The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-03
THE LIFE OF MRS. MOLINEUX
CONDEMNED MANS WIFE M1KESA
 PUBLIC STATEafENT.

| vGhtOE-I1cE EuuCAIIOM--lnO NlEHC Meeting With Molineux-The Yacht- | ing Partics-Nevor Knew Cornish-In Behalf of Her Husband.
 New York, March 2.-Blanche c. Molineux, the wife of Roland B. Molin-
 eux, now awaiting electrocution at Sing
 Sing for the murder of Mrs. Katherine
 J. Adams, tonight issued the following statement from her home in Brooklyn: "The infamous insinuatlons contained in recent article written, regret to
 say by woman, concerning me, re- quire an answer, although it is most painful for mo to make any public
 statement under the existing circum-
 stances.
 Faith in Her Husband.
 q may say in the beginning that IT know that my husband, Roland B. Mol
 ineux, is wholly innocent of the fright
 full crime with which he is charged.
 know this, not only from the fact that
 no evidence save that of paid experts
 and venal witnesses of the lowest char
 acter has been brought against him, ] but also and chiefly from my knowledge. < of his own character. know him to- be brave strong and true-the last man
 to commit a crime of cunning, malice and cowardice. He might strike in an- ger and hot blood, but the stealth and reconciliation of a poisoner are foreign to his nature. And moreover, was with him in the month of December, 1898. We had been married at that time only few weeks. know that my hus- band was happy and that there was no room in his heart for such a diaboli- cal design as that imputed to him. But I am not writing to maintain my hus- bands innocence for I know that my words have no weight in the decision of his case. I am firmly convinced that his conviction was unjust, and that 1t will not be sustained by the higher courts. I know that in the end the law will give him justice.
 Defends Her Character. X My own character is villainously as- sailed in the publication to which ' have referred. For the sake of my hus- band, and for the sake of his father and mother, who are my own parents in af- lection, and who have supported and comforted me with their care and love during these terrible months, as we'll as for my own sake, I must denounce these wicked lies. It surpasees my un- ,derstanding that any woman can so cruel1y and falsely villify, without q shadow of foundation, a sister woman on whom the hand of affliction has all ready so heavily fallen. I am told that this writer endeavored to obtain an in- terview with me for publication some months ago and that she then promised to write a most kind and even fattering article, if I would give such an inter- view. Following the advice of my friends and of my husbands counsel, I refused this request as I had refused all others and it appears that my re- fusal led to this fearful attack upon me. cannot believe that the great and generous American people will believe z such baseless calumnies, but none the less I cannot be silent longer under them. The article to which refer is so filled with these falsehoods that it is difficult to answer them all with par ticularity without quoting almost all the words of the writer. But shall en- deavor to answer them as briefly as possible and at the same time in as much detail.
 Her Life.
 In the first place my life has not, prior to this terrible tragedy of my husbands persecution, been different from the ordinary life of a self-respect- ing woman. My father was not car- penter but an inventor; and when T came to New York with him and my mother he was in comfortable circum- stances, although he met reverses in his ater years. So that I did not come to New York to earn my living by sing ng in a church choir. as is stated in he newspaper publication to which I nave referred. I was educated largely Il the south, in the city of Knoxville, renn., and received the usual education V # girl, and in addition received special instruction in music, for which
 had and have great love. I lived with my father and mother, like otherA girls, until their death; and since have ost them. I have lived for the most ,art with my married sisters. When lot actually living with them have al- ways been visited by them and have 'isited them.
 Resentn Vile Insinuntions.
 Tt is stated also that I lived luxuri- usly with sister, who was a widow, n gorgeous apartments in upper New .ork; and the vile insinuation is made hat no one inquired too closely as to UT means of livelihood. I can conceive f no foundation for such an atrocious alumny. I have no widowed sister, or have I ever lived luxuriously in orgeous apartments. l lived shortly efore my marriage at the same board lg house with one of my married sis- FITS, her husband and children. Among UT fellow boarders were only most re- pectable families, including minister [ the gospel and his Wife, l do not lention their names because I do not -ish to drag them into notoriety, but astified fully as to these facts before he coroner, and they were all known , the district attorney and to all per- ons having any knowledge of my life.
 Her trirat Meeting With Moitneux. 'I also testified at great length con- arning the yachting trip about which ne writer of the article has much to " in the way of vile insinuation and Her statement on this point, $ on others is a tissue of lies and must ave been known to her to have been ,lse when she wrote it. In the sum-