Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-11


fiat Mrs. Adams had taken 1t, She was
gone. There was nothing now to stand in
the way of that unlimited passion which
burns cities and destroys empires"
Mr.. Black argued from the testimony of
the chemical experts who analysed the con-
tents Of the glass from which Mrs. Adams
drank that Cornish lied when he said he
drank a good swallow Of the mixture,
and quoted from Prof. witthaus to prove
that half an inch depth in the mixture in
the glass would have killed anyone who
took 1t. &
Cornish never tasted that liquid" Mr..
Black said.
Referring to Cornish's visit to Assistant
District Attorney job +. Mcintyre, ex-
Governor Black said:
1T is a wise criminal who knows how to
choose a good lawyer, and no wiser Grim
inal 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"
"were his actions those of an honest
mann" he asked. did Cornish act honest
after Mrs. Adams DEATH
why did he not go home and help Mrs.
Rogers in her trouble? He wanted to
pose. He showed himself to his chemist
friend, Yokum, and then went to bed in
Yokum's room at the club. Then he called
on 1--WE friends to tell them how sick he
wns. What else did he do? He stayed
away from the Adams fiat until after the
funeral. He never dared to face that dead
woman
Counsel declared the case against Cor
nish far stronger than the case against
Molineux.
Every fact in the case" he said.
points to Cornish and nothing except the
testimony Of the handwriting experts points
to Molineux."
osborne RidicuIes Theory.
Mr.. Osborne in opening for the prosecu-
tion ridiculed the theory that the death Of
Mrs. Adams was the result of a deliberate
design by Cornish and argued that it
would be absurd to suppose that Cornish
would go downtown to mail a package to
himself.
1T is not disputed he went on, that
the three Cornish letters and the poison
package wrapper are in the same hand
writing. Well, then, Cornish must have
taken the address from some parcel, got
the writer to write three letters for him
and sign H. Cornish to them. That writer
would own Cornish body and soul and could
hand him over to the law for conviction
and electrocution. Is it reasonable to sup
pose anything of the sort?"
"If Governor Blacks assumptions are
true he continued a moment later. Cor
nish, without any necessity for doing SO,
handed over to the authorities the only
means OF tracing the crime. to him and his
associates, the poison wrapper, the poison
and the silver holder. Is that fair reason
ing?"
Referring to the statement that Cornish
did not attend the funeral and dare not
face the dead woman, Mr.. Osborne showed
that Cornish visited the fiat before Mrs.
Adams body was removed and that Mr..
Black had refused to let him tell in court
why he was absent from the funeral.
Then he oontradicted the contention that
Cornish was shamming, and read the evil
dence OF the doctors who attended him in
the Knickerboeker club.
Wants No Old
Counsel went on to say he would present
the states side w~ithoutS1esort to any old
woman who saw handwriting for a moment
in the dark OF a winters evening and rec
ognized It again after a period OF four
years. The state, he said, had no remark
able coincidence TO present like the testi-
mony Of Martin Hun. who happened into
the Newark store just as the bottle holder
was being sold, ana VINO two years later
found himself working side by side with
the brother of General Molineux.
Coming to the question Of motive MT
Osborne went on to show that Molineux
had attempted to injure Cornish even after
he left the club. and cited as evidence Of
the enduring nature of his i'll will the
sehefher letter written nearly a year after
his resignation, and the letter about Harp
ster, cornish's friend. sent to stearns
a Co.
Eve fad" he went on, "that Molineuz
had the motive and we md that he had
or could have had the poison. He was ex-
perimenting In the manufacture OF ships
paint. and one Of the uses Of cyanide Of
mercury is, for the manufacture Of shiI
paint"
by whom do I convict Monneu1." hs
demanded as be came to a discussion Of th'