The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-16
FOUND GUILTY.
JaFy Returns a Verdict Against Moll-
neux In the Famous Poisoning
Case In New York.

Case In New York.
New York, Feb. 12.-After deliberat-
ing 7H hours the jury Saturday night
returned u verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree against Roland B.
Molineux, charged with the murder
of Mrs. Katherine j. Adams, by poi
son on December 20, 1898. Barlow s.
Weeks, counsel for the defense, made
the usual motion. and Recorder Golf
adjourned court until February 16,
when he said he would hear the mo-
ton and sentence the defendant
AS soon as the jury had filed in and
taken their seats deputy sheriff
brought Molineux from the prison.
There was no sign of apprehension on
the young mans face. His step was
light and springy. and he smiled as
If he had not a care in the world.
The verdict of the jury is: 1--WE find
the defendant guilty of murder in the
first degree" As the words were
spoken the bell in the firehouse near
by struck IL o'clock. 1t sounded like
the tolling of a church bell for the
dead. Molineux hardly moved. His
neck stiffened little and he straight
ened his back. Gen. Molineux reached
his hand to his sons shoulder and
pressed it hard. Molineux put his own
hand on his fathers shoulder and
stood without further movement,
while his counsel asked that the jury
be polled. Each juryman agreed with
the verdict rendered by the foreman,
and then the recorder asked if the
counsel had any request to make.
ut will be necessary to make some
formal motion" said Mr.. Weeks.
1.-THE term has already been extend
| ed said the recorder, land we can
extend it further for the purpose. I
will hear the motion and sentence the
prisoner OH Friday next. The court
is adjourned until February 16. Re-
move the DEFENDANT
Molineux shook hands with his IA
Their and his brother Leslie, and start
ed to follow the deputy sheriff to the
prison. AS he left his seat Gen. Moli-
! neux said to him. in tones loud enough
to be heard by all:
keep up your nerve" and the pris-
oner replied. with a smile:
es; don't be afraid"
Molineux's mother and his wife, un-
able to bear the strain of long waiting
for the verdict, had left the courtroom
soon after the jury went out. Mr..
Weeks asked on behalf of Gen. Moli-
neux that the latter be permitted to
visit his son. and the recorder made
an exception in this case and granted
permission.
A tremendous crowd waited in the
corridors of the courtroom and about
the building until after the return of
the verdict, and when Molineux was
brought out by the deputy sheriff
somebody called for "three cheers for
Molineux," and remarkable demon
stration, with great cheering, fol-
lowed. Many women were in the
crowd and took part in the demonstra-
ton. 1t seemed to please Molineux,
for he smiled and bowed, and all the
way through the great crowd that
pressed around him he had occasion
to smile and bow NUMBER of times,
for the cheers were repeated again
and again. There were calls of Cor
nish" also, but the cheers for Mo]i-
neux overtopped these cries.
The condemned man had but one Wis.,
itor Sunday. The caller was his grief
stricken and venerable father, who has
not yet given up hope and expects that
| the higher courts, which will be ap-
pealed to, will free his son. Gen. Moli-
neux arrived at the prison about $3.50
o'clock Sunday morning, and remained
| with the prisoner for about half an
hour.
The trial of Roland Burnham Moli-
neux was in many respects the most re-
markable in New York's criminal an
nails. A club man and athlete of good
birth and station, he was accused of
| numbering woman whom he did not
know in an attempt to kill another TIL
lete and avowed enemy. This athlete,
Harry Cornish, attended the trial daily,
| glaring at the prisoner. and helping
the prosecution whenever possible by
testimony and suggestion. No other
murder trial in New York county has
equaled it in time consumed in laying
the case before the jury, and none has
been so expensive. The trial opened
November II, 1899, and with the excep.
ton of a few days delay during the
Christmas holiday season, and about
two weeks of inaction later because of
jurors illness, it occupied the court
five days in each week until it's submits
sion to the jury on February 10. A
conservative estimate places the cost
| of the prosecution of Molineux in the
neighborhood of $20o,00O the greater
part of which goes to handwriting ex-
perts, who admitted that they charged
$50 q day for their services, and a
stenographic report of whose testi-
mony, approximating 100000 words,
cost the county at the rate of 25 cents
per folio. The prosecution called in all
about 100 witnesses. The longest MUIR
| der trial trial on record prior to the
Molineux case was that of Mrs. Mary
Alive Livingstone Fleming for poison
ing her mother, yet her trial occupied
only 43 days.
Assign.
New York, Feb. 12.-Joshua Gregg &,
| Co., dealers in furniture, assigned for
the benefit of creditors. The amount
! involved is about 100000.