The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1900, Page 11

HE .WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1900. MOLINEUX’S LIFE IN SING HIS DAILY ROUTINE IN DEATH CELL: — After Molineux enters Sing Sing prison he will be taken into the clerk's offlee, where his pedigree will be taken in the usual form, such as name, age, birth- place, married or single, and so on. ‘This fe perfunctory, and 4 mere matter of form, His vaiuabies, if he has any, will be given to the clerk, and folded away Until such Ume as he may bp set free or ta killed. Then a keeper will take hin in charge, and he will march to the main entrance to the pri He will go down of sixteen *, Over the stairs clock, which Ucks loudly enough y one's attention, Molineux at the time, perhaps, for the Many a man before him has eux reaches the bottom of will tad a huge, barred | width of the , made! Bt excane will open He will need to hin 0 pass or counter. sign. Beyond this huge gate, perhape a dozen paces, is ith a grated » This wii! also open at the ap proach of the prisoner, As Molineux . s inside he may look tu the raph) 1 oer, he will eee at str of prison there whieh td for a tance uf several hundred feet to the north. This an impre signt for one who can appreciate i, but perhaps xX may fot be in the myod to Impressions Half a doren paces, and Molineux will fer the same sight from another pulmt of CORRID OFS MAIN PRISON CHAMBER DEATH HOW MOLINEUX REACHES THE ‘DEATH CHAMBER. After Molineux enters the prison he will be taken als “pedigree” take Then he will descend the stairs, through an tron gate, from Which he will get his last look at the outside world. Through a grated door will Pass into the main prison, then through a long corridor to Keeper Connaughton’ office. After that he will enter 4 dark passage, which leads into the death chamber. be shaded cells are now vacant and Molineux may occupy either of them, or # anit of Deleoners may be ane pone | ening by 0g ule cal celi trom the outside world. lsoned pin or needle migh' G3 be careied In the seam of the underwear or in the coat-lining, or ot! ba of the clothing; enough 1 tight be concealed to enable the por ner to commit sulcide. TO PREVENT SUICIDE. . Another door. Then twenty a stone kallery a My ad rsh through thy E02 short for ipal-K nsadator, Molineux will te learn t THE DEATH CHAMBER. steps, and 1 steel door swings ae Ihe ibe com ned chamber. | hat Nolineas, wil eC |emnctly i%; feet by 8 feet. The floor fer hears, black curtains | of bg The ‘walle and celling are led down in front so as, sion. These le po, ope me ant, and that is entirely open. 4 and Neo Moines ite | i= wit! Monee Iron-batred fence in notice @ passageway mf it. 8 inewx emers the cell int the road iu the chamber of Seat | sir ‘ei find o he rant & i. room beyond sis the electe ch about (wo aed a half feet cot, It MOLINEUX'S CBLL IN uo ‘ane. into the right-hand office and | ; After dinner Molineux may employ his time as best pleases himself. I tead or umoke or he may pa Bhould he walk in his cell no disturbed. The f olipper, teas. The silence ts that of P tfnued, moines ty the keepers, No talking | permitted. Boliiude thick and heavy hangs in the room like a pa orrow Molineux will rison barber will briny i reat cove ay Molineux. may grow. his again if he vieases, Hie hair wat not be cropped as fn the case of ordinar prisoners, The barber will shave him with 4, patent ragor whieh serves ise purpor's. it will not cut the aad keeps Wigs from grabbing it the barber with sufoldal Intent, After the shave, Molineux will have ax {ron tom. Tt happens, ayy Saturday Mulineux arrived Friday he received Hisual inaugural plunge and then com \n for the lar Sat D: tng the shaving and other prisoners sees nim. ure down, ‘The remainder of the afternoon is spent aweel Way A’ has no regular retiring hour ‘There are no lights in the cells. - The prisoner must read ty the light tur ished i the electric lamps in the cen- tre of condemned chamber. These! ning all night. Some mur- »o be alone with thelr co he same thine the light e rs to waten the murd o ables the heepe i Two neopets are on duty all day. Two constantly watching all might. ‘Th ere silent, Peserved an: vation with the pr Such will be the alled. forth to the electric chatr or is set at liberty, It ts monotonous solitude comes oppre awfu “nee. ‘The prisoner finally be- gins to wish for the date of his electr rution as « welcome substitute for a liv- ing death MAY HAVE LUXURIES. Molineux may furnish his cell with Juxurtes if he chooses. He may have a tug on the floor. A cover After the meal pe AM tobacco are furnished State; lt may not be delicate Persian or fragrant Perique, but it ken match