The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-11-04

New York, November 1.-The cross
examination of Roland b. Molineux by
AssisteRt District Attorney Osborne.
which 1va.s resumed at the opening of
court .today, was finished within a few
minutes after its resumption. Mr.. Os-
borne's first question today was Did
not Dir Barnet pay your wife atten-
tion?'
Not at ak" was the reply.
Did you not SO testify at the in
auest?"
Aioltneuxis reply to this was that
Barnett had paid attention to Miss
chesebt Tough in the spring and au-
tumn CG 1898 before she became Mrs
Moline TX
The defendant was in best of humor.
When Mr.. Osborne asked him if he
gave his wife an engagement ring ii
the tune of his engagement. and his
answer was not to the prosecutors sat
isfacti0'l, said, smilingly:
Il can tell you better than you can
drag it out of me-
Il dent wish to drag it out of you,
said Mr.. ,sborne.
Molineux. then said he bought an en-
gagement ring on November Is, 1895
Yesterday he testified that he and Miss
eheseboro ugh became engaged in Sep
tember. L s9S.
AT Chri stmas, 1897 he gave her a r.1;
and Whe he became engaged in Sep
tember lS1S. he wished to buy her al
engagem aEIt ring. but did not do SO IN
til Mover nher.
lett sr to Miss Sadie Sheffle. IL
which tolinenx spoke of his engage
ment al Id forthcoming marriage as Z
romano H and said also that it Wa,
sudden, was then identified and admit
ted in evidence.
Mr.. osborne ceased his examination
rather abruptly after several question.
as to the prisoners connection witt
variou: medical associations. AS Mol
ineux assumed his seat behind his law
| yers. ] Rev. Lindsay Parker, of Brock
! lyn, hook hands with him, and hi.
father General Molineux. patted hin
| Affect onately on the shoulder and saIt
| Good boy"
Mr.. BLACK called Max GunpeI, z
hand writing expert as his first witnes.
| after Molineux. Mr.. Gumpel told of hi.
qualii ications as an expert. He safc
| no ha q studied handwriting more thar
| thirty years and had testified in many
impol rtant cases, among others the
Riegi ind-Becker forgery: the Sharon
will aSe; the Sarah Althea Hill contro
versy in California, and the Trice will
case in New York. He declared thai
1.-THE conceded and disputed writing:
| were not written by the came hand
Mr.. Gumpel said II was mis- belief that
the address on the poison package was
! in the natural hand of the writer and
| that its cramped appearance was due
to its having been written after the
| package was made I'D.
| On cross examination Mr.. Gumpel
said he would expect the sender of a
! poison package to disguise his hand
( writing He knew of no case in which
"A person had sent poison TO any one
without trying 20 conceal his identity
( Mr.. Osborne got the witness 70 say that
.-he u and &C. in Club" written by
Molineux had many characteristics jp
common with the address on the pois-
on package wrapper. He found also
shading in the top of the letter &C. in
Cornish on the wrapper and like shad-
lngs in the .'C' Of the word Club" in
various of the conceded writings
DR.. David Ewell, handwriting ex-
pert. was the next witness. He said
ne had made careful studies of the dis
puted and conceded writings and was
convinced they had not been done by
/ the same hand.
! DIR. Ewell was still on the stand when
eoIrt was adjourned until Wednesday
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