The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-07
EIGHT OF THEM YESTERDAY IN
MOLINEUX TRIAL.
UNANIMOUS FOR DEFENSE
ADDRESS ON POISON PACKAGE NOT
WRITTEN BY PRISONER.

Prosecution Will EndeavOr to
Prove Her Insane.
New York. Nov. 6.-The greatest
sensation in the second trial of Roland
B. Molineux, charged with the murder
of Mrs. Adams, came late to-day when
Mrs. Hannah Stephenson. 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 famous poi
son package at the general postoffice
on the evening of Dec. 90, 1898. Then
the witness partially identified 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 postofice and holding in his hand
package addressed to Mr.
Harry Cornish, Knickerbocker."
That was all she saw. Her iden-
tifcation of Cornish was not
positive. She said he looked very much
like the man. but hesitated before re-
plying affirmatively when asked if she
did not think he was the man. The
witness account of her movements on
the evening of Dec. %, and her reason
for not appearing at the first trial were
given In detail.
The prosecution on cross-examination
brought out the fact that Mrs. Steph-
enson had suffered from attacks of ner-
VOus prostration within the last two
years, and had carefully read the de-
tails of the former trial. The questions
of the assistant district attorney tend
ed to show that an effort would be
made to prove insanity or delusion I'M
der hysteria. 1t is also said that an
effort will be made to prove an alibi
for Cornish. Mrs. Stephenson was on
the stand when court adjourned until
tomorrow.
CarvaIhO on the stand.
When court opened to-day in the
Molineux trial. David N. Carvalho
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 believe that Molineux wrote
the poison package wrapper or any of
| the disputed writings, and then in.
great detail he explained to the jury
his reasons for his opinions.
AS soon as the direct examination of
Carvalho was completed, Mr.. Osborne,
assistant district attorney, made an
other attempt to get the Barnet dag
| nosiS blank in evidence, but Justice
Lambert declined to reverse his earlier
ruling excluding it. The so-called di-
agnosis blank gives the measurements
and other data of a man suffering
from trouble the patent medicine
vendors, to whom the blank was ad-
dressed guaranteed to cure.
When the technical part of the cross
examination of the witness was fin
ished, counsel asked CarvaIho if he
had compared the disputed writings
with the handwriting of Harry s.
Cornish and Rudolph Heiles, both OF
whom have been shown to be inter-
ested in the case. Carvalho said he
had.
did Cornish write the address on
the poison wrapper?" Mr.. Osborne
asked
"He did not" replied Mr.. Carvalho
without hesitation.
did HeileS write it?"
NO sir"
"Mr. Carvalho," said ex-Gov Black,
''you answered a question here as a
psychologist. You were asked whether
you thought man when writing an
address on a poison package would
disguise his writing and you replied,
Yes. Let me ask you another psych-
illogical question. Do you think a
man sending a poison package to him
self would write the address at all
with his own hand?"
Mr.. Osborne objected, and the court
declined to let the witness answer.
Seven Experts Testify.
After the recess seven witnesses tes-
titled that Molineux did not write the
poison package address. These wit
nesses were Clarence Foote, David W.
Torrey, Samuel H. Mcdowell and
George Duncan, handwriting experts
from banks: E. D. Bushnell. who was
chairman of the Knickerbocker Ath-
letic Club House Committee. and had
seen Molineux write: Prof. George
Golday, of Princeton University, who
had correspondence with Molineux and
Samuel Pittinger, cashier of the New
York Athletic Club.
Louis Jacobsen. who worked in a
New York drug store, testified that
he knew Cornish and Mrs. Rogers well,
and that he frequently saw them to-
gether. He said he had sold bromo
settler to Mrs. Rogers. Cornish in
his testimony swore he had never
tasted bromo settler. and Mrs. Rogers
said she had never bought any of the
stuff.
The assistant district attorney, in
cross-examining Mr.. Jacobsen, got the |
remember the names of any others of |
his customers who drank bromo self |
ger. The defense then called William |
J. Liell, proprietor of a drugstore near |
the house where Mrs. Adams had died. |
Cornish testified that when Mrs Adams |
became sick he ran to Liell's store |
and Liell gave him aromatic spirits |
of ammonia. Liell corroborated that |
testimony. He said Cornish seemed |
very much excited, but that he did not |
look sick
Emma Miller testified she sold the |
bottleholder in which the poison was |
sent after the store lamps were light
ed. and Barton HUFF a travelling sales
man, said he was in Hartdegan's store
al the time. He said a man brushed /
by him and asked to see a silver bot
tleholder but witness did not see him
buy It. He described the man, his de-
scription tallying with that of Miss
Miller
saw Poison Package Mailed.
Mrs. Anna c. Stephenson. the eager
" awaited witness, who says she saw
the poison package, and IL was
not mailed by Molineux. was
called late in the afternoon. !
Men and women stood on their seats to