The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-12
MOLINEUX IS FOUND GUILTY
JURY RETURNS VERDICT OF IUR-
 DER IN FIRST DEGREE.
The Convicted Man Unmoved-Enthor OF and Brothers Equally Cnim-Frlday Set as the Day so Hear Motions Pre- paratory to Making the Sentence.

New York, Feb. 11.-Roland B. Moli- neux was Saturday night found guilty of the TnurderSof Mrs. Katherine J. Ad- ams After trial extending over thir- teen weeks, in which ninety six witness es gave testimony, the jury retired to consider their verdict at 3:23 o'clock
 yesterday afternoon. Not until 10:45 o'clock last night did they reach their decision. At that hour intimation was conveyed to Recorder Golf that the jury had determined their verdict, They were consequently nearly eight hours in arriving at their decision.
 Only once during their deliberations was any communication received from the jurors. That was in the early even- ing, when they asked to have sent to them the exhibits known as the prime series, the principal exhibits introduced by the prosecution. Nothing more< was heard from them, although there were rumors of numerous ballots and reports, based upon speculation only, as to how the jurors stood, until 10:45 o'clock, when Captain Mclaughlin of the court attendants hurriedly entered the room and ordered all to take their seats. In a moment the excitement which sprung from the instinctive knowledge that the verdict was about to be rendered spread to the crowd outside
 Instantly rush was made for the doors, but the court officers, obeying the previously received instructions of the recorder, turned the keys in the doors and prevented any one either leaving or entering the court. It was just 1049 p. m. when the jury came in. In single file, headed by Mannheim Brown, the sick juror, who had to be supported by an attendant, they walked around the two sides of the court necessary for them to traverse before they reached the jury box. As they slowly made their way to their seats their faces were eagerly scanned in the effort to antici- pate their verdict by their manner and expression. With the exception of MT. Billings and Mr. Crane none of them bore the haggard appearance usually displayed by jury which has for hours been considering the fate of fellow being. This composure, in fact, gave rise to generally expressed idea that the defendant would be acquitted.
 Within two minutes after taking their
  bers, and ascended the bench amid a stiffness that was almost painful in it's 
 Bring in the defendant" ordered the recorder, and through the same door which the jury few moments before had entered Molineux was brought. AS brisk in manner and alert in step as ever, MolineuX walked quickly to his seat at his counsel's table, and after greeting his father with handshake turned to look at the jury. His smile 1 had gone, but not his confidence. One | by one he gleaned at the face of each of the jurors, and then whispered some- thing to his counsel. Whatever 1t was [ he said, MT. Weeks made no response, | but that he was much more agitated | than the prisoner himself was plainly observable.
 Recorder Golf consulted for few sec pnds with his clerk and those seconds, to the overwrought tension of the people In the court, seemed hours. Finally MT Brophy, the clerk, turned, and, facing the spectators, said:
 "The court directs the announcement that the utmost order and silence must prevail in court, and the officers are in- structed by the court to carry that or der into effect"
 Then facing round to the jury, MT. Brophy asked: Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon your verdict?"