The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1900, Page 2

ENOUGH POISO _ B. Molineux was brought to the bar! sagmer, Uy") wae Mre. R. A. Witthaus, the former wite of the eminent chemist, who is testifying that both Mre. erine 2. Adams and Henry ¢. Barnet died of mercurial poison. Mrs. Witthaus occupied a front reat and was magnificently gowned in silks ang ables, About her neck bung a atring of pearis and in her left hand she hel@ an umbrella with a handle of such Veagth as to remind one of an alpen: eteck. ‘The Recorder was early in court, but much delay was caused by the fact that Mr. Osborne had been called from the detectives appears! ime, escortel by ber filting gown she wore yeserday, looked careworn, as If the the examination Thursday more trying to her nerves than wa made manifest by her demeanor at the Ume. HAS WEEKS NEW SURPRISEL Neither Gen, Molineux nor the ac cured's junior coi l, present in court ths morning fact gave rise to the story t Were out of town looking up new - @overed evidence in behalf of the pris- ‘ener. A note was sent to Mr. Weeks asking fim if the story had any foundation, but he wrote back: “E pave nothing to say.” CORNISH RECALLED. ‘When Mr. Osborne took his seat he fmediatety called Cornish to the stand fer the purpone of identifying the sinss aid to have contained the poison, and AN EXPERT PUTS THE JURORS TO SLEEP. Which was experimented with by Prof. | a Wittbaus. | By the Recorter: wit @. Mr. Cornish, did you rer Mre Adams | @rink out of the glam? A. 1 did Q@ What was done with i17 A. I'm Bot certain. 1 harded it to her, she drank and set {t back on the table @ Did you see i again? Ao Well, it} was pointed our to me locked in ihe china closet. Q. When was that? A. The fo Bunday. Q. Did you ever see @on't think 1 aid Q. After the tio} t again? Ao was set on the s there? A, She war! , 1 hink it is the same My Mr Weeks | @ Wh ed the closet? Q, No one was there. though. when you | detective got the key from fet the glans on the table? A. No one) (. How many giasses were In the except Mrs, Adams yoard? AOL don't know—several, @. There was another glass at the QQ And \ Ume un the table? A. Yes ‘We n owt etd | And it contaized liquid? 4 sma! at the doctor used for) [rm 2. an conta! qu! A. 1 doa at | an process of evaporation some @ Are you ready to etace tie) tnere | Myron Billings asked of tte aiment aohered <6 the he fas another gas on the table wth Wid aay ne have access to the) a ee te ee tren ST ere ae ee at Both of these I analyged, finding tn be p ‘ey : borh Varying proportions of cyanide of 4 mercury @ Weren't ether gtnstes pinced there PME me 8 s| By Mr shen Dr Miercock come? A. t do not oft H of merenr think 80. ; e these de- Q. And you drank nothing cles on ihe) : hive a key to tree lp feom day? A, No, sir fy en Pr ali : | Q. Were sou tying on rs wan th are in im y Weill Detective Carey took 1 at bi, tbe rooms mean ime’) et er. I belie hit n for nd t IDENTIFIES THE GLASS. in te £ AON, alr is ended the F t was that he stenogr minutes to the jury | The glass was then shown Mrs. Rogers | remedy, cat hon Q. Was any attempt made to interfer There was no o corder's examina+ r then read the vest of the Court. Mrs. Rogers knocked* y the flat on the night ¢ ‘The Court refured to permit che ques: | cra? A. Ms wae thon. |G. Did he save a key to th “h called the witness # fe? aster | No. sir fm the iéertin mf th sand & Did he examin Pelther che Diet let Attorney; nor Mp, dil not Weeks revs: atiemp: any other line of As soon ae Mre Res Bete, Hopers tok the stand n fNowel by H ike Recorder: a Wht, of 4 of that toe Von Moh Cece panied showing the witness a 1) AT wee and Mr. wad Mri} 7 Ue ete ‘ Saetvera please tied 23 cents, tor(POISOH IN MRS, ADAMS'S 4m tae | Whled cond remedy one nthe ta er mias re Ded when) hy Mr Weeks—Q Wasn't Mr, Yocum | @ 1 your mothers | merencie the eines? w Med fone Wass | cated raid 1 the ghastly} A The my brother |!" and a * al eyneemen | A He} net! aig by tater missibility of this evidence, but fAnaily the Court admitted it with certain re- striotions, and Mr. Onborne showed him exhibits "M" and and the witness | said he firet saw them at the Von Mohi | Co.'s offices ‘These exhibits are new in the care. Mr Osborne asked the witenss if he made by the ne Court Here in @ copy of the let Gentlemen: Please send naé@ great! Heatment Box 217, So. 857 We Street, New York The address on the ¢ THK VON MOML CO., tt, Obie, arded as very im: portant hy the proseeution. There were the letters “Chi” on the envelope and then scratched as if the writer had started to write “Chicago” Insivad of “Cinolnmatl” The envelope was postmarked York, May, 1, 1808, PM” “Five PM" is the hour, according (o | Mr. Osborne, at which Molineux was in | fr "New | parently, as the bogus Cornish and Ha’ net letters ‘The letter | Mont Company by Detective Witte and | brought bere by him. ! IMPORTANT LETTER. | many respects the most Important ex- hibit yet pur in evidence. By tt Mr. Os- borne hopes to prove that Molineux | wrote under the name of Barnet for this Von Moh! remedy (which is calthos), uaing a letter-box at %7 Wer: Forty second street for the purpose. ‘The letter was sent in May, which Is the month the Rarnet letter-box was hired, Barnet died in > was in that mo hired at 168) row Harry Cornish. Shortly after,“ to the Von Moh! Company for the ‘and tt he letter-box was ay in the name of WITTHAUS RECALLED. He was then excused, and at the ‘ourt’s command Prof, Witthaus war Prof, Witthaus ascended the stand on gines in his bay ‘he sald, “was brough: tive Carey, It contained uid with a white sediment om, The depih of each of 4 ve 1 marked with a plece of whit “\paper pasted on the glass. | The sediment was in crystals, « jot which were polyhedral, some of only | | wOpart (hear af hrome-seltae: The wiinere oeatn re chemical exbisite to the jury utes were soar toe 19 Aevelo of araiyee in the oe ©.) The jury studied the exatolts eagerty | Toe witners aidwated of the uri tea dhey Prose an vlue war oes that indienie tha hie sked Juror Crs ) means” sad the Professor nerely whows that glass, The color war Suced by grains THE WORLD: N IN MRS. ADAMS TO KILL TWELVE PERSONS. Mr. Weekes wees kid gloves with witnesses, Usborme'uses a aledge | oyered therein 254 grains ‘The prosecution believes this to te tn) played a large) wep by step the the pediment wae produce! orlgirally from Prussian! of mercurt eyantte, Prof) Witthaus then for several minutes by) made a mistak studied iis notes ald. “In “1 by one ! yan'de entirely on extraneous such a* the suddenness A which the paisom is taken and the tomach and the’ rap dil pelson has been ab an way is that the quan: * @ fraction of all take allt sorbed tty found and in sufficient quantity to be fatal ENOUGH TO KILL A DOZEN. te ihe Oar Osborne. “And wae thi "TD found very little of the mercuric cyan'te in the contente of the stomach.” continued the professor. ‘I of a grmin, This ts due to the the cyanide ts 50 readily aby the saliva and the tiesues of the body. “In the Intestinal tract 1 found by two methods of analysis, By one T found mereury equivalent to 489 grains of mer- curic cyanide By another [ found 693 grains. The mean of these two is 6.41 grains of mercurte cyanide found {n the Sintestines { In the iiver I found 9 mercury to Indicate 1.2% curls cyanide, POISON IN THE BRAIN. “In the brain | found .04 grain of the mercurte cyant clent metalic ins of mer #! amount of mer url evanide was found in the Intes- tin the stomach thy brain the mer- body war taken through the mouth.” ty Mr. Osborne Q. In the parts onalysed then much mercury di} you find? A. 12 grains @ What's the effect of mercury on the brain? A. That depends on how much Q. Well. you found cyanide of mercury in Harnet's brain? A. No. THE CAUSE OF DEATH. hat did you Mid? A.Hydrocyant rou how About ‘ee! "Do you know this In the cause of denth?? » she may have been shot or fallen woetaire for all | know,” Q. Or choked 10 death? A. Anything might have shocked her fatally | Q. 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Swamp-Root is used in the leading wen ig not know what masa tort ee! am mow entirely cured and cheerfully recommend your medicine to any one suffering) hospitals, recommended by ahiliful fof mercuric cyanide? A. 1 may have | sald go, as the matter depends ro much on clreumstances, . | Q. And doed the time of death after | having taken the dose vary much? A | Yes, it may be several daye afterward Mr Weeks fod the witness recite all |the symptoms of mercurial poisoning In all the reported ¢ af pat: af attend the the other pt the vomiting? A. Tt may Q. And doesn't the tongue increase ateatly in wine? A. Yeu | think It does te cyanide bh imMenaely iby jer t has it not? A. Not so bit- ter—very pungent Q. And hasn't there invariably been extreme thirst? Aol don't know. 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Noy. 1 THBODORUS VAN WYCK, former Bator ot tne Mt.