New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-16
TO SENTENCE MOLINEUA
PRISONER WILL BE TAKEN TO SING
SING TO-DAY.
THERE HE WILL BE TREATED JUST LIKE
OTHER MEN CONDEMNED
TO DEATH.

Roland Burnham Molineux will be arraigned be-
fore Recorder Golf in Part ", General Sessions at
1899 O'Clock this morning. He will be sentenced TO
death. the time Of execution to be named by the
Recorder Sheriff Grell has arranged to have the
prisoner removed at once to Sing Sing. where he
viii be received by Warden Johnson Of Sing Sing
Prison. who quoted yesterday. in describing
the treatment which Molineux will receive there as
follows:
will take his, pedigree in the usual way for the
records. Then he will be searched, and whatever
valuables he has Will be locked up in the prison
safe. MolineuX will not he obliged to wear the
same kind of clothing that he wore in the Tombs.
His cell will be in the isolated part of the prison
known a Murderers Row.
No special arrangements have been made for the
reception of MolneuX and he will receive the same
He will have opportunity for such exercise as the
rules OF the institution permit He will be allowed
course be strictly guarded in these walks,
occupied by him probably until he is led out either
meet death in the electric chair or until new
York
Every care. will be taken OF, his health. and
against suicide will be taken in his case that is
be permitted 10 have either knife or fork or any
thing with which it would be possible for him to
30 himself an injury. assault his keepers or make
His food viii not, De the that Of general
.rIscners. for condemned fed from the
Warden's table. His relatives viii not be permitted
he permitted to visit him at too frequent intervals
When visiting him his friends will not be permitted
OF the institution and because there Is. iron
h IN f ie ron IN me oo4r OF ms zen nd mr. UGH ugh
door keeper will continually sit guard
before they are delivered 10 him, and II there is
ANYTHING in them that do not think wise to pass
as far as the news OF the outside world is con-
cell Day and night two keepers are locked in the
death house watching the prisoners The prison
responsible to the State for the prisoners left in
from escaping in any WaT the sentences imp Se
on them by the courts
Those who visited Molineux in the Tombs yester-
day were his father. who brought letters from
the prisoners wife and mother: the Rev D. Parker
Morgan rector of the Church Of the Heavenly Rest
who married Moineux, and George Gordon Battle
HIS counsel. The prisoner took two hours exercise
in the prison yard IN the afternoon and was
watched by crowd Of workers from the windows
OF skyscraper at Leonard and Elm sts which
overlooks the prison yard.
MolineuN will start for Sing Sing according to
lhe present plan on the train leaving the Grand
central Station at O'Clock this afternoon He will
be in charge Of Sheriff GrelI and Deputy Sheriff
Kelly Molineux himself requested Mr. Weeks not
10 attempt 10 have him kept in the Tonbs pending
decision on his appeal The prisoner anxious to
get away from the city Jail to prison where the
accommodations are better than in the old section
OF the Tombs prison, in which prisoners are now
confined pending the completion of the new build
ing
The widespread dissatisfaction with the verdict of
the Jury which tried Molineux found expression
yesterday in published interview with ex-Judge
Noah Davis, formerly a Presiding Justice in the
Supreme Court and at time District At
torney in which he quoted as saying:
cannot but feel that both in the prosecution and
oetence OF Moineux this is the greatest tray-
esty on justice of any of which have recollection
felt as ! followed the from day to day |
being careful TO read the various reports that /
might have full knowledge of 1t, as though every
5uolcal instinct in me, both those that are natural
ana those that were acquired by my experience
as Judge had been shocked by these proceedings !
have no doubt that when the record reaches the |
Court Of Appeals that bench with unanimiry will |
reverse the verdict. and would do that IL there
were no technical legal in the character of
the testimony admitted. II will the verdict
in the interest Of fair just, unprejudiced admin
-srration of the office of public prosecutor. When
the Court of Appeals IN reading the record
discovers that the prosecutor reeled off yards
yards Of gossip Of hearsay. in his address the
jury which he admitted he had not fortified by
witnesses and had no intention Of doing, and
when the bench of the highest court perceives that
the trial justice permitted this be done, then.
beyond any question, this highest bench will send
back the case to the people, perhaps with
proach that in this day. when we claimed to have
reached the heights of equity and justice in
-ninistraton of the laws, it could have been pos
sble in enlightened city for proceeding Of
kind in 2 capital TO have been conceived by a
prosecutor and permitted by Court.