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ony as to the similarity of the admitted specimens of the Molineux ‘and those on the poison package must be considered. ‘All through the charge the Court referred to the defendant as “Mister” © © open to-day. Bai u ‘what he knows of the d ip to that tragedy. Boe em “DIFFERENCE OF PLEADERS. Certainly a difference must be expected between the case outlined by “fhe defense and the case outlined by the prosecution when both go before the jury, but a difference so pronounced as that between the Osborne and © Black presentations of the Molineux case is not often encountered. | Im fact, but for .se ocasional mention of familiar names, 1t would be a Baca for one not knowing the case well to realize that Osborne was talking hing in the remotest way connected with what Gov. Black ‘The difference was so plain, so glaring, as - to-day about anyt! | YWas talking about yesterday. +to inspire thought. | \SET-BACK FOR MR, WEEKS. ‘Im tact so plain did it become that there were scores of points in the that Gov. Black Wad failed to touch upon that the defense became x ted. Mr. Weeks ventured to Interrupt when the prosecutor spoke of “the fact that a store in Newark kept the blue interlaced crescent paper and _ that Hermann & Co. had an account at this store. Mr. Osborne turned around with a spring like the spring of no proof. “pm tiger. Eee “Do you deny it?” he asked In a voice that suggested ice. " interposed Gov. Black. - Again did the defense show signs of exasperation when Mr. Osborne “wade the assertion that Barne: had paid attentions to the present Mrs. Mol- ineux when she was Bianche Chesebrough. At was brought out on Moline’ tained the objection and _ @harge of this trial. ‘BARNET TRAGEDY DWELT UPON. ; Mr. Osborne went at him rough-shod and compelled the admission of “the statements he was prepared tv make about the Barnet letters. The ourt, cornered, said he simply wished to remind the prosecutor of the Hmita- _~ Hone put on the admission of the Barnet testimony by the Court of Appeals, + But the unabashed Osborne went right along and did just what he set out “No, no, ‘to do. ing up: | degree. _ ton. whether there was premeditation to BHI the person intended or another. > "To constitute murder in the second “Wegree every clement that is in the “Arst degree, except deliberation, must ae ‘Tho element of passion ieay ‘the offense, and sudden ee arowec THE WOKLDs . TUESDAY. EVENING:NOVEMBER 11, tid. I leave them to you to eonsifer| He deviated from his natural eharac- qu his handwriting. and to give them due “One word on_the legal various circumstance t the various statements of many wit- nesses vou will conclude that Mrs. Ad- died of cyanide of mercury’ pol- we come back to is Molineux guilty of the crime? hat point you must ask, 8 to disqulm Fallacy of a “At the same time Gov. Black told you that handwri all men are al COURT OFFICERS BRINGING IN LUNCH TO WOMEN AT THE MOLINEUX TRIAL. $9049999OOO9OO94 should he? He knew. all about Harps! is alike because men, indeed, are re not Ike horses, believe that when it. He said a little later in his roration tha i eee at the been seen ub eve fe rec tice of hand-writing & by. which milions ol business is transacted a man's handwritin ntifled absolutely what EOSOCOOE FO O9OOOE 86006-000000 With few exceptions he referred to Harry Cornish as “that man Cor- handwriting “There is no direct evidence, No one saw him buy the bottle or bottie-holder; no one saw him direct the poison patk age; nO one saw him mail So thi you hat cebena: Only on Gah Newer cet the circumstances are Inco! ‘with gullt_you annot convict the de-| would become of all .the vast banking The circumstances must be} system? Men are consistent with guilt beyond a reasona-|cause they can b there would the characteriati very me dollara worth of day. If tent| could. not be 1de1 ‘HE OPENING TO-DAY. . There was a rush of many feet when the big door of the room in which © Goo oratorical fight for the lite of Roland B, Molineux is raging was thrown led upon to nature a, true of not. ee Id that system of recognizing Tnan'e handweitivg. under all #orts of conditions be adopted unless it was “Take the Bertillon system, in nineteen measurements. measurements he is the nineteen Fo Mot include anything that he can "t take Into the cdi can be drop coat or a hat. the man minus the little finger. @ ad- mit that there Is a difference between a man sitting down and a man standing up. The man sittin, man standing up wit ‘The difference is not essential. is a difference. I say again, but it is ‘The same with the hand- ‘Women were in the rush—noisy, persistent and frrepressible. crowd was not as Wig as yesterday, but it was just as hysterical. 