| His Own Physician Ordered It. Vernon News, and now of the most prosperous real estate brokers in New York, 128 South Eleventi: ue, Mount Vernon, N. Y. To Whom It May Concern: New Yori, Now. 17, 1899. low of the contents of the glass didn't jhe take abou; five grains? A. I haven't thought of that Q. Can you approximate the amount of mercuric cyanife that would be in an ordinary How, from of the content know what an Q. How much tiqui glass wher you got it? A. Nearly four pooatuls, or fourteen cuble cent! res. cyanide? A. That doesn't follow. Q. You can't approximate? A. f Q. Was the sedi you got it long a. ( tell, mulated there? Al the testimony of Dr he Coroner in which swallow from the glass must have #wal- ed aboat 12 grains of the deadly pol- | “Here? Stop!’ suddenly shouted tne Recorder angrily, “This case Is to be | trled on evidence taken in this court and not before the Corener. Any attempt to Introduce ‘o:her evidence is highly rep- sehenvible ‘Ll was merely trying to refresh his memory, Your Honor,” said Mr. Weeks, with an injured alr Ty Mr. Weeks: @. You found in the bottle 22 grains of sunsance? A. Yes, And ty the giase 23 grains of sub- tin the gtasa when! | he had sald that any one drinking a) (i just as necessary as bread and butter. to be sure and state that they read Very respectfully, this generous offer in Tho Evening ——~ World, Yh has If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need, you wno| can purchase the regular fifty-cent and one-dollar stze botties at the drug stores. —— — then intro ———————— » you know of At the utmost only one-third of Two other letters were where & physician was early od "a contents could hi ve duced and marked "O" ont © “TWO NEW LETTERS. “The fire rewl (Ph book Gen Molineux and Mr, Battle, were r morning #6 afterngon, They nlerewt in what id General leaned chi ip his hand rk mon: ant had rs teve an antecedent ded of show that this ‘ause of death.” The certificate gett Clark od, diet atch 7 in ford, Conn, Disease, phthieis (consump- | Prot. Witthaui testimony in z of Howard Benham chai with pol- soning his wife Benham is now under sentence of death. Tra you not say In this bg of the office} th: there wai tr reason be lees. eee leving tl nore. wae Did_ you make afiy examination cork? A. Yes, hat there war no cyanic acid, \, . Find pay baramire on 7 A. Just ‘That is the that oe" is the question that concerns: he. ‘None "on the top of the cork, ait ae |. Witthaus said the laboratory | neveces, worn cut, ce to be we andusetul. The latter: 's Sarsape- Medan, Q. Do you noi say in your own book on the subject that vomiting if com- mon? A. Yes, air, and that the vomited jeaih each have the urnet.”” i inwai e were In Motineu ‘heap: also deal THE POISON CORK. | nz Lily od asked jhe witrere tf heat tell from tl mination of airs. ma, body bh bromo-sell ser had see He sasd that he could not, le Save eranne| ” To Be or Not to Be.”* as the nounced t e you held offlc though, Would nr oe j mit him to cestify until after br, Witte haus Completed bis testimony. WITTHAUS AGAIN. Prof, Witthaus took chair Onborne jumped up and started a long not permit, you to k any ueations now.” sald the Recorder. “Mr. Veeks, procer with the cross-examina~ ton. Juror Edgar sald will be yours take . fees he ea! wen te rile, America’s pat ' ee Sree ‘Sake “rrerem “In thts ease am errer ie on im- |. ane, A. Yes why there wis suc! a’, Weeks mye! treet eieese : (g. What proportion of the contents of Sean, Polson found in the voitle Rad been taken out? A. a| dea planing ba ta lle ro | ras Bot the poison can't tell thas, [don't Know how much id that tt depended on| t im x yp Te ha june powder ‘vas packed down or how terrapin wien which the syanogen ow emi - 1 pe Ser was liberated from the mercury. one t wan (2 Wel, how much did the bottle hold A. From 815 to 234 grains. Court then took a recess until 4) veloc’ ONE MORE LINK. The witness of the afternoon ‘ erssion tere Ie mercury| "2%, Joseph O. Googwin, town clerk of Hartford, Conn. He brought with him a certified y 4) Com. | fue reagents that 1 myseit din my lof the death certificate of Mrs. Ha | experimensa, ca mother of Molineus’s mother. ay te Weal wae (de amount oF | eertiacate showed that hia altogether you fount? A. 312; | Grandmother ged of consumption. ‘The application far a remedy for \mpetence te whieh the mame of Rarnet wae signed contained the statement that a relative had died By Mr. Werk: Q. How mu ary to ca ima ied hydrogyanc acid re death? A. Oh ft has at Chree-fourtme of a) ™ PAE Cy eee tire computation of ie i dive 't contain mer- % neaiae| : Ome. mercuric cyanide | OTLAWERTY.--On Jan. it, WILLIAM O'FLAM- i ah BRTY, astive Coeety Kerry, Ireisné, betend ghar et Mery Gieasse 004 brother @f Dewats end donne Poncci Bender, 2 P.M, trom bie iste seattrece, @ Clarksee etrret, New York. Brvaders of derwased in A. 0. U. W., Pale mate Loige Xo. 311, ore reopecttenty iavined, n eon by Mra. Adame acted we ot the $75 iT tien t r@sanic acid? A. That's my opin-| if the false nm been er dose ne have died tan? wie to aay. ee Wok : wont t Gin tue aig ye Curative Properties of Swramp-Root. How to Find Out if You 1,