The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-12
VERDICT GREETED WITH
 OUTBURST OF APPLAUSE
Jury Was Out Just 13 Minutes and Were Given ovation When Verdict Was Announced-Former Prisoner
 ls Followed By Thousands.

today after spending nearly four years in prison. and being once condemn ed to death, and twice placed on trial for his life for the murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams.
 But thirteen minutes suffced for the jury to reach verdict of acquittal at the close of the trial that has lasted four weeks, the first trial which. resulted in Molineuxs conviction and sentence hav- ing been prolonged for about three months.
 The verdict which was confidently antici pated, was greeted with an instant sup pressed outbreak of applause, Justice Lam bert having previously delivered a stern admonition that no demonstrances would be permitted.
 Molineux. who was brought into court as soon as 1t was known that the jury had agreed, was apparently as unconcern- ed as he has been throughout the trial and gave no evidence of emotion when the words that established his innocece were pronounced. His aged father Gen eral Molineux. was deeply affected and could with difficulty respond to the greet ings of friends who pressed forward to off, fer their congratulations.
 A Verdict Reached.
 It was just thirteen minuter after the jury retired word was brought to the court room that verdict had been reach ed. Court officers shouted for order and hurry call was sent for Justice Lam bert, who was not to be found in his chamber. 1t. was S.e9rwhen the notice was. received and it was 3:45 when Justice Lambert took his seat Molineux, who had been brought into court at the first notice of the jury, was calm and confi- dent as ever. Barlow S, Weeks of his counsel leaned across the rail and whis- pered to him. Its all right. The time tells us that" q never doubted it, Molineux replied. The old general was far more agitated than his son and 1t was evident that the suspense was very haru upon him.
 As soon as Justice Lambert took his seat he notified the audience that there must be no demonstration and then in- structed the clerk to put the question to
  the jury.
 "Not guilty" said the foreman, in reply to the formal inquiry and Molineux, who had been standing to receive the verdict, sank back in his chair
 A Burst of Applause.
 There was a burst of applause, but 1t was speedily quelled by the court off, cers. Justice Lambert ordered the court cleared and told the jurors to remain in their seats until it was cleared. Then after counsel for both sides had congrat- ulated each other and the jury. and had thanked the court, Justice Lambert or dered the formal discharge of Molineux and his son. as they left the court room with Messrs. Olcott and Weeks. Former Governor Black, who reached the side walk some five minutes later, received an even greater ovation than had greeted Molineux. General Molineux when asked for an expression of opinion on the yer dict wrote and signed for all his repor- ter friend the following:
 "The struggle Is o'er, the battle done, "And might has lost, but right has
 won."
 From the criminal court building Molineux went to the city prison. In making his way to his old cell and thence to the front entrance he traversed con- siderable portion of both the old and new prison and everywhere he went the news of his acquttal went too. and the pris- oners cheered him heartily. He even went through the women's department where there were many who cheered him.
 Molineux, accompanied by General Molineux and two of his attorneys. en- tered cab and were driven away. About three thousuand persons cheering and shouting, surrounded the carriage and greatly delayed it's departure. The keep CT of the Tombs prison came out and shook hands with Molineux and many people waved handlxerchiefs from the / windows in the street.
 Cecil Molineux, after shaking hands with his brother stood weeping on the steps of the Tombs. Molineux himself was smiling and jubilant. He went at once to his fathers home in Brooklyn.
 Court Room Crowded.
 More than a thousand men and women --and there were more men than women crowded the doors of the criminal build ing before o'clock this morning in an effort to gain admittance to the room where Judge Lambert is sitting in the Molineux case.
 After the usual preliminaries Assistant District Attorr ey Osborne resumed his summing up He said former Governor Black surely made a misstatement when he declared that the experts had testi- fled that the writing on the poison pack age paper was not in a disguised hand. MT. Osborne read extracts from the tes- timony to show that two out of the three experts had found the address dis guised.
 MT Osborne argued that the Barnet letters, the earliest in the case. gave the first evidence of an attempt to disguise, end that the disguise improved with every letter exhibited He declared that the earlier Barnet letter conformed al- most exactly to ths handwriting of Mcli- Eeux.
 The prosecution toc1S up the matter of the letter boxes and declsred the hiring of the Koch box in Cornisn's name was of hostility to Cornish. Talking
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