The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1901, Page 4

! G eux of th COURT ORDER DUE TO-MORROW. Molineux Decision Inspires _ Kawyer Accused of Forgery and Murder with Hope. HIS LAWYER HOPEFUL. = Moses H. Grossman Finds Much : Comfort in Opinion on Hand- | writing Testimony. Barring Roland DB. © finds greater comfort in the ( peals’ decision of yesterday than A T. Patrick, lawyer and prisoner in Tombs under indictment for a vert | forgeries that are alleged to 1a up to the murder of the Texas iillion- aire, Willlam Marsh Rice. ‘The case against Patrick rests aimost exclusively on the testimony of hani- writing experts that his are the sig- matures to checks for $220,09 drawn 2 i @gainst Mr. Rice's bank accounts, anil thi mature to the Rice Kk trustee of the Lawyers hold that the valet, Charles I. J had versuaded him Rice, will have little weis! unless the testimony of »: perts will prov | ‘was part of a cons: his lawyer to get H i enormous fortune. | | Mr. Patrick's attorne Messrs House and Grossman. Though it ts ey dent that they are elated over the Moll- ed him of suspicion of mur- neux verdict. they th to talk “There was a world of ing in ite applicability to thelr client's voice and expression when he spok besa Oe pave Se te full text) of clearing Mis name and rehabilita of the decision, theularly the B s his family hon tions of Jt which elucidate elaborately Ing his farnily honor the law regarding handwriting testi- When he had finished his ani- mony: mation passed away, and very quiet On this point Mr. Moses H, Gross-/]y he told Mr. Jaeckel he would be acangseld fees ; glad to yo back to the Tombs, Hel “The decision in the aliunseihaceheshadvaecicn nate masterly and will sett Lol us tha h had secur L a di | Questions concerning the admissibility of {tlonal counsel, and that Ex-Ge evidence on disputed handwriting Black, of the firm of Black, Olcott,| “You ask me whether To think ft wlll | Gruber and Uonynge, would be os Gftect tha Patrick case sociated with Messrs. Weeks and “Weil, all Tcan may te thac tt will at | yy ee fect every case tried in ol qiviivgr: | Batilerntsniscnextstelal; : erlminal courts where the He dwelt on Gov. Black's legal of a particular handwriting | ability and expressed conmtidence in MOLI +The decision is a very | his ultimate acquit When we I have only had the benefit of so much : a MMsidealk Gelljates! PEE Wasis habs appeared sini th re leaving he asked us of our mis: ineUx Was Visited ev printsle But 1 have read [sion to the prison, and learning that his devoted mothe | Convince me that the decision {+ n| we were sitting on the Parole Board, | K ou Annes , fatsreachiae peroreanes othe -|he said asy on the chaps. More | he Che t viet ot | ernity that no active practitioner at aeaiti ea fea faa s i the bar will fall to obtain and thor-| Of ety heade mercy atnanithey eo | Ase of uM oughly digest the opinion in fuil.”* punishment | In the Tombs Lawyer Patrick ra Mrs. Molineux had not ca on} nal decis voured every Iine published in“! her son up to late this afternoon, She | Bed pers rewarding the Molineux verdi haa aaNet (teenll feririte lat was fn particularly hap»y mood to- but up to 3] but when an expression was ought rival of Gen, Molineux, orders t from him he said that m o’clock this afterncon the General had | ifocend fo exes that any discussion of his case not reached Sing Sing, and it was | CONE Appeals a come from his lawyers. a new tela learned that he could not get away | from business. The clerk HUGE HE : Vinited hy Hin Mother. slie Molineux, the younger broth: | of the prisoner, arrived from] Prooklyn late this afternoon, — Hel & went at once tot house and { visited his mother ait | After half an hour spent with her | Mttue ae a went down the hill to the pr LAWYERS SAY and was adinitted to the death-house: visit with his HE WILL GO FREE. where had an hour's Allen McLane Hamilton Dis- | rot . On le ng the prison he aaa t l putes Assertions of Other Ro untel for Roland 1, lin, wha H Hi ay fe in the death Specialists, SA eae sin very of | other trina! nel ee Im the contest of the autogr wonog} UE brought: him message ay ‘ 8 l Bugene Guido Cruger ve gate }father and mother and hin wife mia ' . suid Dirtriet Thomas to-day Mexsrs. ring them back cheering words from ZA AAI aa him, Father will not be here to-day aaa parts agalnat the experte of the cme] but. 1 possible, he will come up to ECE og: sf f : bs he may testarts in handwriting, and on tar| morrow question of © rs mental health in Moline dawn 1896, when the will was mate Drs. Peterson and Dana whist 1d that ¢ er pad by w Allan McLane Hainilton, ing them, brought a —pocke Photographs into court. Two w tralts of remarkably tne-looking Ke tain photographs of