Show EVIDENCE FAVORABLE TO ROLAND cornish tangles himself when he attempts to refute the statement of a woman who identified him as the man who mailed the poison package new york nov 7 the taking of evidence second trial of boland B for the murder of mrs adams mas ended today and court was adjourned until monday when the argument of counsel will be made A verdict is looked for tuesday the sensational turn given to the testimony for the defense yesterday ft hen sirs anna wife of a brooklyn policeman paid she thought was the man bhe saw mail alio poison package was not continued today conwit was recalled to the stand and was asked whether he had brown overcoat in 1808 sirs said the man she saw mail the poison package wore a brown overcoat cornish paid today he had no overcoat at all that winter and then sir black read from the minutes of the last trul to bhoj that cornish had testified at that time that he had only one overcoat and that a brown one the husband of mrs stephenson was called by mr black to say he acier saw cornish before yesterday and therefore could not have pointed him I 1 out to mrs stephenson to mr Os borne mid he biad not reported his cifes story to the authora tic because he did not take any stock in it william K olcott one of counsel testified that he had purchased cyanide of mercury without difficulty at a drug in this city by abing aying that he wanted it for photographic experiments peri ments prof of columbia gaie evidence to the effect that cx was in liis employ from noon until after dark on the day the poison wa mailed the package haq mailed during the afternoon henry C lock wood a clerk testified that lie could not ansy exactly at what lime the package waa placed in the mail lie mra Steph enona mailed ort the broadway Broa duay ide h II arryE a cleak in store testified that the boy erhardt who said lie wrapped p the n her h er bottle holder hod made a ima howell said Erli ardt had never wrapped up any packages in the store john Sa a clerk in the law fillice of bounel for the defense and two other employed emp loyes of alie fiame office 3 pavo testimony similar to that of mr none of them had inucci trouble in getting poison 11 II 11 terry a lepov ler gave teti tony to contradict tant of Tose nl koch who identified ab the inan alio hired he letter box from him in september 1898 was asked if anck went to a newspaper office and offered to identify as the man who lured the letter box if would pay liim 1000 said h did alie decree of divorce granted to mrs was put in evidence to show that it wai granted after the death of mr adama and then by consent of the prosecution ex governor black submit ted a table compiled by one of hie clerks to show that although the written exhibits ore made up of several thousand individual letters the prosecution has based its contention eliat wrote them all upon the similarity found in some seventeen eliat closed the caw for tt defence and mr oborne OI orne callol joseph ferrell alie hitherto newark detective as ill in mr to a by mr 0 eborne he was fiure that the evidence he had given at the first was correct at ant trial lie testified that he met near a railroad station in lewark on alie ostern of tern the holder wail bought testified nt the cresent trial alm lie carld not remember meeting fanell fan ell aliat day georfe it a clerk in the ein alov of ali teti fled that the burns letter the conc dd writing tine of Moli neut a ill yi fark atlin it lin n bialt mil of office alie letter was on t lucli de paper 1 I idea was to chrow doubt on Molino ix fi statement eliat he could not remember alire lie wrote it but WB sure fht lie had none of hat at the i alien mr gel about sirs stephensons identification of cornish john testified to meeting cornish about noon they lunched together and about vent to the office of james E sullivan to talk over athletic matters yokum said he remained in the office until and that cornish waa there all the time lie said cornish did not wear an overcoat james mitchell the hammer thrower testified that he was at sullivans of i fice that day and saw there he believed cornish was there all the time mr sullivan remembered thai cornish was in bis office on the day in question but he was too busy to know how long any of hia visitors remained harry S cornish took the stand and i denied absolutely that he was at alic postoffice post office ahen sirs stephenson aid faid f she saw him and declared that he nev er left sullivans office from alie time he went there until after 5 lie denied lie ever drank broino with mrs bogerd no gerd |