Show COUNSEL WILL CHARGE CRIME 10 CORNISH Gov Black in His Argument Alleges That Another r Than His Client Sent the Poison Package I 4 4 4 of 1 EXPECTS ACQUITTAL o O o NEW V YORK Nov 10 10 There There Is a possibility that a a. verdict in the 0 e case may be reached today If It however Assistant District Districts ro G e s Attorney Osborne do does s not concu conclude e his summing up before night then 0 Justice Lambert will charge the jur Jury tomorrow morning In such an fi o event a verdict Is not expected before tomorrow afternoon e and his counsel arc are certain that the trial will result in an acquittal Mr S 0 Se e 0 O Osborne and hl his hiM cH assistants say ay they have made out a strong case casc and 0 o 0 that that- If It Is s not convicted there will be a disagreement 0 NEW YORK Nov o- o 10 The The criminal branch of the Sup Supreme court ourt opened to today today today to- to day on the closing scenes of the second trial of Roland noland for the murder murder mur mur- der of or Ka Katherine J. J Adams on December December Decem Decem- ber 28 23 1828 An hour hour before the the official time for tor toro o opening the court ourt more than a a. thousand thousand thou thou- sand men and women thronged the corridors cor- cor riders of the criminal bull building an and clamored for or admission A special squad quad of or policemen was was to re reinforce re- re the court squad and the visitors cre vere formed ormed Into lines four deer deep and compelled to show their cards of or ad ad- ad- ad mission At least 70 O per cent were women women wo wo- men and most of or them had cards front from rom the Jurors or from the lawyers In the cas case or from attaches of or the District Attorneys Attorney's torneS As a a. con consequence be before before be- be fore every en seat was occupied the reporters reporter's tables were were overwhelmed and chairs blocked the aisles Another Witness Called Contrary to general s expectation the proceedings did not open with the appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal of or Ex Block for or a dismissal of ot the char charges es against the accused but Assistant District Attorney Osborne Osborne Osborne Os- Os borne called Mr EveaJ to the witness r Black protested that t the case was was' closed as far fars far's as as s the taking of testimony was concerned and the counsel for the deC defence deene an and prosecution had a a. long JonS' whispered c conference with Justice Justi Lambert as 35 to lo the te 1 n not t testify tes- tes and the summing up up o 0 was vas as be begun ln Blacks Black's Plea Pica in Defense In opening opening- his address former Gov Frank S S. S Black said was a 3 director of th the Knickerbocker Athletic club where Cornish was employed ed C ux did not like Cornish and he did not not- like H Harpster lie had many friends In the club and perhaps many enemies Cornish h wrote what considered an Improper r letter and l ux of or It a n. Gentleman Was Vas that any rea reason on for tOI or J sending to lo Corrish Cornish a 3 quan quantity tI ty of poison ot to kill any man In that club a asked I d Mr Black Cornish Insulted 1011 neu x and 1011 be heaved behaved a verI j like I kc a t. t gentleman rc regarding the difference of their station and passed on Is that thit proof of or murder Nothing else under th the sky fkr has Leer beer produced h here re to Indicate Indicate in indicate In- In any motive could have for fer er wanting to kill Cornish Black Mak Makes s Charges The trouble between Cornish awl and occur occurred red moro more than toan a a. year ear before the pol poison on package pack appeared No evidence has been presented here hert to show how In all aU that l time Mr II NoUn Molln ha had said ald al an unkind word or ut uttered uttered uttered ut- ut on one ona uncharitable thought toward Cornish All AU the thc evidence in this case casa points away from rom and toward another mother man I shall Indicate wh who th that t man is 11 before I sit down The case casa points to that man Just as surel surely as the tho needle points to the north star Fatal Bottlo Bottle Holder In commenting upon the evidence Mr Black began bean with that of Miss lIss Emma 1 the clerk at Hart Dogans Dogan's Do- Do gans gan's store who sold old the silver bottle bottlo hoJ holder er He said he had to criticise th the attitude of or the District Attorney to toward toward toward to- to ward that witness He lIe thought it was as unfair to force olce Miss Miller to admit that she had been paid for her testimony tes tes- Do you know wh why Miss Miller was treated a as she was He a asked ked It was because after she had volunteered d to testify and she could be bloU brought ht here as a volunteer she declined to perjure She told the truth did not buy the bot bottle tJ holder hoMer The detective Farrell Is ia the only witness s who has anywhere ne near nir r that bottle boUle holder and the neal nearest st st. he brou brought ht him was r quarters of oC a mile And that is th the nearest a youe yone had tor the c case e. e h. h I. I Witness Scored Ex G v. v Blaek ridiculed the tes I- I mon mony of ot Jo Joseph ph Koch the Broadway 0 letter box man who said aid rented a letter box from him him hlin and de declared de- de dared It to b bo be the evidence of or a man who peddled peddle his story alory and his hla