The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-26
SHE WANTED ID LIE
But Mamie Melando Was Led
to Tell the Truth
ON - MOLINEUXS TRIAL
How Golf Made Her Tell on
the Man She Loved.
ON = MOLINEUX'S TRIAL

New York, Dec. q The Journal says:
Here is story Of the news of New York
which happened last week. If Ouida-
yes, or even our great Hawthorne-had
used the material you would say. 1T is
magnificent fiction as fiction. but it is
not life" 1t is the story Of Mamie Mel
ando. the factory girl ana serving maid.
who longed to lie and yet did not dare
to lie 10 save the man she loved Under
the tender and fatherly probating of Re-
corder Goff-that skilful insinuator OF
secrets-her conscience was awakened,
and she broke down and wept- Before
she left the witness stand last Tuesday
she who was willing TO jeopardize her
soul by perjury, confessed and endangered
the life Of the man she loved-Molineux.
The chapter of Mamie Melando In the
Molineux poison case will always stand
out like a silhouette.
The Mamie Melando episode became
momentous last Tuesday by a touch
from the master hand Of Recorder Com
At Mamie Melandos elbow stood the
God of Love. Recorded Goff 1t was who
blunted his arrows.
An employe in the factory OF Hermann
& Co., a humble worker whose habit ii
was to keep Mr. Molineux's rooms there
in order. Mamie Melando had made OF
their owner a hero.
The we'll dressed handsome young man
who was kind to her, had inspired her
with an alteration.
Mamie, as she busted and cleaned
those rooms. which have been frequent
~ mentioned in the course of the trial.
invested Roland Molineux-if he had them
not-with the traits she revered.
To the young woman. whose sphere
was doubtless bounded by the caste OF
her position and the confines OF factory
life, he was a god who could do no
wrong.
She cannot remeber the time during
seven years when he was not kind to her
1t has been suspected-nay, intimated-
that she was paid to keep away from the
witness stand in Recorder COTS court
room
for any such act.
Voluntary, it has been proven, she
would never have entred the borders of
New York
Voluntary, she would never have
breathed anything that might reflect
against the man who, as girl and wo-
man, she had endowed with her dearest
fancyings.
1t may be easily imagined that the
young club man was the only gentleman
who had ever come into the life of Ma
mie Melando. factory girl and house
maid.
She was probably pretty when he first
met her eight years ago. She bears
traces of it now She has an honest. good
face: brown eyes that are very full and
wide open. She has the kind of eyes that
a man likes in woman, because he can
trust them. She must have had good
complexion, too. She has worked hard in
the last years, ever since she was a girl,
by her testimony. There are lines in
her face now. the lines that come into
a womans face at twenty-eight. Ma
mic Melando looks about that age.
She is neat. so she must nave been a
most excellent maid. One could see thai
by her dress last Tuesday. She had not
expected to be in court. All the world
knows how she was lured by the STRAIT
egg of detectives from within the con-
fines Of N Y. The tragedy of her COM
ing was in her face. 1t was red from
weepign. Her eyes. ordinarily wide Open
were swollen she held her handkerchief
always in her hand. But by her attire
she would not have been taken for a fac
tory hand.
There was in her costume a conspicu-
Gus absence of all guady coloring. She
had on black coat simply made, dark
green skirt, hat in which there was
touch Of white.
She must have moved about the room
OF Roland Molineux. trim and neat. at
times even pretty. Her brown hair glist-
ened in the light through the cuort room
windows.
At least for the first time IN months
she was 70 see the man she most admired
the young gentleman who had been good
to her while she was learning the art
OF mixing Paris green. the young gentle
man who had never considered her be-
meath him, humble as had been her ser
vice.
She had been grstf1I first, then-it is
way women have-she had adored him.
Think how shet must have felt. this
little factory girl who FOR months. by
her own testimony. had guarded few
words Of writing sent to her By her dear
master,
dress and she had treasured them f1-
months iii. by a cruel Fate that reversed
the position % her master. she had :elt
inPeDed 70 destroy them.
Think how she must have felt now
when she knew that she, who had been
almost his slave by her veneratsou. his
servant by her tasks. ned in her poE
the ability 70 harm or benefit him.
He AKed his eyes upon her and she
trem5le6-
He recognized hey with his ol6-tlrne
c1urtiy 60w and she vas ready 70 swear
away her soul Il need BE- u save him
This Tas TIE evidence IN TIE nsIt few
moments
The girl in the witness chair. arertizz
her eyes from tsoss q her hero. alter
nztely thundere1 AZ ~ TIE Dl~tr.ct-At-
t5rnsy and wheeled. had sworn % her-
se.s go; . let out enc word thss might
ineriniuste dear NJ. Roland
Let them torture ne" she sa5s. and
I VII not confess
No wonder she trsmbie6, fhis cir. Izro-
rant Ct Ire ua-s - tse EoTi4. .gna-aut
. re lEruIt 20 The powers % the Court
So v--z- have -aasEre1 So hast f-zt