The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-11


stuff below. Cornish got it home just in
time. He knew Mrs. Adams was subject
TO headaches, and twelve hours after the
bromo reached the flat Mrs. Adams had
taken IL. She was gone. There was moth
ing now TO stand I'm the way Of that un-
limited passion which burns cities and de-
stroys empires"
Mr.. Black argued from the testimony Of
the chemical experts who analysed the con-
tents of the glass from which Mrs. Adams
drank that Cornish lied when he said he
drank good swallow" Of the mixture,
and quoted from Professor Witthaus to
prove that half inch depth of the mix
ture in the glass would have killed anyone
who took IL. Cornish never tasted the
liquor Mr.. Black said.
The Ex-Governor traced Coruish's actions
after Mrs. Adams's death. Were his ac-
tions those OF an honest man?'' he asked.
why did he not go home and help Mrs.
Rogers in her troubles? No; he wanted TO
pose. He showed himself TO his chemist
friend Yokum. and then went to bed In
Yokum's room at the club Then he called
in five friends TO tell them how SICK ne
was. What else did he do. He stayed away
from the Adams's fiat until after the
| funeral. He never dared TO face that dead
woman"
Ex-Governor Black declared the case
against Cornish far stronger than the case
points toward Cornish. he said. and
nothing against the testimony OF the
handwriting experts points to Molineux.
Mr.. Black closed at 3:25. having spoken
MR.. OSBORNE'S ARGUMENT.
Assistant District Attorney Osborne, in
opening for the prosecution. ridiculed the
argument of the counsel for the defense
that the death of Mrs Adams was the re-
suit of a deliberate design of Cornish and
argued that it would be absurd to suppose
that Cornish would go down town to mail
package TO himself.
Mr.
Osborne went on, that the three Cornish
letters and the poison package wrapper are
in the same handwriting. Well, look at
the corner Governor Black has put him
self in by trying to show that Cornish is
the criminal. Cornish must have taken the
got the writer to write three letters for
him and signed II. Cornish TO them.
That writer would own Cornish body and
SOUL and could hand him over to the law
for conviction and electrocution. Is it
reasonable TO suppose any thing OF the
sort? III Governor Blacks assumptions
are true, Mr.. Osborne said. Cornish
without any necessity for doing So handed
over to the authorities the only means Of
tracing the crime to him and his associates
the poison wrapper, the poison and the
silver holder. Is that fair reasoning?"
Mr.. Osborne touched on Governor Blacks
charge that the prosecution had suppressed
the evidence of the envelopes found in Mol
ineaux desk. Now, am not hurt at that
Charge, he said. Governor Black did not
mean that personally, and | took IL In a
Plckwickian sense. He did not mean that
any more than he meant we suppressed the
envelopes of the Cornish letters. He knows
that we never had those envelopes. The
envelopes taken from Molineauxs desk
were given to the defense and the other
letters we suppressed were marked for
Identification in the last trial. and elimina-
ted from this trial. because the defense
thought We had enough handwriting ex-
hibits without them"
Referring to the statement made by Mr..
Black that Cornish did not attend the
funeral of Mrs Adams and dared not face
the dead woman. Mr.. Osborne read the
minutes Ito show that Cornish visited the
fiat before Mrs Adamss body was re-
moved and that Ex-Governor Black had re-
FUSED To let him tell on the witness stand
why he was absent from the funeral Then
counsel contradicted Ex-Governor Blacks
contention that Cornish was shamming
SICK, and read the evidence of the doctors
who attended Cornish in the Knickerbocke
Athletic Club. who said they found him
suffering from an irritant poisoning.
The inSinuation that motive for the
murder of Mrs. Adams could be found in
Cornishs feelings for Mrs. Rogers the
prosecuting attorney said was not worthy
of consideration. All the evidence, he said,
showed that Mrs. Adams and Cornish were
on the best of terms, and he added that
there was nothing against Mrs Rogers's
character exceA the insinuations, of the
defendants lawyers.
QUESTION OF MOTIVE.
Coming to the question of motive Mr.. Os-
borne went to show that Molineux had
attempted to injure Cornish even after
Molineux had left the club. and cited as
evidence of the enduring nature of MoIin-
eux's ill will. the Scheffler letter written
nearly year after his resignation from
the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, and letter
about Harpster, Cornish's friend, sent to
Stearns * Co. I'VE find" he went on,
that Molineux had the motive and we
find that he had or could have had the
poison. He was experimenting in the man.
ufacture of ship paint and one of the uses
or cynanide OF mercury is for the manu-
facture of ship paint"
AS TO the purchase of the bottle holder
Mr.. Osborne said that Molineux was daily
In Newark and knew the Hartdegen store
well. at which he had friend, Arnold.
Why, then. he asked. did not the defense
call Arnold who had refused to come here
for the prosecution.
Taking up the evidence of the handwrit-
Ing experts Mr.; Osborne said the testimony
OF David III. Carvalho, the expert called
by the defense, proved his contention that
Molineux wrote the poison package wrap
per. Carvalho said the wrapper address
was not disguised sufficiently to hide the
characteristics of the natural hand of the
writer. BY whom do L convict Molineux
or that writing?" he demanded, "out of the
mouths mouths Of his enemies? No. Out of the
Newark who knew Molineux and his writ
ing and who had no enmity towards Mol
iileuA toto you tney were sure MOlineux
wrote those disputed writings. / am salts
fed to let that portion of the accusation
against Molineux rest upon the testimony
of Carvalho."
Mr.. Osborne declared that no man could
avoid seeing the likeness between the char
acters In { conceded writing OF Molineux
and the on package wrapper He
argued that the writer dared not entirely
hide his hand or use printing characters or
typewriter for fear OF defeating his OBJ
1ect in arousing the suspicion OF the recip-
lent OF the package. 1.-The sender of that
package had 10 use pen. He found him
self having 70 decide" counsel said. "be-
tween the Scylla of doubt and the Cbaryb
dis or his own Identity"
AT o'clock Justice Lambert announced
a suspension of the proceedings until to-
morrow morning. Mr.. Osborne said n
would take him three hours to finish his
address, but Justice Lambert said he would
allow him only two and half hours That
will take him 70 the time for adjournment
for lunch and the afternoon session will be
started with the charge of Justice Lambert.
Henry Rogers Dead.
NEW YORK. Nov. 10.-Henry Rogers.
son-in-law of the late Mrs. X. J. Adams