The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-25
FIND EVIDENCE
IN A PARAS0L.
Police Would Like 10 Use Il in
Adams Poisoning Case.
MRS. M0LINEUX'S STATEMENT.
She Declares That She Was Slandered BY
The District Attorney.
AN ATRoCIOUSlY CRUEL CHARGE
That She Had Been In ihs Hahil Of Going 70 a
Jsrsy City Hotel With The la,s
H. C. Banst
She Declares That She Was SlandeTed By
The District Attorney.
AN ATRocIoUsly CRUEL CHARGE


anxious to obtain parasol, a fiimsy
green ana white affair, which. they say.
may prove to be an important clue ia
the Adams poisoning mystery. The par
asol in question was the property OF
tall stylish woman who frequently
visited the Washington hotel In Jersey
City with III. c. Barnet.
Ii is retained by the hotel proprietors.
who say the owner may claim IL yet
Friends Of Barnet say that his com
Ganion was married woman, who had
taken liking TO Barnet.
The visits to the hotel OF Barnet and
the woman whom he represented as his
wife began in May, 1897. They last
registered there on Aug. 3, 1898 The
couple always registered as Mr.. and
Mrs. c.. Barnett" except once, when the
woman came alone and on registering
informed the clerk her husband would
arrive later.
Mrs. Barnett kept TO her room except
when out for a walk but Barnett was
on terms OF familiarity with the bar
tender and the clerk, and frequently
stopped at the desk to chat with either
the proprietor or the clerk while on his
way froSl the cafe to his room.
]. B. Hamben. Jr., said: The Barnets
stopped at our hotel many times, but we
know nothing about them. Mrs. Bar
nets parasoi remains in our property
room and will stay there until the owner
calls for it, as she may do at any time.
Whether the man was III. c. Barnet, who
was poisoned or the woman was the
present Mrs Mollneux, we, Of course, do
not know"
District Attorney Gardiner will try
to find means of getting the parasol.
Lawyers Weeks and Battle. counsel for
Roland B. Modneux. have received from
District Attorney Gardiner the copy OF
the minutes OF the grand jury. which they
had successfully argued for before Judge
Blanchard in part of the court Of gen
eral sessions. Colonel Gardiner placed
the promised exhibits in the case at the
disposal OF Molineux's counsel yester-
daN when they were photographed.
Mrs. Blanche c. Molineux, wife of the
man who Is under indictment fog the
murder of Mrs. Adams, last night sent
out the following written statement:
"Slnce the terrible tragedy eliminating
In the death of Mrs. Adams, and through
out the inexpressibly painful scenes that
have followed. l have felt IL tn he my
duty TO bear I'm silence the cruel attacks
that have been made upon me in the
new spapers. ! have made no answer to
these attacks, nor have l made any ef-
fort to set myself right before the world,
under the advice OF the counsel for my
husband, WHO has been subjected 10 this
! unfounded and Infamous charge, and
whose interests are. Of course, next 10 my
heart.
But the statements In the newspapers
Of today. charging me -by implication
with having visited hotel In Jersey City
with Mr.. Barnet, are SO grossly and
atrociously false that l feel, in justice
to myself, my husband and my friends
that should make some statement.
Il may say in beginning that the cruel
slander uttered by the district attorney
in his address to the coroneTs jury Is, I
believe. largely responsible for the sub
seauent attacks upon me. HIS offici Al
position gave his statements a weight
that they did not deserve The public
has been slow to believe that a sworn
public officer could, without q shadow of
proof. vitify and slander the reputation
OF a. woman. gut this was done by the
district attorney and have suffered in
consequence.
"On the occasion to which the district
attorney referred in making his SANDER
Gus accusations against me 1 was on a
yachting trip. chaperoned by my mar
ried sister. and the testimony before the
coroner failed TO show a single instance
OF improperly or indiscretton on my
mart as indeed there was no such In
stapce.
During the lifetime OF my parents
lived with them az testified before the
coroner. and all my other places OF resi-
dence were also testified TO by mo. Much
W the time lived with my married sls-
ters. and always visited them and was
visited by them. There has never been
any mystery about my life or move
ments. uet he's there been anything fp
my life different from that of any other
self rec peetins woman.
My acquaintance with Barnet was
through the Introduction OF Mr.. Mon-
neux. and my association with him were
merely those OF friendship. I was never
IN Jersey city IN my llfe except In pass
in,~ through 70 take a train.
AT the time stated in the newspe peIs
when Mr.. Barnet FIRST visited the hotel,
May. 1897. had never met him. This
siander IA a. baseless as the many others
which have been published concerning
me.
and my friends. ask tn. public press tc
refrain from printing such wicked ac-
rusations which the slightest investi-