4 ~ Possibly the shock of ex-Gov. Black's arraignment of Cornish had done ) “womething to abate the feverishness of interest, but it was plain that when | » “yr. Osborne arose to resume his bitter arraignment of Molineux to-day there / not that sense of expectancy that marked the proceedings of yesterday. "Phosd in the court rather assumed the critical than the view of the mere they've done that, all that Je required. If they hav the verdict _m T've sald all e falled,| a man’s ha be for the defendant, and Molineu desire to say on this! branch of. the case. You must remember all the evidence to determine the prob- abilities. You are the sole Judges of the| those nineteen The law makes you so. The law guards the rights of the defendant by Instruct you concerning I have done so. more to you on POO DOSE $O9-99G09 909590009 = reasonable doubts. do not expect to aa this branch of the case, ‘The Susptet here is anoth Couneel have eas: died on Dec. 8, 1 her through the mechanical aid of n defendant has the right to point out the murdorter if he knows him. “It the defendant can potnt to another with sufficient force of evidence to create t that is his right, and he does not have to compel the peop th t the elise is gullty. made here poi Is auffotent | to qUURYMEN LOOKED REFRESHED. Bvery member of the jury was in his seat ten minutes before the time nish, the the chem! dies. Why,’ ¢ strong. Everything points with damn- ne vroof to the gullt of Molineux as down Is the same branch of this case. ‘a brown overcoat, Deginning the proceedings. Twelve cheerful, relieved men were the that Sirs, Adams nen. The diamonds in the shirt frout of No. 6 and the scarf of No. tered like searchlights, while No. 11 and No, 12 were deep. in a discus- h of the handwriting specimens. ~The invariably punctual Justice Lambert took his seat on time to the Minute, after saluting his wife, who wis seated in what has been termed je right proscenium box. Mr. Osborne, with his hair combed, his face “gud snappy, was in his place ready, eyen eager, to plunge Into the of lctting go of the flood of fact and circumstance that he has ac- 4 concerning ‘this case since the first indictment of Roland B. ison package handwriting was the Fvaaant and in a disguise. 1 to the honor of every man jury if he heard any witness for nse that pointed out that ab- tle finger in this handwriting. is no contradiction about that When I assume that the handwriting was disguised I base that on the testimony of wit: ne idea of & bepk ee sayi! H riting was hot the same a: because it was written with @ backward slant. How absurd in @ m fit io career inass the variations of writing the things jone by one who tries to di: we have not only the defendant is the men who had the motive, who bdo “The positive evidence in the case is] holder and who wrot people claim that Molineux | the poison was in the nelghborhood of the Po: Office on Dec, 23, 1898, at the time the| ber the d Dolson package was mailed. between 2) Rear Hi . If it was mailed before 2] % t would have been recelved at the club that night, according to the defendant, ‘There 4s no evidence of the receipt of the mall at the club. first we know of It, by Corn! drawer on the morning of Dec. &. If thia professor at Columbla Is to be be- to prove | by, | ae-2 composed and his eyes sw Cornish. It at the defense @ for the com+ crime by Cornish. “The defense saya Cornish had a purpose al! the wa bendwriting. anot done. did it has not been proved. If he then the intent has been to track the question of gullt. discuss this issue save 22640404. Molineux was pale and weary-looking as he came into court during the ‘bustle ‘surrounding the arrival of the Court. He shot a glance half of in- ‘quiry, half of apprehension, at the prosecutor. Well did he know the or- ‘deal ahead of him, for before, on occasions, has he heard Mr. Osborne tell th of Mrs. Kate Adams and the events leading ; I shall not in one phase of the Piles to the mailing age. POCO $SIS9 95 2035909064908004 of the Poison, it the bottle- age. On the fist of De- we find Moligeux—remem- met by Farrell iY Micrel went to No. who hate: went to No. Be and hired a letter-box in Cornish's name and wrote for ; day. the defendant wro the bromo seltzer. mn of Probability. “Is it not improbable that two men certain that this defendant could break out on the same Office between 12| acts of hostility against Corn! ahd 5 o'clock; that he was at Columbla| St lkely? No, I University with Vulte all the afternoon; and if thi« testhmon: plain that thts defen been the mat ackage at the Post-Office, is claimed by the defense that Cornish was near the Post-Offic produce Mrs, Stephenson, and Cornish is the man she olson package and that he had on