Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-29
NEARING The END.
Prosecution Rested To-Day in
Molineux Case.
20 WITNESSES YESTERDAY

day by Justice Lambert.
New York, Oct 2e.-Justiee Lambert
Ro-day at the resumption of the trial
of Roland B. Molineux announced
that he had decided to exclude the tes-
timony Of Mamie Melando and Joseph
Farrell, given at the last trial of Mel
ineux, which the prosecution wished
to have read to the jury. Beth of
these former witnesses live in New
Jersey outside the Jurisdiction OF the
court, and the proceedings in the ease
yesterday clssed with arguments on
the point Of reading the testimony In
the absence of the Witnesses, who can
not be compelled TO attend the trial.
Miss Melando was the first witness at
the first trial to connect Molineu1
with the blue crescent paper and Far
re1l testified that he saw Molineux In
Newark with a small package the day
the bottle holder was bought in that
city.
The case for the prosecution was
closed to-day with the hearing OF two
handwriting experts.
Twenty witnesses were examined
yesterday, the record number for q
single day. So rapid has been the
taking Of testimony that Mr. Osborne
told the court he would rest his case
to-day
Alvin A. Harpster, the man whose
name has been identified with the
'fHarpster'' letter, sent, it is said, to
try and have him removed from his
position with the Ballantine Brewing
Co. testified to his relations with Cor
nish and Molineux In the Knickerbock-
Lott o11,I, Han
ployed there at the time the enmity
started between Cornish and Moli-
neux. and he said he was friendly to
Cornish, while the defendant had rep
rimanded him for some triding Of
fense
The aim of the prosecution is TO con-
meet Molineux with Harpster and Cor
nish at the only time the lives Of the
three men touched. and in this way
connect the defendant with the Harp
Ster letter. Testimony has been intro
daced in an effort to show that Moli-
neux elected facts about Harpstsr's
employment by Frederick Stearns &
Co, in Detroit, and the letter was writ
ten to obtain information which could
be used against him. The witness said
he had seen Frederick Stearns in the
knickerbocker club when he was
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the testimony Of Cornish regarding a
conversation the three men had in the
Office of the club. After he had left
the club Harpster saw Felix Gallagher
in the New York Athletic club and
had conversation with him in regard
to the witnesses trouble in the Knick-
erbocker. In cross-examination Mr.
Black had Harpster admit Cornish
knew he had been discharged and had
trouble with Stearns & Co. This
brought satisfied smile to the former
governors face, and he sat down with
loud That's all, Mr. HarpSter''
Outside of Cornish and Heiles and
Gallagher did you ever tell anyone you
had trouble with Stearns & Cor then
asked Mr Osborne.
"No, SIR
HeileS was tne man who gWore
few days ago he was friend of Moli-
neux and an enemy of Cornish, and he
had found out for the defendant where
Harpster had worked In Detroit, and
written a letter asking for a recon
mendation. The answer to this letter
was favorable, and the prosecution al
leges Molineux later wrote the real
'Harpster'' letter in second effort to
obtain damaging facts against him.
Colonel Edwin 3. Hay of Washing
ton, d. c., withStood a severe cross
examination from Mr. Black He quail
flied as handwriting expert, and sald
he picked Molinsux as the writer of
the address on the poison package with
ont knowing to whom the writing be-
l0nged. Mr. Hays most vivid illustra-
tion of the characteristic of the con-
ceded writing Of the defendant and the
address on the poison package was the
large sc" in city The "C'' had been
drawn out over the small 'i'' following
until the whole word City IN reality
spelt "Aty." All attempts of Mr. Black
to shake his testimony failed The
colonel is a red-faced man Of large
girth, and the more emphatic the for
mer governor grew the more friendly
became the witness When the cross
examiner would point his finger close
to the experts face and fairly shout
his questions, the colonel would rub
his hands on his knees. and with a
twinkle in his eyes reply: why, GER
tainly, Governor" or tsNot at all. 1 as
sure you.''
Mr Hay said he had consulted with
the other experts for the state. and
they had all arrived at the conclusion
that MoHneux wrote the address on the
package. Mr. Black then read from
the testimony at the former trial lat
it was possible for experts to argue
from the same premises and establish
different conclusions In that evidence
the witness sa1a the expert would not
mention the signs that contradicted the
conclusions they expected to maintain.
DO you say that nowf' demanded
Mr. Black.
Yes, and I say it now" replied the
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