Cru them in deciding that h Dr. olds, and thus the Atlorney District Pattbin Nar who, he said, were nevertheles# hope- | Weeks from The ay ell ani nal feas victims «of paresis. And he had. | Worll office that hie ‘ ¢ se ne qe Deaides, three photographs of him- emied ith ‘i aa lees pba boe malay elf taken yesterday, One was as the] Mire H fs the am (Maat ela *t OM ew trlal wilt requiee ten or The other two had been “retou hen ae saci rte A EA by the photographer, and Dr, Hamil TRE tieewaeRe me Assorted that one of them mage him ae eg eRU re ea GeRE AD Took I!ke a hopeless imbecile, Mr poate So Dr, Hamilton didn't thetical question descriptls Cruger’s c! fon in order to @s to his mental health. "1 knew Eugene G. Cruger for mi Ayyears," said Dr. Hamilton from ‘witness stand. {This war a bombshell Ase te on Mr mth Jero Distr Are Jubilant. nd Battle, the who have x, are say In the ree came when he said with “4 saw Mr. Cruger in Paris on three oor. four occasions in 18%—the years of will—and I did no: observe the it aymptoms of paralytic demen- In appr ered vehi him: in ath. of to the was made his mates. par elit , But he wore loud clothes. 1 saw dined ‘ uw Sew Man, Whim between May and August. 1%, Ho], Lei oat 4 me>to dinner. His health waa} "A more remarkable change In i py ntly'es xood as when 1 saw fim oner L never saw." xald Warden Jonnsor f after coming from the death-houre y action (hat “Molineux was always a model prisoner, f this deetsion with all at expert account- expert in handwriting, testittod his opinion Cruger did make png confinement and the seeming’ ax waiting for his case to the sald M world, and dy was vt Weeks this me, ir viewed made him.morose. He had ttle K. decision, an our the Harnet testim Was the without it Vindication and tn and it wus no forgery. eh rule to say and his hope seemed to be dying. past week he has helt his for th Duras the FOMAEKALly, well, | looked wh when I brought the message his attorney, Mr. Weeks, ple telephoned me yesterday, He only sat! *L expected tt.’ e oi Deere S “Ho seems to have realized It more |aured. will bring nd jover night. This morning when I went] "eux Ris rots iio to his.cell he was whistling snerally as |caleulation. Be ‘paced up and down, his head ip and houlders thrown hack. All thgrlove | fiolineux out poe neice 2 He was convicted men ought not: tol po will surely Tee M she poset. and, st ‘ face ry unosher dla the lowest chamber, T ha certainly use all anes. to get int that Be sent to EN. MOLINEUX DETERMINED TO EXPOSE THE REAL POISONER OF MRS. ADAMS. © deatn-house ssed on Appeal ts their Min Experience Bitter. one iyaterical ux he: t guards haul | king past his cell door tthe execution Now. isn Gat the next thi tortures of Mr. Weeks ting anxiously the fa vf the Court UX VISITED BY HIS MOTHER, TOMBS CELL NOW FOR MOLINEUX. ortunate wretel: chamber awake 1oravings Monday Sing Roland B, Mol day for twenty months irstuan's position in the Kennedy case. t they have certainty lipped | the igscaf the ox wnd Jatd down an WW of practian regarding mi oof thin class of tewtl- go to Sing te Te ed to have gone, Dut iness on hand Ks, Plymouth » to det him READY cathetpatic sturn of Roland Molineux ty the ‘Tombs, Warden Magan a fl 1 Flynn ber Kin (he work 3 Cell No, fn Murderers’ Row this morning WMeolala de not expect that bre nurht back to New riday, but should he ap- ning the cell which he during his tong stay in the fore and during bis trial will ready for him A new mattress fresh bedding have aced on cot, and the . chair and lamp which he a0 vefore have been put in hed, whe Da ux to Sing Sh wok when the legal Molineux w it De} rad whom sro prt told him when 1 night urd om it ep it about yught him | ail the ime, he walls have been and the effect: in n compared to the ig oman has n Kelly, who took na. will bring him Arrangements make ax taken from the e was given & Warden Flynn, ity en presented by & him that sald Flynn he would Tt has he said PRETTY TEACHER WEDDED. Miss Mac Without Expian Hale: of Mi ay pil red school at wharly years, and the stitute Thursday me ment s four & passed with sition No. 6. announcement of her mar- nald Left School Claas ation and Mar- + Doubleday. ax Jennie as te. in Westchester, was explained yos- and assoctate teach: jon of that day . of the publis: lay, Page & Co, teacher had been her desk for three appearance of a sub- excited com- worrled when no werd from rnin were Mins Yesterday her friend, Miss Vowan, of the school acuity ed tha wedding hey had been Thuraday n afternoon formed Chureh, Et Second avenue, Bat {rend saw them o Journey, The weddt to the intimate fr but tts a Rreat surprise parcied at 4 o'clock at the Dutch R wkhtleth street aud n Beach, and a few i on thelr wedding