The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-02
MARY MULLANDER
Bayonne Girl Tells What
She Knows of Roland
B. Molineux.
WORKED IN HIS FACTORY
Activity of Newark Detective
in the Famous Poison
Case Explained.

some importance mas Ueeu dLldCllCd ~
the police who have been working on the
Adams poisoning case to the statement
made to them few days ago by Joseph
w. Wriggins, a private detective, OF
Newark, who, as told in the New YORK
papers, was about to testify at the m
quest on Monday night when the Coroner
suddenly brought it to close. Wriggins
said that he was sent to the factory of
which Roland B. Molineux was the SUI
perintendent, by Detective Joseph Far
rell with the understanding that Molin-
eux was to give him a case to work on.
When he met Molineux last Septem-
ber on the street. Wriggins said that the
man told him that he wanted him at one
time, but that he had attended to the
matter himself. Wriggins says Molineux
told him that some one had been bother
ing him. and he wanted to get rid of him.
Wriggins declares that this is what he
told to the police, and that it was this
statement that occasioned his visit to the
Coroner's court on Monday night.
Z Detective Heidelberg, of New York. who
accompanied virgins to the court. was
in great haste to have him testify thus In
dicating that Wriggins's testimony was OF
in the trial of Molineux.
Detective Farrell, who suggested Wrig-
gings to Molineux as a man capable of do
ing a little private detective work for the
latter, when seen yesterday. repeated his
story of having been asked to get infor-
nation about young woman who had
been in the employ of Morris, Hermann
& Co., Newark.
10 1f hn
father and mother I will not tell her
right name" he said, "but she was known
in this city as Katie Shields Molineaux
knew the girl when he was superintendent
of c. P. Reynolds's dye factory in Bay
onne, for she worked there. After Mol
ineux became superintendent for Herman
& Co., the girl came to work in this city.
After she left the factory Molineux told
me that he got her swell position IN
an infirmary near Tompkinsville, Staten
Island. She was said to be learning TO
be trained nurse.
ssMolineux said the girl came to MN
several times after that for money with
which, she said, she wanted to buy BOOKS
and things He said he saw her getting
off car at Congress street several times
and grew suspicious. Finally, he said, ne
heard the girl wasn't at the infirmary
at ALL but was stopping with family
named Joyce, in Newark. He asked me
to get some information for him ABOUT
what the girl was doing, but | told MIN
I couldn't do that, but would get him
a man. That's when I told virgins to
see him.
ST understand continued Farrell, that
the first time virgins saw Molineux al
ter that was some days later, when ne
met him at Jefferson and Market streets.
Wriggins was not in the best shape, l be-
lieve, and don't know just what passed
between them
.sKatie Shields" whose right name is
Mary Mullander, was living at NO. 2li
Washington street with Mrs. Martina
Joyce, when, on June Is, 1898. the mouse
was raided by the police. The landlady
was fined $50 and costs, which she paid
The girl was arrested at the time. She
is now with her parents in Bayonne. Her
father is policeman in that city
Mary MuIlander, who is called May by
her acquaintances, was seen at ther nome,
No. 26 William street, in Bayonne, yester-
day afternoon by a reporter, and asked
to give her version of the story in which
she and Molineux figures.
The girl, who is fairly good looking, was
not disposed to talk at f1rstf. but after
short period of hesitation, declared that
she had konwn Molineux since her child
hool almost and added that her relations
with him at no time had been other than
those of employe and employer.
She emphatically denied that she had
ever been arrested in this city, but when
+1,1 1Tf
here and the raid on the Washington
street house. refused to say another word
on this phase of the story.
She had been employed pasting labels
on bottles in Reynolds & Co.'s factory
while Molineux was employed there, she
| explained and when Molineux came to
Morris Hermann & Co.'s several years
/ ago, she and several other girls left Rey-
nolds' and came to Newark with Moli-
neux. At Morris Hermann q Co.'S they
were kept at the work of pasting labels
on bot les. She left the 9nploy of the
| Newark firm in November, 1897, she in
formed the reporter.
Christopher Mullander, father of Mary,
is one of the most res Ncted. citizens of
| Bayonne. To reporter he said that
never until yesterday morning did he sus-
pect that there might have been anything
wrona between his daughter and Moli-
| neux, when he read certain stories in the
| papers.
'For twenty-one years. said he in sub
stance. II was in the employ of G. p.
! Reynolds & Co., and only left when | be-
! came a member of the police force. l
1 knew Molineux when he was mere boy.
/ HIS father was in some way connected
/ with the company and when young Molin-
eux was old enough he was taken into
| It's employ and it was there he learned the
art of mixing colors and the like He
! worked himself to a good position there.
Ny daughter went to work there when
quite young.
ssWhen Molineux left to accept the su-
\ perintendency of the Newark place, my
I girl and several other girls left to accept
! positions there too. My girl gave up her
| job in Newark in September of last year.
When Mary Muilander was asked to ex-
/ plain how it was that she, according to
her own statement, left the Newark place
/ in November 1897, while her father was
under the impression she worked at Nor