The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-12
MOLINEUX SET FREE.
Not Guilty, Say the Jury
in Four Minutes.
OUT OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
At Home Wi h Father, Mo.her
and Wife Alter Four Years.

Ills Carriage Followed by Cheers
All the way TO Ills Home In BROOKLYN
--.Iury Cast One Unanimous Ballet
Without Discussion Summing Up ana
Judges (hargc-Datcs Of the Case,
Free from the death chamber at Sing
Sing Prison and the halfway house in
the Tomb'. in one and the other Of
waich he had spent three years and nine
months, Roland b. Molineux went last
night TO his fathers house in Brooklyn
acquitted Of murder. His father accom-
panied him, his mother was waiting for
him and his wife joined him there He
left the Criminal Courts Building with the
cheers Of a great crowd following him
ID had kind Of triumphal pro yress all
the way to his home.
JURY AGREED IN FOUR MINUTES.
The jury sp'nt only four minutes in the
jury room before agreeing. They did
not even discuss among themselves
the evidence produced by either side
on the trial, They took a ballot and
unanimously declared Molineux not guilty
Of the murder Of Mrs. Kate j. Adams. the
crime with which he has stood charged for
nearly four years. This verdict was an
nounced in the criminal branch Of the
Supreme Court at $50 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. In less than an hour afterward
Moineux had walked out of the Tombs
prison, whittier he had gone with his father
and lawyers to collect what few effects
he had in his CELL and was standing on the
steps OF the prison entrance, bareheaded
and smiling down at a crowd Of 10000
cheering people.
Through all these trying years, through
a Coroner's inquest and two rails, the last
one of which was marked by his own ap-
pearance on the witness stand, he never
once lost his nerve or gave any sign that
he was in danger OF losing 1t. And yester-
day. in the midst OF his triumph, when
hundreds pressed around to congratulate
him, and thousands stood on the street
cheering his name he was as self-possessed
as ever.
But he was radiantly happy. He shook
hands with all who approached him,
thanked those who congratulated him. IN
his usual even. low voice and showed In
many small ways his appreciation Of good
wishes. He was pleased at the demon-
stration made in his behalf on the street,
but showed an aversion TO posing by hasten-
ing without delay TO the carriage that was
waiting for HIM, once lie had recognized
by the removal Of his hat the plaudits Of
the crowd.
THE c. osINo SCENE.
No more dramatic moment than that
when Moineux stood up TO face the jury
and the jurymen stood up to face him
could be imagn ed. Justice Lambert had
said that the verdict must be received In
silence and any man showing approval
or disapproval of it would be brought before
him and punished. The charge had been
given TO the jury, beginning at i:l5 o'clock
and ending at 3I5 O'Clock, just two hours
later. The jury had taken the case and
had retired to the jury room, and while
court officers were still trying TO CLEAR the
room Of curious men and women. word
had come out that the jury had agreed
already. Those who had not left the room
were allowed to remain there, but the
experience of the court officers il that
women are primarily responsible for all
court demonstrations, and 30 a. far as pos
sible the women who had gone out were
kept out.
Molincux came back into the court room
ten minutes after he left il and six minutes
after the news had arrived that a verdict
had been reached He came back with a
deputy sheriff, I'd in his attitude there
was not a noticeable change. He walked
To his seat with his characteristic little
mincing steps, apologizng to those whom
his entrance caused to move their chairs.
His father and his brother Cecil had not
left the room at all. Old Gen. Molineux
looked kocnly at his son, took him by tho
arm, pushed him gently into his seat and
then threw lis arm around the back of
his sons chair.
The counsel for the defendant came in.
Mr.. Blacks face was absolutely stolid
MIR. Weeks was nervous and excited but
on the faces Of Mr.. Olcott and Mr.. Battle
there were smiles Of triumph The prose-
cutor came in, pale, nervous and tired
looking. He forgot his trick Of yawninc
as though indifferent to what was going
on, which he has long practised at critical
moments, and watched the corridor from
which the jurymen We're to come as though
impatient to see the faces Of the men who
had so swiftly come to decision on EVIL
denoe in the preparation and presenta-
ton of which he had spent years.
The boyish Smyth, who has kept track
Of the evidence and the memoranda in
the case for the prosecutor, came In next,
and behind him District Attorney jerome,
paler. il anything, than his assistant who
has been conducting the case for the people.
WARNING TO THE SPECTATORS.
They all took their accust omed places
and then a hush fell over the court room.
Z, los, Inl loo. I ar,la N
when everybody rose. The Justice sat
down and everybody else sat down. Then
absolute quiet reigned for few seconds.
Just ice Lambert broke it, He said;
Upon the rendition Of this verdict all
persons are forbidden To make a demon
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