Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
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said said it It would o,I, take him about half an
Al the afternoon session, Mr.. Black
Adams DEATH
Were his actions those of an honest
man! he asked. why did he not GO
nome and help Mrs. Rogers in her troil-
BILE? No, he wanted to pose He showed
himself. to his chemist friend Yocum.
and then went to bed in Yocum's room
at ar;o the club Then he called in five
| Wnat else did he do? He stayed away
from the Adams fiat until after the tuner
al. lie never dared to face that dead
Ex-Gov. Black declared the case against
| Sor i FAR stronger than the case
| Every fact in the case he sai1
| .IointS 10 cornish and nothing except the
tesuinony OF the handwriting experts
points to Molineux"
| Mr.. Black closed at 3o5 HAVING Snol.en
| " hours and 80 minutes
| Assistant District Attorney Osborne. in
! openlns Tor the prosecution. ridiculed the
| .ueoIy OF the counsel for the defence that
! the death of Mrs. Adams was the result
Oh a deliberate design by Cornish. and
argued That it would be absurd to suppose
| mat Cornish would go down town to mail
| package to himself.
II is not disputed by the defence" MIR
osborne went ON, that the three Cornish
letters and the poison package wrapper
are IN the same handwriting. Well look
III by trying to show that Cornish is the
criminal Cornish must have taken the
address from some parcel and then have
got the writer to write three letters for
| him and signed II. Cornish to them
That writer would own Cornish body and
| soul, and could hand him over to the
law Tor conviction and electrocution Is
1t reasonable to suppose anything of tn,
Sort?
Referring to the statement made bv
Mr.. Black that Cornish did not attend the
face the dead woman. Mr.. Osborne read
from the minutes to show that Cornish
visited the fiat before Mrs. Adams body
was removed and that eX-Gov Rlack had
refused to let him tell on the witness
stand why he was absent from the flu
neral. Then counsel contradicted ex-
GOV. Black $ contention that Cornish was
$hamming sick and read the evidence of
the doctors who attended Cornish in the
knicEerbocker Athletic Cab, who said
they found INN suffering from an irri-
tant poisoning.
The insinuation that a motive for the
murder Of Mrs. Adams could be found i'm
Cornishs feelings for Mrs. Rogers. the
prosecuting attorney said was NOT worthy
of consideration.
Counsel went on to say that he would
prove the states side of the case without
resource to any old woman who saw
some handwriting for Il moment in the
dark of a winters evening and recognized
it again after a period of four years
Coming TO the question of motive, Mir
had attempted to injure Cornish, even
after Cornish had left the club and cited
as evidence of the enduring nature oi
Molineux's i'll will the Scheffler letter
written nearly Il year after his resigna-
ton from the knickerbocker A. c. and
the letter about Harpster Cornish
friend, sent to Stearns x Co.
I'VE find. he went on. that AIolineuX
had the motive and we find that he had
and could have had the poison. He was
experimenting in the manufacture Of ship
paint. and one Of the uses of cyanide III
mercury is for the manufacture Of ship
paint
Coming TO the purchase of the bottle
holder, .Ir osborne said that MolineuX
degen store well. where he had a friend |
Arnold. Why. then. he asked. did not
the defence call Arnold. who had refused
to come here for the prosecution.
Taking up the evidence OF the hand |
writing experts. Mr.. Osborne said the
testimony of David n. Carvalho, the eX-
pert called by the defence, proved his con-
tention that Molineux wrote the poison
package wrapper. CarValho said the
wrapper address was not disguised suffi
GENTLY to hide the characteristics of the
natural hand of the writer.
Mr.. Osborne declared that no ma
could avoid seeing the likeness between |
the characters in the conceded writing
of MolineuX and the poison package
wrapper. He argued that the writer
dared not entirely hide his hand or use
printed characters or a typewriter for
fear OF defeating MS OBJECT Dy arOuSllS
the suspicion of the recipient of the pack
age.
THE sender of that package had to use
a pen. He found himself having to de-
eide" said counsel. between the Scila OF
doubt and the Charybdis of his own iuen
titv."
At 6 o'clock Justice Lambert announced
a suspension of the proceedings until to-
morrow morning Mr.. Osborne SAID IL
would take him three hours to finish his
address. but Justice Lambert said he
would allow him only two and Il half
hours That will take him To the time
for adiournins for lunch and the after
noon session will be started with the
charge of Justice Lambert.