New-York tribune., 1902-11-11

ion asks YOU 10 believe that il can only got in
Newark II you want il; you can get u, is not
Your razor is not as common as your dining room
any of YOU want cyanide Of mercury get 4 when
YOU go to luncheon. or. II you haven't time. IN
sound of my voice and it shant cost you more
than 50 cents.
Referring 10 the testimony of Professor Witt
haUs. who told OF the difficulty of making
cyanide of mercury. Ex-Governor Black said it
was remarkable how easy the prosecution found
witnesses when it reached for them with
checkbook.
40 man." he said. permits himself TO take
the stand for the people in New-York City un-
less he is an expert. When a checkbook is in
sight - cents. the usual witness fee, is not
enough. And what did Witthaus say? He told
you he found no traces Of Prussian blue in the
cyanide he analyzed. other witnesses told you
that none Of the materials in Molineux's lab
Oratory would produce cyanide of mercury with
out Prussian blue of its component parts.
That lets the cyanide out. so far Molineux is
concerned"
After referring TO the handwriting experts. Mr..
Black pointed out to the jury the difficulty he
had in pinning the witnesses down to direct
sNvers TO HIS questions.
1T always takes long time to get a to
point he said, when he is working time.
None of these experts got less than $50 day"
ingness to write for the prosecution when he
was under suspicion before his arrest. and
sued that il was remarkable that the experts
had found few points Of resemblance in hiss writ
ing TO the disputed writing
''MoneuK was as lOquacious with his pen as
old woman at a sewing circle is with her
tongue. He never blundered on an m
Ike the poison package wrapper. like the
r IN the Barnet letters. All the experts told
you that Wonderful, isn't st?
Now, about those Barnet letters. 1 don't
know and 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 hand
writing men. and showed not only how they
differed, but how all had admitted under cross
examination that there were hundreds of char
acters in the disputed and conceded writings
that in no way resembled one another. He
tinued:
The poison package was mailed.in the Postoffice
Redore o'clock IN The Afternoon OF December o1d
co,,is ,,o+ 49, bo+ .,,ar NI,l;,,.r,, es,fJ
Professor Vulte said Molneux was with him until
Postof1oe from Columbia College.
ATTACKS HANDWRITING TESTIMONY.
Is il not wicked this handwriting testimony,
this attempting 70 swear mans mans life away on testi-
calculating the distance he sometimes makes be-
evidence. The prosecutor told You that It would
be the happiest hour of his life if you pronounce
guilty. he presented himself as a quasi-judiciaI
truth viii YOU remember when he repeats that to
YOU that his witnesses swOre that the only 'g
ings was the ''g' Motineux wrote with a pen given
10 him IN an attitude prescribed by the District
Attorney And will you remember that IL is such
similarity that this same prosecutor will ask you
for verdict that shall murder this man?
Mr. Black said that the contention that be-
cause the bottle holder was inclosed in Tiff
olip aad zs-sh
Tifanys, MolineuX must have sent the poison
package. was absurd, because witnesses had
testified that any could get such box,
they were given away and not sold al Tiffanys,
and that more than ten thousand persons had
accounts at Tiffany's.
Mr. Black compared the science Of hand
writing with the Bertillon system of identihca-
tion, and argued that unless every sign fits
actly the Identification is worthless.
Suppose you are searching for a criminal
fve feet eight inches tail. 100 weight, and so
forth and with the top joint Of little finger
missing, he said, and you find a man who
answers every description accurately except that
all his fingers are complete. Will you convict
him because the prosecutor. in his humane and
general way, tells you they sufficiently
alike? That's how you must look at the identi-
fCation of handwriting
Mr.. Black took more than forty-hye minutes
clusions drawn by the handwriting experts. He
added:
The District Attorney asked the experts If they
ever heard Of man sending poison package
and addressing il in undisguised writing. ana
he turned 10 you with air OF triumph, no mat
ter which way the witness answered. Now. L ask
you II a man was sending package himself
would he need 10 write the address at all Ny
Office Is full OF envelopes and wrappers addressed
10 me. Could | not take one OF those if wanted
70 seIlo nlyself q packageF Molineux never wrote
that address don't know who did. and in my
,lNnnl99h me man VINO wrote II has not appeared
nc would not have sent such a package i'm his
own hand TO club whore every knew his
Nlnlg 10, MolneuN never wrote that wrapper
soofess NOW. think have eliminated Nolneuy:
on the stand You heard him answer the questions
B, Rut 70 MN MIN aio YOU have heard nothing that re
meets upon ms tTuthfulness.
Referring TO the episode in Molineux's youth
When he was correspondent in a divorce suit
counsel said that "disagreeable" episode was the
fault Of his youth and that his after life proved
him 10 be honorable and worthy of the affec-
tion Of his friends and the loyalty and love of
the noble old man who calls him son
Ex-Governor Black declared that ne was not
arguing for the punishment of any one but
that he felt it his duty to show the whole case
10 the jury he himself saw 1t.
MOTIVE POINTS To CORNISH"
There was crime and there was a motive" f."
he continued, and the motive points to Harry
= Cornish"
Mr., Black recited from the records the story
Of Cornish's feminine conquests prior TO his
wife divorcing him. his meeting with Mrs.
Rogers. then separated from her husband. and
her later divorce
Cornish was IN court with his father and
mother and seemed more amused than annoyed
M The direction Ex-Governor Blacks argument
taking He laurhed aloud tr,a