Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-10-23

had bachelor quarters over the factory
| in Newark.
On Christmas eve of 1898 there was
left at the main office of the Knicker,
booker Athletic club small package,
| 1t had been mailed in the general
postottice, on the Broadway side, and
was addressed to MIR. Harry S. Cor.
nish, Knickerbocker Athletic club.
Forty-tifth street and Madison
avenue, New York"
The address on the package was in
q mans writing. lne writing was
slanted and bold. When Cornish
reached his office that morning he
found the package on his desk. Cor
nish did not know the handwriting. al
though he said afterward there was
something familiar to him about it.
He tore open the brown paper wrap
per and then came across a Tiffany
paper box. Inside of this box were
a silver bcttle-holder and small bot
tie of bromo settler.
Cornish looked for a note. but there
was none that might throw any light
on the identity of the sender. Cornish
regarded the entire matter as a joke.
He put the package aside in his desk,
expecting to learn some day to whom
he was indebted for the novel
Christmas gift. He took the wrapper
with the address out of the waste
paper basket and put that also in his
desk
When Cornish went home that
evening he told about the Christmas
present he had received. The people
in the house Chaffed him about it and
asked him to bring it home. He did
so the next evening and the bottle
and holder were placed in a little
desk in Mr. Cornish's room.
They opened the bottle, got glass
of water and poured some of the
powder in it. 1t did not act like
ordinary bromo settler. Cornish
tasted it and then Mrs. Adams took
the glass and drained it. A few
minuters later she was taken yioleM-
ly i'll. Cornish, too, became sick ana
were sent for. They at
once suspected that both Mrs. Adams
and Cornish were suffering from
poison.
Mrs. Adams died in great agony.
Cornish went downtown after consult
ing an undertaken, and called at the
court building, where he saw
mis- friend. Assistant District Attorney
John F. Mcintyre, to whom he related
what had occurred. Mr.. Mcintyre
acted as counsel for Mrs. Rogers.
Cyanide of Mercury.
A chemical analysis was made of
ne contents of the bottle which had
been received by Cornish through the
nails and it was found that the
promo settler had been mixed with
cyanide of mercury one of the most
ieadly and at the same time one of
he rarest poisons known. The only
,lue that the real murder had left
behind was the address on the poison
package. Members of the Knicker-
'ocker club examined the handwriting
md one day one of the officers of the
hub told Cornish that in his opinion
he writing on the package resembled /
hat of Roland B. Molineux.
Two men appeared on the scene .
bout that time and told the police
hat they identified Molineux as a
nan who, under the aliases of H. C.
'arnet and Harry S. Cornish, had
ented private letter-boxes from them.
quantities of patent medicines of a
ocular kind had been sent to these |,
The applications for samples OF
lese medicines were sent for and
he letters, some signed H. C. Barnet, !,
Their signed H. S. Cornish, were
lrned over to experts in handwriting. {
etters known to be in the handwrit-