rown overcoat. “If her statement is true that ends You Investigate it, Her ment is important. Attacks Cornish, “The defendant claims that Mr. Corn- ish was within 200 or 30 feet of the Post-Office that afternoon, in the office There are witnesses | would have had no ‘ornish was there up ‘til! 5| the mistreatment. Here you have a|the same hand that wrote the Cornish flat contradiction of the testimony of| letters wrote the address on the poison these men with that of Mrs, Stephen- | packag “One of the absurdities argument is thi ys there are 48,000 sheets of this egg- blue paper, and he divides each into two ons to believe Sheet# so that he distributes it among Now, if it was all sold in one day in quire lots it was sold among 2,000 people out of 3,500,000 and we coat and then he admitted he did have have one man among 2.500 people who Jone, Now, it turns out that at @ orfmer | pure! trial Cornish sald that he did have a! brown overcoat and pointed to it, but mention, One man of all those had the rata that he did not have it on’ that i ry lshed the defendant cannot be convicted of any crime. uu will observe that that Is the "Phe defendant the mind of the mental stat Cornish must the defendent) would re- that -he de- the manded charged or he the| sign. and he did resign. “You will remember that when he dla —in Newark, claimed on the that at that tlme Mr, Hermann was on his wedding tour, so that you] resi uently the people are required to estab- itz. Broadw ish that fact, a vile name and said, ‘You didn't did you?’ and that the defendant sald very impressive marsied this women’ after Barnet’a! jeath."* hae caccounts whereabouts on that day. Tiiwan taken ithe! viting, they sald. They ay the address was In tae defendant's “It is claimed by the defendant that his troubles with Cornish were only the exist jn a club ‘They know his A Point for Molineux. is the explanation of the de- ident depends upon troubles that of that nature and there was clent motive In his feeling toward Cor- nish to prompt him to take a human “The defendant contends that dence of these witnesses Is but a mero opinion and it is claimed by the people that these men who had hi relations with the defendant would the ones above this man’s hand: a circumstance I ¢ was not near the Poat- People proved that the defendant ever the defendant. letter-box at No. e game day. polaoner, secrecy hostility broke out on the same day that the bottle-holder was bought. That afternoon, at No. 1620 Broad bought in the name of 1 the hostility The Chance of Acyuittal. “Phat ix left for you to determine. This is all the motive the people have if tt is not adequate the de- fendant should be acquitted. is cialmed that spirit of hostility and that St continued to rankle in his is credible, it is| holder and hired ¢ nt could not have! 1020 Broadwa: n| was characti every where—behind proved before a conviction can be had, testified that on the after- + 1SM8, A man came to the bought a bottle who mailed tNe polsot Hartdegen's store an He wore a red Van Dyke bes ars positively as to the t the man had a red Van Dyke Now, if her testimony 4s reliable that ends that, also claimed by the defendant the defendant that their evidence Js but opinion and based on thelr having seen his signa- Tt Is suggested that all they the question ts the of his signature, and is not sufficient to show his authorship of another man's name on the poison package. They entity Against Him. you have the evid six bankers outside and th from the club who know his handwrit- ign checks and he entertained a letter-box wai Cornish. Wouldn't you f that led a man to write for remed! in your name? Wouldn't you think that man was hostile to you? Of course you hi who ki n was going to die, who had Issued h! was safe in usin; If Cornish was doomed man that man could safely use his nam: for dead men tell no tales, e had taken that full dose of cyanide, have to determin Tn he fall of 1898, it Is sald, he came Into contact with one F Mr. Weeks sald there [ 1898, he went rushed by, coming in contact with him, He sald to Miss Miller that he wanted holder to match silver- could not find out where Hanpster worked before coming to the club, testified that this defendant sald Harp- ster and Cornish had formed a low com- bination to get \him out of the club. ie wanted Helles to get a letter, | according to the people, trom the firm ed Harpster, so that it might h his present employer: 4lso appears that on Dec, days before, he wrote a le! fler, enclosing a letter written by Cor igh ‘reflecting on Mr. Weeks. that he would like to bave his friends and asked them | T! nt of It, This by itself | a8 to be supported There ta no death warrant, a silver bottle ware on 4 lady's dresser, ‘They