RE WAS not a secret jende of the coup! jouncement yesterday came as many othe! es ie W (Fr my “Oh, We “Hours, rather tartly, “Ours: CONG this te ao au the Philadelphia P she exclaimed, impatienth “we'll be sure to miss the first act. ‘e been waiting na goo} many min- utes for that mother of m| I should say, The cried, he repiled, joyfully, lewt"* y. “Oh, THE WORLD: WE EDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1901. “LA GIOCONDA” WELL SUNG. je Sqeare Company Predu Westntiine Work Full of Fa- millar Music. “La Gloconda.” an opera heard here, was producel last evening SLAYER TRIED seldom ca OAD RARDNT SOE E RASA IESE 10 (NAR AY at the Broadway Theatre by the Castle + Square Opera Company. The audtence 4 = 8 ail idering th ue of thi [MANY-SIDED VIEWS OF Crete: 1s meet TH E MOLI N E UX DECISION = admirers of Leoncavello, Mascagni anit . cl E d f Cc Fuceine au ane Haas eet aan + lergyman Engaged for Cer-| ut ryncnynett is not to. be terme ‘ Assistant District-Attorney Osborne,—My opinion as to the guilt By b ‘ e WI Pe Te rein ata: XE or innocence of Molineux is not of public importance at this time. emony Dy Hayes, WNO Jind they owe, much to hie Insnir ation. George Gordon Battle, of counsel for Molineux.—It Is grati- fying that the verdict has been reversed upon the evidence instead of purely technica! grounds. The testimony of handwriting experts has received a severe blow. Bartow 8. Weeks, counsel for Molineux.—It would not surprise me if the District-Attorney decided not to retry the case. A new trial will bring victory to Molineux and will cost the county $100,000. We may ask for his release on ball. Gen. E. L. Molineux, father of prisoner.—My son will be vindl- cated avd another man wiii ve tried and convicted. My life and my son's I§fe will be devoted to clearing the name of Molineux, a name of which we are proud. District-Attorney Philbin—! am surprised at tho decision. [ cannot say what my course will be regarding a new trial until I have had consultatinns h Recorder Goff and Assistant District- Attorney Osborne and other members of my staff, and have closely studied the decision. Harry Cornish.—The year and a half which Molineux has passed in the death-house at Sing Sing represents punishment enough to fit any crime. He has suffered enough. “MOLINEUX WILL NOT GET OUT ON BAIL”—DAVID B. HILL. sielsininie sores lab inini- Ex-Governor Declares the Prisoner Will Not Be Released Under Bonds. 1 Bennett HIN, who was fal counsel by the State argus the Molineux care before the Court of Appeals, ts in the elty te Mr. Hilt declined to dincuss the cision of the Court granting 4 new trial to Roland B. Molineux, but finally con- tant ease, In the case just decided Molineux forged a letter from Barnet to get fate mall box. riek-Rice case the whole je State rests on the fact bearing on the Patrick-Riee will tention of sented to make clear some of Its poln:s. |tnat the will was in i a " ih forged and the man In the court's dectaton.” eald Gov- linen murdered, thus showing the mo- ernor Hill, “there appears to be but one new point of law brought out. “This is that the court shall refuse to receive In evidence solely for the purposes of comparison any — hand: | writing otherwise prejudicial to the de- fendant “As L understand tt, much ax the evidence in the Mol- " dig Barnet has been yn't see how the State can. ° forgery In the ineux this means that No Precedents Quoted. fra standard of comparieon, if a let-| “The published portions of the opinion ter be Introduced in which a crime}of the court in making the new point {* proposed, or anything reflecting onfof jaw arding the admission the defendant, Is proposed, ft shall not he admitted. handwriting prejudictal to (je defend- nts. ‘ I know of no: that will eustaln them, complete optnion may gt slow the bur oth rows the Field. “It seems narrow the field so tnat only business letters shall be admitted ag standards for comparison. Very of- ten counsel can tnd plenty of tetters in which the handwriting {s undisputed, but strictly business letters are dimecult to obtain, “In the Carlyle Harris case evidence that Harris had proposed to commit a crime wan received by the trial court and sustained by the Court of Appeals. “In the Molineux case the crime was lence describe! ax ‘hearsa: the deposition of farnet to his he had recetved Kut- wders through the mall. | regard dedly relevant. Without it the siclans could not have treated the case prope “1 do not in physiclans that n think that Molineux will i know of no previo circumstances were bail was allowed. the in which actually consummated through letters, “Kennedy, wag not admitted to, bal aweviitencs he! ; until a wo disagreements by juries. and the evidence, therefore, of