Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-20
IM.O.LINE.UX'S WIFE.
say, SHE NEVER aUARRELEI
WITH HUSBAND AT SING SING.
THREE DAYS.
An Intimat.on That Her Determine
ton to Get Divorce Was Formed
while She was with Roland After
His AcquittaI.

SIOUX FALLS. S. D., November a.
Especial. Mrs. Roland B. Molineux made
a statement to the Dispatch correspond
ent to-day in which she denies emphati-
cal1v the story. printed in the New York
Herald to-day, telling of an alleged qua:-
rel between her and her husband in Sing
Sing death-house, and stating that she
knew that her husband saw that she
believed him guilty.
Mrs Molineux was wrought up to
high pitch of excitement upon learning
of the story.
1T is infamous she exclaimed, try
ing to keep back her tears. What shall
| do? What can I do when newspaper
will SO deliberately lie. so cruelty mis-
represent my affairs, my own private al
fairs, of which it absolutely knows moth
lng?"
':Then you deny all the statements
nader
II deny them all-they are infamous,
utterly without ground. and false from
beginning to end"
spair
How can they say so? How dare they
say my regard for him turned to hate
after mis- arrest? Think of it,
would I have stood by him for four
whole years" she demanded" If l had
believed him guilty? Would l have gone
back to him.
DO you realize that I went back to
hir-wenr to Brooklyn, and rejoined the
family after the trial? l was there for
three days. He was released on Tues
day I was with him till Friday.
Had conditions been as the Herald
states I would have come directly to
| Sioux Falls. would l not, instead OF re-
naming with Mr.. Molineux for that Pc
riod?"
Then your sympathes were with your
husband in this last trial just the same
as they we're in the Grst?
Certainly she declared. Most GER
tafnly they were. I wish it distinctly
understood that stood by him in his last
trial.
"The reason did not appear In court
was simply because Mr.. Molineux ea-
pressed the wish for me not to do so. lie
did not wish any Of the women of the
family to be seen in the courtroom
THE story is without doubt inspired in
the most ridiculous sense of the term
resent 1t as a fabrication from beginning
to end
Regarding the report that she disliheo
Molineux before Barnet's death. Mrs.
Moiineux said
.'lmpos sihle eosurd-really ridiculous.
On the face of it would l have married
a man for whom entertained a dislike?
I married Roland Molneux after Mr..
Barnets death. Is it reasonable that I
would have done SO had I thought i'll
OF him? %
Then the story that your heart was
steeled against him and that you had
hated him is utterly without foundation?"
Utterly
Mrs. Molineux sat erect and her voice
decl ened again with suppressed emotion.
would I?'' she replied again. Would
have gone to Sing Sing? Would I have
remained In the shadow OF that prison
for enc year: visiting him, bringing him
flowers, staying with him three or four
hours at time-woud ! have done this
if l hated him.?
"And the Herald's statement that Moli-
neux release was the signal for you to
come West is untrue?"
False, false, every word of it, Had
it been SO. would I have remained with
him these three days?"
'"ihen you admit that it was during
those three days that you made youi
decision to come West?"
"a great deal can happen In three
days" she said with significance.
What really happened during that Pc
Rod to decide her in taking the impor
tant steps she would not disclose. Those
days hold the mystery.