New-York tribune., 1902-10-24
BARNET LETTERS OUT.
Observation-Disclosures THEN
AS EVIDENCE.
MORE WITNESSES EXAMINED so FAR
THAN IN SEVEN WEEKS OF
FIRST TRIAL.


tain OF them We're admitted for handwriting
COMPARISONS apparently has not disturbed eN-
C;oN,eyDor Black ana the counsel associated with
him Assistant District Attorney Osborne
fought as best ne could under Justice Lam
bert's impartial rulings, hut it was TO no
purpose
I'm the two and a half days devoted TO testi-
rnony taking At this second trial more VII
nesses have been examined than in seven weeks
Of the first. There has been none Of that
squabbling between counsel none of that long
argument 10 gein a favorable ruling from the
court that marked the first trial Justice Lam
bert gives his ruling and no more is said.
Ex-Governor Black said yesterday that ne
has witness who will swear that Joseph KOCH
the private letter box man, told him posltlNely
that Molineux was not the man who called on
him Koch did not make the Identification untl
eight months after the crime. although he had
seen Molineux frequently in the interval
A casual visto- who walked into the court
room az any time OF the day would say mat
MoIneux was the least interested person pres
ent While lawyers are listening intently' ana
spectators are craning forward TO catch every
word and gesture. Molineux sits easily in ms
chair reading newspaper or chatting with
his father. his brother Leslie, or big Deputy
Sheriff Won Deester. who sit around HIM
John j. Adams Of the Knickerbocker Ath-
ietic Club told Of the origin of the trouble be-
tween Moineux and Cornish MoneuN was
director Of the club, while Cornish was athleue
director at a salary Of S., 400 a year MolneuN
was getting up amateur circus. and com
plained that Cornish was interfering with nm
and refused TO get the horizontal bars MolineuA
wanted. and that as consequence, MolneuA
life WAS endangered every time he practsed.
The witness identified the Cornish Weeks let
ters I'M which Cornish writing 10 Wefers. the
splinter. declared that Barlow s Weeks, presl-
dent Of the Nev-York Athletic club would DO
any sort of dirty work. and that he Cornlshl
uould never let up" until he got even with
him" CWeeksl.
MoineuAg made the lette~ grounds of forrnal
complaint against Cornish
Molineux complained that Cornish enjoyed TOO
many privileges and interfered in the manase-
rnent of the club. Witness idenuned MollneuA
letter OF resignation from the club ana an
other explaining that he resigned because ne
felt that his opposition TO system that per-
rnitted an employe TO insult gentleman would
make him disturbing element in the CLUBS
membership. The defence conceded that noth
were written by MolineuX-
Adams also identified number of letters, in
c,uding the Burns letter written on the robins
egg blue three crescent paper These were ad-
mitted by the defence 10 be in Molineuxs hand
writing The same concession was made at the
last trial
Ex-Governor Black rose protest against
a question and Mr.. Osborne said as the court
had decided in his favor he had no argument 20
make.
You are wise" the court said gravely; ar
gumsnt might induce the court 10 reverse it.
self"
Felix Gallagher. formerly a clerk in the
Kniekerbocker Athletic Club. said he told Mr..
Molineux. discussing the necessity Of giving
bonds at the New-York Athletic Club that all
the bonds at the Knickerboeker Athletic Club
were held up because Harpster had had trouble
with Frederick Stearns & Co. He knew that
Harpster's bond held up because Of some
trouble. He did not know that Molineux dis
liked Harpster AT the last trial he testified
that he did. Mr.. Osborne confronted him with
his former testimony Gallagher said ne did
not remember giving such testimony. but sup
posed it was true if he said IT,
DR. Nitthaus told Mr.. Osborne the action
or hydTocyanic acid and that it was that
poison which killed Mrs Adams. To ex-Gov-
ernor Black he said ten grains OF cyanide Of
mercury had been known 20 kill Or Witthaus
said he found a. per cent OF the cyanide IN the
sediment left IN the glass from which Mrs.
ADAMS and Cornish are supposed 10 have drunk
Professor Rudolph A. wtthaus was called and
Ex-Governor Black objected that the concession
OF the defence that cyanide Of mercury killed
MRS. Adams had ohviated the need Of wasting
Nme on medical testimony. He could not saw il
Ehgllsh Nermilion red oxide or yellow oxide
were among the component parts OF the poison.
Counsel for defense stopped as soon as the Wit
ness had said there was enough poison in the
sediment and on the spoon TO have killed four
persons.
Morris Hartmann Of Morris Hartman & Co
the color manufacturers at whose factor, IN
Newark Mnlineuw
manufacturing end rested entirely on Moinau,,s
ability. He said Molineux took Robert A zara
and Mamie Melando into employment an tbe
works He said he did not know where zaiI.S
is now. These two persons Mr. Osborne sai5
recently. refused 10 come here 10 testify
NlehoIss A Hickman who Kept letter boxes
Al No -Ot West Forty -second-st.. testified in
the last trial that Molineux rented lettar IN al
nom him and received twenty or more letters
addressed 10 IA. c. Barnet" As soon as NJ
osooIhe sshec MN about those letters. eN-(;O1y-
ernor Black objected
Il exclude the evidence" ruled the court
thlnk can convince your honor" Mr. Os
borne SAID. that the letters are competent
tone. and the latter said: N''-ei
Never mind 7 remember All abo,t =, -
g. me decision OF the Court of Appeals the
t bsIlet series OF letters were excluded as i'm
PIopef as evidence Despite that ruling I vas
Wins 10 admit those letters as standard 80
comparison IN handwriting because I aid -
SaS'., Such admission as a violation Of the
Nourt OF appeals decision, but any further uss
o. mem would violate the ruling ana I will not
permit II.
nj. ME osborne made another and equally in
SlecuNs s sttenpt 10 get the letters IN evidence
He called on Henry c. Lockwood from the
Seheral fostofflce, 10 identify the stamp ana The
cahoellatlon marks on the poison package wrap-
per. Lockwood said they proved bevona a
doubt that the package the wrapper held was
nlslleo Al the General Postofice. Then MT Os-
oolhe showed MN a bundle Of the Barnet let
ter envelopes and asked him 10 ten bv The
mailed ' '"ey were
Excluded. ruled the court
Stiu Mr. Osborne was not satisfied tza ra.5
The postmarks on the Rarnet nn,,lic.. - ISHu