saw him other documents of the club. clare that the poison package wis In his handwriting. “It Is the contention of the defendant, as 1 have mii, that they rely upon the mere mental photograph of the defend- ant as they remember it. inches high and had a red beard, and that his attention was called to him by rushed past, (the witness's) He had a good picture of this reason, and he swore that rer to punish for o'clock or even Tater, Goy. Black objected, although re he have het in caine co! i 0. ers in Ba: The Judge sus- het's name and he wrote letters In Cor- nish’s name. because he had them both in mind. ‘The defendant Is nothing but the opinion of these persons and counts for crose-examination. jie the first inexplicable ruling since he took Were these meh mi defendant claims they were mistaken. he People not reasonable. ia improbable that the risoner would rush in and say in a loud tone that he wanted to buy this bottle-holder for a lady, part of the defendant claimed thas whether improbable or not, he Is corroborated into this letter, what they thought of tt, means nothing. by other circumstances. harm in that except the fact that the defendant wrote the letter. ‘sa Motive, ‘Hut the people point to that letter that the animosity shown sufficient to show @ motiv they were mistaken. uM says Cornish had on a brawn overcoat. He said he did not have a brown over- Mrs, Stepheneon my to Prove Guilt. “Then you have the six banker: acquainted with his handwriting, whose famillartty with handwriting Rave them extraordinary «Kill In read- Ing handwriting, They s: package address was dy t “Then there are the e: odd speciments of writing were given “The Barnet sidered by you u they are in the writing of the defend If you so decide, these experts and others, then you are to ure these Barnet letters for compari- ‘our verdict as to e address on the the man who wrote the Barnet lette: wrote the Burns letter, He not on! puts the Burns letter written on Cornish paper In a Rarpet lette: the identica’ language, could not twice quote the words of this letter the same wi tellect, who once governed New York tate, could not remember these few words, then how much more significant that the words of these letters for remedies were ‘ow, the motive, which he did not scribe the same man with the red beard, and.that you therefore cannot 6 dofendant, | erts, the sixty- | Koch had Molineux's name and ad- He was in the letter-box busi He sent a circular to Molineux. ot care much about Koch's ident If his reputation were equal for his identification, people who after four years remember | perfectly a man who Jostled against them on the street. Is appeal to me and [ thin! Koch's identification of Molineux as man whom he looked up at and saw {i not important either way. ‘pect @ man to have a per- tion of another’ after a brief meeting and tae lapse of low, gentlemen, give It fair consideration, and after have studied verdict. in accordance with it," When Justice Lambert had conclued Mr, Osborne arose and eatd: 4 Setbacks for Osborne. The Boy Who “It is also claimed for the people, by tters cannot be ccn- Tied it up. the evidence jens you decide that rmed to send the package of po! “You are to fairly consider thi Before you take this ma you are to find a motive for his crime, and to find no reasonable doubt men of sen: perience in the rolled up the package in the store and ‘The testimony of le occurred between 1 an It Is sald’ by AMBERT’S CLEAR CHARGE TO THE JURY, If the evidence fails to dis- must take into a the defense that the boy was a polisher In the back room and that his bu that the boy did| . In the rush of holiday busi you know how motives’ and ‘With this evidence you are to determine whether the fe Ing this defendant had toward Cornish ently bitter to prompt him to the authorship o that there Is no evidi B t time the poison pac! nee to show age reached to remember and determine.” replied the Judge. Your Honor," said Mr. Osborne ree that the claim of the prosecution Is that the defendant pro- cured the bottle holder hime®lf or some one els you so determine _ JUDGE L ‘That is the first question you are to determine—determine If the people have d that the Barnet letters are in the ndwriting of the defendant. . then you take the Cornish let nd the others and the conceded ings of the defen {Sustice Lambert began his address m-) able doubt He said, stand-| close the guilt of the defendant beyond @ reasonable doubt, he should be ac-lexperts have given as their opinion that the defendant wrote the address on the polson package, many reasons for their belle not enumerate them, but when Letter-Boxes. clroumstance. Js alleged on the part of the people that alesmen in the store testified