Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-11-10
B0'YH CLAIN VICTORY
Mol.neux and Prosecution Confident
as to Jury's Decision.
NOW FOR LAST SPEECHES.
What Ex-Governor Black md Us.
borne Say About the Casc-IIar-
ry Cornish Fell Into IL Trap
Set by the Defense.

New York, Nov. 10,--All that remains
TO be done III the MolineuX case is for
the lawyers to sum up. the judge to de-
liver his charge and the jury to decide
upon a verdict.
Both sides are predicting victory. but
1t is noticed that the greater air of con
tidence is with the defense. lIX-Goy-
ernor Black, who has practically con-
Quoted the case for Molineux, insists
that the fight is won for his client. He
said:
The state never had much of case.
but what they had we killed with the
bottles of cyanide of mercury which
our witness bought, despite the rarity
claimed for it by the prosecution, with
ont any trouble. We have cleared our
client. He has been proved innocent
by the peoples own witnesses. | don't
want to say anything about Cornish. l
think the jury understands him well
enough
What Osborne Claims.
Mr.. Osborne, on the contrary, said:
There are always contradictions in
big trials, but the essential facts
which prove MolineuX's guilt stand out
clearly defined. and you cannot get
away from them. The state has made
as clear a case Of murder as could pos
slbly be proved. l am satisfied
General MolineuX is absolutely con-
fdent of his sons acquittal, and many
OF his old friends have already con-
graduated him upon what they consid-
er the inevitable outcome of the case.
Those who We're in court in particular
are of the opinion that the jury can
ind only verdict of acquittal and that
there is no danger to the defense even
OF disagreement.
The prisoner, too, seems to join in
the general air of confidence, and his
attendants say that he is in particu-
larly happy frame of mind His appe-
tite is good, he chats pleasantly and it
is noticed that he smiles good natured-
ly at times. He told one of his keepers
that he felt no fear for the result.
Why Molineux IL Confident.
Nothing in the testimony Has pleased
MolineuX so much as the cross exam
fnation OF Cornish when he fell into
the trap that Mr.. Black had set con-
corning the question as to. whether OF
not Cornish had worn a brown over
coat on Dec. %, 1898, the day that tine
fatal package was mailed.
MolineuX personally congratulated
his counsel on that point. Cornish
swore under oath that at that period
he didn't own an overcoat, and Gov
ernor Black sprung surprise when
he read from the witness testimony at
the inquest acknowledging that on
Dec. %, 1898, he had brown over.
coat.
The overcoat fits the description of
the one owned by the man who Mrs.
Anna G. Stephenson says mailed the
poison package She saw him hold the
poison package before him. She swore
that she read the address, "AIr. Harry
Cornish, Knicllerbocker" The rest of
the address she could not see.
Her testimony MolineuX considers as
one Of the strongest points in his ia
vor. He has so told his counsel.
But MolineuX, it was learned from
persons in the Tombs to whom he has
talked about his case, believes that his
own story as told on the witness stand
will do as much to acquit him as any
thing else.