Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-02
TIE DAY IN DETAIL.
The Court Adjourned Until Next
Wednesdays.

sScunSSu1ys
NEW YORK Nov. 1.-The cross exami-
nation of Roland B. MoIineux by Assist
ant District-Attorney Osborne, which was
resumed at the opening of court o-day.
was finished within few minutes after
its rasum ption. Mr.. Osborne's first cues
ton to-day was:
Did not Mr.. Barnet pay your wife at
eention?'
Not at ALL was the reply.
Did you not SO testify at the fnquest?"
Mol.nouxs reply to this was tina, Barnet
nad paid attention TO Miss Cheseborough
n the spring and autumn of 1883 before
she became Mrs. MolineuX.
The defendant was in the best Of hu-
NOR. When Mr.. Osborne asked him If he
gave his wife an engagement ring at the
time Of mis- engagement, and his answer
vas not to the prosecutors satisfaction,
ne said smill .ly:
Il can tell you better than you can drag
it out Of me-
Il don't wish to drag 1t out Of you.
said Mr.. Osborne.
Molineux then said he bought an en-
gagement ring on Nov. 49, 1898. Yesterday
ne testified that he and Miss Chesborough
became engaged in September. 1885.
At Christmas, 1897, he gave her Mig
pah'' ring. and when he became en-
gagged in September, 1885, he wished to buy
ner an engagement ring, but did not do so
until November.
A letter to Miss Sadie Spefler. in which
Moiine,,x spoke of his engag cement and
forthcoming marriage as a romance,
and said that it was sudden, was then
identified as admitted in evidence
Mr.. Osborne closed his examination
rather abruptly after several questions as
70 the prisoners connection with various
medical associations. AS Molineux re-
sumed his seat behind his lawyers the
Rev Lindsay Parker. of Brooklyn shook
hands with him. and his father. General
holineuS. patted him affectionately on
the shoulder and said: Good Boy
Mr.. Black called Max Gumpei. hand
writing expert as his first witness. after
Mo!ineuX. Mr.. Gumpel told Of his quail
lica tons as an expert. He said he hao
studied handwriting more than thirty
:ears. and had testified in many irnpor.
ant cases. among others the Riesand.
Becker forgery: the Sharon will case. the
Sarah Althea Hill case in California. ann
the Rice will case in New York He de-
c!ared that the conceded and disputed.
writings We're not written by the same
hand
Mr.. Gumpel said that it was his be-
ief that the address on the poison pack
"
md that its cramped appearance was due
Its having been written after the pack
age was made UP.
On cross examination Mr.. GumpeI said
he would expect the sender of pojson
pa ckage to disguise his handwriting. He
knew OF no case in which a person had
sent poison to anyone without trying 70
conceal his identity. Mr.. Osborne got the
witness to say that the IT, and &c" in
club. written by Molineux. had many
in common with the adj
dress on the poison package wrapper. He
found also shading in the top of the letter
c. In Cornish. on the wrapper. and like
shadings in the 'C' of the word club"
in various of the conceded writings.
Dr.. David EwelI. a handwriting expert
was the next witness. TIe ss.io he had
made careful studies Of the disputed and
conceded writings and was convinced they
had not been done by the same hand.
Or. Eweu was still on the stand when
court vas adjourned. until Wednesday
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