that The Private Erhard did not do up packages. Miller declared that at the tle of the! le the olectric Mehte doex Huff and two salesme: “And so the defendant maintains that there can be no inferen ‘ou that the defendant bought this dottle-holder. ‘As an abstract question T shall hav ree you that there Is no direct vidence that the defendant bought this! As to the other clroum- claim of the ere are the nine places where the paper ts sold? Two places are in seven others are York. We find that one of these m & Co. and that Morris nd that Molineux was by Morris. Heri ‘The Interwoven crescent blue lolineux wrote the Cornish was bought In Blumm & neux used the blue @ remedy In Cornish’s letter. B. Molineux was seekin Now the Harpster mediately after recess, The bankers and ther through One of you jurors write * other write on. and not ina hundred years will you use, the same language. ‘Try it, and. you will see how important is the evidencr 8 this polnt—how much ft meatie vba three letters ate shown to you, a wep the same hand and the same words. 3 “Gentlemen of the jury, Katherine J. } quitted, “Adams died on the twenty-eighth day) “ef December, 188, and the defendant “is charged by the people with being re- nsible for her death, The defendant! yas been indicted for murder in the first | which I shall charge you as the law. ogree. He may be convicted for mur-) dn the second degree if the evidence|tual and substantial and not be mere condition of mind which, after carfeu! consideration of the evidence in the case, is not sustained by A moral conviction “To properly epply this rule it ts es- pacer Is Blun sential that you gentlemen comprehend the meaning have prepared Private letter-box at N In December he then began corresponding with med- | Cornish's name, {claimed that that indicates the things that were operating on the defendants 820 |and determine thar it wi the Instance of the defendant,” e to be drawn “Task that your Honor charge the Jury that there was no evidence of en- the mind of Cornish toward the dead woman?” “I refuse, to do that, these reasons, and I may say you will go over them ‘carefully. ve Swore He Didn’t Write It, “On the part of the defendant he de- ‘les that the address Js in his hand- ‘xriting. To support this contention and to overcome the People's case, hi a definition of thy own reasonable daubt should be ac- The jury must aper to write for the purpose they put Koch on the stand. y or August he sent the de-| a circular letter that he ® post-offige box to rent. dentes that he recetved It. proof that he did recetve it. claim that It is fair to assume hat he | testi: dottle-holder, certain remed: ter comes in. expected to get damagin: Against Hurpater, Font peaple ieee Harnster had been employ. Co. Four men knew this—Cornish, Gallagher, Helles knew, Roland B. Mol: Ineux knew. Now. who of these wrote the letter of inquiry? son for trying to je thing down with ease and “T believe I am required by the law Mo say that if in your judgment the tase is not brought within the scope of murder in the first or second degree ‘you may return a “@aughter in the first or the second the power of the Jur; Gov. Black said he thought to submit the exhibits would be to unduly and Im- iy magnify the importance of the Imony of the experts. District-Attorney The people have a right) argue the matter when the “You do not want them to go before The defendant | older—that 1s for you to d he 3 ‘0 determine. pratt ‘But in view of the clalm made by the be xlven to leave the point lends of his, or acquaintances, mem- bers of the Knickerbocker or New York ‘They testified that they were famillar with his writing, and they sald this address on the package was this defendant. “He has also presented six bankers, none of whom know him or his, hand- writing, and from the defendant's con- ceded “handwriti: hat the defendant other clrcumstances, Athletic Clubs, for your consideration “So I may say to you to meet the re- that followed, to make that claim, The Cornish Letters, is claimed that between Dec. and 18, 1898, the defendant called upon Koch "with regard Koch says that later aome one rented the box for which the defendant nego- tiated and that somebody recelyed mall that this defendant rented box and that he wrote three letters that roduced the replies that came throu, The people assert that t defendant wrote the letters in the name of Cornish as an act of hostility to him, as bearing on the The Cyanide Testimony, “The people say that cury has no use in med: for this reason It ts rare. tit they say. but it ts not studied: ohemiatry ine Y business required a knowledge of chem- istry, and it is claimed that cyanide of duct of gertain ingredi- f paint in the not written ‘by need