The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-11
MOLINEUX WILL KNOW
 HIS FATE BEFORE NIGHT
contInned from FIrst Paael

| lieve that no man can get cyanide of mer- cury unless he approaches 1t with a mask and, in fact, the prosecution asks you to believe that it can only be got in New ark. If you want 1t you can get it." Coming to the connection of Cornish with the case, Mir. Black declared that he was not arguing for the punishment of any one, but that he felt it his duty to show the whole case to the jury as he himself saw 1t. There was a crime and there was motive" he said. "and the motive points to Harry s. cornish.n MT. Black reeited from the records the story of Cornish's divorce. his meeting with Mrs. Rogers. then separated from her husband and her late divorce.
 Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Rogers mother, was good woman Mir Black said. Do you think she looked with complaisance on the conditions that prevailed?
 Motive Force for All Things.
 There is motive. the great consuming motive force for all things. The motive Cornish had against the life of Mrs. Adams compared to the motive Molineux had against the life of Cornish was as the volcano of Martinique to the lisping of waves against the statue of liberty in our own harbor."
 MT. Black called attention to the evi- dence given that the purchaser of the bottleholder, in which the poison was sent, said he wanted the holder to match the silver on a 1ady's toilet table, and from that he argued that the purchaser knew the pattern of Mrs. Rogers silver He also reviewed the testimony of Koch, the letter-box man. who said the renter of the private box wore a brown over coat. Cornish denied while on the stand that he had any overcoat that winter but MT. Black read from the trial to show that he had had one and that it was brown. Cornish, who was in court appeared to be little concerned by Mir Blacks line of argument Once or twice, when his name was mentioned, he laugh ed aloud.
 MT Black touched lightly upon the tes- timony given by Mrs. Stephenson and ar gued that, extraordinary as 1t appeared and as fantastic as MT. Osborne may call it, everything she said was within the borders of possibility. He reminded the jury that 1t was In reply to the prosecu- tion and not to any questions from the defense that Mrs. Stephenson partially Identified Cornish as the man whom she saw in the postoffice.
 Took the Package Home.
 Returning to Cornish, Mir Black said: Cornish took that dirty little package home, but when did he take it? He did not take it home when he got it. He waited until he had arranged for five men to identify 1t in case of need You are asked to notice that Cornish was willing to let hs friend King take a dose of the stuff Of course he was, but when he offered 1t to King the poison was not in the promo bottle. Professor Witthaus told you the poison was only at the top of the bottle and had not permeated the other stuff below. Cornish got it home Gf In tipnp To AdaDnQ xUn c subject to headaches and twelve hours after the promo reached the flat Mrs. Adams had taken it. She was gone. There was nothing to stand in the way of that unlimited passion which burns cities anu destroys empires
 MT. Black argued from the testimony of the chemical experts who analysed the contents of the glass from which Mrs. Adams drank, that Cornish lied when he said I drank a good swallow of the mixture and quoted from Professor Wit thaus to prove that half an inch depth of the mixture in the glass would have killed any one who took it.
 Cornish never tasted that liquid" MT. Black said
 Referring to Cornishs visit to Assistant John F. Mcintyre, former Governor Black said:
 "It Is a wise criminal who knows who to choose a good lawyer, and no wiser criminal 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"
 Afternoon Session.
 At the afternoon session MT. Black traced Cornish's actions after Mrs. Ad- ans death.
 Were his actions those of an honest h rad
 why did he not go home and help Mrs. Rogers in her troubles? No; he wanted to pose. He showed himself to his chemist friend Yokum and then went to bed at Kokums room, at the club. He called in five friends to tell them how sick he was What else did he do? He stayed away from the Adams fiat un- til after the funeral He never dared to face the dea woman.
 Ex-Governor Black declared the case against Cornish 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.
 MT. Black closed at BPS, having spoken three hours and fifty-five minutes.
 Assistant District Attorney Osborne, in opening for the prosecution, ridiculed the theory of the counsel for the defense that the death of Mrs Adams was the result of deliberate design by Cornish, and argued that it would be absurd to suppose that Cornish would go down to mail a package to himself
 Ut is not disputed by the defense" MT Osborne went on. that the three Cor nish letters and the poison package wrap per are in the same handwriting We'll, look at the corner Governor Black put himself in by trying to show that Cor nish is the criminal. Cornish must have taken the address from some parcel and | then have got the writer to write three l letters for him and signed "H.~ Cornish 1 to them. That writer would own Cornish body and soul and could hand him over | to the law for conviction and electrocu- tion.
 Reasonable to Suppose Anything.
 "Is 1t reasonable to suppose anything | of the sort"
 "If Governor Blacks assumptions are true" Mir Osborne said. Cornish, with. | out any necessity for doing so. handed | over to the authorities the only means oi tracing the crme to hm. and his asso- ciates the poison wrapper, the poison and the silver holder. Is that a fair reason ing?'
 | MT Osborne touched on Governor Blacks case that the prosecution had | suppressed the evidence of the envelopes | found In Molineux's desk. Now I am | not hurt at that charge" he said, Gov ernor Black did not mean that any more | than he meant we suppressed the en- | velopes of the Cornish letters. He knows