will be handed by the keeper (racy the cell bars, He will have to f leagure of his usual cigarette. j: tions for- bid these paper rolis. He may have a cigar, but he must be saving of th for he will be allowed but three per day. MAY READ, T00. things to brighten his sta: jut st he furnished by the prison auth or~ him. fruit, no delicacies, no cigars, hy anything. They may leave @noney with the W Warden, who will fi rd the Prisoner with tings he may dest His relatives may see him. will be conducted to point in Fromt of his y his residents ol gress down to Hane Christian Andersen. hetween xeven and emit (nousand vol- umes the Ibrary, and he can have ls choice of fletion by such authors 44 Grant Allen, Rudyard Kipling, J. M.! Barrie, Willam Waldorf Astor, Walter Dickens, Thackeray, Willlam set, almost every prom- n there are biographies adventure and geo cription; history, science a wire sctoen which stretches |) of the condemned chamber, about three feet distant from the cells. A keeper prironer. The keeper wil! hear the mths ee words and nee the caresses from the } of the wife, mother, father or sroter, It_is awkward, but ‘it {s the law, To see their loved one caged like a wild beast must be an awful experience for fr or a devoted wife. But it poetry * taste may lead Py to eh by H Adam: Li “Who Da he Ineux, the con. of herine live and wait, ike a penned yul- Me by a, fn “s t fay. for oman’ walting to {Wie or “Circumstantial “Evidence, i ing orp seumeP aks ares all 3 0 be found on the shelves of th ree educatinn was oie wae, Formate, whose Recnces were’ st Se sae SPRARE w w. _THorp. HURT ON FIFTH AVENUE, Mdewalk Fall May Kill Wan fade \' Wie will be limited, under prison rules, to one book a week. He will not ai lowed to exchange boons with fell ‘isonera. book must last hima week. hie Bible, or such religious Warden sees fit to furnish Dim wit! Molineux will mise the turn he en- joyed in the prison-yard at the Tombs, nes exercine at Sing Bing will be limited to one half-hour per day. He will LY @enty Taken take en gut of is cell and permit ce | Es of tl “it roan le S| i exercise he will mt be one, nave o ar or the | presence is heepere. from view by thelr curtains. imag iret to ie his Ne "4 & iT Ly 4 turing his skull. morning. for maar ot met eg | Flower Hospital ater. will will keen him fairly busy in the cy avenue. Aer his szercive, be may lounge ol The ambulance call sent out for the old, living at 3% West Fifty-ftth atreet, was taken {Il on Fifth avenue at Forty- critica) condition. aun, walt io and ordinu tt next eden: But Motiseux will will met Ire Wits mattieae of otra w this until late linen sheets cover ur cells ate om the sume aide aw the etn uA ety ray Foraish thw the warm door by ich Molineux has have two or more Ii le will be placed in one of these. te ceioe™ hey are mo ‘Worse thane ‘nich one fs no: known, ae the | cleaner. new murderer ts — al re chanped ‘onto nme a Mixing up, Ssloltncux will he taken 20, the the rom. vom. We wi of hg B basin is of fron, Seabee Secor gees lt cee oe a ments eaed to sl ae mo 0 al ahd tae ceil and "hake ‘sob was been ns jolineux. the "Wuvuriees ge my keepe: toa his day. he bend of the Bing Sing talloring de- | His doi See va Lhen Measure him for few | mMenotonrous. son- ic Club, This gave rise 10 a report thea) Tt crass laters be Node thes ts & Prominent city oMela! had been #:rick- Tat eS en’ tess t0 jen in the club. he Warden. Varden. tea: pee 40 or sends, thom on tn their, ae Seotinn: | Hn od Tose oth tea fi that tl abner ve | WHEAT CAKES CAUSE ‘ue! COUPLE TO SEPARATE. been opened by the Wa the Warden may receive Insere heux whih the latier will never see. | ies es Because Richard M. Wilcox likes his | wheat cakes done brown and J Bose Warden has wide Aireretton Maud EB, served them pale « fast, there Ie @ separation eult vending the Lg |r was teiepnoned from the Democrat- Nes will ha ok, vod w raped food. Mea! wil be sinete escep on} betveen the couple, from it ie served. Mra Wilcox, an attzective blonde of m Base af of usband becam Peecul un ate piece ad beat and shook her Violently. his bath, The bath fs not a daily cus-| nerve wearing and heart breaking. The | The monotony he-| length | Will sit between the relative and the man where he resided ena Int | about 1 o'clock that afternoon. “My brother was reclining on the bed He told me that he had felt the need of something to ald diges- 7/ in Court, Molineux. | of Henry C Barnet, cyanide of mercury, killed Mrs. Adama Could NotTell His Story “but Says Mysterious Woman at the Funeral Was [1\rs. Blanche Chesebrough With the sentencing to death in the electric chair to-day of Roland Burn- ham Molineux for the murder of Mra Kate Adams by poison