Examination suggests
That She Is Inder a Dciusion-Cor.
nisi Eager 10 lie Confronted With
Hcr-MOre Handwriting Evidence.

~ht uItT uttUsIOn- orr
nish Eager TO he Confronted with
Hcr-More Handwriting Evidence.
The strongest evidence Of the innocence
OF Roland b Molneux that his lawyers
have got To offer was presented yesterday
To the jury who are to decide whether
or not that young man is responsible for
the death of Mrs. Kate J Adams
For the first time since Miss Miller, the clerk
in Hartdegen's iewelry store in Newark. told
her story of sellingto a red-whiskered man
the silver bottle holder in which the bottle
Of poison was sent 10 Cornish, her account
of that transaction was corroborated
Contrary TO general expectation, the
defence put on the witness stand Mrs.
Hannah Stephenson. the Brooklyn woman
who says she saw a package addressed
like the poison package mailed in the Gen.
eral Post Office in this borough on the
afternoon Of Dec. 20. 1895, the day the
poison package was so mailed She de-
clarcd that Molineux did not mail the pack
age and said after good look at him. that
Harry Cornish looked very much like the
man she had seen.
Mrs. Stephenson made rather pathetic
figure on the stand Tho prosecutor
handled her with the greatest gentleness,
but when he was through with his cross
examination there were few people in the
court room who did not share his belief
that the woman is the victim Of deusion.
CORNISH WANTED HER CALLED.
Cornish was himself largely instrumental
in having Mrs Stephenson go on the witness
stand The statements that have emanated
from her during the last few days have
all included one that she knew who did
mail the poison package. Cornish realized
that this statement was aimed at him. and
when during recess yesterday Mrs. Stephen
son sided up alongside Of him and looked
him carefully over, meanwhile wagging
her head in repeated Alternatives to her
husband in another part Of the room. he
went to the prosecutor and to former Gov
ernor Black with a request that Mrs.
Stephenson be called and confronted with
him in the presence of the jury.
Cornishi now prepared to prove. he says.
that he was not in the Post Office on the date
in question and will show just where he was
at the time the poison package was mailed
One Of Cornishs witnesses will be Jim
Mitchell, the well-known amateur athlete
and former amateur champion hammer
thrower Mitchell said last night that at
the time Mrs Stephenson says she saw
the man she believes was Cornish mail
the poison package Cornish was with him
in the Office of James +. sullivan, secretary
Of the Amateur Athletic Union, In Park
place. Mrs, Stephenson said on the stand
that Cornish wore a brown overcoat and
a brown hat when she saw him. Mitchell
declared last night that Cornish had no
overcoat on tn at afternoon.
MRS srEPHENsoS's STORY
When Mrs. Stephenson was called there
was craning Of necks and a buzz Of con-
versation. tall, thin. gray headed, nerv-
Gus woman started from the spectators
benches toward the witness stand. She
famed herself necessarily and seemed I'M
comfortable under the gaze of the crowd
In response TO Mr.. Blacks questions, she
said that she was 50 Years old had been
married twenty-five years and had one
son. She said that on Dec. 81, 1903, she
left her home AT 53i Hicks street, Brook
Ign, to go to Washington Market, She
spent about half an hour in the market and
then walked up Vesey street toward the
Post Office where she wanted TO mail a
package to her sister in Wisconsin She
was in the habit of coming TO Manhattan
every two weeks, she said, to make pur-
chases and this trip was one of her regu-
lar trips At Nesey street and Broad
way, Mrs Stephenson said she stopped
moment because of the rush Of traffic
on the street, As she stood there man
brushed by her.
sTln hrpup and N
brown derby hat, said the witness when
he brushed against me- he had one hand
in his pocket and was taking small bundle
from that pocket He held the bundle
right up in front of me and glanced at it.
noticed the address, II was Mr.. Harry
Cornish | noticed the word 'Knicker-
booker on the package, but nothing else
in writing
Mrs. Stephenson said that the package
vas held so close TO her that she could
easily see She didn't have on her glasses,
but at that time she wore glasses ht night
only.
Tie original address on the poison pack
age " as shown TO her and she said II looked
very much like the writing she had seen at
the time che described
She started across Broadway ahead OF
the man who had brushed against her,
but he passed her on the way over and
entered the Post Office by the southern
most door on Broadway, She vent in after
him and saw him drop his package in the
regular package drop. She put her own
in after II,
WASN'T ASKED TO TESTIFY BEFORE.
The following week she heard of the
d 'ath Of Mrs. Adams, and saw in the news
papers the picture Of the supposed prisoner.
She spoke to her husband and son about
the matter and they advised her to say
nothing about it then. On the first rial she
came To court, she sad, on two occasions
to see the prisoner. She saw him and was
sure that he was not the man who had
mailed the package, Later she talked to
Gen MolincuX about the case She didn I
testify at the first trial she said. because
she wasn't called upon. She understood
that the reason she wasn't asked to tell