Titusville Herald

              THE TITUSVILLE HERALD.
FORTY-FIRST   YEAR
TITUSVILLE, PA, NOV. 11, 1902.
VOLUME XLI, NO. 258.
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Meadville, 4th W...
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For governor, WUliam Adams, Socialist Labor, had 16 votes; J. W. Slayton7~SoeiaJist, 46; Justin Perrette, 1. For lieutenant governor, Lee L. Crum bine, Prahibitlaa7~had 535 votes; Donald L. Monro, Socialist Labor" 17 • 3.'
Mahlon Barnes, Socialist, 46. For secretary of internal! affairs, Milton S. Marquis, Prohibition, had 530 votes; Frank Feeban, Socialist Labor, 19; Harry C. Oould, Socialist, 46. For oongress, L. M. Cunningham, Socialist Labor!
had 15 votes; Faye B. Ocamb, Socialist, 40. For state senate, Norris Crossman, Prohibition, had 471 Totes. For assembly, Albert B. Kerr, Prohibition, ha/d 505 votes; D. E. Kelly, Prohibition', 536. For sherifl, A.' P. Cooley, Prohibition, had 63? votes; L. L. Shattuck 1. For prothonotary, J. W. C. Hltes, Prohibition, had 507 votes. For treasurer, A. K. Bullock, Prohibition, had 607 'rates. For register and recorder, J. E. Wheeling, Prohibition, bad 471,
votes. For diatrict attorney, Isaac Monderau, Prohibition, had 660 votes. For clerk of courts, Grant U. Hopkins, Prohibition, had 531 votes. For county commissioner, James A. Boyd Prohibition had 467 votes- 3 W Foust Prohibition, 463.   For county auditor, A. Brown, Prohibition, had 548 votes; W Illiam Smith, Prohibition, 510. '    '
EX-GOV. BLACK CHARGES CORNISH
WITH MURDER OF MRS. ADAMS.
Says All Evidence Points to His Guilt—Prosecutor Osborne's Address—Case to Jury
This Afternoon.
■ /NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—The fate of
Roland B. Molineux will be determined
tomorrow.
When court adjourned this evening
Jaatice Lambert announced that he
would allow District Attorney Osborne but two hours and a half more to
finish summing up, which means that
the court will deUver lm charge and
the case will go Uo the Jury during tbe
afternoon.
■ The court room was crowded to suffocation when at the opening of to-,
day's session former Governor Black
rose to sum up for tbe defense. From
a general defense of Molineux, wbom
he declared the prosecution bad utterly failed to connect in any way with
the death of Mrs. Adams, Mr. Black
passed to a scathing denunciation of
Harry Cornish, to wr.oee guilt and nor.
that of Molineux, he declared every
circumstance in the case directly pointed. ' More tban half of Mr. Black's address, which occupied nearly four
hours, was devoted to an analysis   of
■■.Cornish's conduct and testimony of
other witnesses in a manner to support
his contention that Cornish's actions
were not consistent with his innocence
ot the Crime of which Mollineux stands
accused.
Mr. Osborne based his argument for
the prosecution today largely on the
testimony of the handwriting experts,
which he said, conclusively showed
Molineux to have been tbe writer of
the poison package address and df the
other displayed exhibits.
CLOSING   SCENE8  AND
DEFENSE REVIEW.
Logical Summing Up of Evidence Favoring  Roland B. Molineux.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—The criminal
branch of the supreme couiti opened today for the closing scenes in the second
trial of Roland B. Molineux for the
murder of Katherine J. Adams on December 38.1898.
An hour before the official Ume for
court, a crowd of more than a thousand men and women thronged uhe corridors of the criminal oourt DuUding
and clamored tor admission. A special
squad of policemen was on duty to reinforce tue court squaa, and tne visitors were forced into lines tour deep
and compelled to show their cards of
admission.
When Molineux was brought in no
chair could be found for - him. Hia
lamer, General Molineux, gave up his
piace to the defendant and a reporter
snared his chair with Geneial Molineux.
Contrary to general expectations, the
proceeding did noK open with an appeal
oy ex-Governor Black -for a dismissal
of the charges against the 'accused.
That was the scheduled program but
Assistant District Attorney Osborne
called out:
"Is Mr. Eveal here?"
A voice repUed that he was and at
Mr. Osborne's invitation Mr. Eveal
walked to the witness chair.
Ex-Governor Black protested that the
case was closed as far as uhe taking of
testimony was concerned and the counsel for the defense and prosecution Bad
a long whispered conference with Justice Lambert as to the admissibility of
tne testimony.