eternal soul at the same time The Governor r took up the question of or writing and declared that the Washington ton expert Ha Hay was a stupendous fraud haud when he testified that none of or the request writing made by contained a characteristic to he found in hla hi r r writing and In the disputed d writing Then he dwelt at length upon the al at- at suppression o of evidence by the tho District A Attorneys Attorney's office and argued Continued on rage race 6 Counsel Continued from Page 1 CI I that the evidence might point to some ohe other than Suppression Charged The Tte prosecution he said has produced produced pro pro- d here th the pol poison poiron on package r wrapper the envelope to the Burns letter we concede to have ben been written by Molln Molin- the envelope to the the- Harpster and ln the Barnett Barnet letters but where are lre the to the Cornish letters Not ot otone one one of th them m has been presented In evi dence denee Why h have the they been suppressed Did they show too much You may foret for far fet feet et to date your l lottery but Uncle Sam never rever forS' forS forgets ts Did the Cornish en- en elopes show too much nuch 1 Black Sarcastic In o desk Newark was WiS a package of small envelopes used for inclosing cards The cs of the District Attorn Attorneys Attorney's ys y's office found them but tut they did not match envelopes that S 1 accompanied the poisoned package andEO and andeo eo so they were suppressed Was as that to anybody It was as a rIme to murder Mrs Adams but it would be noless noless no noless less a crime to murder this man on the evidence in this case You are asked alced to believe that no man can set get cyanide of or mercury unless S he Approaches It with a a. mask and In fact the prosecution tion floi asks you ou to believe belleve that it can an only only only on on- ly be bes be's best got t in N Newark wark If you want swant it youcan rou n s get t it ft If any of you want vant ant cyanide of m mercury set get it when you OU go goto goto goto to lunch Or If Ie you OU ha haxe hae e not time not time Ill I'll get gret you 1 0 enough to polson poison every evelT man within the sound of or my voice and It shall shan not co cost t you more than 35 cent cente The Barnett Lett Letters ls As to the e Barnett Barntt Jett letters rs ill Mr Black I dont don't know and I dont don't cats when and md where the they were mailed and Moll Moll- does does' not kno know and he doesn't care Counsel analyzed the testimony of or Vie the e handwriting men to sho show how the they ut- ut and how all had admitted under tinder examination cross that there thero were hun hun- of oC characters In th the disputed and conceded writings that In no vay lay resemble ble blo each other never neer wrote that address I dont don't know kno who did ap 1 in m my opinion the man who wrote It has not appeared In this case Cornish Accused Coming to tho the connection o of Cornish with the case Mr Ir Black declared that he hI was not arguing for the punishment of an any one but that he believed It was Mas his dut duty to show the whole hole case to the tho jur Jury as he himself sa saw it There wa was a crime and there was as a motive motive mo mo- mo- mo tive he be said end and the motive mot points to Harry S. S Cornish Mr Black ck recited d from the r records cob the story of Cornish's divorce his meeting with Mrs Irs Rogers then separate separate-I from her husband and her late divorcee Motive Missing Mr Mrs Ai 4 Mrs Irs Rogers's mother was a good woman oman Mr Black said Do you OU think sh she l looked with complaisance complaisance com corn plaisance on the conditions that pre art rl I There is motive th the I great consumInG ing motive force for tor all things The motIve motive mo- mo I tive Cornish had against the life of Mrs Adams compared to the motive mothe had J. agaus the life UCe of Cornish Cor Cor- nl fish nish h was as tho the volcano no of Martinique lo to o the lapping of waves a against the statue tatu of or liberty in our own harbor T Mr Ir Bl cl called attention to the evi deuce dence given that the purchaser of th the bottle holder in which the was W said he wanted the holder t to match the silver on a ladys lady's toilet table and from rom that he argued that the purchaser knew the p pattern tern of oC Mrs Rogers's silver He also reviewed the tile testimony of oC Koch the letter box man who bald Id the renter of ot the private box bo wore a brown overcoat Cornish denied de do- tiled nied while on the stand that he had au any auy overcoat that winter but Mr lr Black Black- read from reali-from from the last Jast trial to show that thal he had one and that it Il was brown Cornish Laughs Aloud Cornish who was In court appeared to be litte concerned b by Mr air Blacks Black's line of ot argument Once or twice when l-ii l his name was cas m mentioned he laughed aloud Ex Go Black touched lightly on tho the t testimony given by Mrs Stephenson and argued that extraordinary as it appeared and fantastic as Mr Osborne may call It everything she said was within the bounds of ot po possibility He reminded the jur Jury that thal it was in reply to the prosecution and not to any in ques from the defense that Mrs Irs Stephenson Stephenson Steph Steph- enson lally Identified Cornish as ns the man whom she saw w in the postoffice post- post office t I |