sent to her nephew, Harry Corn’ah, comes also the full detalls for the first time of the death Blanche Chese- brough's flance (now Mra. Molineux), by the same drug that During the trial of Molineux Edward Baraat Was not permitted to tell tory beeause his lite of Roland the defendant was not y until the time Indleted for the murder of Barnet, but }it is learned now that had the accused on trial for | papers been set free he would have been put the other crime. All the in the case of the prosecution were prepared for a second trial. tt evi | statement is that Henry Barnet, This is Mr. Barnet's statement: “ft made a business inches and weight not less than pounds. Hip chest measurement at the Knickerbocker in Bie reom. tion, and as he had received from & done, and it had fallen symmon assistance. My brother told | he Was « ‘foot’ to take the powder. ninth street this morning and fell, frac- | aid that It was the third one he had re- He was taken to ceived from an unknown source, and he °. Phillips, who was called Fowler was a familiar figure on Fifth | in, had taken a sample of the medicine sala Dr. W. 10 See what it contained. , SUSPECTED POISON. “i pected polrat | hat made him kind, He laughed uneasily | ‘Well, tt was poison to me. ing morning and asked bh. Bie was Baturday Hi uch’ better, Dut would not that day, iow day and clare of halt he 1 asked him spect anything of that and said, | That Barnet was murdered by poison ere seoma to be no}doubt from the nee presented in Edmund Barnet's The most startling feature just before his or his table, | death, told his brother that three times A picture or two on the walls pt aot he had received queer powders through 5B the mail from @ mysterious soures, and ities. Hix folks can bring: nothing to'that he wOrried after taking them, WAS SHE MRS. MOLINEUX? Another point Is thet a mysterious oman appeared at Barnet's funeral, hand,' who, the brother ‘s sure, is Mra. Mol- appointment en Ovi, 3, 18%, to meet my brother at his fice on the following day, He was at at (ime a healthy man. His complexion was clear, he was thirty-two years old, his height was about five feet eight was forty and waist thirty-five and « half inches, When I called at his office on Oct. 9% 1 was informed that he was til Athletic Club, I went up to the club gource a sample of a medicine for & Putpose that morning he had immediately upon to the floor ing. He weakened ail in a mo- ent, he sald, and was barely able to Franklin Fowler, a teacher, fifty years| erawi to the bell rope in his room an be dhidiidldieces’ ay. “I telephoned from Brooklyn on @as- ve aald he was fooling a | “]t must be remembered that my | brother wit a man who believed that by | hee | force of will any one could rid himself inem, and he was probably | up’ in that way that Seturéay | | Dougtae that I learned the powder had | diphtheria for us, His other reason was that the patient's heart was weak, and | weakened heart, and while they admitted | | tom they seid it was entirely unneces- SING; come up. in the hands of a trained nurse, Addie | o clock Bates, who told me my brother fering from diphtheria and Beainan Douglas was treating balm “Dr, Phillips had ceased calling, and my brother sent for Dr, Dougine when he grew worse, | saw Dr. Douglas the next afternoon, Wednesday, Nov. 2 at the club, and he told me that be had galled to treat my brother, at his re- quest, the Sunday or Monday preced- ing and had found him downstairs. As T recall the interview, Dr. Douglas said he went to my brother's room, and, hav- ing made an examination of my brother, told him that he was suffering from two | things—one was 4 metallic poison and the other diphtheria. CYANIDE OF MERCURY. "It was after this interview with door. detective. of death. hela at Saturday, 1 only saw been analyzed and found to contain cyanide of mercury “Dr. Dougias refused to let me pee brother, giving two reasons. One!as 1 was that he had the diphtheria well) know? in hand, had concealed the case and! in-law’ Was eure of his patient's recovery, but |The effect if | went in and contracted the disease he Was not sure he could cure me. He said that he considered he hed taken (Meapy ufficient risk in concealing one case of diphtherta ?” am Mr he would not be responsible if | should go in and converse with him. “When I talked of having a consul- tation of physicians beth Dr. Douglas and Mies Bates, the nurse, me that my brother wae prectically a well man, beyond having a momentarily it was my privilege to call a consulta- sary, I wes told that for my brother to see physicians sitting in consultation around him might excite him, with serious results. Consequently ne con- sultation was helé, and I failed to see my brother until Wednesday, Nov. 9, when I insisted upon going to his room. I firm promised not to talk to him, end I kept the promise faithfully, al- | { | “I telephoned to the club the follew- | } he was then. | ~ nt word that F i coats; reduced from $12.50 to.......