not be so strong as to exclude all It wants to be suf- yanide of mer- “Murder in the first degree is killing Ine. and that ‘@ human being with ‘Wberate design regardless of justifica- possibility of guilt. ficlently strong to establish his guilt to 9, “Then they will not g that Justice some papers off hi that the jury was to be gent away, ‘This wan at 3.20 o'clock. OSBORNE'S ATTACK ON MOLINEUX. desk and signified What Gallagher said. “Fellx Gallagher friend of Molineux, said to Molineu: & moral certainty. such as to establish bis gullt to a moral then you are warranted in wave It ag their opinion tha the defendant did not write the address on the potson package. Hi brought, four, experts to their opinton, a nee rite the pokeoa addy i not go over mate to orotee that contention. burden falls upon you If the evidence is “First from a deliberate and premed-| certainty, tated design to effect the death of the/pnding the Intended to be killed or of an- ‘Did oe ie Pall : u hea - ‘A. Yee." . 3 Gallagher would the defendant) mercury fy. nts el t hu where thi Is aTatman ven jople that the defendant had the abil- ity and was surrounded by the means to produce cyanide of mercury, and that these conditions were not appli- caole to any one else in the case; that he could produce it and was more likely “I ask you in the discharge of your duties that you bear in mind the rule as it has been stated and applied to he paints th Snew that Molneux did not 1 “In October. 1898, Helles Ww. to th wm xork Athletic Club and wanted to Ne would rection. it Hrelies “woul May Ignore Expert Quickly after Mr. Osborne resumed hj the prosecution Mo'ineux trial to-day he said: r, Black made an error yesterday ech. He said no witness testt- the handwriting specimens Mr. Tyrell eat@ Ex- hibit A. was in a disguised hand. Mr. Ames said he found evidence of an at tempt at diagulse. “You are not required to be controlled by the expert evidence except that It je to gulde you, The same number of wits nesses have been sworn by elther alde the other denying. of the people to con- nect the defendant with this crime is that he procured a bottle and a box Into this to instigate the degree|And envelope containing the business of Tiffany & Co, printed the defendant hired the box, these latters written in the name of Cornish on biue paper, and it je admitted by the defendant that he had a sheet of the blue.paper and on it wrote the Burns letter, People claim that the natural 4 is that the defendant was the man who hired the letter-box from Koch in the name of Cornish, Molineux sald nce In that dl- buy paint from Molineux was. in- talked over the Club and Mol- ke for Cornish and Harpster war the same kind of a down fellow as Cornish. And then the two agreed to write to Harpster's And get & letter ‘rom people clam that he defendant refutes the charge|in te name of made the cyanide of mercur: did not know how to make he did not know that the {n- manvfacture cyanide of mercury, “Of course on the theor: on who sent this is reasonable. clrcumstances showing that this ant sent the package. then the c! the neople Is reasonable. balances Itself so far as the experts are Knickerbocker were in dinguin \peux told of bis hue bottle of direct evidence The defendant denies it, “That he obtained a small blue bottle r not used as a bromo seltzer bottle, and “SManslaughter in the first degree is| Used to be put in it cyanide of mer- pm the person doeg not mean to Kill, yughter in the second degree may “Did he procure the that he did. That is the only evi attempted to. be inferre by Oe ecole eA if gue he efendant and that the potson wi IR eis: bo when it was recelved by the allver bettle~ It Js alleged by the people that the person who sent the polfon pack- romo seltzer bottle and the hottle- Mr. Carvalho. said the same thing. Even the defendant's fun expert said there were things that 1o was disguised. ink some of the writing that Ceeuieiy es Mwhen. th way when Gisguise a hand. This man former employer t that would of Ballantine & wx Hated Cornish. they got to tall vury, sealed it, Tt Is claimed put It in a package 4m addressed It to any act thet does not contemplate | Harry 8. Cornish, at the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, Forty-fourth street and] Cornish at Madison avenue, and that hi in the General oa ot the cork in it, Deulal of Kooh’s Story, denies the story of tifes that Molli wn who rented the box, jant WAS afrested or. suspicion the murderer o! these clrcum- stances thelr proper place in your con- sideration of the testimony, and bas your conclusions upon a sober review bf the facts with thelr relative merits as circumstantial evidence. “There are other circumstances relied upon by the peowe to make