The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-22
CORNISH UNDER A HOT FIRE.
!RIPPED MORE THAN ONCE on
THE MOLINEIN TRIAL.
Never Hired Letter boxes Denies Know.
ing a Certain Letter.iIox Nan-Thcn
seeks 10 Retract-JudEc Won't Let
IIlm-TwO Weeks work In Six Hours.

10 Ne'pIltl 'Iltl 'l 1tOldNi ID MollneuN,
ahargcd with the murder of Mrs. Katherine
Adams proceeded with remarkable ex-
ieiirIon Yesterday. The quick decisions
of justice Lambert and his refusal to allow
counsel for eirhor side To bubble on point.
II laW or To make speeches crowded into
-iv hours work that took weeks at the first
Iris. Thirteen witnesses we're examined,
.,r unprecedented record in trial Of this
character.
Tive principal witness was Harry Cornish,
orr, IN response tot the prosecutors Qles-
4 ~. told once more The story of tho death
- Mrs. Adams after he had given her dose
Of what he supposed to be- harmless medi-
ne from the anonymous Christmas gift
Il bottle and bottle holder which Molineux
TOW stands charged with having sent to him.
Cornish told Of his friendship with A. A.
Uarpsier and Frederick Stearns. declared
nat 20 never hired a private letter box in
Me lie, and added that both Harpster and
~taarns knew this and knew that he was in
he habit Of receiving all of his mail al the
knickerbocker Athletic Club.
Cornish was allowed to identify a num-
Der az the letters in the case. including
The -Harpster' letter, and declared that
they we're in the writing of Molineux. He
vas allowed to swear to this. despite OBJ
ectiou= from ex-Gov. Black. Under the
impression that the letters were being
offered in evidence Mr.. Black objected to
their reception. The prosecutor fastened
90 say that they were not being offered and
Justice Lambert said that their competency
would be passed on only when they came
I'D in the regular way. The letters were
not ruled out, they were not offered,
Mr. Blacks accommodation of Cornish
vas a merCiless arrangement, but through
r. all Cornish retained fair amount of
,omposure. Mr.. Black brought out Cor
rish's marriage, his trouble with his wife
iue to his relations with other women.
and the divorce his wife got. He made
cornish admit that he knew Mrs. Small
rtosa real name was Mrs. Cassidy, that
f- had spent much time with her In Chi-
ago, and that while in that city she went
20 a hospital, was operated on and died
a. result Cornish paid the burial
expenses.
Mr Black tried to get Cornish TO admit
Wallace, but Cornish couldn't remember
-uch a person. Mr.. Black inquired very
loosely into the relations between Mrs.
Rogers. daughter Of Mrs. Adams, and the
Witness Cornish said that he often took
Mrs Rogers out. but always. with her
mother. A few times he and Mrs. Rogers
went bicycle riding when Mrs. Adams
did not go
He admitted that he still goes out with
Mrs. Rogers and has been In restaurants
and cafes with her often Of late. Mrs.
Rogers is now divorced from her husband
and Is working IA a stenographer In this
city Cornish sees her often at her place
- business, and almost every night when
he goes with her brother Howard to her
BOARDING house at lls West Forty-frst street,
where he takes his meals.
Q Do you know a Mr.. and Mrs. Linkf
\ ! don't recall any such persons;
%, ,pid9t Mrs: Rogers do some work for
q And while she was doing It you often
WON'T their home to bring her homer A. Yes.
g I'D yop ever kiss Mrs Rogers in the
q, Did you ever take her on your lap there?
or put your arm around herr A. No. never.
Q. Are YOU certain OF that? A. You bet
. Did YOU ever give Mrs. Rogers money or
id SIZE ever give YOU money? A. We have
never given each other money,
Q Didn't the Links pay Mrs Roserstio 70!
tnE 10 marry Mrs Rogers A. No.
Cornish denied that he had ever written
erort 10 get 1t back. Mr.. Black asked him
what he wrote with when he wrote at all
nowadays, and when Cornish replied that
g used pen or pencil Mr.. Black asked
I'm Il II wasn't fact that he was very
"areful now 10 use nothing but a type
writer. Cornish said It was not. Mr..
Black brought out the fact that no one
vas around when Cornish took the poison
bottle out of the package, and laid so much
stress on what he said was Cornisk's care
not 10 let any Of the wrappings Of the bottle
get separated from him or from each other
hat 1t was clear that he was discreditina
he entire poison package episode, as reg
ated on the previous trial by Cornish.
Mr.. Black asked the witness II he told
Mrs. Adams, when she complained OF the
drink he had given her, that IL was all right
In order TO get her To drink what was left
N the glass, He denied such motive.
When Cornish admitted having studied
ara'0r- and surgery but denied ever hav~
ing studied medicine, Mr.. Black said
why are you always SO shy Of saying
YOU ever studied medicine2'
thought you meant chemistry re-
piled Cornish
(Which is precisely what you don't pro-
pose 70 admit, said Mr.. Black
Mr. Black then produced a letter addressed
70 A. +. Link, which Cornish finally adj
United he had written, Mr.. Black asked
Cornish about private letter boxes at Muir
docks and Galatians. The witness said
- never had had boxes at either place.
Mr. Callahan was called TO the bar and
Cornish was asked if he had ever seen him
lie said he hadn't. Callahan is to be wit
moss for the defence. His letter-bOx place
ian had left court Cornish decided that he
did know him and wanted him called back
tout the Court decided that the testimony
should stand
Harry j. King, Henry A. Wotherspoon.
George 4. Salmon and Patrick j Finucnan,
who saw the poison package after Cornish
received II Mt tho knickerbocker A. c..
went over their old testimony, and Howard
\ Adams told what he knew of the death
81 hI- mother. Drs. Coffin and Phillips
told Of treating Cornish after he had taken
dose out of the same glass a. Mrs. Adams,
and John II Socum, Cornish'S chemist
Trend told how he made cyanide of mer-
curv for the detectives on, of Prlissian blue,
queens yellow and yellow and red oxide OF
mercury. The yellow oxide and the Prlis-
ian blue he had in his laboratory, but he
-"nt out for tho others
Detectives Carey and Herlihy told Of
racing N" bottle holder TO Newark, Louis
Cornish told Of his cousin Harry's illness
|1t Ernest Woke Of the Cincinnati poliCc
Id Of letter supposed TO have beer writ
''n by NolincuS to the Won Nohl COM
lary there. similar in character to the
'lcr patent medicine letters The first
tHal testimony Of Elsie GRAY, bookkeopcr
' ~" kutnOw company, row dead, was