South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-29
BY NIxoLA GREELEY SMITH.

Truth is more romantic than fic-
ton, and commonplace women in
real life perform deeds Of yalor from
which the bravest heroines OF fiction
might recoil.
No novelist has written a more ex-
traordinary story than that which
has been acted before the eyes OF
New York in the last few weeks by
Roland Nolineaux, twice tried for muir
der, for months a prisoner under
sentence OF death in Sing-Sing prison
and today the author Of one OF the
seasons most successful plays, The
Man Inside" with which he has
been helped by Margaret Cornell
Molineux, the pretty, dark-eyed
young woman who, few days be-
fore the plays production, became
bis wife.
For ten years before her marriage
Mrs Molineux had devoted his leisure
time to typewriting her husband s
manuscripts and acting as his bus
mess representative with managers.
She was a stenographer IN a bus
mess house downtown, and. besides
giving so much time to Roland
Molineux's affairs. she found spare
moments IN which 10 study French
and Spanish 70 make herself more
valuable TO the firm which employed
her.
Before his arrest on a charge of
murder Roland Molineux, the son of
a general of the United States army,
was a highly successful chemist. AT
his first trial he was convicted and
sentenced to die and he spent many
months in the death-hOuse at Sing
Sing before the court OF appeals set
aside the verdict and granted him a
new trial which resulted in his &C
quitaal.
'I have never been convicted of a
crime" Mr.. Molineux said TO me the
other day over and over. THE judg-
ment OF the court OF appeals set
aside the first verdict and the second
jury acquitted me-"
After listening to Mrs MOlineux's
story OF the ordeal through which
her husband passed after his release
from prison can understand thai
the walls OF the death house at Sing
Sing may shut out as many horror:
as they enclose.
Mr.. Molineux himself does not tall
Of these experiences. It is hi
matter-of-fact young wife, whose sor
rowful brown eyes belle her calm
who tells the story.
When Roland came out of tn,
courtroom a free man." she said
''he had to go to work at an Offic'
boys salary, although before his ar
rest he was known as one of tn
most expert chemists in the country
Today he had regained his profes
sional eminence-he has testified a
an expert for the government in sew
eral suits, but every now and thel
some incident occurs which remind
him OF the old horror. l PERSONAL,
have seen men turn away and refus
TO be introduced to him, ignore hi
Outstretched hand. Often he ha
written to college presidents an
other prominent men trying to inter
est them In the theme of his play
the rehabilitation OF the criminal
and he has waited and waited an
waited for the reply that never came
UnconSciously, in telling me of thes
results. Mrs. Molineux was supplyin
a gauge OF the heroic spirit whic
prompted her to make them he
own
1 said something Of the kind t
her. but she answered, smilingly:
"I can't see anything beautiful i
what / have done. / thought tina
Roland needed some one to care fO
him His father is old, his mothe
Is an invalid. In the whole worl
there were. besides those two oil
people, Just two maiden aunts VIII
cared anything about him, and bot
OF them are more than eighty.
have always been very much intel
ested IN Mr.. MOlineux's work. II
deed wanted very much to writ
myself, but ! suppose / haven't tn
gray matter. I shall continue {
typewrfte his manuscript - / coul
Rever be idle