THE SENSATIONAL POISONING IN NEW YORK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 41, 20 February 1900, Page 3

THE SENSATIONAL POISONING IN NEW YORK.

ROLAND MOLINEUX TO BE ELECTROCUTED. [PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received 19,9.5 a.m ) New Yobk, February 18. Roland Molineux, who was acquitted last April at his first trial on a charge of having poisoned Mrs. Kate Adams, and attempting to poison Henry Cornish, bat who was on a second trial found guilty, will be electrocuted in New York on Marfch 26th. [This case was the criminal sensation of the United States in the early part of last year. Molineux is the son of an old Amorican General, and was a chemist, and superintendent of a paint and colour factory. A young man named liarry Cornish, of New York, received by post a bottle containing a beverage known to the Americans as bromo-seltzer, and put it by. One night Mrs. Adams, at whose house he was staying, felt the need of a refreshing drink, and Cornish's bottle of bromo-seltzer was offered to her. She drank it, and died from the effects. The cause of death was found to have been poisoning with cyanide of mercury. Circumstantial evidence pointed t;o Molineux, who had had a quarrel with Cornish, they having been fellowmembers of the Knickerbocker Club. | [t was stated in connection with the first trial that a strong web of evidence wi,s woven around him, but that 1 powerful social and political influence 1 was exerted in his favour.]