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Show WHAT SAVED MO LINE UX. Verdict Influenced by Fact That Cornish Cor-nish Never Had Headache. A significant sidelight on the famous Mollneux trial was secured from one of the men who served on the Jury that .acquitted Roland M. Mollneux of the murder of Mrs. Kate Adams eight minutes after entering the Jury-room. Even at this late day the name of the Juryman is, for obvious reasons, withheld. with-held. The reporter asked the man what Influenced In-fluenced the -Jury most in reaching their verdict. 'iDo you remember, " he replied, "that during the trial, when Harry Cornish was on the stand, one of us asked permission per-mission to question hlmT When it was granted, Cornish was asked if he ever suffered much from headache. He replied no. Wrhen pressed further, he was even more positive, saying that though he was like other men In that he would occasionally drink a little more than was good for him, he never got up the neat morning with the customary cus-tomary headache. He was so positive of this and seemed so proud of the fact that it made an Impression on us." "But how," asked the reporter, "did that Influence your verdict?" "Because," the Juryman replied, "It was agreed on all sides that Mollneux and Cornish were associated closely together to-gether in the Knickerbocker Athletic club for a couple of years. Now, It seemed to us that, such being - the case, Mollneux would have known whether or not Cornish was subject to headaches and was In the habit of taking quick remedies for them; and, knowing, as he must have known, that Cornish never had headaches and took no such remedies, it seemed to us that if Mollneux had wanted to kill Cornish he would not have sent poisoned poi-soned bromo-seltzer, but something that there waa a more immediate chance of his intended victim using. The curious thing aboutr was," continued con-tinued the Juror, "that the lawyers for the defense missed this point altogether. alto-gether. Yet It seemed an Important one of us." New York American. - |