New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-03
MRS. R. B. MOLINEUX TALKS
AN ANSWER TO ATTACKS OK HE'D
CHARACTER.
APPEALS TO AMERICAN WOMEN. AND pro
TESTS HER ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE
IN HER HUSBANDS INNOCENCE

Nis roland Burnham Moneux yesterday
hiaoe pubic the following signed statement:
NO liz Fort Greene Place. Brooklyn y. y
The infamous insnuations contaned in r iSSe;
aaucie, written, regret TO say. by a woman CON
eerning me- and published in Sensational news
paper require an answer. although it is most nain
exis 9r me 10 make any public statement under the
SS SAY Roland In hf 0e ahn. that that
Of the frightfai crime with which he + nhaTged
denee SAL ys a nor only from the fact that
o. me lowest character has been brought against
owl character | know him to be brave strong
a i uue.the last man TO commit crime of cum
anger and in hot blood. but the stealth and A pre FL
%s aTe f2 h N to b his nn,h
onIv few lf E, we h1d been married at that time
for such design as that IN ms to h S
But am not writing to maintain nv husba irt5
innocence for know that my words can have no
vl i that his conviction unjust and that it
that in the end he lazy by 1Rn higher courts know
p1bfcetio ~ bb IS yillanousy asSailed in the
OF ny husband. and for the sake of his father and
Who have sn5norIa my owF parents In affection and
a.e rove during thos@ terrible months. as well
lies II surpasses my understanding that any
woman CO can SO cruelty and falsely viiify without
z snaaow OF foundation sister woman on whom
the hand Of atiict0n has already so heavily fallen
an in5eryieS with me for publication some monfhs
kind and t dr Sae {hen promised 10 write most
such an Interview. Following the advice OF nv
Tsg9est as had refused all Others and it appears
ina, my re- isa led to this fearful attack upon
lean people VII believe such baseless calumnies
them none Inc less cannot be silent longer under
The article 20 which refer is filed with these
with particularity without quoting almost ali the
swer them briefly and a; the same time in as as
much detail as possible.
HER FATHER an INVENTOR
te In The rss place e my life has not prior to this
different from the ordinary life of self-rcspecting
a when nG to with 3' h Inn
and With my mother ne was in corfortl.ol circum
earn my living by singing in Church choir. as is
stated in the newspaper publication to which /
have referred was educated largely in the South.
usual. education u girl and in addition. re:
SelSeo specIa! instructor III mus, music; Tor which
and mother. like other girls. until their death. and
part with my married sisters When actually
them S and have s Visited them always Dee" '''e'
It is stated also thst I lived luxuriously with a
uPPr nG the e nsnuaon made
that no one Inquired too closely as to our means f of
such an atrocious calumny, I have no widowed
apartments. l lived shortly before my marriage at
sS her hbsna nd ehn OF among oP
fellow boarders were only most respectable fam
wife ! do not mention their names. because do
wish drag them into notOriety. but l teSti-
fed fully these facts before the Coroner, ana
they were all known to the District-Attorney and
TO all persons having any knowledge of my life
also testified great length concerning the
yachting trip about which the writer OF the article
has much say in the way of vile insinuafion ana
others is tissue Of lies. and must have been
known 10 her to have been false when she wrote II
In the summer Of 1897 my sister, Mrs. WALDO
Stearns of Boston. and myself were invited by
friend OF join yachting party for a rev
nv sister acting as my chaperon ana
there was reason why should have declined the
invitation If ! wished go. We finally DECIDED 10
accept it. and during cruise we put in at fort-
land. Me In harbOr was another yacht
on which Mr.. Molineux a guest His party
knew our host and called yacht, ana our
party returned the call. In this way hrst met my
husband.
BARNET NOT ON EITHER YACHT.
My sister and compelled to return to New
York from Portland. and Mr.. MolineuX's vaca-
ton was over and g forced to back TO MS
business he accompanied US to Newly ork, ana we
was not on either yacht. and at that time had
never met him. Subsequently he was introduced 10
NE. and knew him always as Roland's friend.
fall of 1897 the man who TONED the EaCHs~
ing party when Mr. Moineux left died rather
suddenly and | presume II IS TO him that the
writer refers in her CHASTITY insnuatton that was
connected with his death. / shall not mention ms
name. shall only say that he joined the yacht
CT Portland the day Mr.. Moneux returned 10
hours on that day and these frtghtful insnuations
are as baseless and w3nton lies as otner state
in the same publication. ~,
The writer also says that ] was trleld OF MI
Cornish. This IS also absolutely untrue. never