New-York tribune., 1902-10-21
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| ct want YOU to understand. ne sald thaI'
! a,+bourh the defence has the right to take the
| testimony of absent witnesses the prosecution
hos no such right 1 want here to tell the
| ao,,,sa, for the defence that some Of the wit
os.as arA out Of the State. and I can't get them.
| rha,, u,on,t come here for me. and If counsel
| tor the defence do not get them 1 shall COM
| mont on their absence, and on the testimony
thew might give-the judge will allow me-
mot now" interrupted the Court.
| "nyot now" Mr.. Osborne continued. but at the
| proper time
| After these Introductory remarks Mr.. Osborne
| beqan the recital of Mrs. Adams's death. telling
| how Harry S Cornish on December "a. 1898,
received a package at the Knickerbocker Ath-
lete Club containing bottle of bromo seltzer
| in a silver holder
| MIR OSBORNE ADMONISHED.
| Or December % Mrs. Adams. with whom he
| boarded had a headache. and Cornish gave her
some Of the supposed bromo seltzer. Death re-
suited.
you gentlemen may thing it was foolish OF
Cornish" counsel continued, Ito give the con-
| tents Of a bottle received in that way to Mrs.
Adams"
THAT is drawing on the imagination Of the
| iury" interrupted the court.
Mr. Osborne dropped that line of argument He
| was advancing a theory TO the efforts at
secrecy made by the poIsoner. when the Court
| interrupted him again:
You can tell the jury" Justice Lambert said.
| .what you will prove and not the deductions
you want them 10 draw
| Il expect to prove those facts, your honor"
| Mr. Osborne replied.
Very well,' ruled the Court; prove them. and
| let the Jury draw their deductions"
Mr. Osborne traced the silver bottle holder 10
Hardegen's store in Newark. and told the jury
he would not be able 10 produce the man who
bought that holder. Cyanide OF mercury so
rare that it's possession suggested the owner OF
a laboratory or one having access to a color
manufactury.
Now we have to show you as the poisoner."
Mr. Osborne said-so far he had made no men
ton of Molineux-''a man of great intelligence.
with knowledge of the social amenities. with
access to a laboratory and with some knowledge
Of chemistry and color making. with ability
TO get stationery from Tiffany's and some busi-
ness 20 take him TO Newark. If we can show
you such a man and then show you that the
man had a grudge against Cornish. think you
will agree that we have found the guilty man"
He said the use Of Cornishs name, the hiring
Of a letter box TN Cornsh's name. the latter
signed Cornish" sent to Frederick Stern & Co.
IN Detroit inquiring about Cornish's friend
Harnster and the use of Cornish's name on the
robins egg paper with the interlaced three
crescents and the letters sent TO patent medicine
manufacturers would prove to have been writ
ten by the man the prosecution held was the
poisoner. He would prove thae Ing S III
ing Of those letters was 1he NAM" Nuns Va '''e
!'I VIII ilms1rate II am permitted" he said.
Never mind illustrating. interrupted the
Court.
REFUSES EARLY ADJOURNMENT.
..yybo had an account at Tinanys?" Mr.. os
horra asked Roland f. Molineux. Who had
business in Newark? Roland B. Molineux. Who
was a color maker and could obtain without
trouble cyanide OF mercury? Roland T. MoA-
rauv who wrote letters to medicine compa
MES on blue crested paper? Roland b. Moh-
neux Whose handwriting shows all the char
acteristics found in the address on the poison
package7 Roland b. Molneux's. Who is or
should be acquainted with the amenities Of So
cIaI life? Roland r. Molineux. Who had a mu-
tual hatred for Cornish and Harpster! Roland
4. MollneuX.
tice Lambert he would need about three hours
for his opening address. He took one hour and
seventeen minutes He suggested to Justice
Lambert that an adjournment be taken and
that ne call his hrst witness in the morning.
Justice Lambert told MIN to go on Dr. Ed
ward F. Hitchcock was called as the first Wit
ness for the prosecution
DR. Hitchcock was the first physician TO see
Mrs Adams after she drank the poison He
told Of being called TO No. 81 West Eighty-sixth-
ST.. and Of meeting Cornish in the lower hall
he hurried to Mrs Adams.
DR.. +. Styles Potts was also present. He saw
Mrs. Rogers and she told him about the bromo
se!tzer She said Cornish had taken some and
he was also sick.
DR. Hitchcock said he put about one-sixth of
a grain OF the stuff from the brouo seltzer bot
tie 10 his tongue and detected hydrocyanic acid.
Traces OF merCurial poisoning were on Mrs.
Adams's lips. Or. Hitchcock Identified a piece
OF paper the that Cornish gave him
the wrapper that inClOsed the bottle and holder
when II reached him IL admitted ex-
hibit a The bottle holder and bottle also
admitted in evidence after the witness said he
them on the dining table In the Adams fiat.
one Of the cyanides caused Mrs. Adamss
death.
He saw no evidence that Cornish had vom-
tied. Cornish had complained OF being sick.
Mr. Osborne asked the witness If he thought
Cornish sick when ne him. Ex-CiOv-
ernor Black objected. Justice Lambert sustained
the objection.
1t was 4:3o. the usual time for adjournment
in the criminal court, when counsel were
through with DIR. Hitchcock. Justice Lambert.
however had no idea of adiournng
Next witness he said. in reply 10 the look
of counsel
Harry F. Cornish" called out Mr. osborne
And the chief witness of the prosecution took the
stand.
Cornish said that he is out of employment
He told OF the receipt OF the poisoned package
at the clubhouse. He found the package his
desk. lie tore on the wrapper and threw 1t
away. Later at some ones suggestion. he
picked the paper up and wrapped il around the
package again. At the club on the following
day, he showed the bottle to Harry King. a
member Of the club. King asked him for a
dose OF the bromo settler but the water cooler
was empty and he did not take it.
At that point Mr.. Osborne asked the court to
adjourn, and Justice Lambert acceded to the
request