New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-07
ROLAND MOLTNEUX
AGAIN in A CELL
Charge of Disorderly Con-
duct Against One-Time
Sing Sing Prisoner.
SUFFERS RECURRENCE
OF NERVOUS DISORDER
Playwright, Leaving Health
Farm, Engages in Fight with
Party of Poles.

Roland Burnham Molneux, who once
spent nearly four years in prison.
twenty months Of that time IN tne
death house at Sing Sing. awaiting e"-
ccution for the death of Mrs. Katherine
l.. Adams, paced cell in Babylon
Long Island, last night. He will be ar
raigned to-day on charge OF disorder
ly conduct.
Meanwhile there are any number OF
victims of.the author and playwright
whose health recently has not been OF
the best. A Polish picnic that lasted
until an early hour yesterday ended
when, it is said, he injected his per-
sonalty and his fists. the latter regard
less Of the sex Of the Poles. MACK
MacLevy. who runs health farm q
mile out of Babylon, on the South
Country road, has a broken arm. -
Indications last night were that MOL
ineux would be allowed to face only. a
dsorderly conduct charge. Famlly
physicians from Brooklyn examined
him last night, and the expectation
was that a request would be maze 70
have the prisoner released and placed
in n sanatorium
Molineux appeared at MacLeyy's on
Thursday. He has been there before,
the last time lust after the production
&C. his play by David Belasco. During
the rehearsals of "The Man Inside" as
it was called, based on observations IN
Sing Sing, producer and author were
unable to agree, and finally Mr.. Belas'
co found Molneux so irritable that ne
refused to work with him longer ana
had him stay away from the theatre.
Molneux was not present at the tlrst
New York performance of his play,
when large audience applauded vgor :,
ously and indefinitely until convinced
that they could not see the man who
had spent so many months in death
cell
The opening Of his play here seemed
TO increase the mental troubles of the
author, and within a few days he was
on the verge Of a nervous breakdown
Two weeks before this his mother, be-
coming critically i'll and knowing his
affection for Miss Margaret Cornell, n
play broker, through whose efforts nc
had placed "ThC Man Inside" with Be
lasco, requested that they be married.
They complied by going to City Hall
on November 7, 1918, and getting a
license. Alderman J. J. Smith per-
formed the marriage ceremony.
II was announced that Mr.. and Mrs
Molineux had gone to the country for
a rest Molineux himself was at Mac
evy's. He stayed there until in APP
pprently good spirits again, but the re-
covery was not permanent. After a
summer that threatened a recurrence
of the old breakdown he finally ar
ranged to return to the health farm.
MacLevy had no accommodations for
him. but obtained room at an adj
joining house.
Since Thursday he has been taking
the regular course prescribed by Mac
Levy. and seemed to require no special
attention.
Early yesterday morning, however,
he started from the health farm for
Babylon village clad only in trousers
and bathrobc. lie hadn't been in the
village long before he was in fight
with party Of Poles. Despite their
numbers ne was able to hold his own,
and one young fellow, named GarmO,
was rather badly beaten. No one
seemed to object, however, when the
police rounded up the fighting visitor
and started for MacLevy's in taxi
cab.
Back at the farm the health exponent
took a different view of the infractions
Of his rules, and told Molineux so.
The patient replied, MacLevy put in
his rebuttal and Molineux drew on his
reserve. Discardng argument for
force, he attacked the host and tract
ured an arm.
MacLevy offered no objection to the
return of the party to Babylon, where
Molneux was locked up. He was ar
raigned yesterday before Justice Will
son and held for further examination
until this morning.
1t is expected that some of his rela-
tives will be on hand. His wife is his
second, the first Mrs. Molineux having
divorced him in South Dakota for nom
support. They were married in 1899,
six weeks before his arrest for the
murder of Mrs. Adams. She was
Blanche Chesebrough.