The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-07
SENSATION SPRUNG IN
THE MOLINEUX TRIAL
Witness Declares She Saw the Poison Package
Mailed and That Moineux Was Not the Man.
Swore That Cornish Resembed the Person Standing the Line at
the PostofCe.

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-The greatest
sensation in the second trial OF
Roland B. Molineux, charged with
the murder OF Mrs Adams, came late
today, when Mrs. Anna Stevenson,
the wife of Brooklyn policeman, was
called to the stand by the defense and
testified positively that Molineux was
not the man who mailed the now ia
nous poison package at the general
postofice on the evening of Dec. %,
1898. Then the witness partially identi-
fed Harry Cornish, who was asked TO
stand up in court, as the man whom
she saw standing in front of her in the
line at the postoffiee and holding in his
hand a package addressed to Mr.
Harry Cornish. KnickerbOcker Club"
That was all she saw Her Identified
ton of Cornish was not positive She
said ne looked very much like the man,
but hesitated before replying affirma-
lively when asked if she did not think
he was the man. The witness accounts
of her movements of the evening OF
Dec. % and her reasons for not appear
ing at the first trial were given in de-
tail.
Had Nervous Attacks.
The prosecution on cross-examination
bro 1ght out the fact that Mrs. Stew
enson had suffered from attacks Of
nervous prostration within the last two
years and had carefully read the de-
tails of the former trial. The questions
of the assistant attorney tended TO
show that an effort would be made to
prove insanity or delusion under hys-
terra. 1t is also probable that an eff
fort would be made to prove an abb
for Cornish.
Miss Miller. the clerk in the store
where the bottle holder was purchased,
testified that she sold the holder late
in the evening. Her evidence vas cor
roborated by man who was In the
store at the time. The prosecution has
held that the holder was purchased
early in the afternoon. Miss Miller
positively swOre that the man who
bought the holder was not MOlineux.
The trial will be continued tomor-
row morning.
Expert on the Stand.
When court opened today in the
Molineux trial David N. CarValhO, the
handwriting expert who was on the
stand when adjournment was taken
last night resumed his place in the
witness chair. He said he did not be-
feve that Molineux wrote the poison
package wrapper or any of the dis
explained TO the jury his reasons for
his opinions. AS soon as the direct
examination of Carvalho was COM
pleted Assistant District Attorney Os-
borne made another attempt to get the
Barnet diagnosis blank in evidence.
but Justice Lambert declined to reverse
his earlier ruling excluding it.
The so-called diagnosis blank gives
the measurements and other data of a
man suffering from a trouble the
patent medicine vendors, to whom the
blank was addressed, guaranteed to
cure.
When the technical part of the cross
examination of the witness was fin
ished. counsel asked Carvalho if he had
compared the disputed writings with
the handwriting of Harry S. Cornish
and Rudolph Heilles, both of whom
have been shown TO be interested in
thu case. Carvalho said he had.
Did Cornish write the address on the
poison wrapper" Mr.. Osborne asked. +
"He did not" replied the witness
without hesitation.
Did Heilles writ it?''
''No, sir
Question Shut Out.
mr. Carvalho." said Ex-Governor
Black, you answered a question here
as a psychologist. You were asked
whether you thought a man when
writing an address on a poison packa pc