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

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Professor Witthaus told you the poi
son was only OF the top of the bottle
and had not pefmeated the other stuff
below.
sfCornish got it home just in time.
He knew Mrs. Adams was subject to
headaches. and twelve hours after the
bromo reached the fiat Mrs. Adams had
taken it. She was gone. There was
nothing now to stand in the way of
that unlimited passion which burns
cities and destroys empires"
Mr.. Black argued from the testimony
of the chemical experts who analysed
the contents of the glass from which
Mrs. Adams drank, that Cornish lied
when he said he drank a good swal-
low of the mixture, and quoted from
Professor Witthaus to prove that half
an inch depth of the mixture would
have killed any one who took it.
Cornish never tasted that liquid"
Mr. Black said.
Referring to Cornish's visit to AS
sistant District Attorney Mcintyre, eX-
Governor Black said:
1T is a wise criminal who knows
how to choose a good lawyer. and no
wiser criminal was ever known than
one who retained the head of the
district attorneys Office to defend him
against a crime of which he had not
been accused
Mr.. Black was still speaking when
the recess for luncheon was announced.
He said it would take him about an
hour to finish.
Actions of Cornish.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Black
traced Cornish's actions after Mrs.
Adams death.
Were his actions those of an hon
est man?" he asked.
why did he not go home and help
Mrs. Rogers in her trouble2 No; he
wanted to pose. He showed himself to
his chemist friend, Yoakdm, and then
went to bed in Yoakums room at the
club Then he called in five friends
to tell them how sick he was. What
else did he do? He stayed away from
the Adams fiat until the funeral. He
never dared to face that dead woman"
Ex-Governor Black declared the case
against Cornish far stronger than the
case against Molineux. Every fact in
the case he said. points to Cornish,
and nothing except the testimony of
the handwriting experts points to Mol
ineuX." Mr.. Black closed at 3:25-
Prosecution Opens.
Assistant District Attorney Osborne,
in opening for the prosecution, ridi-
culed the theory of the counsel for the
defense that the death of Mrs. Adams
was the result of a deliberate design
by Cornish, and argued that it would
be absurd to suppose that Cornish
would go down town to mail a package
to himself.
at is not disputed by the defense
Mr.. Osborne went on that the three
Cornish letters and the poison package
wrapping paper are in the same hand
writing. Well look at the corner Gov
hoc sale ~.
to show that Cornish is the criminal.
Cornish must have taken the address
from some parcel, and then have got
the writer to write three letters for.him
and signed H. Cornish to them. That
writer would own Cornish body and
soul and could hand him over to the
law for conviction and electrocution.
Is it reasonable to suppose anything
of the sort? If Governor Blacks as
sumptions are. true Mr. Osborne said,
Cornish, without any necessity for
doing so. handed over to the authorities
the only means of tracing the crime
to him and his associa tes-the poison
wrapper. the poison and the silver
holder. Is that fair reasoning?"
MIR. Osborne touched on Governor
Blacks charge that the prosecution
had suppressed the evidence of the en-
velopes found in the desk of MOiineux
Now, I am not at all hurt at that
charge" he said Governor Black did
not mean it personally. and took it in
a Pickwickian sense. He did not mean
that any more than he meant that we
suppressed the envelopes to the Cor
nish letters. He knows that we never
had those epistleS. The ENVELOPES taken
from Molineux's desk were given to
the defense, and the other letters we
suppressed were marked for identifi-
cation in the last trial and eliminated
-
thought we had enough handwriting
exhibits without them"
The Minutes Read.
Referring TO the statement made by
Mr. Black that Cornish did not attend
the funeral of Mrs. Adams and dare
not face the dead woman, Mr.. Osborne
read from the minutes TO show that
Cornish visited the fiat before Mrs Ad-
ans body was removed, and that ex-
Governor Black had refused to let him
tell on the witness stand why he was
absent from the funeral. Counsel con-
tradicted Ex-Governor Blacks conten-
ton that Cornish was shamming sick.
and read the evidence of the doctors
who attended Cornish in the Knicker-
booker Athletic club. who said they
found him suffering from an irritant
poisoning.
The insinuation that motive for the
murder of Mrs. Adams could be found
in Cornish's feelings for Mrs. Rogers.
the prosecuting attorney said. was not
worthy of consideration. All the evil
denee, he said. showed that Mrs. Ad-
ans and Cornish were on the best of
terms. and he added that there was
nothing against Mrs Rogers Character
except the insinuations of the defend
ants lawyers.
Counsel went on to say that he
would prove the states side of the case
without recourse to any old woman
VINO saw some handwriting for a mo-
ment in the dark of a winters evening
and recognized it again after a period
of four years. The statement ne said.
had no remarkable coincidence to pre-
sent Ike the testimony of Martin HUFF.
who happened into the Newark store
just as the bottle holder was being