The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-10
Attack Made On Wife Of Roland
B. MOlineuX.
MOTIVE FOR A MURDER
SEVERE WORDS OF THE PROSE
CUTTING ATTORNEY.
Dramatic Incident at the Close Of the
Celebrated Trial in New York
City-Arguments Are All Made
and the Case VIII Go to the Jury
Today.

New York, Feb. assistant District
Attorney Osborne tonight completed
his argument in the trial Of Roland B.
Molineux for the murder Of Mrs. Kath-
crime >. Adams. Recorder Gof viii
charge the jury tomorrow morning. and
the twelve men are expected to take up
at once the question of the guilt or the
innocence Of the prisoner.
On accoun, of the illness of Juror
Mannheim Brown, despite the immense
cost of this celebrated case, represent
ing, as it does, into The hundreds Of
thousands of dollars. il is not anticipat-
ed that the recorder viii insist upon Sc
we're measures or require thai the jury
be lock5d up for any cons de aEl, length
OF time even though they suUUld fail
to reach an agreement.
Undoubtedly the NEST dramatic event
of the day was the attack which Assist
ant District Attorney Osborne made
upon MIS- Molineux. the wife of the
prisoner This attack was somewhat
unexpected, since Barlow 5. Weeks, the
attorney for the prisoner, had already
characterized the mere introduction Of
the evidence conveying the fact that
MOlineuX lived with his wife before
marriage under the assumed name Of
Mr. Chesabrough." as low and mean
and vile But Mr.. Osborne elected to
pick up the gauge OF battle thrown down
before him by the counsel for the de-
PENDANT.
The war was on in an instant today
when Mr.. Battle. who is associated with
Mr.. Weeks in the defense of MOlineuX,
objected to Mr.. Osborne's saying that
Mrs. MOhneuX was the sole motive in
the case, that MOlineux had been try
ing TO marry ner and that she had only
consented to marry him suddenly after
Barnet, who had been a devoted ad-
mirer, was cold in hhs grave.
Woman the Motive.
Mr. Osborne had just finished read
ing the note signed Blanche" sent by
Miss ChesebrOugh to Barnet during his
last illness, and when Mr.. Battle inter
posed his objections, Mr.. Osborne turn
ed quick as a flash towards Mrs. MOli-
neuX. There is the woman, there is
/ the motive. exclaimed he, in tones dra-
matte because Of their fierce intensity.
Mr.. Battle. still continuing to object
/ upon the grounds that the statements
/ had not been supported by the evidence.
Mr.. Osborne's voice rang out: Let the
CALLED jade vince; ] do not blame gOun-
+ sci for objecting: bur that woman is
! the living. concrete form for the mo-
/ tive in the Barnet case, and it is undis-
puted that the man who sent the poison
! TO Barnet sent the poison 10 Cornish l
/ hate 90 have to speak in this manner
/ of this woman. 1t is shameful that Mr.
1 Weeks brought these ladies to this
court. when he knew tine subject of
/ which 1 must speak 1t is a continue
! ton Of the cowardly crime, and shows
! the nature of the man who would con-
sent that his wOmankind should hear
/ his words"
General MOliHeux left his seat at the
I conclusion of this attack. leaned over
the back Of his wife'e chair and patted
his daUghter-in-law reassuringly on the
I shoulder MOlineuX himself never
moved