The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-12

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-More than
~ 1000 men and women. more wo-
men than men, crowded the cor
ridors of the criminal court building
before 10 O'Clock this morning and
fought for admission to the room where
Justice Lambert is sitting in the Moi-
neux trial.
After the usual preliminaries, As
sistant District Attorney OSBORNE re
sumed his summing up He said ex-
Governor Black had made a misstate-
ment when he declared the experts had
testified that the writing on the poison
package wrapper was not in a DIS
g1Iised hand. Mr. Osborne read eX-
tracts from the testimony that two out
of three of the experts had found the
address disguised. Mr. Osborne ar
gued that the Barnett letters, the
earliest in the case. gave the first evil
dence of an attempt 10 disguise, ana
that the disguise improved with every
exhibit He declared thst the earlier
Barnett letters cOnfOrmed almost ex-
aetly 10 the handwriting Of Moineux.
The prosecution took up the matter Of
the letter box and declared the hiring
of the Koch box in COrniSh'S name was
an act of hostility to Cornish. Talking
of Koch, who sold to a newspaper an
| Identification OF Molineux as a man
who had talked to him on Dec II, 1898,
about hiring a letter box. Mr.. Osborne
said he would not himself insult the
! jury by asking a conviction upon such
/ evidence.
Hostility to Harpster.
The assistant district attorney dwelt
at some length on the talk MolineuX
had with HeiIes before Heiies wrote to
Stearns & Co. about Harpster, and de-
manded:
Does not that show hostility toward
Harpster? Molineux had nothing
1 against Harpster, except his friendship
of Cornish, and yet he tried to do
him the greatest harm he cOuld-de-
prive him of his job. If he would go
SO far against Harpster, what would
he not do to COrn5sh2'
/ Mr.. Osborne began to talk about the
/ Barnett letters. The man who wrote
| those Cornish letters had the Barnett
case in mind he said, when ex-Gov-
ernOr Black interrupted with an OBJ
( lection, which Justice Lambert sus-
/ tanned
Mr.. Osborne. however. declared he
! was we'll within the evidence, and the
court permitted him to proceed.
This defendant and Barnett" Mr..
I Osborne continued, were friends, liv-
/ ing near each other on the same floor
Of the Knickerbocker club They were
paying attention to the same lady. She
/ rejected Molineux. Barnett died, and
eight days later Moiineux bought for
/ the woman an engagement ring The
wedding was very sudden"
Letters in the Case.
Mr.. Osborne took up the Burns, Cor
nish and Barnett letters. the first two
asking for certain remedies, and the
/ third for a marriage guide" and de-
! clared that the envelope matched the
paper of the Cornish letter, and that
4 the wording of the conceded Burns let
/ ter was Identical with the wording of
/ the Cornish letter. This case does not
/ depend upon any witnesses who may
/ lie" counsel said in concluding his talk
on the handwriting. but on the COM
mon sense and intelligence Of the jury.
! Ex-Governor Black well said in defin-
ing circumstantial evidence that every
circumstance must point TO the one
man as the magnetic needle points to
| the pole Every circumstance in this
/ points TO Mol-neux''
/ Mr. Osborne in his perorati0n pointed
out again the circumstance on which
he relied for d conviction, turning al
each mention of Molineux's name to
point his finger at the defendant
Moiineux sat unnOved at the arraign-
ment. but attentive to every word q
/ it. Not so with his father. The ole
general was FiSiDlv affected NV thu