you con- clude that the defendant Is guilty. the defendant wad a member of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club until April 3, 1898, and a membor of the House Committe appeared in the club as an employee, the Instructor of athletics. Bost was subordinite to the defendant: that Koch, who now fs contended by the People that it dant is guilty of any crime he ty of murder in the first degree, Wdefendant, #0 far as he has| to the home of Mrs, Adums and thot os through his attorneys, does not} for eny position o nthe kind of charge sinst bim. But you must take into Port-Office’ on that Cornish on ey That on the 3th he took Pointed to him & Adamg’a detective He says) Koch told him he could not recall the looks of the man who called bout the box. So mit wae ie - ritten the. die levedCorntah and Cornish “letters were’ w; be low fellows. gulsed hand had improved. Nearly Perfect, rther he writes the more di ) fixed a dose of it Upon him tos dit killed her. defense says “Teury, a reporter, w. Koch in connection with this case, he saw Koch . later, Kooh, aft Ineux for two days, Be could not recognize Molineux. This Was at the Inque 1 “It that’s true, what Terry says, then Koch fe not worthy of belies. 5 Paki ia telling the truth, appears from cros#-examination that he gold his atory to a newspaper for ad testified 0: before the law fetony avian owe bens westion as |! ¢ law doen witness to teatify to facts Farrelia Testimony, By the evidence of Farrell, between he met the de- al that the| fandant three-quarters of a mile from artdegen's store, purchased, It was on Dec. @ bottle-holder wa: aimed by the worked, had an account that he had that he was in the hi jaw ‘the. defen: street; that he saw to him of the case. that Farrell @aid to Molineux that he could call on him to swear that the de- med by | fendant did not have dyke beard on the day med by the this time it had been that the man who holder had worn a red ber ; ard. ‘On Jan. i, Hl, went, og s ne es i for Mrs. Adams ang Points for "L have said it is eople establish ar arpaiae ts men. ie 9 to. any’ . 7 would it would he do familar with orition, ane vee Harpatee whe! what wan said ‘the four degrees of murder, and] p, are to determine whether, if he in| to convict him of any cricne, i@iity, bis offense falls under the first] AW the defendant 4 murder class, or first or sec- hter class of homicide, the statute the defendant is to be innocent at the begin- that Cornish ae my observing Mol- sald to Terry that procure either of whim address, seal letter, Rotter culty at natty iy his fn yw, but thi at oF degosit the p iy of the things charged agaiust hun, as entered a to determine the people have established the’ sere, OF up to the close of | sary connection to convict’ him of this i a Built ie eatrviished | ive important question or circum- atances for the. Peopl of doubt never shitts|derendant with the c ion. That is a safe-]!"« of this Gomish disrespected and alaope Gefendant on three occasion ene The Row in the Club, "It te claimed by the defendant was retention of Cornish In the club and took “steps to have him eaiened. His application was re nth ently dies Galentante orders te of a horisontal’ bar, and ‘there effort & eccure The} rendant lous letter be ined. people that The defense c! in @ man. who to connect t hot written by: Helles, ae ari neux. Pay un ; mn the stand. aaa bispal hat the defend: red of a Van- that. nae Ot superscription on the pack: “i e@ theory by @: and persons’ who. know ‘The One Chance to Convict. a thelr owner $2,000 w! nt wrote th ithiy the past. a months. Branch valued the pair Friendabip can do ‘he Aactowes Principle of the Doubt. Seay m with ie Board,” Mr. ‘had bought that bot that is estab- ae not take up any of ‘slreumstances "of , sit else was it? Roland B. Molineux, “Cornish wouldn't write it, Why . An enemy of Harpster wrote it. a Rishi Css vite it. “Gov, jack, in ls four-hours’ id not touch on that letter, Helles did not write it. But one person, who hated Cornish and who hated Harpster, Was Molineux. Molineux wrote that letter’ and signed Cornish's name to it. “Why didn't Gov. Black mention that jJetter? Why? Because he koe t the ‘dencription of the writer” @tted Molineux." Enemies at the Club, Were intimate there, and were constant- ly about together. They made enemies there, and among them were Helles “Cornish and Harpster were friends. Molineux had a feeling of intense ma- levolence toward them, | Helles did not y. e so bitterly, He" wrot the fi Harpster letter at Molineux's sugges: sugges- tion. “He did not write the second. Who wrote it? Why. Roland B. Moli- neux. There fs no answer to this, and It Is not not touch on that letter. range that the defense did “There 