The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1900, Page 1

ALL ‘tHE TES TESTIMONY IN dati? MOLINEUX TRIAL_ TO-I EXTRA) eve “ Circulation Books 8 Open to to All,” _. PRICE ONE CENT, NEW YORK, ‘THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, "1900, |. OSBORNE DELVES INTO THE MARRIAGE ‘AND L | PRIVATE LIFE OF ROLAND | BARNET’S DYING WC WORDS, WERE NOT ADMITTED. f . tnd Douglas, Who At- \ tended Henry Barnet, Said He Died of Diph- +heria, but He Also Had “Slercurial Stom- achitis.”” Chemist: Ellison, in a i Dramatic Way, Illus- " trated with the Poison How He Found the Cyanide of Mercury. Testimony concerning the private life and marriage of Roland B. Moli- | net.x was brought out at the alleged polsoner’s trial to-day. The marriage certificate, made out 2 when Molineux and Blanche Chese- brough were made man and wife, was put im evidence, principally to show. it is believed, how old Molineux was in June, 1898—thirty-two years, Tm that month Molinenz is alleged by the prosecution to have filled out & blank to a medicinc firm asking for @ remedy on which he stated that \ he was thirty-two years old. } D — ie a Bank Teller Sayres, who has had twenty-three years experience in handwriting, testified that in his t opinion Molineux wrote the address om the poison package. Chemist Gay Ellicon gave the Molineux jury this afternoon a prac-|__ tical ilustration of how to make j polson. That is, he took some of the Kut- Bow powder, that it is alleged killed Barnet, and showed the jury how he found the cyanide of mercury. Tt was an intensely dramatic scene and the jurors. spectators, Molineux, counsel for both side: and Recorder Goff looked on with the greatest in- terest. Henry C. Barnet’s physician, Dr. Henry Beman Douglas, testified to- day that Barnet died of diphtheria. Dr. Douglas was constantly with Barnet during his fatal illness and said death was not the result of mer- 4 curial poleoning, alt..ough there was) e- ncouni evidence of mercury in the stomach. | ager Sane wilh get tale oom ate The telegram from Freder:ck} long, but all determined in appearance, Rogers, former husband of Mra. hell aperoa dl dents of some kind of Rogers, Cornieh’s friend, t Re- Axed! the des corder Go denying the truth of} eyes: Once be turned his ase noe ‘ Cornish's tee¥mony that he had met| them, and then, witn better good bree!- Vibtm (Rogers) two weeks ago in 14 ordinarily exiiblt Hartford, is signifcan: of Rogert’s| Unier ‘uch circume‘ances, he looked hatred toward Cornis. MeClusky on the direct examination Recorder Go@ at one time to-day Eahibit E, a bogus Cornish letter, threatesed to adjourn the trial un-| [** a ere to him by Detective MoCaf- lees Messrs. Osborne and Weeks ee bits aad Pac aq Mr. Carvalho see Buhibit EP wrangles. Y. Did he come to you? A. Yes. ot MO make reper om xr A-| gat HBARY suns DBATH. | 9. were an tue itera ae ig on Yeo. Sy eewinn, WAS. attenton, nite, ina’ ehing tae peer, Coben. fare Petlewing | “Can I offer a little memorandum 5 Bvatd welesky on ) the Loscansutll CERTAIN THAT BARNET DIED OF DIPHTHERIA. “1 am as certain ao mortal man ean be that Barnet died trem diph- theria, altho’ | feand ne germs ia the cultere,” said Dr. Heary Reman Douglas at the Molineus trial to- {neux potson mystery this morning un- der the examination of Assistant Die- trict-Attorney Osborne. MANY WOMEN PRESENT. The colirt-room resembled the arena ‘convention. The side of the room Q. Did you get Mre Gogers’s writing? before that? A. Yee. A. Yes. i Q. Did you have a conversation with Q. Cornish's? A. Yes. Mr. Kinsley before sending your men Q. Howard Adams's, the son of Mrw.| out to get these exhibits? A. Yes Adams? A. Yes. “When aid you get this Moodus @. John D. Adams's? A. Yes. (Conn) exhibit?’ Q. Harpster's? A, Yes This we Molinewn's admitted hand- Q. Gallagher's? A. Yea. writing and was a request for a mar- Rod you had them «li write for you,” riage guide. , Osborne, | Se eact on ehiat them weit” ead the Chief. Q. Cornish wi first day | caw 1° sad the witness Q. How'd you get it? A. From Dr. wier, in & registered letter, Q. The box you recetved from Dr. Douglass was 4 sample of Kutnow pow- der? A. Yea. Om the cross-examination Chief Me- Clusky waa first shown defendant's exhibl you? A. Yes, the (Continued on Becond Page.) , — orld. “ Cireniation Book: Open to Al ee EX MOLINEUX (OP.M.EXTRA |WOMAN WITNESS © FVE PERSONS HURT BY TRIGKEN IN COUR GOLLAPSE OF STAND. Mrs. Gordon Testified for Husband, Then Fell from Chair Dying. and her lips twitched, although she: ywered all questions satisfactorily. Suddenly the woman lurched to aide tn her chalr and then fell to the floor, Mr, Walsh and the attendants tried to raise her to her $50) but she was unconscious. Judge Foster, who was on the benaiy ordered the woman carried to om room and Coroner's Physician was summoned, while a call was sent the Hudson Street Hospital for an bulance. While the doctors worked over Gordon the case against her was proceeded with, The prisoner parently Jost all interest In the case, | he kept his eyes on the door of the | into which his wife had been carried. 3 | The case was given to the Jury half an hour. The jury returned im a few | with a verdict of acquittal. Judge Foster immediately Gordon, who ran to bis wil The doctors had done all they for the woman, and as Gordon | her they told him that-she would | ably die. With a great effort the man himseli. but as hit — was bulance id Huowed. weeping. bitterly. WOMAN OF 400 ~ | SUED FOR HIR : While testifying for her hushand, who was charged with robvery, in Part Iil. General Sessions this afternoon "Mra Mary Gordon fell from the wit- ness chair in an apopletic Mt and was carried out of court, ' While she treated by wd a Cheenmrt mueete ef * the jury was given the case and acquitted the husband, The husband was Lous Gordon, thirty-six years old, residing at 20 Weet Twenty-seventh street. He was are rested, charged by Abraham Joase, of Vent Division street, with having robbed him of a gold watch worth $90. Jouse «wore to-day that Gordon had bourded with him last spring and that, on May zi, the watch disappeared. and he had every reason to believe that the accused nad robbed him. Mrs. Gordon was summoned to the | stand to testify for her hushand. he wald that she was a trained nurse She told how she and her husband bad met Dec. 1 and during a general 1 nothing was «ald about the wateh, AT nai forty years ut, did net seem But when Assistant ttorney Walsh began to eros examine her she moved about uneasily H IN RESTAURANT PN neR wT Mrs Elisabeth Winthrop Stevens, a! that the names of certatn society Ps is who might be mewtioned should be R _ shed. ‘The request was promptly refused ander Stephens, Vice-Itres masin of Ale itont ¢ ' ———_+4-- ———— stordam, testffled befe re Justice Truax | RAED DAUM = eee j sed an } street | vices was not fixed, but it te that It was to be “adequate.” The answer of Mra. Skinner is | general denial, and the that the Skinners and Howes on intimate social terms for that Miss Howe had been Mra. guest, during which time Mra, levy people at 19 West Forty-second teaches young society macrons the of entertaining, dressing, provides ‘gucated companions and maids and | turnishes beginners in soctety with de Mrs. Carney a Man Gives me Waar Poi-| Herself as Corpse son and Takes a curptive liste of the apparel of oclety [had provided for Mise Howe's ‘ | toaders, Tecognition. for Suic'de. Dose Himself. Mee stevens aakt whe had been in so-| Mra. Eleanore E. Howe, mother ver eighteenth year and felt | pisintiff, testified that Mrs, = » testify as an empert Fe-iday at laren oe Mre. Jane Carney, forty-five a! manners and customs In| house and sald her: old. of 31 West Thirtieth street | the #0. a ide th! She was a witness to prove the value| The Broka' of Miss Marie E. Howe! Miss Howe, [pretty and stylishly that ner duties were to help ure prominen: society people, |ner entertain guests, to magnificent Bummer place at /conretwatory, assist the Miss Howe i+ a grand-|their Prench ond nto Mrv. Frances Augusta t Bightteth street. The enth street and Fourth o'clock this after won une 1 left the house ork. He Kissed his fhe seemed cheerful. Their Mary, fifteen years old, left for shortly after her facher to Belley ehtel sewing machine. ‘The husband returned at 1 o'clock and enough to ty found « be quote, Fg ig od teat - Ry sod th Miss Howe sues Mrs. sine ove the door and foun y Copen lives he 1 tor services. Bhe went to Mrs. Skin- he bed, fully dresset, dead. Peet the woman Wall bi) Ey Gia s Vowannes bettie of Fike fo Walla |e as companion in August, 180, and remained with her until Feb. 1%, 1st. On her dismissal Mrs. Skinner, she ware. 9 AB a her to @ wite bad threstened | thy reveal thas, Dal "Ee “cage ‘nee