Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-12-06

The more recent case OF Roland
Molineux is still well remembered
With the exception of Stokes, Moli
neux was the only man of high family
connection, of considerable wealth and
good business character who has fol
many years been tried in this city fol
murder in the first degree. The date
of the alleged crime was December Is
1S9S. The charge was the murder OF
Mrs. Katherine ]. Adams by sending
her syanide of mercury under the
guise of a headache cure. It was al.
legged that the poison was intended
for another, and that Mrs. Adams was
given the fatal dose by mistake. Love
and a desire for revenge were declared
to be the motives. The first trial of
Molineux began November IA, 1899,
and lasted nearly three months. He
was found guilty and sentenced to
death in the electric chair. A new
trial was granted and three years af-
ter the date of the alleged murder the
young man was acquitted. The gen
eral impression was that MolineuX
had been the victim of a great mis-
take by a diabolical conspiracy. AS
many thousands as could pack them
selves into the narrow streets sur
rounding the criminal courts building
cheered the young man upon his re-
| lease. The cheering masses followed
the Molineux carriage down Center
street and gave a parting shout as 1t
whirled across the Brooklyn bridge
and bore the young man 10 the home
of his loyal parents.
The next famous case that enter
tanned the New York public and gave
the yellow journals an opportunity to
display their largest type was that of
Nan" Patterson, the Florodora girl,
who three times faced the court on
the charge of numbering her sweet
heart, Caesar" Young. a bookmaker,
while riding in a hanson cab. The
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story of her love affair with Young, a
married man, gave interest to the
case. After passing an entire sum-
mer in the Tombs the girl was brought
to trial in November, 1904. After the
trial had progressed for ten days one
of the jurors was taken i'll and this
resulted in a postponement Two
years ago Miss Patterson was brought
into court for her second trial. 1t
continued to December 90, when the
jury, after long deliberation, disagreed. |
1t was said to stand to g. On April
Il, 1905, the third trial began before
Recorder Golf. With the disagree
ment of the jury at this trial the IA
nous case ended, the district attorney
concluding that the chances of secur- |
insr-a convection were noe srfRciept +.-ll
warrant the expense Of another trial.
The case had probably attracted more
public attention than any. other case
of its kind in the history of New York.
During the trials crowds thronged the
street to catch a glimpse of the de-
PENDANT as she walked across the
Bridge of Signs between the Tombs
and the criminal courts.
The case of Albert Y. Patrick, a
lawyer of previous good standing. and
4 man of apparently refined tastes and
means, who was convict
ID of the murder of William Marsh
Rice, an aged and eccentric million
lire, has received so much publicity
hat its every detail is well known to
he public. Patrick was arrested Oct.
!, 1900 but it was a year and half
,efore he was tried and convicted.
COR nearly five years he has been an
of the death house at Sing
Sing and the end is not yet. The {
wealth of the victim, the previous {
,ood standing of the accused, and the
Ioubt cast upon the confession of the /
'alet Jones, the alleged accomplice of !
patrick, all combined TO attract atten- {
ion to this case. Since the trial pub {
ic interest in the case has been in G
reased by the heroic and successful q
light that Patrick has waged to escape c
he death chair. =
These trials have attracted more at
ention than any others in recent
ears. But scarcely less interesting
t the time were other cases, among
hem that of Dr. Buchanan, who was
Executed for wife-murder; of Carlyle
Harris. who paid the death penalty
or the murder of beautiful Helen
'otts; of Dr. Kennedy, a Staten Island
entist, who was sentenced to death
or the murder of Dolly Reynolds,
-ranted a new trial and freed. and of
he famous Guldensuppe case, in
which the victim was decapitated and
he remains thrown into the river.