New-York tribune., 1902-11-11

had the poison He experimenting In @ the
manufacture of ships paint and one @ OF I'm 1me
uses of cyanide of mercury is Tor the manu-
facture of ships paint" ,.,
tion that Professor Witthauss testimony tnat
he could not tell the component parts oL u.c
poison found in Mrs. Adams's viscera was In
favor of the defence. MI osborne Sal1 no T,,s Tt
knew the elements MOlineuX had had az ms
3 disposal for purposes of experiment. lie con-
tiuued
! OSBORNE DISCUSSES BOTTLE HOLDER
Now about the bottle holder: what the facts:
We have I'm Molineux man who had the motive
a man who had the power to make the poison
Molineux vas daily in Newark. He knew the
! Hartdegen store well. He had a friend there.
Arnold. Why did not the defence call Arnold or
take his deposition: lie refused to come here for
the prosecution Miss Miller told yous Mr.. Arnold
said it a shame refuse Mr.. Moneux The
boy, Erhardt told YOU he wrapped up the package
and that Mr. McIneux Mr.. Powell told him to
say nothing about it. The defence called Mr-
but they did not can Mr. Arnold Then there was
a man closely associated with Moltneux in his
A. Zeller
Object" said Ex-Governor Black
objection sustained" ruled the court. mo
| controversy, Mr.. Osborne. Go on.
"Will your honor permit me to show Mr.
Osborne began.
NO. sir. You may not draw inferences hurt
ful To this defendant because of the absence of
witnesses ne could not compel to be present"
Has your honor forgotten the testimony
ment"
| Mr. Osborne dropped the subject after telling
! the jury, with the permission of the court that
he had tried i'm vain to get Zeller to come TO
New York to testify. Then he dismissed the
question of the Tiffany paper box. saying that
! the box only added to the ciTCumstautial chain
against MolincuS, who could have owned such
box.
Taking up the evidence of the handwriting ex-
perts. Mr. Osborne said the testimony of Mr..
Carvalho, the expert called by the defence,
proved his contention that MoIineux wrote the
poison package wrapper. Carvalho said the
wrapper address not disguised sufficiently
to hide the characteristics of the natural hand
of the writer
by whom do 7 convict Molineux of that writ
ing?" he demanded. "Out of the mouths of his
enemies? No. out of the mouths of his friends.
Two bankers of Newark who knew Molineux
and his writing. and who had no feeling of en-
nifty toward MOlineuX, told you they sure
MolineuX wrote those disputed writings. 1 am
satisfied to let that portion of the accusation
against MolineuX rest upon the testimony OF
CarValhO"
Mr. Osborne discussed the writing for a long
time, and declared that man could avoid
seeing the likeness between the characters in
the conceded writing of MOlineux and in that
on the poison package wrapper, He argued
that the writer dared not entirely hide his hand
| or use printing characters or a typewriter. for
| fear of defeating his object by arouSing the
suspicion OF the recipient of the package.
The sender of that package had to use a
pen. He found himself having to decide" coun-
sci said between the Scylla OF doubt and the
Charybdis Of his IDENTITY
At Is o'clock Mr., Osborne had spoken little
more than two and a half hours Justice Lam
bert stopped him and announced d suspension OF
the proceedings until to-day. at 1870 a. m.
Mr.. Osborne declared it would take him three
hours 10 finish his address. and Justice Lambert
said he would allow him only two and half
hours. That will take him to the time for adj
| touIninG for luncheon and the afternoon ses-
sion will start with the charge OF Justice Lam
| bert.