1s Molineux, the hater of Cor- wher of the crescent paver, the seeker, of certain rem: hain ‘is complete and polsoner. ne of the first things Molineux id after he had employed the able Mr. Weeks to defend him was to send: for Helles. Why? I asked him on the stand if he knew of any enmity toward Hatp- ster in the club. He did not. AN Polit to Molineux, “This defendant fits the whole descrip. en of the man vho commisted this crime, the letter box: the comparison of the various letters, the poison, the hatred. The Tiffany incident, the paper, Again that Barnet Sung * “Roland B, Molineux and Barnet paid attention to the same woman. object,” said Gov. Black, leaping to “Objection eustained,” said the Court. T mean to vetet 10 the Bares, cuss his feet. only in so far as it wes ‘out In the testimony,” went on Mr, “You may do that, of oo but you, know the Rarnet matter is led out,” continued the judge. Mr. Osborne then went on to refer to Barnet, 1Fetere, “and “hi fe lations with the woman wif air el e, “T'also intend to el ‘You have already shown that,” ad tice Lambert wm, Sustaining Black's contention. “The Court of als has ruled that you must not al- ude to anythin, ig ts prejudicial to! si wish to warn ~ Osborne then “went on, rckight dave after Barnet's | death Molineux bought her a ring—e ring—and in eighteen days after he married her, this same woman, showin; that all the time he had Barnet in mind. < He must have had him in mind when-he wrote this letter to Mrs. Scheffer, an estimable and_res table lady, dear Sadi 1, qiutte a romance, lve until our new home ready. Our announcement cards will be sent from there.” “So we find that in June, 1898, after he had been rejected by the same lady in December, 1897, the defendant writing of his sudden merriage—quite a ro- mance In fact.’ “Didn't he have Barnet in mind? Of Barns Letter’s Similarity. “It ls not denied by the defense th: ut he. used Why, Gov Bhat A man of fine in- ritten actly simi “There Is a “ittle witness that does not falter or fall, that Burns letter, All the difference that the defense’s expert could find between the Burns and the Barnet letters was that one was written backward and forward.” _ whowed the letters Mr. Osborne to the jurors, one by ane, and asked them If it was not strange that Moll- neux dfopped Into the same language in writing both letters. “Coincidence after coincidence follows. letter and an. supposed to be alli Hundreds of Other Marks, “There are & hundred other marks of identity In the Barnet letters that point to Molineux. I want. to talk to you now about other things. In the matter of handwriting experts, no “one has cleapproved what we naye demon- strated. In poison cases.a man doesn’t write the same You have got to take off the mask and cet the Identity of the polsoner, Have him take off the brown overcoat, We must look beyond all this plot of secrecy, “Now, if two experts come in here and one say9. ‘There is a door,’ and the other sav, “Bhere is no door.’ T ask you then to go through the door yourself. “Tt want you to take these exhibits and look over the photographs in your secret room. Tam willing that you should do it. bat {t takes the consent of the other site to let sau examine these photo- eM. You will find, then, that Moll- Reus wrote the Harps i fouls letters, and that"Molineux wrote the dress on the poison package. jeter, that veux wrote the Barnet and ( aa iWhen Molineux was releoted by his wife—the lady who {s now he went to Newark and lived: chemicals in the factory, a recluse, as it were, rong’ his Points All One Way- “One thing the law says, Is that every ‘of circumstantial evidence ‘must point in the same direction. Take thi evidence om see how Jt points in oj direction. What the mind, Find the mind. Find the mind in this case. Over in Newark the bottle-hold points to Molineux, In the factory, the man, sitting In’ the laboratory ls Molineux. Cyanide of mer- cury Would have occurred to a chemist, Go to Tiffany, where Molineux had an account, and ‘that Uttle circumstance pointa.to Molineux. The handwritin makes the man but | to Molineux, Out in Cincinnat ere Ave fetters of @ man selling certain Femedien, and Molineux was, seeking The blue paper int to Molineux. ‘Sine Ou Cannot Overlook ag of circumstantial evidence, MAN-HUNTING HOUND DEAD. ‘BUFFOLK.. Va., Nov. 11.—Bloodhound John, one of Hurricane Branoh’s man- trailers, died to-night at the Glen Jean, West Va. 1 mines. Brauch ordered by wire an appropriate burial and jeft to attend it. He thinks the hound was in’ Tiger earn. for T am to be married* next Tuesday. Think of that. So you will excuse me from taking tea with you next ot will you not? It ix all so very sud de in fact. We go to the Waldorf-Astor D f f