Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-23

in the Tombs. II was midnight. The
court house, though, was crowded
with people who had come 10 wait for
the verdict. The crowd followed Gen.
Molineux from the court house. They
cheered the veteran soldier all the
way 10 the Brooklyn bridge.
Six days later, Feb. Is, 1900, Mol
I ineux stood at the bar in Recorder
1 COTS court. The courtroom was
1 packed to suffocation. Sentence to
death was pronounced. Molineux was
hustled back to the Tombs. From
! there he was taken to Sing Sing the
same day. His faithful father. ac-
companied him to the very gate of
! the death-house.
Cheer up, my boyi" said Gen. Mol
ineux as he shook hands with his son
in parting. You will find me right
here again when your case has been
decided by the court OF appeals. /
viii take you back to New YORK
again.
And Gen. Molineux kept his word
A few days after young MoIineux
had become an inmate OF the death,
! house, Sing Sing his wife and mother
moved TO little cottage from which
they could see the gloomy old prison
They continued to live there so they
might be near the prisoner and visit
him whenever the rules would permit
Molineux was an inmate of the
! death-house 20 months. Six of his
fellow prisoners, condo mned like him
self, were taken from their cells dur
ing that time to expiate their crimes
in the electric chair.
Molineux spent most of his time in
reading. He carefully studies his
own case and aided his lawyers in the
preparation of his appeal. He used
to play checkers and chess with some
of the other unfortunate death-house
inhabitants.
A person who is confined to the
death house is not permitted to leave
bis cell save when he is taken once q
week to the end of the narrow hal
for bath, or when he is taken out
either to be returned to life or to BIZ
taken next door for execution. The
:
with all that they have arranged 1
system by which they can play games
Malineux was the expert chess play
er of the death house. Fritz Meyer
who died in the electric chair for tn,
murder of a policeman, held the
checker championship of the dreaded
place. In playing the prisoners draw
s,,,a erit hon plc he A~rN ~,
their cells and use pieces of paper Iii
stead of checkers. When two play
the rest follow the game. Moves are
called out across the hall and in thai
way the game is carried on for hours
at times.
While Molineux was in the deatl
house an appeal was taken from tbs
verdict rendered in Recorder COTS
court, and in due time Lawyer JohI
G. Milburn of Buffalo, at whose house
President Mckinley died, argued the
case before the court of appeals.
New Trial Granted.
The decision of the court of appeals
was handed down Oct. Is, 1901. Mol
ineux got new trial on the ground
that serious errors had been commit
ted at the trials. 1t was held, among
other things, that the court erred il
permitting evidence to be submitted
that referred in any way to the death
of H. C. Barnet. The court of appeals
also held that experts in handwriting
should not have been examined as tc
/ h. or h o6
they had declared were in the hand
writing of Molineux.
A few days later, MolineuX was
brought back to the Tombs, where he
has been confined ever since. Gen
! Molineux, true to his promise, was