The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-11
BLACK SAYS THE EVIDENCE
 POINTS TO HARRY CORNISH

closing cards. The detectives of the trict attorneys office found them, ov S did not match the envelopes that 0 h- panied the poison package and 2 .ney were suppressed. Was that l. 'hieid somebodyr'
 Tt was a crime to murder Mrs. Adams' he said. but 1t would be no less crime to murder this man upon evidence tn tnis case. You are asked to believe that no man can get cyanide of mercury unless he approaches 1t with a mask, and in fact the prosecution asks you to believe ...at 1t can only be got In Newark If you want 1t you can get 1t. If any of you want cyanide of mercury, get 1t when you 20 to lunch. Or, If you have not time, I'll get you enough to poison every man within the sound of my voice. and It shall not cost you more than s5 cents Moiineux's Willingness to Write. MT. Black laid great stress on Molin- eux's willingness to write for the prose- cution when he was under suspicion De- fore his arrest. and argued that IL was remarkable that the experts had founo few points of resemblance in his writing to the disputed writings. AS to the Bar nett letters he said:
 "I don't know and I don't care when they were mailed. and Molineux does not know and he does not care" Counsel then said the testimony of the handwriting experts to show how they differed and how all had admitted under cross-exa xamnation that there were nun dreds of characters in the disputed and conceded writings that in no way resemble each other. Mir. Black said that II man wanted to send package to him- self he would not need to write the ao- dress at all.
 My office is full of envelopes and wrap ners addressed to me-" said he. Could I not take one of those if l wanted 10 and send myself a package! "Molineux never wrote that address don't know who did and my opinion is that the man who wrote 1t mas not ap- peared in tsis case"
 Coming to the connection or Cornisn
 with the case, Mir. Black declared that
 he was not arguing for the punishment of anyone, but that he felt 1t his duty to ! show the whole case to the jury as he himself saw it. '.There was a crime, and there was motive," he said, "and the motive points | to Harry s. Cornish
 MT. Black recited from the records the story of Cornish's divorce. his meeting | with Mrs. Rogers, then separated from her husband and her late divorce. Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Rogers mother. was | a good woman, Mir. Black said. Do you | think she looked with complaisance upon
 the condition that prevailed?' Cornish Had the Motive. | ''There is motive, the great consuming
 motive force for all things. The motive | Cornish had against the life of Mrs. | Adams compared to the motive Molineux | had against the life of Cornish was as | the volcano of Martinique to the tapping l of waves against the Statue of Liberty in | our harbor."
 | MT. Black called attention to the evil | dence that the purchaser of the bottle
 holder in which the poison was sent. said | he wanted the holder to match the silver
 in a lady's toilet table and from that
 he argued that the purchaser knew the
 pattern of Mrs. Rogers silver. He also
 reviewed the testimony of Koch, the let | ter box man, who said the renter of the | private box wore a brown overcoat. | Cornish denied, while on the stand, that l he had any overcoat that winter. but
 Mir. Black read from the trial to show | that he had had one and that 1t was | brown. Cornish, who was in court, ap- | peared to be little concerned by MT. | Blacks line of argument. Once or twice. | when his name was mentioned, he laugh | ed aloud.
 Mir. Black touched lightly on the tes-
 tmony given by Mrs. Stevenson, and | argued that extraordinary as 1t appeared | and as fantastic as MT. Osborne may call it. everything she said was within the
 bounds of possibility. He reminded the | jury that 1t was in reply to the pros | ecuton and to any from the defense that | Mrs. Stevenson partially identified Corn
 ish as the man who she saw in the post office.
 Referring to Cornish, he said: | fhak rfx aaalro eya | home but when did he take 1t? He did | not take it home when he got 1t. He
 waited until he had arranged for five
 men to identify 1t in case of need. You | are asked to notice &aat Cornish was
 willing to let his frisnd King take a
 dose of the stuff. Of course, he was,
 but when he offered 1t to King the poi
 son was not in the promo bottle. Pro-
 lessor Witthaus told you the poison was
 at the top of the bottle, and had not penetrated below. Then Cornish got it
 home just in time. He knew Mrs. Adams
 was subject to headaches, and twelve
 hours after the promo reached the flats
 Mrs. Adams had taken it. She was gone. | There was nothing now to stand in the
 way of that unlimited passion which
 burns cities and destroys empires. Said Cornish Lied. He argued from the testimony of the | experts who analysed the contents of the l the glass from which Mrs. Adams drank,
 that Cornish lied when he said he drank | good swallow of the mixture, and | quoted from Professor Witthaus to prove
 that half an inch depth of the mixture | in the glass would have killed any one | who took it.
 Cornish never tasted that liquid" Mir. | Black said.
 Referring to Cornish's visit to assist
 ant attorney John k. Mcintyre, former | Governor Black said:
 | 'It is a wise criminal who knows how
 to choose a good lawyer, and no wiser
 criminal was ever known who retained the
 head of the district attorneys office to
 defend him against a crime of which he
 had not been accused.
 At the afternoon session, Mir. Black | traced Cornish's actions after Mrs,
 Adamss deaths
 Were his actions those of an honest 1 man?" he asked.
 Couldn't Face the Dead.
 Why did he not go home and help Mrs,
 Rogers in her troubles? No; he wanted
 to pose. He showed himself to his chem
 ist friend Yokum, and then went to bed
 at Yokum's room at the club. He called
 in five friends to tell him how sick he
 was. What else did he do? He stayed
 away from the Adams flat until after the
 funeral. He never dared to face that
 dead woman"
 Ex-Governor Black declared the case
 against Cornish far stronger than the
 case against Molineux.
 Every fact in the case" he said | ''pOintS to Cornish and nothing excent