Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-10-18
Molineaux Granted a New Trial.

mOllUGduN OTdnIGu q NEW rial
The New York court of appeals granted
a new trial Tuesday to Roland b. Moli-
neuX, on the ground that improper evil
dence had been introduced at the trial
which resulted in his being sentenced to
death for the murder of Mrs Katharine
j. Adams. The judges were unanimous
in this decision, but there were differ
ences of opinion among them as to just
how much Illegal evidence had been ad-
mitted incidentally, an important ruling
was given upon the subject of handwrit-
ing experts and their testimony. Already
plans for the new trial are under way
Ex-Governor Black has been retained to
aid the prisoners former counsel Gen
MolineuX, father of the young man.
says he will devote his life to proving
his sons innocence.
The post office at Moodus, Conn, was
entered by burglars Tuesday night, and
$4,000 in stamps and $500 i'm cash taken
from the safe, which was blown open.
A trunk containing $4,000 worth of
jewelry, the property of Martin Copeland
Co. of Providence and New York, has
been lost between New York and Boston.
The trunk was shipped by Adams ex-
press to ID. c. Percival at Boston Sept
49,
The attempt of Count de la Vaulx to
cross the Mediterranean by means of
balloon failed. He was brought back to
France by the cruiser which accompanied
him. A novel device fastened to the
balloon foated in the water, its object
being to steady the airship.
The worst typhoon in 10 years has been
raging in the Philippines. Its centre was
about 60 miles from Manila. Eight miles
of railroad was destroyed Government
and other vessels suffered. Twenty per-
sons were killed in Manila bay. The
town of Baler was demolished.
The troublesome question of marriage
and divorce was set at rest for another
three years on Tuesday by the action of
the house Of deputies of the triennial
Episcopal convention at San Francisco
in rejecting both of proposed canons on
the subject which was passed by the
house of bishops. The section forbidding
the remarrage of a divorced person by a
priest of the church together with the
whole of canon &c. was rejected
The Butler county, Ohio grand jury
has reported two indictments of man.
slaughter against Sylvia Bishop and
wife, Lcota, the faith curists. Last July
when their eight-year-old child, Esther,
was terribly burned in a gasolene explo-
sion the Bishops refused to call a doc
tor. They surrounded the childs bed
side, Offering prayers for her recovery
Coroner Sharkey in the indictment said
that medical attention would have saved
the girls life. second indictment for
criminal neglect was returned against
the father.
Three young men who said they were
gas inspectors who wished to examine
the meters We're admitted to the home
of Mrs. L. NJ French and Mrs A. A.
Gardiner, two elderly women, in Roches-
ter, n. Y, Tuesday. After spending sew
eral minutes in the cellar the young men
appeared and without warning attacked
the women, beating them into insensi-
bility. Two stood on guard while the
third ransacked the house. securing lew
elry and other articles valued at $1,000
The burglars escaped with their plumber,
after locking the bruised and bleeding
women in the cellar.