The evening times., 1900-03-03
MRS. MOLINEUXS DENIAL.
The Wife of the Convicted Man An
swers Her Accusers.

| The Wife of the Convicted Man An.
| swers Her Accusers.
1 NEW YORK, March 3.-Mrs. Blanchs E
Molineux. wife OF Roland B. Molineux, who
is now in Sing Sing prison, under sentence
! OF death for the murder OF Mrs Katherine
]. Adams, has given out a statement in
answer TO what she termed the infamous
insinuations" concerning her, written by a
woman, and published recently in a sensa-
! tional newspaper. After declaring her be-
lief in her husbands innocence and con-
demning his trial as unjust, she goes on
to say, in part:
My own character is villainously as
sailed in the publication to which | have
/ referred. 1t surpasses my understanding
that any woman can so cruelty and falsely
vilify without shadow of foundation sis
ter woman on whom the hand of afliction
has already fallen so heavily. In the first
place, my life has not. prior to this ter
rible tragedy of my husbands persecution,
been different from the ordinary life of a
/ self-respecting woman. ] lived with my
father and mother. like other girls. until
their death. and since | have lost them /
have lived for the most part with my mar
ried sisters. When not actually living with
/ them | have always been visited by them
and have visited them.
1t is stated. also. that / lived luxuri-
ously with a sister who was a widow in
gorgeous apartments in upper New York,
and the vile insnuation is made that no
one enquired too closely as to our means OF
livelihood. / can conceive of no foundation
for such an atrocious calumny. l have nc
widowed sister, nor have | ever lived
luxuriously in gorgeous apartments
Mrs. MolineuX then referred to the much
talked-of yachting trip asserting that her
married sister acted as her chaperon, that
she had met Molineux on this trip and
that at that time she had not met Barnet.
She continues:
In the fall Of 1897 the gentleman who
Joined the yachting party when Mr.. Moli-
| neuX left died rather suddenly, and ! pre-
sumo il is TO him that the writer refers in
her CHASTITY insinuation that ! was con-
nected with his death / shall not men,
ton his name, and shall only say that he
Joined the yacht at Portland on the day
Mr.. Molineux returned to New York, and
never saw him except for few hours on
that day, and those frightful insinuations
are as baseless and as waDton lies as other
statements in the same publication.
The writer also says that / am friend
VI MI AbilASL 4 uiS IL aiSD dBStiultiN
untrue. ] never knew him and never saw
him until ] saw him in court.
The indirect charge, al the close Of this
vile libel. that / was concerned in the
alleged poisoning Of Mrs. Adams is so in
. credibly cruel and base that l find no
words 10 characterize it
Mrs. Molineux then turns to what she
terms the persecution OF her husband.
and appeals 10 the women OF the land TO
q. n.,1 g.,r T..F- M
rict Attorney osbornes attack Oh her, she
says.
Shall a man. because he is vested with
he power OF public office: because he is
the prosecuting official in charge brought
against the unfortunate husband Of one
American woman; shall he be permitted
to make that hapless wife the target for
his merciless invective his unfounded and
unproven accusations? Is she to be de-
famed and robbed of her fair name?
Is her honor, her dignity. her character
10 be wantonly sullied? Was il not bru-
tai besides being unfounded and untrue?
/ have remained dumb with closed lips,
while NY name was being constantly as
sociated and connected with that of nv
husbands friend Henry Barnet Absurd
rumoTs developed into infamous lies. and /
know now at too late date that credence
was given statements that had not a scin-
tilla OF truth for their foundation.
Every scrap Of so-called evidence intro
duced at the late trial; every innuendo
every insinuation uttered by the district
attorney wherein he sought to connect my
name with Mr.. Barnets, and to show the
existence Of something more than an or
binary friendship. originated in his own
very convenient and elastic imagination.
ask you, the mothers. wives. and daugh
ters of our fair land. was il just? Cruelty
false, without foundation as these assaults
were. why should such a peroration of in
vective have been hurled at a defenceless
woman whose only connection with the
case was in being the wife of the defend
ant?
In respect 10 II all, wherein ! have
borne the absolutely uniustifed asl un-
waTrantable reproach TO myself my wo
manhood, my dignity, my honor | have
suffered unspeakably; but that suffering
has been as naught compared 10 the an
guish which has filled and still continues
to fill my heart. because Of the atrocious
injustice the result Of cowardly persecu
tion. which one man. brave. calm, courage
Gus is enduring today, that man my noble
husband in whom my faith, my trust, my
confidence Is absolute"