Eveal did not testify and the summing up by counsel was begun, ln
opening his address ex-Governor *• rank
S. Black aaid tbat Moiuteux was a director of tbe Knickerbocker Athletic*
Club, where Cornish was . employed.
Molineux did not like Cornish and he
did nel: like Harpster. He had many
friends in the club and perhaps many
enemies. Cornish wrote what Molineux considered an improper letter,
and Molineux complained of it. "Was
that any reason tor Molineux's sending
to Cornish a quantity of poison sufficient to kill any man in '.ihat club?
aaked Mr. Black. "Cornish insulted
Molineux and Molineux behaved like a
gentleman regarding tbe difference of
their station, and passed on. Is tbat
proof of murder?   Nothing else under
the sky bas been produced here to Indicate any motive Molineux could bave
for wanting to kill Cornish.
"The trouble between Cornish and
Molineux occurred more than a year
before the poison package appeared.
No evidence has been presented here
to show that ln all tbat Ume Mr. Molineux .said one unkind word or tittered
one uncharitable thought toward Cornish. All the evldenoe in this case
points away from Molineux and to another man. I shall indicate wbo that
man is before I sit down. The case
poinlts to that man just as surely as the
needle points to the north star. The
needle trembles with every .wind and
current, but when the calm comes it
still points to the north star."
In commenting upon the evidence
Mr. Black began with that of Miss
Emma Miller, Ithe clerk at Hartdegen's
store who sold tbe silver bottle holder.
He said he had to criticize the attitude
of the district attorney toward the witness. He hought It was unfair to force
Miss Miller to admit tbat sbe bad been
paid $150 for her testimony.
"Do yon know why Miss Miller was
treated as she was?" he asked. "It
was because after she had volunteered
to testify and sbe could only be brought
here as a volunteer, she declined to
perjure herself. She told the truth,
Molineux did not buy the bottle holder.
The detective, Farrell, is the only witness who has brought Molineux anywhere near that bottle holder, and the
nearest be brought him was three-
quarters of a mile. And that is the
nearest that anyone has brought him to
the case."
Ex-Governor Black ridiculed-the testimony of Joseph Koch, the Broadway
letterbox man who said Mollneux rented a letter box from him and declared
tt to be the evidence of a man who
"peddled his story and his eternal
SOul" at the same time.
Mr. Blaok then took up the question
Of writing and declared that the Washington expert, Hay, was "a stupendous
fraud," when he testified that none of
the "request" writing made by Molineux contained a characteristic to be
found In hts other writing and ln the
disputed writing. Tben he dwelt at
great length upon the alleged suppression of tbe evidence hy the district'attorney's office and argued that that
evidence might point to someone other
than Mollneux.
"The prosecution," he said, "has produced here the poison paeKage wrapper, the envelope to the Burns letter
we concede to have been written by
Mollneux, the envelope to- the Harpster and the Barnet letters, but where
are the envelopes to the Cornish letter*? Not one of them has been presented in evidence. Wby bave they
been suppressed?    Did they show too
much?   Tou may forget to date yonr
letters but Uncle Sam never   forgets.
Did the Cornish letters show too much? ;
"In Molineux's desk, in Newark, was I
a package of small envelopes used for
enclosing cards.   The detectives of the |
district attorney's office   found them, j
but they did not match the envelosee |
that accompanied the poison paskage,
and so they were suppressed. Was that
to shield anybody?
"lt was a crime .to murder Mrs.
Adams, but it would be no less a crime
to murder this man upon the evidence
in this case. You are asked to beUeve
tbat no man can get cyanide of mercury unless he approaches it with a
mask, and in fad': the prosecution asks
you to believe that it can only be got
in Newark. If you want it you can
get lt. If any one of you want cyanide
of mercury get it when, you go to
lunch. Or, If you haven't time, I'll get
you enough to poison every man within the sound of my voice, and it shan't
cost you more tban 35 cents."
Mr. Black laid great stress on Molineux's willingness to write for the
prosecution when fie waa uuder suspicion before his arrest, and argued
that it was remarkable that the experts had found few points in his writing bearing resemblance to the disputed writing. As to the Barnet letters, he said "I don't know and I don't
care when or where they were mailed,
and Molineux doeentt know and he
doesn't emre."
Counsel analyzed the testimony of
the handwriting men to show how
they differed, and how all admitted
under cross-examination thai; there
were hundreds ot characters in the disputed and conceded writings that in
no way resembled each other. Mr.