much | pnt te kort seareementaiby (Juries: more importance. The decision will have tter for Molineux's counsel to determine." a very impor- BRIGANDS KILL THEIR CAPTIVES. Three Women and Two Men Mission Workers Victims of Miss Stone's Abductors. Oct. 16—A despatch from] she and Miss Stone are Imprisoned in a Vienna saya that the brigands who kld-| Mountain cave and are treated with apped 5 Sto Ned teay napped Miss Ellen Sf. Stone have kille See tRstreriiaiinteetieline Pastors Dimtkroff and Zirkoff and three Drigands pe abandoned, as such a: women mission workers and retreated] tempis endanger the lives of the cap into the interlor of Macedonta, he adds that they can be saved by the payment of the Haird and Haskell, the missionartes, | demanded. have been unable to get in touch with the brigands, Attempts to capture the 'MME. TSILKA AND band have made them shy and they are BABY DOING WELL. Faneor. unusually cautious, fearing a trap. ‘The tasionaries are not provided with eae naee towered to make| SOFTA. Oct, 16—During the night an- funds, tut they are empowered to [other letter from fins illen st. Stone's negotfations, companion, Mme, ‘Tellka, was found : : 83 ‘loon, ‘announe- Mme. Talika, who was captured with] pasted, v7 ce sihanihedmealion Miss Stone, has written to her par-|pirth to a child, and) tat both” the ents in. Sofa, Bulgaria, saying that infant and the mother were doing well le Boutillier B Brothers SPECIAL SALE WOMEN’S WALKING SKIRTS AND FLANNEL WAISTS. Women’s double-face Oxford gray Walking Skirts, deep flare flounce, 30 rows stitching, $ 3.98 Value $7.00 Women’s Black and Oxford Melton Cloth Walking Skirts: also hair line stripes.in black and blae, deep flare flounce. handsomely stitched, $ 5.95 Value $10.00 Women’s Doeskin Flannel Waists, in twenty new fall shades, handsomely tacked fron’, 52.90 Value $5.00 West Twenty-third Street. Pettiebtedielebicinteleieleteieeiefeelntnieieleteleleleteieleletelebeiteleleielelefet Boutilier Brothers role and Mr. She Pruette's Barnaba was y 11 sung. Th Work of all the principals Was exce! but the chorus showed, traces of unfamiliarity with the new PROPOSED ELOPEMENT.|“"*. Shot Miss Cooke. Servants. Londen Truth.) maniled hotel a milk, wi ing. “a as the dog the maltres They only drank were sober in eat- ae faithful to the Czar it owas always: with i They are sone of the Prophet. The or- thodox servants were too fond of the Juice of the vine and of more potent the history of bridal tours. ’ se Jo you want to go Testimony Tended to Show That Murder and Suicide Were Planned in Case of Failure. (Special to The Evening Wor! LITCHFIELD, Oct. 16.—A dozen wit- Neases testifled in the trial of John T. Hayes, charged with murder in hav- Ing Killed his sweetheart, Mise Winl- fred L. Cooke, to-day. They included Walter A. King, who, at the time of the traged: a Baptist clergyman at Millerton, N. Y¥., but is now engaged in the undertaking business at Sajis- bury, this State. He testified that Hayes vialted him nthe afternoon of 9, two days efore the murder, and inquired avout the macrlage laws of New Y« tate. Hayes sald he wanted to marry a git! 1 but her parents obiocte: The father of his flancee, he said, ot time was anxious for the mar- rlage, but lately he had married again and the opposition had come from the third part Hayes inquired of the in the police force in Mille told that It “wa not active, On leaving the pa Be the prisoner had informed Rev. Mr. King that he sould advise hin when he was coming to Millerton to be married On the following Monday Hayes trie! to Induce Miss Cooke ty elope with hla Ttatan Silk Slumber Robes. Feo, i A late importation from Balagio and Milan, Italy, con- sisting of such colorings as can be combined by natives only. Manufactured of raw silk, making alightand warm article for lounging, and a useful and ornamental article for cozy-corners and couch covers, later about noand was to Millerton, and the girl woul! not, ¢ i whereupon he killed her. oxc., ¢ i James Keenan, a furniture-dealer, and J5C +4 DI.50 John Wheeler, both of Winsted, test © hearing Hayes engage at y of James f shooting. the Court how led Am at th tayes for the morning Other witnesses yer followed his swe: heart to the school in the Gfibert H where she Was a teacher. According t the stories of most of these the girl tried to ger away from her Infuriated ad- mirer, bu failed, Hayes even followin her Into the Gilbert Home, where he A bullet through her head and afterwar | shot himself three tim ————__—$— Drowned Man’s Body Found. ‘The body of an unknown man was found floating at the foot of James slip this morning. He was about forty 5 feet 9 Inches in height. an’ pounds. 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