Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-12-04
MRS. MOliNEUx, 1T is SAID, WAS
STEELED AGAINST HUSBAND.
HIM GUILTY
Declined, 1t is Said, to Make Any
Demonstration of Affection in
Even to Touch the Person of the
Prisoner.
The New York Herald says:

euX's heart was steeled against her
husband. Roland b. Molineux, long be-
fore he was set free by a verdict of
the jury. Whatever regard she had
once entertained for him-and she
never protested any deep Affection
had turned to hatred. She had refused
to see him in the Tombs prison and
his release was the signal for her to
hasten to the west to have her bonds
severed. She hailed with joy the mo-
ment when she could throw aside the
cloak which she had been compelled
to wear over her true feelings.
Stories of her devotion to her hus-
bond had fallen from her unwilling
lips at the dfctation of counsel. She
had said little to the newspapers, but
much was said that was attributed to
her-all Intended to sway the public
mind in favor of young man on trial
for his life and once sentenced to die.
The real story has, until the present
time, been withheld.
1T is no secret that she had refused
to accept the attentions of MolineuX
until after the death of Henry G. Bar
net. She had been living in board
ing house on West End avenue and
the testimony given at the first trial
showed that Molineux had never
called there to see her until Barnet lay
in his coffin. AS a matter of fact, he
had more than once proposed marriage
to her and had been rejected. She
disliked him, but Barnet's death
changed everything. Molineux called,
paid court assiduously and again
asked her to marry him. She consult
ed her relatives and upon their adj
vice and with heavy heart she ac-
copied him.
She was somewhat surprised at
the interest he evinced when the
story of the tragic taking off of Mrs.
Katherine ]. Adams was made public.
Molineux showed colossal nerve from
the moment that he found he was ac-
cused of the crime, though she had
been inclined to deem him physically
timid. He was routed from his bed at
3 o'clock in the morning by a reporter,
who informed him that his name was
mentioned as a suspect in that days
paper With this charge hanging over
him he returned calmly to sleep. His
arrest soon followed.
| Mrs. Molineux had perfect conf.
| dence in his innocence when she
learned that he had been accused of a
heinous crime, and she prayed that he
might be restored to her quickly. The
evidence adduced against him seemed
unconvincing and she thought of him
in the light of martyr. She lived
with his parents in the home in Fort
Green Place, Brooklyn, and she shared
their anxiety.
Information reached the police long
before it came to her ears. Her mind
was troubled by the district attorneys
repeated assertions in and out of court
that important witnesses were being
paid to remain without the jurisdiction
of the court.
"One of those alleged to be under
pay was a girl with whom the name of
Roland b. Molineux had been unpleas
antly associated, and who the prose
cutors asserted, was in position to
reveal disagreeable secrets. When this
girl was lured into New York state n
check from a Newark official was
found in her pocket. The district at
torney did not hesitate to charge that
the Newark police were acting in Mol
ineux's behalf.
it the allegations that her husband
had owned considerable quantity of
the peculiar robin -egg blue note pa
per with a crest of three intertwined
cresents. she was shocked when she
! found that he admitted having written
a note on paper of this kind addressed
to Dr. James Burns and asking for
medicine presumably for the same
purpose for which the fictitious Cor
nish and the spurious Barnet had
| written. She knew that a Newark wit
ness had testified that Molineux had
had such paper in his bedroom, but,
what was worse, she heard from an
other source that discriminating paper
had been discovered after Mrs.
Adams death.
"He had told her at the very outset
of the trouble, See here, now, we are
man and wife, and you must stick to
me through this, and she had keyed
herself up to stick-to make every
sacrifice
she sat by his side when the jury
was being selected for the first trial
and again when the lawyers were max
ing their closing arguments. She did
not finch even when Assistant District
Attorney Osborne turned toward her
with extended hand and exclaimed
there sits the motive!' while dis.
cussing the circumstances of Barnets
death.
After the sentence she went to
live at Ossining with General Molin-
eux and his wife. to be near the con-
demned mans cell. suffering agonies
of doubt and humiliation. There were
minor disagreements in the house
hold, though her relations with Gener-
al Molineux were always cordial. In
her long, lonesome vigils the terrible