The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-11

(Continued from Page one.) gued that it would be absurd to suppose
 that Cornish would go down to mail ( package to himself.
 Tt is not disputed by the defense" Mir l Osborne went on. that the three Cornish letters and the poison package wrapper
 are in the same handwriting. We'll. looi | at the corner Governor Black has put | himself in by trying to show that Cor | irish Is the criminal. Cornish must have | taken the address from some parcel and then have got the writer to write three
 letters for him and signed H. Cornish to
 them. That writer would own Cornish body and soul. and could hand him over to the law for conviction and electrocu- ton.
 "Is 1t reasonable to suppose anything of the sort?''
 Not Fair Reasoning.
 If Governor Blacks assumptions are
 true" Mir. Osborne said, Cornish
 without any necessity for doing so.
 handed over to the authorities the only
 mean ms of tracing the crime to him and
 his associates. the poison wrapper. the
 poison and the silver holder. Is that a fair reasoning?'
 Mir. Osborne touched on Governor Blacks charge that :hs prosecution had suppressed the evidence of the envelopes found tn Mo,ineux's desk
 Now I am not hurt at that charge" he said; Governor Black did not mean that personally, and took 1t in Pick wickian sense. He did not mean that any more than he meant we suppressed the envelopes of the Cornish letters. He knows that we never had those envelopes. The envelopes taken from Molineux's s desk were given to the defense and the other letters we suppressed were marked for identification in the last trial and elim- mated from this trial because the de- fense thought we had enough handwrit- iug exhibits without them"
 Referring to the statement made by MT. Black that Cornish did not attend the funeral of Mrs. Adams and dared not face the dead woman. MT. Osborne read from the minutes to show that Cornish visited the fiat before Mrs. Adamss body was removed and that ex-Governor Black had refused to let him tell on the witness stand why he was absent from the fu- neral.
 Contradicts Black.
 Then counsel contradicted ex-Governor Blacks contention that Cornish was shamming sick and read the evidence of the doctors who attended Cornish in the Athletic Club. who said they found him suffering from an irritant poison.
 The insinuation that a motive for the murder of Mrs. Adams could be ~Ind in Cornish's feelings for Mrs. Rogers. the attorney said, was not worthy of consideration. All the evidence. he said, showed that Mrs. Adams and Cor nish were on the best of terms and he added that there was nothing against Mrs. Rogers's character except the 4n- sinuatio of the defendants lawyers. Counsel went on to say that he would | prove the Sate's side of the case without | resource to any old woman who saw some handwriting for a moment in the | dark of a winters evening and recognized l 1t again after period of four years The | State. he said. had no remarkable coin cidence to present like the testimony of | Martin Huff. who happened into the New | ark store just as the bottle holder was 1 being sold and who two years later found himself working side by side with the brother of General Molineux.
 Coming to the question of motive. Mfr 1 Osborne went on to show that Molineux had attempted to injure Cornish even after Mohneux had left the club and cited as evidence of the enduring nature of Molineux's ili-wflI, the ScheRler letter written nearly a year after his resigna- ton from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club and the letter about Harpster, Cor nlsf's friend. sent to Stearns & Go.
 "we fnd," he went on. that Molineux had the motive and we ind that he had or could have had the poison He was