Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-11
FATE Of MOL|NEUX,
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.)
son partially Identified Cornish as tn,

son partially Identified Cornish as the
IAN she sa W in the post-oInce.
Returning to Cornish. Mr.. Black said:
Cornish took that dirty, bottle home; but
lone when he got it.. He waited until
ne had arranged for five men to identi-
~ it in case of need. You are asked to
office that Cornish was willing to let
lis friend King take dose of the stuff:
IF course he was but when he offered
t to King the poison was not in the
promo. bottle. Professor Withaus tola
GU the poison was only at the top OF
he bottle and had not permeated the
,ther stuff below. Cornish got it home
just in time. He knew Mrs. Adams was
after the bromo reached the fiat Mrs.
dams had taken 1t, and she was gone.
There was nothing now to stand in the
way OF that unlimited passion which
burns cities and destroys empires
CORNISH PREVARlCATED.
Mr.. Black argued from the testimony
of the chemical experts who analyzed
ne aSams Of Drank he Sa a 5Gm e sa
when he said he drank quite a good
swallow of the mixture and quoted from
Professor Witthaus that half an inch of
he mixture in the glass would have kill
d any one who took it. Cornish never
asted that liquid Mr.. Black said.
Ex-Governor Black declared the case
he case" he said, points to Cornish.
md nothing except the testimony of the
aandwrting experts points to Molineapx
three hours and fifty-five minutes.
Osborne's Speech.
Assistant District Attorney Osborne in
pening for the prosecution, ridlculed the
heory. OF. the counsel for the defence
hat the death of Mrs Adams was the
and argued that it would be absurd to
euppose that Cornish would go down
own to mail a package, to himself: ;,
Mr.. Osborne went on, that the three
Cornish letters and the poison package
Wrappers. are in the same handwriting.
Vel. look at the corner Governor H.ael
las put himself In by trying to show
hat Cornish is the criminal: Cornish
must have taken the address from some
parcel, and then have got the writer to
H. Cornish to them. That writer would
own Cornish. body and soul. and could
hand him over to the law for conviction
md electrocution. Is it reasonable to sup
pose anything of the kind? If ex-Gover-
2or Blacks assumptions are true, Cor
7iSh, without any necessity for doing
o, handed over to the authorities the
only means of tracing the crime to him
nd his associates "a poiso0 WI" Dper
he poison. and the silver bottle-holder.
that fair rea Soning?"
CORN. oil cSS.
Counsel contraGicttd Ex-Governor
.IidC!t coitSUtl oi tIiil SOiulSN NdS
5namming sic.ness. ana read the evidence
OF the doctors VINO attended Cornish
IN the kncnc:bocAer Annette Club, who
said they found him suffering from al
rritaut poisoning. The insinuation tina,
! motive Tor the murder OF Mrs. Adams
;oud be found in tornishs feelings foi
IRIS. Rogers, the prosecuting attorney
aid was not worthy OF, consideration.
III the evidence, he said, showed that
'Irs. Adams and Cornish were on the bes'
II terms. and he added that there was
nothing against Mrs. Rogers's character
keep, the insinuations Of the defendants
awyers.
osborne went on to. show That MonneilA
lad attempted to injure Cornish: even
tier MolineuN had left the club and
II Molineux's i'll will. the SchefIier retter.
written nearly year after his reSigna-
ion from the, knckerbocker Athletic
isis friend, sent to Stearns & GO;
We find he Went on, that MolineuX
had the motive, and we find that he had
experimenting in the manufacture OF
hip's. paint, and one of the uses OF
yanide q mercury is for the manufac,
= HANl,N LING EVIDENCE.
Taking up the svidence Of the HAND nd
ritng experts Mr osborne SAID ID the the
ontention that Mo:ineux wrote tn
olson package wrapper.
void seeing the likeness between thu !
haracters in the conceded writing O.
Folineux's and the poison package wrap !
er. He argued that tl,r writer dare6 |
ot entirely hide his hand. or use print |
characters or a typewriter, for fear
: defeating his end by arousing the sus
lcion of the recipient of the package.
ADJOURNMENT FOR THE DAY.
Al 5 O'Clock. Justice Lambert announced |
F. suspension of the proceedings until to
orrow morning.
Mr.. Osborne said it would take him
Aree hours to finish his address. but Jus
&c Lambert said lie would allow him
NV two and half hours. That viii |
re him to the time of adjournment for |
inch to-r1orrow and the afternoon ses-
:on viii be started With the charge OF |
nstice Lambert.