New-York tribune., 1899-03-25
MRS. MOLINEUX PROTESTS
ISSUES A STATEMENT SAYING SHE HAS
BEEN SLANDERED
DECLARES SHE DID NOT Know Mr. BARNET
WHEN TIE FIRST BARNET SIGNATURE
APPEARS oN JERSEY CITY
HOTEL, REGISTER

There published in this city Yesterday some
reports that woman answering TO the description
~ Mrs. Roland B. Molneux had accompanied the
late H. G. Barnet 20 n hotel In Jersey City scv-
oral occasions last summer. and that they had been
registered there G. Barnet and wife. The police
were said 10 believe that an important piece OF owl
dence connected with the Adams murder case would
be secured with paraso left by the woman AZ
the hotei. Mr.. Moneux last evening sent 20 The
Tribune the following statement:
Since the terrible tragedy eliminating in the
death ~ Mrs. Adams. and throughout the mex
felt IT 10 be my duty to bear in silence the cruel
attacks that have been made upon me in the news
nor have made any effort to set myself right be-
fore the world under the advice Of the counsel FOR
famous and unfounded charge and whose interests
are. Of course. next to my heart
But the statements In the newspapers Of to-day.
charging me. by Implication with having visited
a hotel in Jersey city with Mr. Barnet are so
grossly and atrOcOusy false that ! feel. In justice
To myscf my husband and my friends. ! must
now make some statement.
uttered by the Distrct-Attorney In his address 10
the Coroner's jury is believe. largely responsible
FOR the subsequent attacks upon me His official
position gave his statemonts weight that they
did not deserve Tho public has been slow 10 be-
leve that sworn public officer could without a
shadow Of proof vllifv and slander the reputation
OF woman But this done by the District
on the occasion to which the District Attorney
referred IN making his slanderous accusations
by my married sister. and the testimony before
the Coroner failed TO show a single instance Of i'm
proprety or indiscretion on my part. as, indeed
there was no such instance.
During the lifetime OF my parents 7 lived with
them, as testified before the Coroner. and all my
other places of residence were also testified TO by
me Much Of tho time I lived with my married sis
ters. and always visited them and was visited by
them.
There has never becr any mystery about my life
movements. nor has there been anyt hing IN my
life different from that Of any other sAf-respectins
woman.
NV acquaintance with Mr. Barnet was through
the introduction OF NJ. MOlineuX and my associa-
tions with him were merely those or friendship J
never in Jersey city in my lie. except IN pass
ing through take train. -
At the time stated In the newspapers when MI
Barnet first visited the hotel May, 1891 mad
never met him
This slander is az baselcss as the many others
which have been published concerning me -
In simple Justice 70 myself my family a anu 10, my
friends ask the public press 70 refrain rom pri
ing such wicked accusations. which the slightest
BLANCHE g. MOLlNEON.
The register OF the Hotel Washington Jersey
CITY containing the signatures OF the guests who
registered as Mr. and Mrs. G. Barnett. and the
parasol left 10y tho woman her last visit, have
been delivered TO Chief Of Police Murphy.
Tho Chief reiterates his belief that there IS no
foundation for the suspicion that the Barnet'
couple We're the late II. c. barnet ana hlrS. M"i-
inetN He said the man and woman had been
guests a. the hotel at short Intervals lor iour
Counsel for Roland y. Molineux are not yet ready
10 move for dismissal Of the indictment against
I'M connection with the Adams case. has resigned
from the place OF auditor or the Ne"-hork "'"-
Edward Kenny. a lodger In the Bowery has told
tho poce that shortly before Christmas ne was
asked by Harry Cornish 10 mail small package
and that after the Adams poisoning case causeu
saw nothing about the package The police eX-
pressed the belief that Kenny was lying.