Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
FATE OF MOLINEUx
Continued from page ~

4 IL,
ciared IT to be the evidence of a MAJ
who '-peodled his story and his eterna
SOUL at the same time.
EX-GOv. Black took up the one ctio,
CT writing, and declared that tn,
! washington expert, Hay, was "a stu
| pendous fraud when he testified III,
| none of the requests writing mad.
by Molineux contained characterised,
| TO be found in his other writing ant
in the disputed writing.
| Then he dwelt at great length upor
| the alleged suppression of the evidenc,
| by the district attorneys office. and ar
| gued that that evidence might point [.
| some one other than Molineux.
| The prosecution he said, has pro
duced here the poison package wrap.
| per, the envelope to the Burns lette,
we cOncede to have been written b,
Moiineux, the envelope to the Harps-
ter and the Barnet letters. but where
are the envelopes to the Cornish let
tiers? MOI one of them has been pre-
scented in evidence Why have thew beer
suppressed. Did they show too much
You may forget to date your letters
but Uncle Sam never forgets Did the
WI SHOW 100 nlucH
In Molineux's desk in Newark was
Il package of small envelopes used for
enclosing cards. The detectives of the
district attorneys Office found them.
but they did not match the envelopes
that accompanied the poison package.
and SO they were suppressed. Was
that to shield anybody?
1T was a crime to murder Mrs
Adams" he said, but it would be no
less a crime to murder this man upon
the evidence in this case. You are
asked to believe that no man can get
cyanide of mercury unless he APP
proaches it with IA mask. and in fact
the prosecution asks you to believe
that it can only be got in Newark. If
you want it you can get it. If any of
you want cyanide of mercury, get it
when YOU go to lunch. Or. if you have
not time, I'll get you enough to poison
every man within the sound of my
voice. and it shan't cost you more than
80 cents
Mr. Black laid great stress on Moi
ineuxs willingness to write for the
prosecution when he was under suS-
picion before his arrest, and argued
that it was remarkable that the eX-
perts had found few points of resemb-
lance in his writing to the disputed
writing. AS to the Barnet letter he
said: Il don't know and don't care
when or where they We're mailed and
care"
Counsel analysed the testimony of
the handwriting men. and to show how
a 1,,,if
ted under cross examination that
there We're hundreds of characters in
the disputed and conceded writings
that in no way resemble one another.
Mr.. Black said that if a man wanted
to send a package to himself. he would
not need TO write the address at all.
My office is full of envelopes ad-
dressed to me-" he said. Gould | not
take one of those if | wanted to send
myself a package? MolineuX never
wrote that address. | don't know who
did and in my opinion the man who
wrote it has not appeared in this
case
Coming to the connection of Cornish
with the case. Mr.. Black declared that
| he was not arguing for the punish
| ment of any one, but that he felt it
his duty to show the whole case to the
Jury as he himself saw it.
| There was a crime and there was a
| motive" he said. ''and the motive
| points to Harry $. Cornish
Mr.. Black recited from the records
the story of Cornish's divorce. his
meeting with Mrs. Rogers. then sep
arated from her husband. and her
| later divorce.
| Mrs. Adams. Mrs. Rogers mother.
was a good woman" Mr.. Black said.
| DO you think she looked with COM
pIiance on the conditions that pre-
vailed? There is motive, the great
consuming motive force for all things.
The motive Cornish had against the
| life of Cornish was as the volcano of
| Martinique to the tapping of waves
against the statue of liberty I'm our
own harbor."
Mr.. Black called attention to the
evidence given that the purchaser OF
the bottleholder in which the poison
was sent. said he wanted the holder
to match the silver on ladys toilet
table and from that he argues that the
purchaser knew the pattern OF MIS-
Rogers. silver. He also reviewed the
| testimony OF hOcT. tiie iettc' po> ''ie'4'
who said the renter of the private Don
wore a brown overcoat. CORNISH de'
MED while on the stand that he hac
any overcoat that winter. but Mr.
BLACK read from the last trial to sho"
that he had had one and that II was
brown.
Cornish. who was in court. appeared
tn he little concerned by MIR. Black
:, line of argument. Once or twice. whei
his name was mentioned. he laughed
aloud.
Mr.. Black touched lightly on thetes
timony given by Mrs. Stephenson AM
argued that extraordinary as II ap
peared and fantastic as Mr.. OSBORN
may call it. everything she said wa
within the bounds of possibility. ii
E reminded the jury that it was In fepi
10 the prosecution and not 10 an
/. Questions from the defense that Mrs
: stephenson partially identified Cor
s nish as the man she saw in the pos
. office. 49, r.,,o,
. Mr.. Black argued from the tesunoh
a of the chemical experts who anaiyzeo g
g contents of the glasses from whic,i al,
ADAMS drank. that Cornish he'd wheh
said he drank a good swaiiow oI |"
+ Prof. W Ittuas