Black said that if a'man wanted ito send
a package to himself he would not
need to write tbe address at all. "My
office ls full of envelopes and wrappers
adf vessed to me'., said he, "could' I not
take one of chose if I wanted to and
send myself a package? Molineux
never wrote tbat address. I dont know
who did lt, and in my opinion the man
wbo wrote lt has not appeared in this
case."  -
Coming to the conneotlon of Cornish with the case, Mr. Black declared
that he was not arguing for the punishment of anyone but that he felt it
his duty to show the whole case to the
jury as be himself saw it.
"There was a crime and there was a
motive." he said, "ahd the motive
points to Harry 8. Cornish."
Mr. Black recited from the records !
the story of   Cornish's   divorce,    his!
meetin a with Mrs. Rogers, then separated from her husband and ber late
divorce.
"Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Rogers' mother,
was a good woman," Mr. Black said.
"Do you think ahe looked with complaisance on the conditions that prevailed?    •
"Tbere is a motive, the great consuming motive fore* for all things. The
motive Cornish bad against the life ot
Mrs. Adams, .compared to the motive
Mollneux had against the life of Cor-n-
Ish wns as the.volcano of Martinique
to the lapping of the waves again-1 the
statue of liberty in our own harbor."
District Attorney Osborne's Address.
Assistant District Attorney Osborne |
in opening for the prosecution ridi-j
culed the theory of tbe counsel for the
defense that the death bf Mrs. Adams
was the result of a deliberate design
by Cornish, and argued that it would
be absurd to suppose that Gornisn
would go down town to moll a> package
to himself. "It is not disputed by the
defense,'' Mr. Osborne went on, "that
three Cornish letters and the poison
package wrapper are in the same
handwriting. Well, look ait the corner
Governor Black has put himself in by
trying to show that Cornish Is tbe
criminal. Cornish must have taken
the address from some parcel and then
haye got the writer to write three letters for him and signed H. 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
anything of tbe sort?"
"If Governor Black's 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 ham and
his associates—the poison wrapper, the
poison and tbe silver holder. Is that a
fair reasoning?"
Mr, Osborne touched   on   Governor
Black's charge that the prosecution had
sopTH essed. the evidence of the envelopes found* In   Molineux's   desk.    "I ,
am holt hurt at that charge."
"Oovernor Black did not mean that j
personally and I took it in a pickwick- I
ian sense.   He rut*. «ot mean that any |
more than he meant we suppressed the
envelopes of the Cornish letters.   He
knows tbat we   never   had those en- i
v elopes.   The envelopes   taken   from
Molineux's desk "were given to the defense and the other   letters   we suppressed were marked for Identification
in the last trial and eliminated from
this trial because the defense thought
we had enough handwriting   exhibits
without tbem."
Referring to the statement made by
Mr. Black that Cornish did not attend
the funeral of Mrs. Adams, and dare
not face the dead woman, Mr. Osborne
read from the minutes to show that
Cornish visited the flat before Mrs.
Adams' body was removed and that ex- I
Oovernor Black had refused to let .him
tell on the witness stand why he wa* I
absent from the funeral. Then counsel
contradicted Governor Black's contention that Cornish was shamming sick
and read the evidence of thedoctor*
who attended Cornish in the Knickerbocker Athletic club who said they
found nim suffering from an Irritant
poisoning.
Coming to the question of motive,
Mr. Osborne went on 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 Molineux's ill will the
Scheffler letter, written nearly a year
after his resignation from Sbe Knickerbocker club, and the letter abont
Harpster, Cornish's friend, sent to
Stearns & Co.
"We find," he went on, "thait Molineux had the motive and we find tbat
he had, or did have, the poison, ne
was experimenting in the manufacture of ship paints and one of the me*'
of cyanide of mercury is for the mant*-
faclture of ship paint."
As to the purchase of tlhe bottle holder, Mr. Osborne said that Molineux
was daily in Newark and knew tbe
Hartdjen store well, where he had a
friend, Arnold. Why, then, he asked,
did aot the defense call Arnold who
had refused lto come here for the prose
eution?
Taking up the evidence of the handwriting experts, Mr. Osborne said the
testimony ot David H. Carvalho, tbe
expert called by the defense, proved
his contention that Molineux wrote tbe
poison package wrapper. Carvalho
said the wrapper address was not disguised sufficiently to hide the characteristics of the natural hand of the
writer.
"By wbom do I convidt Molineux of
that writing?" be demanded. "Ont of
the mouths of his enemies? No, out of
the mouths of his friends. Two bankers of Newark who knew Molineux and
his writing and who had no enmity
towards Molineux and who told you,-
'they were sure Mollneux wrote those
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