++ seayea raovsent mune’ 91,35, 31.85 ane uot ao | ena yl goed ant many things that || FANCY VESTS- stripe, Checks, Overplaids, made c may be suggeoted asl te gh Rote daette ties Bou. 95 | Li et and received word that I ‘had better! though tn constant attendance upon him 1 went at once and found him) untii pe died, on Nov. in the afternoon. ut-| “During the time I was kept out of the room I remained just outside the) Tt was I who was seen there by reporters and who was thought to be a “Diphtheria was given of the cause The fune the Church of the sion, Fifth avenue and Tenth street, Lal Immediately after- ward I went from the chureh Into the chapel with nome friends. MYSTERIOUS WOMAN. “Following them came a woman of about my own height, of good profile three-quarter welght 19 to 135 pounds, twenty-five years, with dark hair and] Bhe approached me and sald ‘Can you tell me anything about Mr. Did he really die of which 1 ‘Would you mind giving me your name, Nov. her Barnet's death” ‘Then she sald, ‘Oh, bis brother- and I said was woman walked running from my side into the church, wii Instantaneous away repidiy, Saturday at the Alteration Sale SUITS TO ORDER — Worsteds, Cheviots, Homespuns, Tweeds and Cassimeres; newest weaves: stripes, checks, overplaids, aan value $20.00 up, reduced to........ Perfect fit and fullest satisfaction, of course, or soc, Sit Neckwear, and Tecks, reduced to. . ». French Guyot Suspenders wrabuced to 2551; soc, White Silk Hematite Handkerchiefs reduced to.. Open Saturday Evening Till 9 o’Cloek. S.NWoed& =NOW BARNET'S BROTHER _ TELLS A STRANGE STORY. | | nformation she desired. “I now feel confident that this wemam was Blanche Chesebrough Molinews, ‘My firet impression was that she wae 4 reporter, and as I was in no mosé é@ have anybody delving into the case 2 gave close attention to her personal ap | Pearance, so that I would recognise bie |emain, and not be led into making @ statement to her, | LIKE MRS. MOLINEUX, “1 have never seen Mrs, Molineux i person, but every pitore of her, ana every description ot vee in the or given to ) are familiar {allies exactly ith a n mysterious woman bsg! brothers Caer woman a Mr. Barnet told of vat Bag medicine box, with which had inclosed by mat which tained his brother's address, placed Inside. the package sent te Corateh 5 ves callea of the package I had found, capes elally the capital letters, and same general deseription | them beth. SUSPICIOUS OF PACKAGE, “The fact bot my brother cornea ae tt had not A The way, as he had no Tar, method of fing hh afterward found out that he .| suspiclour of the anaes wi he received it, and apparently it to find Out more aoe it. 10, at about 4 she ‘a not tell me ‘During his ‘lness,’ searched everywhere for the that came around the to find it.’ She told me that a arrived, and that my quested her to open It face— age about he letter Pig after she had read iitered an exclemation, did she know 1 was IN? After & ted: |OF 80 of a pause he added: ‘ rooted: | bo 1 case she does.’ brother, you ts suspicious, but she would not let because she did not want to Frew, ing to the representation his brother’ * of Miss Bates that, alt bea bot had taken oc: al almost | Tad not result, fatally. and had died of ‘aid’ not wa or the the case io the authoritle Of Clothing And Furnishings. Most World readers know that we are making ready for the addition of two new de- partments—Hats and Shoes. Not onl front, but the entire store must be alt The carpenters have be; goods out of the way. willing to take a big loss on them NOW. ‘If & we let them get upset, mussed about, s we'll have to take a bigger loss later—and hurt goods won't win for us near so many friends as these spick and span new ones. For this Saturday, therefore, we shall outdo our own best past in the matter of value- giving—as all who come shall see. salesmen and every facility for prompt, polite” service. ing, ete. firs asa mc and double breast OVERCOATS in splendid variety, weights and heavy weights, light colors and dark colors, box overcoats and long over- the n. They want the ‘or our past we are Extra” Full guarantee, free pressing, repair- | 9 reduced from $12.50 to. 544,50 your money back. tise, White and Fancy Hem 255| stitched Handkerchiefs at. +. 25c. Elastic Web Suspenders at.. 45¢ [stp Fancy Shirts in and French Percales, cufis, reduced to. TAILORS TO MEN, ' Broadway. ‘Ae neon as | saw the wrapper 68 > e writing om the wrappem