The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-11
Governor Black Makes Powerful Plea for His Client and
 Closes His Case
CHARGES CORNISH WITH
 HAVING SENT THE POISON
Osborne Sums Up the Case for State and Justice Lambert Will Turn It Over to the Jury Today.
 Early Verdict Expected.

New York, November 10-The fate of Roland B. Molineux will be determined tomorrow When court adjourned this evening, Justice Lambert announced that he would allow Assistant District At- torney Osborne but two hours and A half more to finish summing up which means that the court will deliver it's charge and the case will go to the jury during the afternoon
 The court room was crowded to suf- location, when at the opening of today's session, former Governor Black rose to sum up for the defense. After a general defense of Molineux, whom he declared the prosecution had utterly failed to con- meet in any way with the death of Mrs. Adams, MT. Black passed to scathing denunciation of Harry Cornish, to whose guilty, and not that of MolIneux, he de- clared every circumstance in the case di- rectly pointed. More than half of MT. Blacks address, which occupied nearly four hours. was devoted to an analysis of Cornish's conduct and testimony and of the testimony of other witnesses in A manner to support his contention that Cornsh's actions were not consistent with his innocence of the crime of which Molineux stands accused.
 MT. Osborne based his argument for the prosecution today largely on the testi- mony of the handwriting experts which he said conclusively showed Moiineux to have been therwriter Of the poison pack age address and of the other disputed ex- hibits.
 Governor Blacks Address.
 Tn lie Frank s. Black said that Molineux was director in the Knickerbocker Athletic club, where Cornish was employed Molineux did not like Cornish and he did not like Harpster. He had many friends in the club and perhaps many enemies. Cornish wrote what Molineux considered an improper letter and Molineux com plained of it. Was that any reason for Molneux sending to Cornish a quantity of poison sufficient to kill any man in that club?" asked MT. Black Cornish insulted Molineux, and Melineux behaved like a gentleman regarding the differ ence of thein station and passed on. Is that proof of murder"
 Nothing else under the sky has been produced here to indicate any motive Molineux could have for wanting to kill Cornish.
 The trouble between Cornish and Mo- lineux occurred more than a year before
 
 dence has been presented here to show that in all that time MT. Molineux said one unldnd word or uttered one unchari- table thought toward Cornish All the evidence in this case point away from Moineux and to another man. I shall indicate who that man is before I sit down. The case points to that man just as surely as the needle points to the north starr
 Discussed the BottlehoIder.
 In commenting upon the evidence, Mir. Black began with that of Miss Emma Miller, the clerk at Hartegen's store who sold the silver bottle holder. He said he had to criticise the attitude of the dis trict attorney toward that witness. He thought it was unfair to force Miss Mill Ter to admit that she had been paid $150 for her testimony.
 Do you know why Miss Miller was treated she wasp he asked
 Tt was because after she had volun- teered to testify she could only be brought here as a volunteer she declined to per- jur herself. She told the truth. Molineux did not buy the bottle holder.
 The detective Farrell Is the only wit ness who has brought Molineux any where near that bottle holder and the nearest he brought him was three-fourth of a mile. And that is the nearest any one had brought him to the case''
 MT. Black ridiculed the testimony of Joseph Koch, the broadway letter box man, who said Molineux rented a letter box from him and declared 1t to be the evidence of a man who ''peddled his story and his eternal soul' at the same time.
 Former Governor Black took up the question of writing and declared that the Washington expert Hay, was "a stupen- dous fraud" when he testified that none of the request" writing made by Mo- lineux contained characteristic to be found in his other writing and in the dis puted writing. Then he dwelt at great length upon alleged suppression of evil dence by the district attorneys office and argued that that evidence might point to some one other than Molneux.
 Produced the Poison Wrapper.
 '"The prosecution" he said, has pro- duced here the poison package wrapper. the envelope and the Burns letter, we concede to have been written by Moli- neux the envelope to Harpster and the Barnett letters, but where are the en- velopes to the Cornish letters? Not onv of them has been presented in evidence. Why have they been suppressed? They show too much You may forget to date your letters but Uncle Sam never for gets. Did the Cornish envelopes show too much?
 Tn Molineux's desk. Newark. was a package of small envelopes used for en- closing cards The detectives of the att torney's office found them. but they did not match the envelopes that accompa- nied the poison package. and so they were suppressed. Was 1t done to shield some body?
 Tt was a crime to murder Mrs Ad- ams." he said. but it would be no less a crime to murder this mah upon the evil
 (cointinued on Eighth Paae-)