The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-10
HE DEFENDS The
Wife OF HIS SON.
Gen. Mo|ineux CharaCterizeS
Attack on Her as Cruel.
Story That She Has Behaved in a
Questionable Manner Pronounced
to Be Without Any Foundation,

spends at the window OF her room
which overlooks the prison.
Few persons would recognize In her
the handsome Blanche Molineux OF two
years ago. Her hair is streaked with
gray and her face Is drawn and pinched
Her friends say she has not been away
from the window in Sing Sing for more
than few hours at time since hos
husband was sentenced TO death.
Nothing is known OF the identity oi
the woman who represents herself as
Mrs. Molineux, but IL is supposed she IL
some Tenderloin woman who bears a
resemblance TO the condemned mans
wife.
After an investigation made by The
World. which proved that Mrs. Molneux
had not been i'm the Tenderloin. Gen.
Edward l.. Molineuy. father or the con-
demned poisoner, was seen. lie issued
signed statement, in which he said:
GEN. MOLINEUX'S STATEMENT
I'm a morning paper an article appears
stating that on Thursday at midnight
Mrs. Roland B. Molineux was at the
restaurant known as Rector's. l wish
10 absolutely deny the truth OF this
statement. Mrs. Molineux is now. and
has been. since the time OF my sons con-
viction, at Sing Sing with my wife. and
has been constantly in communication
with her husband.
'oThe statements combined I'm the arti
Gle 10 which | have referred are entirely
without. foundation, and it is unneces-
sary to say that they are cruel in the
extreme. On the night in question
know positively that she was at Sing
Sing with my wife and other relatives
and, furthermore, am informed by hel
that she has not been in the restaurant
in question at any time since her hus-
bands arrest and that to the best oi
her recollection, she has never been there
in her life.
II trust to the good faith and the
sense of fairness OF the press to publish
this complete denial OF the cruel libe
which appeared today. l wish to take
this opportunity TO state that my sons
wife is under my protection and thai
her conduct at all times since the ar
rest of my son has been in accordance
with the wishes OF my wife and myself
and that / shall take prompt measures
to vindicate her against any such un
founded statements
MRS. MoLINEUx'S DOUBLE
Last night the woman who poses a.
Mrs. Roland b. Molineux. was agar
seen in a couple OF Broadway restau
rants accompanied by the same youns
man who was with her at Rector's or
| Thursday night.
She bears a certain resemblance to the
wife of the prisoner who is In the con
| demned chamber at Sing Sing for the
poisoning OF Mrs. Adams, and she seeks
by evasive language to convey the i'm
preston that she is Mrs. Moineux.
This woman, whose perverted ideas car
only be guessed at. is handsomer Great
ure than the wife of the prisoner. Hel
good looks. however, are OF the bold
staring type, which seeks admiration
from every man.
To attract attention is her aim. and tc
succeed i'm this she has hit upon the plar
of speaking in public places OF the awfu
fate of her poor husband.
a ne interest i'm the celebrated Molineu,
case has not died out by any means, ant
when people hear a woman talk OF "Ro
land in restaurant they naturally
prick up their ears, particularly wher
the speaker bears chance resemblant
TO Molneuxs wife.
MADE REMARKS IN A STORE.
While the trial was I'm progress thi
winter woman went into a large de
partment store on Twenty-third stree
and bought some lace. She remarked Z
the woman who waited on her that sh'
was getting IL to wear at her husband
trial.
why, Mr. Moincux,' returned thu
stranger; couldn't you see that I an
his wifc?'
The mania of this woman, therefore, 1
~ is no worse, liz not OF recent develop
ment. although IL has within a week bro
ken out more strongly than ever.
George Gordon Battle. who was one o
the counsel who defended Molineux in hi
trial. said last night:
WOMAN WILL BE WATCHED
Numerous reports have come into on
office OF a woman who Is posing I'm th'
Tenderloin as the wife of Roland II. Mol
ineux. Lately they ~save been more fire
quent and annoying.
whoever this woman IL. she Will b.
watched. and IL there is any punishmen
to be applied TO her case you may res
assured that IL will be.
blanche Molneux Rolands wife, hal
not once, since her husband was taken {,
Sing Sing. left that village. She is viii
her mother-in-law there and Is a con
slant visitor at the prison
II Ia said by friends of the Morineu,
family that the young woman Is nov
scarcely recognizable, she has aged e
such n degree within the months sine,
her husband was placed In the deati
chamber.
AT the Victoria Hotel n woman ha,
been stopping who so closely resembles
Mrs. Mollneux that several persons hav,
mistaken her for the wife Of the convict
cd man. One OF the clerks OF the hote
increased the confusion by saying the
woman was Mrs. Molincux.