The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-11-13
SAW POISON MAIN
New Evidence in the Famous MoliH.
euX Case.
A WOMAN GIVES Her EVIDENCE.
She Would Have Spoken of the
Incident at Once, but Her Husband
Persuaded fler Not to Do SO.

B. MolineuX, charged with the murder
of Mrs. Adams, came late Thursda.'
when Mrs. Anna Stephenson, the VIE
OF a Brooklyn policeman, was called TO
the stand by the defense and testified
nositivcliy that MolineuX was not the
man WHO mailed the now famous pois
on package at the general postofice Oh
the evening of December %, 1898.
Then the witness partially Identified
! Harry Cornish, who. was asked to
stand up in court, as the man whom
she saw standing in front OF her in
the line at the postofice and holding in
his hand a package addressed to MIR.
Harry Cornish, Knickerbocker Club"
That was all she SAW. Her identifca-
| ton of Cornish was not positive. She
said he Looked very much Ike the man.
The witness account Of her move
ments on the evening Of December 70,
and her reason for not appearing al
the first trial were given in detail. Tee
prosecution on cross-eXaminatlcn
brought out the fact that Mrs. Stephen
son had suffered from attacks OF ner-
yous prostration within the last two
years and had carefully read the de-
tails of the former trial. The questions
of the assistant district attorney tend
ed to show that an effort would %
rcaGe to prove insanity or delnsion. 1t
is also said that an effort will be made
10 prove an alibi for Cornish. MRS.
| Stephenson was on the stand when
cour adjourned.
When court opened Thursday David
N. Carvalho, the handwriting expert,
who was on the stand when adjourn
ment was taken last night, resumed
his place in the witness chair. He said
he did not believe that MolineuX wrote
the poison package wrapper or any OF
the disputed writings, and in detail ex-
planned to the jury his reasons for mis-
! opinions.
AS soon AS the direct examination of
Carvalho was completed Mr. Osborne,
assistant district attorney, made n
ether attempt to get the Barnet dag
nosis blank" in evidence, but Justice
Lambert declined tc reverse his earlier
ruling excluding it. The so-called
diagnosis blank" gives the measure
ments and other data of a man suffer-
ing from a trouble the patent medicine
vendors, to whom the blank was adj
dressed, guaranteed to cure.
When the technical part of the cross
examination of the witness was finlsh.
ed counsel asked Carvalho If he had
compared the disputed writings with
the handwriting Of Harry S. Cornish
and Rudolph Heiles, both OF whom
have been shown interested in the
case. Carvalho said he had.
did Cornish write the address ON
the poson package?" asked Mr.. Os-
borne.
HE did not" replied the expert wit
ness without hesitation.
did Heilers write it?'
mo, sir"
Mr.. %Carvalho," said Ex-Governor
! Black, you answered a question here
as a psychologist. You were asked
whether you thought a man when writ
ing an address on a poison package
would disguise his writing and you re-
piled Yes" Let NE ask you another
question. Do you think a man sending
a poison package to himself would
write the address at all with Mis- OWN
hand?"
Mr.. Osborne objected and the court
declined to let the witness answer.
After the recess seven witnesses tes-
titled that MolineuX did not write the
poison package address. These wit
nesses were Clarence Foote, David w.
Torrey, Sampel H. Mcdowell, and Geo.
Duncan, handwriting experts from
banks; E. D. Bushnell. who was chair
man Of the Knickerbocker Athletic
Club house committee, and had seen
Molineux write; Prof. George Golday,
of Princeton University, who had cor
~respondence with Molineux, and Sam
uel Pittinger, cashier of the New York
Athletic Club.
Louis Jacobson, who worked in a
New York store, testified that he knew
Cornish and Mrs. Rogers well, and that
he frequently saw them together. He
said he had sold bromo-seltzer to Mrs.
Rogers, Cornish, in his testimony,
swore he had never tasted bromo-
settler and Mrs. Rogers said she had
never bought any Of the stuff. The as
sistant district attorney, in cross-ex-
aiming Jacobson, got the witness to
admit that he could not remember. the
names Of any others of his customers
who drank bromo-seltZer.
The defense then called VIM. ].
Liell, proprietor Of a drug store near
the house where Mrs. Adams died.
Cornish testified that when Mrs. Adams
became sick he ran to Liell's store and
Liell gave him aromatic spirits of am
monia. Liell corrobo-ated that testi-
mony. He said Cornish seemed very
much excited, but that he did not look
sick.
Emma Miller testified she sold theI
bottle-holder in which the poison wasl
sent, after the store lamps were lightJ>
ed, and Barton Huff, a travelling sales
man, said he was in Hartdegan's store
at the time. He said a man brushed by
him and asked to see a silver bottle
holder, but witness did not see him
buy it. He described the man, his de-
scription tallying with that of Miss
Miller.
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