The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-11

Katherine B. Adams, this afternoon ar-
ter being out a few minutes. The jury
disagreed at the first trial-on the sec
ond he was convicted and sentenced to
be electrocuted.
New York. Nov. 1.-THE Molineux
jury retired at 3:10 to consider the YER
dict.
More than thousand men and wo-
men, and there were more women than
men, crowded the corridors of the Grim
inal court building before o'clock this
morning and fought for admission to tre
room where Justice Lambert is sittir 8
in the Molineux trial
After the usual preliminaries Assist
ant District Attorney Osborne resumed
his summing up. He said ex-Governor
Black had made a misStatement when
he declared the experts had testified that
the writing on the poison package wrap
per was not in a disguised hand. Mr..
Osborne read extracts from the teStl-
mOny that two out of three of the ex-
perts had found the address disguised.
Mr.. Osborne argued that the Barnett
letters, the earliest in the case, gave The
first evidence of an attempt to disguise,
and that the disguise improved with
every letter exhibited. He declared that
the earlier Barnett letters conformed al
most exactly to the handwriting of Mol
ineux.
The prosecution took up the matter
of the letter-box and declared the hir-
ing of the Koch box in Cornish's name
was an act of hostility to Cornish.
Talking of Koch. who sold to news
s.oaper an identification of Molineux as
a man who had talked to him on De-
cenber II, 1898, about hiring a letter
box Mr.. Osborne said he would not
himself insult the jury by asking a
conviction upon such evidence.
The assistant district attorney dwelt
at some length on the talk Molineux
had with Heiles before Heiles wrote to
Stearns & Co, about HarDster and de-
manded: Does not that show hostility
toward Harpster? Molineux had moth
ing against Harpster except his friend
ship of Cornish and vet he tried to do
him the greatest harm he could-deprive
him of his job. If he would go so far
against Harpster, what would he not do
to Cornish?"
Mr.. Osborne began to talk about the
Barnet letters.
The man who wrote those Cornish let
ters had the Barnet case in mind" he
said when Ex-Governor Black interrupt
ed with an objection which Justice
/ Lambert sustained.
Mr.. Osborne, however. declared he
was well within the evidence and the
court permitted him to proceed.
This defendant and Barnet" Mr.. Os
borne continued. were friends, living neal
each other or the same floor of Tho
| Knickerbocker Athletic club. They Wer.
! paying attention to the same lady. Sh'
4 rejected Molneux. Barnet died and eigh
days later MOlineux bought Tor the woman
an engagement ring The wedding wa'
very sudden
Mr. Osborne took up the Burns. Cornisi
| and Barnet letters the lirSr two asking
for certain remedies and the third for {
| marriage guide and declared that th'
henvelope matched the paper of the Cor
nish letter and that the wording of tn
conceded Burns letter WIS Identical will
the wording of the Cornish letter.
This case counsel said, in concluding
his talk the handwriting, ''1oes not de
pend upon any witnesses who may lie. bu
on the common sense and Intelligence o
the jury. Ex-Gov. Black well said in de
fning circumstantial evidence that ever,
circumstance must point to the one NAL
as the magnetic needle points to the Pole
Every circumstance in this case points t.
Molineux."
Mr.. Osborne in his peroration pointe.
out again the circumstances upon Wh1cl
he relied for q conviction. turning at eael
mention OF MolineuX's name to point III
finger at the defendant.
Molineux sat unmOved at the arraign
ment. but attentive to every word of il
Not so with his father. The old genera
was visibly affected by the words of III
prosecuting officer and Cecil Molineux, tn
prisoners S brother. was very nervous.
In lis concluding words Nr. Osborn
begged the jury not to let their feeling
run away with their judgment and not t
refuse to convict through tinaidity.
1t past noon when MIR. OsbFrne wa
through and then Justice Lambert sus
pended proceedings until 1:I5 O'Clock