The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-11-13
MOLlNEUX FREE
JURY BRINGS IN VERDICT or
AcoUITTAL IN FAMOUS
MURDER CASE.
OUT TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES

OF 1SdTiH9 tnS NSio'SS "o''hSe|
Formally Discharged and Leaves the
Room, Followed by Cheering Crowd
New York, Nov. 12.-More than 1,00(
men and women, and there were more
women than men, crowded the CORR
doris of the criminal court building be
fore 9 a. m. and fought for admission
to the room where Justice Lambert is
sitting in the Molineux trial.
After the usual preliminaries, Assist.
ant District Attorney Osborne resumed
his summing up. He said Governor
Black had made mis-statement when
he declared the experts had testified
that the writing on the poison package
wrapper was not in a disguised hand
Mr.. Osborne read extracts from the
testimony to show that two out of
three of the experts had found the
address disguised.
Mr.. Osborne argued that the Barnet
letters, the earliest in the case, gave
the first evidence of an attempt to
disguise and that the disguise improved
with every letter exhibited. He de-
clared that the earlier Barnet letters
conformed almost exactly to the hand
writing of Molineux.
"This case," counsel said in conclud-
ing his talk on the handwriting,
docs not depend upon any witnesses
who may lie, but on the common sense
and intelligence of the jury. Ex-Gov-
emo A..uvh we'll said in defining cir
cumtantial evidence that every circum-
stance must point to the one man as
the magnetic needle points to the pole
Every circumstance in this case points
to Molineux."
Osborne Concludes.
In his concluding words Mf. Osborne
begged the jury not to let tteif feel:
ings run away with their Judgment
and not to refuse to convict through
timidity.
1t was past noon when Mr.. Osborne
was through and then Justice Lambert
suspended proceedings until lis
o'clock.
At the afternoon session Justice
LAMBERT delivered his charge.
katherine J: Adams" he began,
"died on Dec. %, 1898, and the defend
ant is charged with the responsibility
for her death. The defendant may be
convicted, if you think the evidence
adequate of murder in the first degree,
OF II you think well of murder in the
second degree, or Of manslaughter in
the first degree. or of manslaughter in
the second degree"
1.-THE defendant is presumed to be
innocent until the evidence shows his
guilt beyond reasonable doubt. The
burden of proof never shifts. It is al.
ways with the state to prove guilt and
not for the defendant to prove inno-
cence."
Judge Lambert summed up the ad-
mitted facts in the case, the sending
of the package from the general post
Office, its receipt at the Knickerbocker
Athletic club, and it's administration
to Mrs. Adams by Cornish, who re-
ceived it at the club.
State Must Prove Case.
"It is necessary" he, said, "for the
state to prove that the defendant sent
this package, that it was received by
Cornish and innocently administered
to Mrs. Adams before you can find this
defendant guilty. It is for you to say
If the necessary evidence has been
submitted.
Zone of the most prominent efforts
of the prosecution has been to connect
this defendant with the address on
that poison package. The state has
attempted to do that by witnesses from
banks and by witnesses brought to you
as handwriting experts. It is contend
ed by the prosecution that the defend
ant wrote that address. Unless that
is proved the defendant cannot be con.
victed of any Crime. So you gee that
IS the central portion of the evidence.
That is fact the state is compelled
to prove"
The jury retired at s::1O to consider
the verdict.
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