The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-08
ALL EVIDENCE IS IN
~ THE CELEBRATED SECOND
TRIAL OF MOLINEUX.
RECESS TAKEN TILL MONDAY.
srNSATICNALIsM OF THURSDAY
CONTINUED YESTERDAY.

+-adictOriIy to His Former Evil
fence as shown by the Records of
+be First TriaI-COlumbian Pro-
lessor Testiffes to MOIineux Being
in His Company From Noon Until
after Dark on the Day the Poison
t,.cIage Was Mailed - PrOsecu-
tion.s Efforts at RebuttaI.
New York, Nov. 1.-The taking of
o,,iaence in the second trial of Roland |
Molineux for the murder of Mrs.
catherine ]. Adams was ended to-day, |
and court was adjourned until Monday,
when the arguments of counsel viii be |
made. The verdict is looked for on I
Tuesday.
The sensational turn given to the tes- |
timony for the defense yesterday when |
Mrs. Anna Stephenson, wife of a |
BROOKLYN policeman, said she thought |
Cornish was the man she saw mail the |
poison package, was continued to-day.
Cornish was recalled to the stand and |
was asked whether he had a brown
overcoat in 1898 Mrs. Stephenson said
the man she saw mail the poison pack
age wore a brown overcoat. Cornish
said to-day he had no overcoat at all
that winter. and then Mr.. Black read
from the minutes of the last trial, TO
show that Cornish had testified at that
time that he had only one overcoat,
and that it was brown.
w. M. X Olcott, one of Molineux's
counsel, testified that he had purchase
ed cyanide of mercury without Difficult
ty. at a drug store in this city, by say
ing that he wanted it for Photographic
experiments. Two other witnesses
gave similar testimony.
Prof Vulte of Columbia University
gave evidence to the effect that Moll-
neux was in his company from noon
until after dark on the day the poison
package was mailed The package
was mailed during the afternoon.
H e. Terry, a reporter, gave testl-
mony to contradict that of Joseph
Koch, who identified Molineux as the
man who hired the letter box from him
in September, 1898 Witness was ask
ed if Koch went to a, newspaper office
and offered to identify Molineux as the
man, who hired the letter box II wit
ness would pay him $1,000. Witness
said did. 49, az4A
The decree of divorce granted to Mrs.
Rogers was put in evidence to show
that it was granted after the death
OF Mrs. ADAMS, anu by COliSeIlJ VI Tue
prosecution eX-Gov. Black submitted
table compiled by one of his clerks to
show that although the written ex-
hibits are made up of several thou
sand individual letters, the prosecu-
ton has based its contention that
Molneux wrote them all upon the SIM
ilarity found in some seventeen let
tiers.
That closed the case for the defense,
and Mr.. Osborne called Joseph Far
rell, the hitherto missing Newark de-
tective, as his first witness in rebuttal.
Mr. Farrell, replying to a question
by Mr.. Osborne, said he was sure the
evidence he had given at the first
trial was correct. At that trial be
testified that he met Molineux near d
railway station in Newark on the aft
ernoon the bottle holder was bought.
Molineux has testified at the present
trial that he could not remember meet
ing Farrell that day.
George H. Baker, a clerk in the en-
ploy of the Newark postoffice, testified
that the Burns letter, the conceded
writing of Molineux, was mailed in
Newark in half a mile of MolineuX's
office The letter was on the much de-
scribed blue paper and the object was
to throw doubt on MolineuXs state
ment that he could not remember
where he wrote it, but was sure that
he had none of that paper at the fac
tory.
Then Mr.. osborne set about upset
ting Mrs. Stephenson's identification of
Cornish and substantiating the account
Cornish has given of his whereabouts
on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. %,
when Mrs Stephenson said she saw
him at the postoftice.
John Yokum was the first witness
Mr.. Osborne called for the purpose.
He said he met Cornish about noon
and they lunched together. At about
25O they went to the office of James
L. Sullivan to talk over athletic mat
ters. Mr.. Sullivan was secretary for
the Amateur Athletic Union. Yokum
said he remained in the office until
430 o'clock and that Cornish was there
all the time. He said Cornish did not
wear an overcoat. Mrs. Stephenson's
man had on a brown overcoat. He
said Mr.. Sullivan's office was about
300 feet from the general postofice.
James Mitchell, the hammer throw
er, and a writer of sporting topics,
testified that he was at SulliVan's Of
flee that day and saw Cornish there.
He believed Cornish was there all the
afternoon.
Harry S. Cornish denied absolutely
that he was at the postoffice when Mrs.
Stephenson said she saw him. and de-
clared that he never left Sullivan S
Office from the time he went there UNI
III after o'clock.
NllneSS SAID ne ola not wear an over
coat on Dec. %, 1898, in reply to ques-
tlon by ex-Gov. Black. Cornish said
ne was positive he did not own one at
that time. Mr.. Black asked the wit
ness if he did not own brown over
coat in the fall and winter Of 1898, and
lhe reply was. Il did not" Then Mr..
SLACK read to Cornish an abstract from
ms testimony at the last trial as fol-
lows:
During the fall and winter of 1895
Wore the same overcoat / have got
over there Indicating chair in the
rear of the COURT. 1t is a brown over
coat / did not wear white hat at al
last year."
cornish said he was sure 1t was be-
lore O'Clock when he reached Sulli-
van office. When Mr.. Black referred
70 The minutes of the last trial ht
round that Cornish then placed the
nour OF his visit at Sullivan's Office al
before o'clock
toward Adams, called by the prose
ca uon said he was sitting near Mrs
stephenson in court yesterday and saw
Two men indicate Cornish to her al
so"h as Cornish entered the courtroom
she said, is it," Witness ais
sald: A man with gray ham said q
mrs. Stephenson, That's Cornish AM
she replied, Is itT Later a young mar
fald, That's Cornish and again sh