Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-17
Gen. MOlincuX Writes Letter
to the Public.
HIS DAUGHTER lN-LAW
Was Dragged Into the Case in Shame
full Manner, He Says-The Whole
Family Has Confidence in the In
nocence of Convicted Man.

New York, Feb. 17.-General Leslie
Molineux, the father of Roland B. Moli-
neux. convicted of the murder of Mrs.
Katherine j. Adams, and sentenced to
death, has issued a statement from his
home in Brooklyn to the newspapers of
the country, in which he says.
cit has been intimated in some of the
newspapers that a fund had been raised
for assisting the defense of my son. l
should not allow pride to prevent me
from accepting such assistance if 1T We're
needed, for the reason that | should not
myself hesitate to offer it to any per-
son who needed it, and 1 should never
be ashamed to receive what I should not
be ashamed to offer. But | W no man
a dollar and neither need or desire any
assistance of such a character. I feel.
and am amply able in health, strength
and in courage natural to a man. to sus-
tain all the burdens that God has placed
upon me when He will see otherwise. I
am rich in the belief in the justice of
Almighty God and devoted to love and
comfort of a noble wife. My sons and
their wives all unite, all are certain in
the innocence of Roland Burnham Moli-
neux and certain that it will be so found
in time.
II need for myself no other assistance
and nc other comfort or support. But
for my household I do need and l do APP
pCdl iOi IL uppOI VI the prayers OI ali
those of every denomination and every
faith, who, like myself. feel that my son
is Innocent and the victim of an unjust
persecution. I appeal, moreover, to every
maj who is a man, to respect the sane
tity of the grief Of my afflicted wife and
my sorely affiictedsdaughter in affection,
and my daughter-in-law by her marriage
to my son. Blanche Chesbrough Moli-
neux. In their behalf my friends, gall
Ian comrades of the Grand Army Of the
Republic. gallant soldiers of the confed-
eracy. late foes, but now friends, as we'll
as all others who resent injustice and re-
we're Womanhood. l ask you to assist
them during my struggle in the front
lines of defense of those, my best of
earthly blessings.
AS for my sons. I think tina they are
brave men, with the strength to live and
asleep as a child by his mothers side. I
have seen him asleep in his cell after the
verdict condemning to death had been,
pronounced. Who is better able than L,
his father. to judge whether that sleep
was the natural sleep of innocence? And
ing at the call of his father, as by reveille
from that sleep after the verdict. How
is Blanche? o is mother?' and be-
fore that sad awakening during all the
dreary days of his confinement, day by
day., week by week., month by month,
there has been always that first loving
cry from his lips for Blanche and
mother Can he be guilty of cowardly
poisoning? Is it possible? Can it be?
No. I know that he is innocent as I
know that T am alive. + y
Like his father. he has not been fault
less, but he has also had much of the
better n kindlier nature of his mother.
Is he a degenerate n vicious person?
1t is impossible and absurd.
although no lawyer, 1 have always
believed the American bar is the purest
in the world, and 1 still believe and honor
and respect the bar as such. With this
belief 1t is impossible for me to under.
sand how a member of that bar, and,
i'm addition, a sworn public prosecutor.
a man educated in IN American college
and assoclating with American men,
could assault, by vile insinuations. a wo-
man. the welded wife of the defendant.