Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-28
DAUGHTER ON STAND
MRS. ROGERS TELLS OF GIVING
HER MOTHER POISONED DsINK.
KNOWN CORNISH LONG TIME.
Closely Examined Regarding Her
Relations With Him, But Little IS
Brought Out-She Had Il Private
Letter Box Under an Assumed
Name.
Examined Regarding Her

NEW YORK. October 21.-MrS. Florence
Rodgers daughter Of Mrs. Katherine j.
Adams of whose murder Roland b MoH-
ne1lS is accused. was the most consPlcu-
Gus witness on the stand at to-day trlai,
Her appearance attracted an unusually
large crowd of women, who followed the
examination OF the witness With the Keen
est attention. Mrs. Rodgers was SUBJECT
ed to a close examination regarding her
relations with Harry Cornish but niue
that was significant was ELECTED IN TINS
line OF inquiry. The greater part OF the
session was devoted to the examination OF
lla ndWritinS experts.
There was a rllllor ABOUT the court
house after adjournment OF the MonneuA
case today that Mr.. Osborne Will close
the case for the prosecution before the
adjournment of court tomorrow. It is
understood that he has two bank cashiers
and two professional experts in hand
writing TO call besides Mr. Harpster. and
that these will conclude his list CT Wit
nesses. If that be so. and Mr.. Osborne
would neither confirm nor deny it. the
case will probably reach the jury before
Saturday.
At the first trial of the case it took eight
weeks 10 get a jury and examine SIX Wit
nesses In the seven and one-haH days
OF the present trial since the jury was
obtained thirty-siX witnesses have been
called and cross-eNamined
4 BLACKBOARD DEMONSTRATION
John f. Tyrre1l, the Milwaukee hand
writing expert, resumed his testimony to-
day and was permitted on request OF
District Attorney Jerome. to illustrate his
meaning by blackboard. Mr.. TNrrcn
| copied the first syllable of the word
| 'knickerbocker" from the poison package
address and compared it with the : k"
in the word Tickets" appearing in q
letter Molineux wrote to Cornish about an
athletic entertainment in November, 1897.
The expert made like comparisons, with
the k in book appearing in one of
the Barnet letters and In business
letter written by MolneUX and with
letters in the word west" and street
appearing in another Barnet letter, and
on the address west Eighty-fourth street,
on an envelope MoiineuX wrote to Mr..
Shelter.
Justice Lambert said he thought the
| jury had seen enough and the expert re-
linquished his blackboard
| DAUGHTER GAVE POISONED DRINK.
Mrs. Rodgers. daughter Of the dead wo-
! man. told OF giving the poisoned drink to
| Mrs. Adams. and OF her almost Immediate
| collapse. Mrs. Rodgers said she had
| known Cornish nearly all her life; that
| the fact Of the separation from her hus
| band occurring a couple of months after
| Cornish came to New York was only
| coincidence.
Mrs. Rodgers said she had private let
| ter-boN once under an assumed name.
Alfred S. Osborne. an expert in hand
writing, said the hand that wrote the
poison package address and the other uis-
puted letters was the hand that wrote
the conceded writing of the defendant.
! MolineuX.
The witness showed by photographs the
pcculiarities he later discovered in the
disputed writings.
a HABIT OF WRITING
I'VE concede," sald Mr.. Black, that
the triangular formation of letters is
| distinctively found in Mr.. MoineuXs
writing
And that is what YOU mean by habit
of writing? asked Judge Lambert, turn
ing to The expert
1T is" replied the witness.
Mr.. Osborne frequently started to eN-
| plain a statement in regard TO some pecu-
liarity he had pointed out by saying.
That Indicates
Ex-Governor Black objected each time.
| lection. ruling that the expert might state
| what he believed to be facts, but must
| LEAVE The jury the task of determining
! what the facts indicated.
f, Mr.. Osborne declared the conceded and
! disputed writings all showed the inclina-
| ton of the writer to DOT his is as soon
| as the letter was completed, thus making
| distinct break after the letter.
The assistant district attorney conclud-
+, ed with the witness after he had been on
| the stand one hour and a quarter. At the
| last trial Mr.. Osborne talked to the jury
| for two days.
! SPECIMENS OF MOLINEUX'S HAND
WRITING.
| Ex-Governor Black showed the witness
a bundle OF letters and asked him if he
| had eyer seen them before. The Wit
! ness said he had never seen the papers
before. 1t developed that the papers were
| specimens of his handwriting made by
Molipeux in the presence of i and ut the
request of, the district attorney.
With the cAem1cal Co.
Henry w. y. Glover. formerly traffic
manager of the Seaheard Air. Line. has
been appointed as traffic manager of the