The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-08
M0LINEUx AFFAIR
Mrs. MoIineux May Bring
Suit for AIimony.
HAS DIVORCE DECREE
Book Written by the Former
Husband Is Bitter.

she was granted divorce IN Dakotd, MAO
several long conferences with Alexander
c. Young, her new attorney, gave rise
TO the conjecture that the court career
of Roland Molineux is soon TO have a
continuance in the shape OF a suit for
alimony by his former wife.
Mr.. Moiineux and his father, General
Molineux, refuse to discuss any such
proba bility, and Mr.. Young, although he
does not deny having been retained by
Mrs Chesebrough, will not say for just
what purpose he has been engaged.
Certain il is that If Mrs. Chesebrough
contemplates any such action, it will be
a matter of keen distress to the Molineux
family, who believed that with the Da-
kota divorce the family would be al
lowed to recede entirely from the public
eye.
That Mrs. Chesebrough contempiates
some legal action not friendly to her for
mer husband and his family would seem
to be indicated in that she has released
her former attorney, Judge Olcott, who
is also the Molineux family attorney.
Mysteriousiy enough both Judge Oicott
and George Gordon Battle have left town
il Is said, to look over the divorce pa
pers-the evidence and decree-to deter
mine upon what grounds the divorced
wife of the man who lived so long in
the shadow OF the death chair only to
be in the end exonerated of the grave
charge of murder, may contemplate a
suit against him for aiimony.
Breaking for the first time the secrecy
rs.- -, La fer
the divorce fields of the west in Novem-
Der of last year, the woman who has
new taken the divorce name of Mrs.
Blanche Chesebrough has announced to
the world that she had been victorious
in divorcing the man who in the course
of four and a half years Of legal battle
was convicted, reprieved and finally &C
quilted of the murder of Mrs. Adams.
She made the statement without visible
emotion of any kind, revealing neither
regret nor satisfaction at the outcome.
In response to questions as to alimony.
the grounds on which the decree was
gained and her own course for the future
Mrs Chesebrough set her lips and decis-
lively said: II have absolutely nothing to
say in the same positive tones with
which she guarded herself during her
divorce residence in Sioux Falls.
After every effort to verify the report
that Mrs. Molineux had gained a divorce
had been blocked through the efforts of
her lawyers bot lin Dakota and New
York, Attorney Young announced that
Mr.. and Mrs. Molineux had been separ-
ated by the divorce court.
after advising with my client We de-
cided to say this much and no more" he
added.
There is a tinge of bitterness in some of
the passages of Roland B. Molineux's
new book, "Vice-Admiral of the Blue
that is about to be issued by the George
w. Dillingham; company.
The novel is historical and philesoph-
icai. Admiral Nelson is chosen as the
hero.
After emphasizing his opinion that wo-
men need daily tokens OF devotion that
God intended they should have" the au-
thor adds:
THE husband who has ceased to be the
lover soon finds his wife no longer the
sweetheart; and equally so the absent
one is in danger, for absence makes the
heart grow fonder-of some one else-it
Is only natural.
When years have passed since the wo-
man looked upon her husbands face,
whether the cause be warfare in distant
lands or misery behind -ison's >ars,
the result is all but inevitable. Although
at first she is all devotion, anxiety and
love, plunged in loneliness and sorrow,
in time the memory of the man becomes
to her a shadow; he seems as one dead,
or, If anything more real, living barrier
against happiness.
For near at hand is some one who will
promise her a renewal of that happiness
of which she has been robbed And. when
such a moment comes into the life OF
woman. she is but honest. even if cruel.
when she frankly says:
1T is over. 1 love another. 4 man
of course. may speak no such words. The
bit of chivalry that remains in US for
bids"
Again he asks significantly:
when a woman sins what is left for
her? What she would do is one thing.
What the world permits her 10 do is
quite another.
Immutable as the laws OF the Modes
and Persians Games the mandate: Con
tinue to sin and starve.'
In another place the author tells the
public:
1T is not given to every man TO hold
for his wife a deathless love. but the
words of Nelson at Trafalgar apply not
alone when the guns of battle sound, for
England expects every man TO do his
duty at the hearthstone as well as on
the quarterback"
Here is another of his conclusions:
women who never regret their past
are seldom hopeless as to their future.
For this let Us thank God. We men are
a gloomy and pessimistic lot; We could
ACCOMPLISH little save for women's daunt-
less bravery and encouragement
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which is to sail from Liverpool September
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