Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-19
Declares She Was a Martyr
While Her Husband Was
Under Arrest.
ACTED ROLE OF LOVING WIFE
But Her Heart Was Rebel!ious and She
Did Not Love MoIineux Had Prom
ised General Moiineux Not to Begin
Proceedings or Take Any Steps To-
wards Divorce Until After Trial.

| O'Clock sunday morning, Wnen the
| Illinois Centrals Chicago train pulled
into the Sioux Falls station, tall
handsome, black-haired, black-eyed
woman stepped from the train and
asked a cabman to take her to the Ho-
| tel Cataract.
| 1t was Mrs. Roland B. Molineux OF
New York.
| At the hotel she did not ask the clerk
for a pen with which to register her
| name.
| Mrs. L. C. Johnson, that's ALL she
said to the clerk. As she did so she
unbuttoned her coat and the clerk saw
a handsome grayish- black silk travel
| ing gown and fingers laden with dia-
| monds. The sparkle of the gems caught
| his eye and he quickly lost his indiifer-
ence and bowed deferentially.
| And can you let me have your best
room?" she asked. quietly The clerk
| assented with still more deferential
salaam.
The lady went quickly to her room
and spent Sunday in close conilne-
| ment.
She asked for and was given pri-
vate dining room and the Mattresses
soon learned she was no ordinary wom-
an.
Mrs. Johnson" they unused. Won
der who she is 2"
Monday morning a Western Union
messenger boy trotted into the lobby
| of the Hotel Cataract. He handed the
clerk a telegram addressed to Mrs. Ro-
land b Molineux.
mo one here of that name" the
clerk said, and he tossed the message
into the letter box.
An hour later Mrs. Johnson called
at the desk and asked to see the tele-
grams. The clerk handed her the
bunch of yellow envelopes She ran
thru them quickly, picked out the mes
sage addressed to Mrs. Molineux and
handed the others back.
| Then it was that the secret was out.
| Mrs. Molineux refused to see any
newspaper man or make any statement
| as to the grounds of her suit for d.
vorce.
II am Mrs. r. B. Molineux, and I've
come here for a divorce. l want the
whole world to know thaf' she said.
To a friend here, Mrs. Molineux dis
cussed her divorce suit in guarded
way.
I've been martyr" she Is said to
| have declared 81 have been in sus
pense for year, under terrible strain.
| had to act before the world as IL
loved that man, when I didn't. oh, 1t
| was oppressive; but now / will have
| rest 1t is rest that I want, and that
will seek while ! am here"
but you showed respect for your
| husbands interests in waiting till after
| the trial before bringing suit for di-
vorce," was suggested to her.
i THAT was all out of respect to Cen
eral Molineux," the woman answered.
He is fine old man, and I like him.
| promised him I would do nothing
about my relations with that man till
after the trial was over. And | kept
my promise. I've been a martyr"
| Mrs. MolineuX's attention was called
to the reported reunion with her hus-
band at the residence of General Mol
ineux after the trial. "That was all
part of the plan," she answered quick
| ly. ITO keep up appearances and have
| it given out that we had made up,
went there. But before / went, I was
promised I would not have to see that
man. agreed to stay two days, and
when the two days was UP came to
South Dakota"
Mrs. MolineuX yesterday walked out
to the best music store in the city ana
bought an elegant Chickering piano
| and ordered it sent to her room.
Yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
| she walked from the hotel to the legal
| offices of Kittredge, Warnan & Scott.
| She was in the Office but fifteen min
utes. After her departure it was given
out that she had retained the firm to
procure her divorce. 1t was stated by
a member of the firm that he did not
know the grounds upon which the d.
vorce would be asked, and the brief
| time she spent in the Office would have
precluded her entering into details.
| During the afternoon Mrs. Molineux
! applied for and way granted member
ship in the Sioux Falls Golf club.
She has stated that her automobile
has been ordered shipped from New
York. When 1t comes she expects to
take jaunts into the surrounding coun-
] try. She is anxious to see the Indian
| reservations and the Bad Lands and
viii spend some time in the Black
| Hills.
Mrs. Molineux stays closely in he.
| room, seeing no one and seen by no one
except when she is on the street. 1t is
her plan to live as quietly and unosten-
| tatiously as possible While in South
| Dakota
The plans she has made for enjoying
her stay here indicate that she is fond
| of recreation and that she meant b,.
saying she had been a martyr that she
had been forced out of respect TO her
husband to forego all pleasure during
mis- trials
So well did she keep up her part or
the play and her promise to Genera,
Molineux that it was never suspected
that she even contemplated !, divorce
| from her husband.
"A year ago, it is stated, she was "a.
proved by her mother law for an
pearing in public while her husband
was on trial for his life, and il baca,,
p.blic that there had been differenn
between them. But aside from This ~,
domestic lnfelicity ever reached tho
ears OF the out side world until the free
dom of her husband and the yiotorv
of General N.olineuX had been &c
sured
Ihis afternoon Mrs. Molineux, aetna,
under the advice of Senator Kittreden
her attorney, refused to see a news
parer man or make any further state
ments.