The sun., 1902-11-03
new WITNESS FOR MOLINEUX
VINO saw ANOTHER NAN MAIL
THE POISON PACKAGE


When the trial Of Roland b. MolineuN
for the murder Of Mrs Adams Is resumed
on Wednesday the defence may lut OH
the stand an entirely new witness in the case.
and If they do. her testimony-the witness
il woman--will make a sensation.
This witness, according TO the stories in
circulation about her. il the wife Of Brook
lyn policeman, and she asserts that she "a"
the famous poison package mailed az the
Post Office. She will testify, moreover
hat the person who mailed It was not Mol.
ueux, but another man, and she will say
that she thought she recognized In the
Coroner's court room when the inquest
was held the man who did mail the package.
The fact that nothing has been said re-
garding this woman or her testimony IA
Al the time tha, ha, elapsed since IN"
inquest would almost seem 10 discredlt
such a story as this. but the report that
here il such woman and that she offers
some such testimony wa confirmed last
nigh' ~ a man who ought 10 know some
thing about the case.
The only expiration advanced as TO
why. II this testimony was IN the possession
of the defence, il has not offered before
lnlS, II tIal tl' lllI~pHti y 'ouilNfI' bt-
lieving that they were not having fair
trial when the case Was first heard. and
Ielving on the Court Of Appeals granting
a new one, refrained from submitting this
With the other evidence for the defence.
According TO the story about thi, woman
and her testimony. which was pronounced
to be substantially true, last night. she
j. perfectly respectable, and some Of her
evidence can be confirmed by her husband
aud her family physician, who, it is said,
were consulted about it before the Molneux
lawyers or any other persons We're told
Of IT,
The woman declares, il i. said. that she
was, in the Post Office in the afternoon of
Dec %. 1895, the day on which the package
was mailed. She was there because she
had package of her own to mail and had
to wait in a line before she couldpurcha-e
stamps for it. Ia front of her was a man
who. when he reached the window. handed
In package addressed TO Cornish at the
kuickerhocker Athlet 10 Club. The woman de.
c.ares II is said. that she saw the address on
the package while he was putting the stamps
on, and the name remained i'll her memory
When the inscription on the poison package
was printed in the newspapers after the
murder, she recalled il as the address she
had seen.
The woman's story il said TO be that she
then told her husband and he after arguing
for a time that his wife must be mist AIKEN
finally consulted their family doctor.
Then the woman went TO the inquest and
pOinted out a man who she said she thought
was he whom she saw mail the package
Nothing, IL Is said, could shake her story oi
how she had seen him mail it.
That the woman was in the Post Office
about the time the poison package was
mailed she can prove, il is "a id by exhibiting 6
the postmark of the package she herself
mailed. She told the story to MolineuS's
lawyers, 1t is said, and showed this post.
possession OF her evidence.
IL will be remembered that several times
since the first trial report has been current
that Mr.. Weeks, Molineux's chief counsel
has declared in private conversations
that he not only could clear Moineux
but that he could place evidence In the
lands of the District Attorney that would
20 pretty far In showing who the poisoner
actually was. Mr.. Weeks, when such re-
ports were taken to him. has never denied
them but has refused to discuss them
Such a report he refused to discuss only
few weeks before this second trial was
hegun
When Mr.. Weeks was asked last night
II the story about the new woman witness
a. given here, was true he said he woulc
nave dD-blultll " tflIdltl from ulHSuSSllb
Il
Il will neither deny it nor confirm il,
he said
Ex-Governor Black, who has been mana G
ing the defence at the present trial. lef
town on Saturday IN go home to vote. III
will not return until Wednesday morning
George Gordon Battle, the third lawye
for the defence, said yesterday that h
could not discuss the story.
Such stogy was brought 70 me on Satur
day" he said, "and | WAS asked If il was
true. consulted with Gov. Black and her
told the person who had come with it tha
| would not say anything about il. i
would hardly b" right, anyway, at the pres
on' stag of the proceedings
Is il true that YOU will put some sucl
now wi'ues. on the stand on Wednesday,
Mr. Battle was asked
Il can't say whether it is true or not
he replied
Even II such testimony should he offered
by Nh" defence the fact that it is ofrere,
- late would tond TO weaken il. no matte
how strong il appeared. Still, il woulC
al least have the tendency 70 strengther
NolneuN's own statement that he did no
mail the package, made on the stand or
Friday