New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-08
ROLAND B. MOL|NEUX
WEEDS HIS SECRETARY
Ceremony Performed UnexpeCt-
eddy in City Hall to Please
His Dying Mother.
MISS CORNELL THE BRIDE
Principal in Famous Murder
Trials of Some Years Ago
Marries Woman Who Aid
ed Him with His Play.

Roland Burnham Molineux, principal
In a famous murder trial of few years
ago, added another to the many chap
tiers of his dramatic life yesterday,
when. at the request of his dying
mother. he and Miss Margaret Cornell
of No. 100 East 18th street, were mar
ried in the City Hall.
The hurried ceremony, by Alderman
j. j. Smith in City Hall before group
of clerks, was performed, said G. c.
kellogg, his cousin, because Mr.. Mol
ineux's mother was very i'll and not eX-
pected 10 live.
1T was her most earnest wish" SAID
Mr.. Kellogg, ito know that her boy
was married before she died.
First intimation that Mr.. MolineuS
was to be married was when he ap-
reared at the license bureau with Miss
Cornell. The license was about to be
Issued when Mr.. Molineux stated that
he had been divorced. He was told
that a copy of the decree would De
necessary, and hurried to the office OF
his lawyer, ]. Joseph Lilly, No. 81
Wall street.
BY the time he and Miss Cornell re-
turned City Hall was swarming WITH
reporters, photographers and curiosity
seekers who had heard of his visit
The wedding party went into the pri-
vate office Of the license clerk ana
after the copy of the decree was pro-
duced application was renewed for the
license. Edward Hart. chief clerk OF
the Marriage License Bureau. who
issued the license, was the Coroner VINO
held Molineux for trial for murder
years ago.
With Mr.. Kellogg and his mother,
Mrs S. F. Kellogg. Of San Francisco
ms witnesses. the couple stood before
Alderman Smith. who had been sum-
moned from another room. The cere-
mony was short; during 1t Molineux'
with tears in his eyes, mopped his fore
head with a handkerchief. His race
was pale and lined, and he refused
sharply to tell of his romance.
THE marriage is performed now,
said Mr.. Kellogg, "only because General
Molineux's wife is so Ill that every
thing is being done to crafty her
wishes. They have known each other
about a year. Miss Cornell assisted
Mr.. Molineux In working on his play.
The Inside Man. which is to be pro-
duced Tuesday"
When the party. shielded from the
crowd by Alderman Smith and Mr.. Kel-
logg, left City Hall, they encountered
another difficulty. 1t had been ar
ranged that an automobile was to wait
for them in Park Row, but when Mol
ineux and his bride reached the curb
they could not find it. The photog-
raphers swapping pictures attracted
mob of loungers, and, jostled and con-
fused, the couple took refuge in the
subway.
In the application for the license
Mr.. Molineux gave his age as forty
seven years and his occupation as
chemist. His father, General Edward
l.. MOltneuX, ne Salu, WAS DoIll III bhS
land, and his mother, Harriet Davis
Clark Molineux, in Connecticut lie
had been divorced. the application
showed, in South Dakota, on the ground
of pon-support. His first wife was
Miss Blanche Chesebrough.
Miss Cornell stated she was twenty
eight years old, and secretary. Her
father, James Cornell, was born in Ire
land. 1t was her first marriage. After
the ceremony the party planned to have
a wedding luncheon in Manhattan, and
then 20 to the home Of Mr.. Molineux
mother, No. III Fort Greene Place.
Brooklyn. From there, If his mothers
condition permits. short honeymoon
was contemplated.
Molineux's first trial, on the charge
of numbering Mrs. Kate J. Adams with
cyanide Of mercury in 1898, ended with
a sentence Of death. A new trial, which
ended In November. 1902, brought his
scquittal.