The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-08
LAST EVIDENCE IN
M0L|AEUX TRIAL
Both Sides Rested Their Cases
Yesterday.
TESTIMONY OF INTEREST
Mrs. Stephenson Again on the STAND.
With Her Husband She Denies hat
Cornish Was Pointed Quito Her
Before She Identified Him.
tBv Associated Press.)

1 NEW YORK, November THE taking
/ OF evidence in the second trial OF Roland
i3 Nolineux for the murder OF Mrs Cath-
/ tiipe j. Adams was ended to-day and
1 court was adjourned until Monday. when
the arguments OF counsel will be made.
I a verdict is looked for on Tuesday.
The sensational turn given to the testi-
4 IRONY of yesterday, when Mrs. Anna Ste
I ,1llsnson. wife of a Brooklyn policeman.
/ said she thought Cornish was the man
1 sa. saw mail the poison package. was
continued TO-DAY. Cornish was recalled
3#to tho stand and was asked whether ne
1 lad a brown overcoat in 1895. Mrs Ste
4 ,ehenson said the man she saw mall the
poison package wore brown overcoat-
j Cornish said to-day he had no overcoat
/! at all that winter. and then Mr. Black
I Ita q from the minutes of the last trial
Ito show that Cornish had testified at that
L i5tinao that he had only one overcoat and
istliat4it was brown.
i ~ NJ *. Oicutt. one of Molineux's S
/ counsel testified that lie had purchased
i5cyanide of mercury without difficulty at
/ a drug store in this city by saving that
!! lie wanted it for Photographic expert
l=,nsnts. Two other witnesses gave similar
testimony.
i Professor vulte. Of Columbia Univer-
sity. gave evidence to the effect tlla t Mol
-iitIx was in his company from noon until
.
age was mailed. The package was mailed
during the afternoon.
CoN-rRADlCTS KOCH.
Ell IL f. Terry. a reporter. gave testimony
10 contradict that of Joseph Koch. who
l5!aentiiied Molineux as the man who hired
the letter-box from him in September,
1893. Witness was asked if Koch went
I to a newspaper office and offered to iden-
tify Molinaux as the man who hired the
l.tter-box il witness would pay him s., 900.
Witness said he did.
The decree of divorce granted to Mrs.
Rogers was put IL asllsssssasaca tassln that
it was granted after the death OF Mrs.
Adams. and then. hE9 consent of the pros
cciltion, ex-G Governor Black submitted a.
tatle compiled by one of his clerks to
show that although the written exhibits
are made up Of several thousand individ-
l8ilal letters, the prosecution has based Its
IscGpteniion that Molineax wrote them all
l,i,rii the similarity found in some seven
E1een letters. That closed the case for the
I defense, and Mr. osborne called Joseph
Farrell the hitherto missing Newark de-
tectivc. as his first witness in rebuttal.
Mr. Farrell, replying 10 a question by
Nj. Osborne. said he was sure the evil
tadence hz had given at the first trial was
cnrrect. Al that trial he testified that
he met Moiineux near a railway station
in Newark on the afternoon the bottle-
fed at the present trial that he could not
relemher meeting Farrell that day.
s THE 9sURNS LETTER.
George n. Baker. a clerk IN the employ
of the Newark postottice. testified mat
the Burns letter. the conceded Writing
OF AIolineuS, was mailed at Newark WITH
in a half mile OF A1oltneux's Office. Ine
letter WAS on the much-described blue
paper. and the object vas to throw doubt
onR Molineuxi statement that he could
not remember where he wrote 1t. but was
sure that he had none OF that paPer at
the factory.
Then Mrs. Osborne set about upeett1ns
Mrs Stephensons identification of Cor
nlsh. and sIbstaftiating the account Cor
nish had stgen of his whereabouts on
Friday. December ed. when Mrs. Steph-
eilson said she saw him at the postott1ec.
john Yol1uln was the first witness called
forsthe purpose. He said he met Cornish
about noon and they lunched together.
AT about $50 they went to the office of
James Z. Sullivan TO talk over athletic
matters. Mr. sullivan was secretary OF
the Amateur Athletic Union.
SokJm said he remained in the Office
until 4.3o ocIock and Cornish was there
all the time. lie said Cornish did not
wear an overcoat. Mrs. Stepnensons 8
Confined on Eighth Pagel