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.
NEW YORK, March Mrs. BIancha E.
MoIineux. wife OF Roland B. Molineux who
is now in Sing Sing prison. under sentence
or death for the murder Of Mrs Katherine
]. Adams. has given out a statement in
4, answer to what she termed the Infamous
insinuations" concerning her, written by
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. II surpasses my understanding
I that any woman can so cruelty and falsely
I vilify without a shadow Of foundation a sis
ter woman on whom the hand Of affiction
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
! sclf-respecting woman. ! lived with my
/ father and mother. like other girls. until
I their death. ard 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 insinuation is made that no
one enquired too closely as 10 our means OF
livelihood. / can conceive Of no foundation
for such an atrocious ealumny. / 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.
I'm 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 mem
I tiOn his name. and shall only say that he
joined the yacht at Portland on the day
Mr.. AolineuN returned TO New York, and
never saw him except for few hours on
that day, and those frightful inslnuations
are as baseless and as WantOn lies as Other
statements in the same publication
The writer also says that / am a friend
| of Mr. Cornish. This is also absolutely
untrue ] never knew him and never saw
i him until ! saw him ia court.
The indirect charge, at the close Of this
vile libel. thai l was concerned in the
alleged poisoning Of Mrs Adams IS so in
/ credibly cruel and base that I find no
I words TO chara cteriZe it,"
/ Mrs. MolineuX then turns TO what she
i terms the persecution" OF her husband
and appeals 10 the women OF the land 10
feel for her Referring to Assistant Dis
.
says.
Shall man, because he Is vested with
| he power Of public Office: because ne is
I the prosecuting official in a charge brought
against the unfortunate husband OF one
American woman shall he be permitted
. 10 make that hapless wife the target for
his merCiless iuvective. his unfcuudad and
unproven accusations? Is she 10 be de-
famed and robbed OF her fair name?
I Is her honor, her dignity, her character
/ 10 be WantOnly sullied2 Was II not bru-
3 tai, besides being unfounded and untrue?
/ l have remained dumb. with closed lips
I while my name was being constantly as
/ sociated and connected with that Of nv
| husbands fTi-nd. Henry Barnet absurd
rumOrs developed into infamous lies. and
/ know now at too late a date that credeuce
/ was given statements that had not q scin-
| tilla OF truth for .her foundation
| Every scrap Of so-called evidence intro
[ duced al the late trial; every inuuendo
/ every insinuatiOn uttered by the district
attorney wherein he sought 20 connect my
/ name with Mr. Barnets, and TO show the
| existence Of something more than an or
dinary friendship. originated IN his own
very convenient and elastic imagination.
] ask you, the mothers, wives and daugh-
ters OF our fair land. was il just2 Cruelty
false without foundation as these assaults
were why should such a peroration OF in
vective have been hurled at a defenceIess
woman whose only connection with the
case was in being the wife OF the defend
anti
In respect 10 II all, wherein ] have
borne the absolutely unjustihed an,l un-
waTrantable reprOach to myself nv wO-
manhood, my dignity. my honor / Lave
suffered unspeakably; but that suffering
has been as naught compared to the an
guish which has filed and still continues
to I'll my heart. because Of the atrociOus
! injustice the result Of cowardly persecu-
1 tion, which one man. brave. calm. courage
Gus is enduring today. that man my noble
husband. in whom my faith my trust, my
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