The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-21
NEW YORK TOPICS
DRIFTs AND UNDERCURRENTs OF
THE METROPOLIS.
THE MoLINEUx CASE AGAIN.
OLD GEN. MOLINEUx's DEVOTION
TO HIS SON.

Saws He Is Ready to Die When His
SON Is Acquitted, Has Spent $780,
200 in Collecting New Evidence
for the Second Murder Trial-Why
Charles r.. Flint Retains Youthful
Vtgor Despite Terrific business
administrators and Artists Plan
ming for "a Screen Room Club"
patterned After the One in Lon
dOn-The Hawkins Brothers, An
thomy Hope and William Lestocq.
How Joseph Ramsey Became Pres
tdent of the wabash Railroad.
New York, Sept. 2O.-The famous
Molineux murder case will begin once
more to drag its weary length through
the Criminal Courts the first week in
october Already a quarter of a mil
lion dollars have been spent by both
sides, and the heavy expenses of a
second trial are yet to be added up.
From all appearances the case before
it is ended, promises to be a record
breaker for cost.
Neither prosecution nor defense has
spared money in preparation for the
new trial. Gen. Molineux, the aged ia
Their of the prisoner, has parted from
at least $4,000 in his endeavors to find
new testimony favorable to his son. He
thinks he has finally secured that
which will lead to an acquittal. If such
a result is obtained, then, he declares,
he is ready to die.
Il am an old man now" he said a
day or two ago, land am trying to
rob the grave of it's victim only long
enough to see my son free and every
stain wiped from the family name At
ter this is done, I am ready for rest"
The General has fully recovered
from his recent severe breakdown and
is enjoying good health.
While Roland B. Molineux's father
has been finding new witnesses, Assist
ant District Attorney Osborne. who
conducted the last trial and who will
be in charge for the state again. has
been sending policemen and detectives
all over the United States after fresh
evidence. One detective was on the trail
for three months and he alone added
$4,000 to the cases cost
Mr.. Osborne is one of family of
lawyers. He halls from North Carolina,
where his father was a justice of the
superior Court and a brother of the
states attorney general Another
brother is a lawyer and there was a .
third brother, now dead. who also fol-
lowed Blackstone. Mr.. Osborne mar
ried into a family of lawyers. His
wife's father, M. d. Battle. was chief
justice of North Carolina, and SO was
her uncle.
Among his friends and fellow work.
ers Mr.. Jerolne's young assistant is
known as the most absent-minded man
in New York. They say in the Criminal
Courts building, where Mr.. Osborne has
his offices. that often after he starts
from home o mornings, he forgets his
destination and doesn't recall it until
several hours later. Mr.. Osborne de-
clarec that this is almost a libel. but
he does not deny the accusation that
he is very absent-minded man.
A number of actors, authors, artists,
and such, have banded together for the
establishment of a Green Room Club
in this city. Quarters have been en-
gagged and the announcement has been
made that the club will be modelled
exactly on the lines of the Green Room
Club of London and conducted on the
same basis. This plan is not likely to
be carried out. New York would not
be satisfied with such club. Many of
the shortcomings of the London in
stitution are excused Gas are many
shortcomings of many things in Lon
dom on the ground of tradition" I'M
proVementS must not be made because
change is odious. The London quar-
tiers are barren, i'll furnished, and far
from neat. They are located on an
obscure street off Covent Garden and
ore directly accessible only by cab or
shanks mare
But there is no club in London where
a lucky American may pass a more de-
lightful hour in the evening or eat a
better luncheon, albeit the latter will
be served from the thickest and coars-
est of crockery much nicked about the
edges, and eaten with the aid of cut
lery which looks as if it might date
from the time of Henry VIII. The
writer lunched there one day with a
friend who was a member. Two men
stood by the great Fireplace talking
together.
TO be brothers, now would your" said
the friend
No" said I. "Who are they?"
Why the taller one is Anthony
Hope, the novelist, and the shorter one
IS William Lestocq, Charles Frohman's
London agent and the author of Jane
and The Founding"
But I thought you said they were
prothers?" l remarked. ''Their names
cont sound any more like it than
thelr faces look like it. Hope-Lestocq
don't sound a bit alike"
MY friend laughed.
That's So" he said, land it is a
funny thing. Their last name is Haw-
Mhs but both of thef2 drapped it so
tar as business went as soon as they
Iett school. The tall one is Anthony
nope Hawkins and the short one is
william Lestocq Hawkins. But neith-
er one has ever signed piece of work
OF done any piece of business where
lle lull name was not legally required
under the name of Hawkins"
Inc London Green Room Club never
cioses its doors; but no meat other
tnan the daily luncheon can be obtain
ca there. Sir Henry Irving is an al
most daily visitor.
Charles r. Flint is unquestionably
one OF the most extraordinary men in
NeW York city. He began with Moth
ing and he is now worth more millions
than he can count. But this is a
record not sufficiently unusual to at
tract especial attention in this land of
.dst formed fortunes. OF late years he
mas not been mentioned often in the
public prints. The present reminder of
Hlm Is the performance of his steam
yacht Arrow which recentlv cnvacnd a