Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-04
THE MoLlNEux TRIAL.


New York, Nov 3-The cross-exami
nation of Roland B. MOlineux by AS
sistant District Attorney Osborne
which was resumed at the opening O.
court. Saturday. was finished within {
few minutes after its resumption.
Mr.. Osborne's first question was ..Dit
not Mr.. Barnet pay your wife atten.
TOM
Not at ALL" was the reply.
did you not so testify at the in.
quest?'
Molineux's reply to this was that
Barnet had paid attention to Miss
Cheesebcrough in the spring and au-
tumn of 1898 before she became Mrs
MOlineux.
The defenant was in the best of hui
NOR. When Mr.. Osborne asked him il
ne gave his wife an engagement ring
at the time of his engagement, and his
answer was not to the prosecutors
satisfaction, he said, smilingly:
II can tell you better than you can
drag it out of me.
Il don't wish to drag it out of you. -
said Mr. Osborne.
AIolineux then said he bought an en-
gagement rins on Nov. Is. 1898. Yes
terday he testified tha'. he and Miss
Cheeseborough became engaged i'm
September, 1858.
At Christmas, 1897, he gave her a
''Mizpah" ring. and when he became
engaged in September. 1898. he wished
to buy her an engagement ring, but
did not do So until November.
A letter 10 Miss Sadie Sheffiler. in
which MolineuX spoke of his engage
ment and Forthcoming marriage as n
romance" and said also that it was
sudden. was then identified and adj
mitted i'm evidence.
Mr.. Osborne ceased his examination
rather abruptly after several questions
as to the prisoners connection with
various medical associations.
AS Moineux resumed his seat behind
his lawyers Rev. Lindsay Parker of
Brooklyn. shook hands with him and his
father, Gen. MoineuX. patted him affec-
tionately on the shoulder and said Good
boy"
Mr. Black called Max Gumpel, hand
writing expert, as his first witness after
Molineux. Mr. Gumpel told of his quail
fications an expert. He said he had
StuuItu HdiuWTltIHS more IMAM ~ years
ana had testified in many important
cases, among others the Riegand- Becker
forgery. the Sharon will case, the Sarah
Althea Hill controversy in California and
the Rice will case in New York.
He declared that the conceded and dis
puted writing were not written by the
sa me hand. Mr.. Gumpel said it was his
belief that the address on the poison
package was in the natural hand of the
writer and that its crampcd appearance
was due to its having been written after
the package was made up.
ON crosS-eXamnatiOn Mr.. Gumpel said
he would expect the sender of "a poison
package to disguise his handwriting. He
knew of no case in which "a person had
sent poison to anyone without trying to
his identity.
Nh Osborne got the witness to say
that the 'U''' and "C' in Club written
by MolineuX had many characteristics in
with the address on the poison
package wrapper. He found also shading
in the top of the letter ''t"' in Cornish on
the wrapper and like standings in the 'C'
of the word Club" in various of the con-
coded writings.
DIR. David Ewell, a handwriting expert,
was the next witness. He said he had
made carely studies of the disputed and
writings and was convinced
they had not been done by the same
hand.