The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-08
M0LINEUX CASE
NEARLY ENDED
Introduction of Evidence Con-
cluded Yesterday.
WILL BE ARGUED ON MONDAY
VERDICT OF ACQUITTAL SEEMS
REASONABLY CERTAIN
WILL BE ARGUED ON MONDAY


IN evidence in the second trial of
Roland B. Molineux for the muir
der of Mrs. Katherine ]. Adams was
ended today and court was adjourned
until Monday, wnen the argument of
counsel will be made. A verdict is
looked for Tuesday.
me sensational turn given to the
testimony for the defense Yesterday
When Mrs Anna Stephenson, wife of a
Bfookiyn policeman, said she thought
cornish was the man she saw mail the
poison package, was continued today
Oorhlsh was recalled to the stand and
was asked whether he had brown
oNercoat IN 1898. Mrs. Stephenson said
the man she saw mail the poison pack
age wore a brown overcoat Cornish
said today he had no Overcoat at all
mat winter, and then Mr.. Black read
rom the minutes Of the last trial to
snow that Cornish had testified at that
time That he had only one oYercoat and
that a brown one
The Husband Called.
The husband of Mrs Stephenson was
called by Mr.. Black to say that he
never saw Cornish before Yesterday
ana therefore could not have pointed
him out to Mrs. Stephenson. To Mr.
osborne, Stephenson said he had not
reported his wife's story to the au-
thorities, because he did not take any
IL
William r. Olcott, one of MoIineux's
counsel. testified that he had pur-
chased cyanide of mercury without diff
hculty at drug store in this city, by
saying that he wanted it for photo
graphic experiments
Mrs Anna c. Stephenson. who testi-
fed in the trial of Roland b MoIine.,x
yesterday that to the best of her be-
lief Harry S. Cornish was the man who
mailed the poison package. was the
first witness called when the trial was
resumed today. Assistant District At
torney Osborne wanted to know if it
was true, as reported. that she did not
recognized Cornish until he was pointed
out TO her in court. The witness said
1t was not true.
Positive Evidence.
Professor Herman G. V,lte of Column
bia university testified that Molineux
was IN his company frOm-nOOn until
after shutdown on Dec. %, 1898. It was
on the afternoon of that day that the
poison package was mailed
Henry C. Lockwood. a postoffice clerk
testified that he could not say exactly
at what time the package was placed in
the mail. He corrOborated Mrs SfeDh-
enson's statement that it was mailed on
the Broadway side of the postoffice
harry +. Howell. a clerk in Hart
degen's store, testified that the boy
Ehrhardt, who said he wrapped UP the
statement. Howell said Ehrhardt had
never wrapped up any packages in the
store
William K. OlcOtt of counsel for the
defense testified that on Oct 80 he
bought cyanide of mercury at a drug
store in this city. Il went into the
store and bought two chemicals" said
Olcott. Then 1 asked for some cyanide
of mercury. The clerk asked me what
] wanted if for. l told him for pho
toe = -.
me if 1 knew it YVES poison. 1 said
I did, and he gave me small bottle
fuI.
John SandersoD, a clerk in the law
office of counsel for the defense. and
two other employees of the same Office
gave testimony similar to that of Mr..
Olcott. None of them had much trou-
BILE in getting the poison
A Reporters Testimony.
II. E. Terry. a reporter. gave testi-
mony to contradict that of Joseph
Koch, who identified Molineux as the
man who hired the letter box from him
in September. 1898. Witness was asked
IL Koch went to newspaper Office and
offered to identify Molineux as the man
who hired the letter box If witness
would pay him $1,000. Witness said
he did.
The decree of divorce granted to Mrs.
Rogers was put in evidence 20 show
Mrs. Adams, and then by consent of the
prosecution Ex-Governor Black sub
mitted table compiled by one of his
clerks to show that although the writ
ten exhibits are made up of several
thousand individual letters. the prose-
cution has based its contention that
Nolineux wrote them all upon the SINH
larity found in some seventeen letters.
That closed the case for the defense
and Mr.. Osborne called Joseph Terrell,
the hitherto missing Newark detective
as his first witness in rebuttal.
Mr.. Terrell. replying to a question by
HIT. Osborne, said he was sure that the
evidence he had given at the first trial
was correct. At that trial he testified
that he met MOlineuX near a railway
station in Newark on the afternoon the
bottle holder was bought Molineux
had testified at the present trial that
he could not remember meeting Terrell
that day.
Where Letter Was Mailed.
George II. Baker. a clerk in the en-
ploy of the Newark postoffice, testified
that the Burns letter, the conceded
writing of MOlineuX, was mailed in
Newark within a half-mile of Molin-
euX's Office The letter was on the
much described blue paper and the OBJ
2 ject was to throw doubt on Molineux's
statement that he could not remember
where he wrote il, but was sure that
he had none Of that paper at the fac
tory.
Then Mr.. Osborne set about upsetting
Mrs Stephenson's identification of
Cornish John Yokum testified to
meeting Cornish about noon. They
lunched together and about 2:30 went
to the Office of James y. Sullivan to