New-York tribune., 1902-10-23

Assistant District Attorney osborne succeeded
...s,ar6ay Al the Molineux trial i'm getting the
p.rnet and Harpster letters before the Jury as
.mnarisons Of handwriting, and on them he
,.rely pins his hopes Of conyicting Roland b
,,olineuN for the second time While ex-Goy-
nor Black for the defence objected without
nil Justice Lambert ruling for Mr. Osborne
b did not seem much perturbed over the ad-
,ittance of IN. letters. and gained the point of
hs,ipc introduced only those least prejudcial
-. IN. interests az his client.
What he lost in this way. however. he made
AN in his cross-eNamination If Joseph j. Koch
~ No lGa0 Broadway. who at the first trial
,es,ifed that MolineuN hired private letter
box from him in Consh's name. Yesterday
no testified that MolineuN Was not the man who
hired the letter box but Was i'm the store in
ouiring abou, one, that Cornish WAS not the
man and that The only difference between Cor
rsb and the man who hired the box was IN.
,iirl of .Istache. Save for that there was a
resembiance between Cornish and the man who
hired the box.
Justice Lambert again showed that he would
l.rook no attempts TO lead the jury on the part
of Mr. osborne. and viii allow pertinent ques-
tions only, instance illustrative of this being
the admonishment when Mr.. Osborne said he
wanted To explain" after getting an unsatis-
factory answer from a witness.
You viii save time il you present evidence
and don't explain" said the justice
Mr. osborne and eX-Cioverno- Black have
agreed 10 curtan the examination and cross
examination Of the handwriting experts, That
,lsss OF testimony took up three weeks at the
srsi trial of MolincuN. Before the trial opened
Mr. osborne said il would take him about three
weeks 10 present his case; yesterday he said
he might get through i'm less tha1 ten days
Dr. Z. Styles Potter the first witness called
yesterday, on cross-eNaminaton. said he had
lost the notes h. used at the first trial He said
50 far he had received as an expert for the
Woscution s. .9Gh.
FFT-Govelnor Black read from the record OF
fbe coroners inquest into the death of Mrs.
adams that Dr Potter had testified that he
heard Mrs. Rogers say 10 Cornish: DO not
have this made public; you know why"
Captain George McClusky WAS asked by Mr..
Osborne # cornish wrote every time you asked
him"
Ex-Governor Black objected and the court
sustained him. Il don't see amy occasion To de-
feud Cornish at this time said the justice
Koch in addition To the testimony already
related said that "a colored boy with buttons
called for the mail addressed TO IA. Cornish
EN-Assis,ant District Attorney Mcintyre said
Cornish told him he did not believe he had an
enemy on the day Of Mrs AdamS's death
Charles D. Allen chemist in the color house
of II Constant & Co. said that when he MAS
employed 10y Norris Herman & Co. the Newark
color house. MolineuN had the use of lahora-
tory there
} kinSleN.
as a layman (he is 10 testify an expert later
told about writing he saw MolineuN do before
HIS arrest He declared that the so-called Harp
Ster letter. written TO Frederick SteaTnS a. Co.
IN Detroit was written by the hand that wrote
letters written by MolineuX i'm the District At
torneys office. Mr.. Osborne offered the Harp
ster letter, with the result already told. This
letter Mr. Osborne declare would complete
proof that MolineuN had a letter box at No
1890 Broadway. Kinsley identified the Barnet
letters, admitted i'm the same way. and sWore
that every scrap Of disputed writing i'm the case
including the poison package address, was writ
len lg MoneuN.
DE r Hitchcock testified that he had re-
ceTed 81 0S0 from the state and expected To
send in a hill for services at the present trial.
he said publicity with the MolineuN case had
practically ruined him and dissipated his prac-
tice.
Ex-Governor Black recalled Cornish to ask
n he had testified before the coroner that he
believed that Tho HarpSter letter written
by Felix Gallagher. a hostile employe Of the
knickerbocker Athletic club Cornish said he
could not remember testifying 10 that effect,
hut II was true that AT one time he did think
Gallagher wrote it, Then he had not compared
the letter with MolineuX's handwriting.
Rudolph Heles told the same story he told
az the last trial. said that al the request Of
M0lineuX he wrote from Newark on the letter
head Of Jacobs Brothers. cigar makers. 10 Fred
erick Stearns & Co. Of Detroit. asking about
Harpster. Heiles said he Was a member Of the
Knickerb0cker Athletic Club and Tor several
years friend Of the defendant II was at the
New-York Athletic Club. which MohneuK
joined after he left the knickerbocker, that
MoineuN asked him to write the letter.
Heies said Harpster told him he was FORM
erly with Slearns & Co. and left them becaus
he could not get on there. Heles repeated that
statement MolineuN.
Ex-Governor Back objected. and Mr.. Osborne
said he proposed showing that the inquiries
abOul Harpster an act OF hostility toward
Cornish and that il was because the reply 10
the Jacobs letter sent 10y Heiles was unsalls-
factory that MolineuX wrote the much dls-
cussed Harpster letter in the name Of H Cor
nish"
Did Molineux say to you Harpster is the
same low-down vile kind as Cornish
Yes sir"
The witness said he was a friend to Molineux
and an enemy 10 Cornish.
did MolineuX tell you Cornish had circulated
a report in the Knickerbocker Athletic cluD
that MolineuN kept disTepu'aoie mouse !"
Newark" asked Mr.. Osborne
Yes sir" Molineux said that led TO the
trouble which he ended by resignng he also
spoke about the letter TO the Amateur Athletlc
Union. I said / was not surprised low-doWh
fellows like Cornish and Harpster would DO or
say anything"
Court adjourned at this juncture-
Adrian r. Holmes. floor walker employ ed
by W Y. Snyder & Co. department store IN
broad-st. Newark, was manager OF me nNe
and ten cent store OF F. ". Woolworth q Co.
No. 66l Broad-st., four years ago Inc store Is
short distance from the place Of business AT
that time Of Hartdegan & Co, jewellers. where
a fancy botteholder was SOLD, IN Nhlch t.e
poison Is alleged 10 have been sent TO Corhish
Mr. Holmes said yesterday that the puDilShto
statement as TO his connection win the MOI
ineux murder case had not been authorized by
him, and that he hal not been subpdlaed III
the case He would say nothing about the SUD
Ject He had seen no reporters nor given out
a statement Robert Haggerty. CHIEF OF de-
lective bureau. "A private detective al the WOOL
worth store four years ago, said In homes :
Presence that the latter from his position IN the
Store could have known nothing aboul the man
Nho asked for bottle holder