The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-23

! her properly. General MOllneuX regarded
the payment OF these sums to his sons
wife as q duty and they would undoubt-
edIy would have been kept up indefinitely
had the verdict been the other way.
Bur from the time that Mrs Blanche
FAlolineux left the house at Sing Sing
where she and Mrs. Molineux the elder
had gone to live while Roland was in the
death chamber, until last Tuerday night.
there was no personal contact between
her and the Molineux family.
This statement can be made absolutely.
even counsel in the case were deceived
with regard to the relations between the
prisoner and his wife, and were prompt
to deny the oft repeated stories of an
estrangement between Molineux and his
wife
Mrs. Molineux never called upon her
husband at the Tombs, nor did any let
ters pass between them. She who had
sat beside her husband throughout the
first trial. never appeared at the second.
II was said that she did not call at the
tcmbs nor appear at the trial because her
husband objected to the publicity which
would thus be thrust upon her, and even
Mrs Blanche Moiineux when asked about
these matters. supported the statements
of counsel that she was very anxious to
be with her husband, but that he had
sent her word to remain until the trial
was at an end.
Yet, Mrs. Mohneux, the mother, called
upon the prisoner at least once a week
while he was in the Tombs and managed
TO avoid publicity.
At one time, when the last trial was
about half through, counsel for the de-
fence asserted a purpose to disregard the
wishes of the defendant and bring Mrs.
Molineux into court, but she never ap-
peared.
Finally. on the day that Molineux was
acquitted, a week ago today. he walked
out of court free man, but instead of
being met by his wife at the door of the
prison, or of going at once to her side,
he was driven TO his fathers home, and
it was not until five hours later that his
wife joined him.
She was practically forgotten in the
excitement following his liberation. One
OF the attorneys thought of her at s
o'clock and went to the Murray hotel
in a cab for the purpose of taking Mrs.
Molineux TO her husbands side.
Mrs. Molineux showed temper. She was
offended at the fact that she had been
ignored for so long. and it was only after
great persuasion that the lawyer induced
her to accompany him to Brooklyn.
The next day the announcement was
made that a complete reunion had been
affected between the family and Mrs
Molineux. the younger.
Rolands mother. who had been Offend
ed, so the story goes, because her daugh-
ter-in-law had gone to the theatre while
her boy was in the death chamber at Sing
Sinh. received Blanche back into favor
and for the first time in four years the
entire family met around the family
board.
Mrs Molineux spent Tuesday night at
the Fort Greene place house and the next
day she drove in a cab 70 the Murray
Hill hotel, where she gathered together
her belongings and gave up the apart
ments which she had occupied since the
break with her husbands relatives.
She was seen to re-enter the Fort
Greene play house on Wednesday, and
from day TO day General Molineux re-
peated the statements that Roland and
his wife were wholly reunited and would
live with him until they arranged their
plans for housekeeping.
General Molineux put climax TO these
statements in an interview which was
published Saturday, in which he said:
L believe my daughter-in-law to be one
of the m ost upright and honest women
that ever lived. Scandalous stories have
reached my ears about her, and I have
spent thousands of dollars running them
down. IN each case they were found to
originate in peoples imaginations only.
In one case several of them were traced
to a minister. who said he had heard
them from his wife. and when she was
confronted she acknowledged that they
bore no truth.
In another case a police official told me
there was picture in existence which
was very damaging. He said that ne
had seen it. l offered him $1,000 in cash
if he would let me see that picture, but
he was forced to admit that there was
no such picture in existence.
Now that the trial is over 1 want to
publish TO the world that believe she has
been one of the most bitterly prosecuted
women that I ever heard Of As her
father-in-Iaw want to say that I believe
her TO be one of the most upright and
honest women that ever lived.
The nervous strain she has been under
has told on her, and 1t is wonder to ne
the poor girl isn't crazy. She has been
hatted from pillar to post and has known
no peace for years.
Now, this woman IS my child, on the
same footing as my boy. and I am going
to look out for her"
This interview was given out on Friday
afternoon. At noon on the same day Ars.
Molineux called at Judge Olcott's Office
had directed over the telephone should
be paid TO her.
DO you know why General 8Iolineux
didn't give the money 10 Mrs. Molineux
personally. since she was living In the
same house with him7 or Why he didn't
give TO his son for herr" Judge Olcctt
was asked yesterday.
II don't know" he replied
1t must have been the same afternoon
that Mrs. Molneux left for Sioux Falls
She couldn't have reached that place yes
terday afternoon had she taken a train
later than Friday.
Mrs Molineux was interviewed repeat
edly in the same strain prior 70 Fri
day.
Her talk in all the interviews before
the acquittal was OF her confidence in her
husbands innocence and of his ultimate
vindicati and the happiness that she
looked forward 10 in his company after ne
was free. And when the verdict OF not