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within the sound of my voice, and it sha' MT
cost you more than 35 cents"
Molineux's Willingness to Write.


Mr.. Black laid great stress on Molineux's
willingness to write for the prosecution
when he was under suspicion before his ar
rest, and argued that 1t was remarkable
that the experts had found few points of
resemblance in his writing to the disputed
writing. AS to the Barnet letters, he said:
Il don't know and l don't care when or
where they were mailed, and Molineux
doesn't know and he doesn't care"
Counsel analyzed the testimony Of the
handwriting men to show how they differed
and how all had admitted under cross
examination that there were hundreds of
characters in the disputed and conceded
writings that in no way resemble each
other. Mr.. Black said that If a man want
ed to send a package to himself he would
not need to write the address at all.
My office is full of envelopes and wrap
pers addressed to me-" said he. Gould I
not take one of those If / wanted to send
myself package? Molineux never wrote
that address. / don't know who did, and
in my opinion the man who wrote 1t has
not appeared in this case
Motive Points to Cornish.
Coming to the connection of Cornish with
the case Mr.. 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 it.
There was crime and there was a
motive he said, 'and the motive points to
Harry S. Cornish
Mr.. Black recited 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
a good woman Mr.. Black said. DO you
think she looked win complalsance on the
conditions that prevahed?
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 vol
cano Of Martinique to the tapping Of waves
against the statue Of Liberty in our own
harbor."
Cornish Little Concerned.
Mr.. Black called attention to the evil
dence given that the purchaser Of the bot
tleholder in which the poison was sent said
he wanted the holder to match the silver on
a lady's toilet table, and from that he ar
gued 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 overcoat.
Cornish denied while on the stand that he
had any overcoat that winter, but Mr..
Black read from the last trial to show that
he had had one and that it was brown.
Cornish, who was In court, appeared to be
little concerned by Mr.. Blacks line of ar
gument. Once or twice when his name
was mentioned he laughed aloud
Mrs. Stephenson's Testimony.
Mr.. Black touched lightly on the testi-
mony given by Mrs. Stephenson, and argued
that, extraordinary as it appeared and fam
tastic as Mr.. Osborne may call it, every
thing she said was within the bounds Of
possibility. He reminded the jury that it
was in reply to the prosecution and not to
any questions from the defense that Mrs.
Stephenson partially identified Cornish as
the man she saw in the post Office
Molineux trial Mr.. Black was still speak
ing. 1t was understood that he would take
another hour to complete his summing UP
of the case for the defense.