Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-10-28
MOLINEUX'S FATE.
Trial Going Rapidly Along, It
Will Soon Be Known.
WRITING EXPERTS TESTIMONY

Tells of Her Relationship to Cornish
and Of Administering the Poison
Handwriting Experts and Bank
Cashier Gave Testimony To-Day.
New York, Oct 2S.-The first wit
ness in the trial of Roland B. Molin-
eux to-day was Herbert u. TWitcheu,
a handwriting expert. Lewis Arthur
Russell, a music teacher of Newark,
New Jersey, was next. He is one OF
the witnesses who are said to have
been prevented from coming into New
York state to testify. His testimony
was relative to his friendship for Mol
ineuX.
pert on handwriting from Washington,
testified that all the writings in the
case, disputed and admitted, were
done by the same hand.
Charles B. Warren, cashier in the
Lincoln National bank, where Cornish
had an account, testified that the sig
nature of III. Cornish introduced in ev-
idence was not written by Cornish.
District Attorney Jerome sat with
afternoons session and now and then
prompted Mr. Osborne. Mr. Jerome
insisted that time would be saved and
involved points made clear if Mr. Tyr
rel were permitted to use his black
BOARD. and the court granted the APP.
plication. Mr. Tyrrell copied the first
syllable of the word .sKnickerbocker''
from the poison package address and
.rryf4 II ESx.1-s
tickets" appearing in a letter AIoli-
neux wrote to Cornish about an ath-
Ietlc entertainment in November, 1897.
The expert made like comparisons
with the ssk'' in 'tbook" appearing in
one of the Barnet letters. and in a bus
1ness letter written by Molineux and
with letters in the words "west" and
street appearing in another Barnet
letter, and on the address "West
EIghty-fourth street. on an envelope
Molineux wrote to Mr. She er.
Justice Lambert said he thought the
jury had seen enough and the expert
relinquished his blackboard. At Mr.
Osborne's request the expert proceeded
to point out the peculiarities in hand
writing about which he had testified.
do you consider the study of hand.
writing an exact sc1ence?v ex-Gover-
nor Black said in opening his cross
examination
I'm some instances, yes; in some,
no.
'It is based upon the theory of
probability, is it not?''
Yes, 1 suppose so.'s
ssDid you ever know of any other
exact science based on probability?''
sNo."
In answer to Mr. Black witness said
there were other capital "T's'' and
''M's" in the conceded writings of Mol
ineux besides those he had testified as
resembling similar letters in the dis
puted writings. The illustrations
made on the blackboard were not fac
SMILES of the writings copied.
Mrs Rogers, daughter of the dead
woman, was next called and to Mr.
Osborne's questions told Of going to
the theater with her mother on the
night of December 27, of her mothers
headache in the morning and Of her
appeal to Cornish for a draught of his
bromo-seltzer. She told of giving the
poisoned drink to Mrs Adams and Of
her almost immediate collapse. To
the counsel for the defense Mrs Rog-
ers said her relationship to Cornish is
by marriage and not by blood
Aaron r. Pugh of Cincinnati was
the next witness. He identified by
he office stamp the Cornish-Von ATohl
letter that is one of the exhibits in
the case. Alfred S.. Osborne, the next
witness, replying to Mr. Osborne, said
the hand that wrote the poison-pack-
age address and the other disputed let
ters was the hand that wrote the con-
ceded writing of the defendant. Mol
ineux. The witness was armed with
enlarged photographs of the different
exhibits mounted map-like. which he
hung across the easel. He began on
the conceded handwriting and showed
the peculiarities he later discovered in
the disputed writings.
'sWe concede.' said Mr. Black, ssthat
the triangular formation of letters is
distinctly found in Mr. Molineux's
writing"
"And that is what you mean by
habit of writing p . asked Judge Lam
bert turning to the witness.
'sIt is,'' replied the witness
The witness had found his stpeculi-
arity Of habit in different letters from
those selected by Mr. Tyrrell for his
demonstration. Mr. Osborn found
characteristics that would not down.
in all the initial rs and final SIS. Mr.
Osborn frequently started to explain
statement referring to some pecu1i-
arity he had pointed out by saying:
sThat indicates - Ex-Governor
Black objected each time and Justice
Lambert sustained each objection,
ruling that experts might state what,
they believed to be the facts. but they
must leave to the jury the task of de-
ternining what those facts indicated.
BOULDER ON TRACKS.
Rochester, N. Y, Oct 28-The Rome,