Show MOLINEUX IS SENTENCED CONDEMNED TO DIE IH SING SING PRISON I Time for Electrocution Fixed During tho Week of March 26th Prisoner Makes a Statement In Court New York Feb 1C Roland B Mo llneux was sentenced lit Recorder CoLt today to die In Sine Sing ptison during the week of March 2Cth for the murder of Mrs Katharine J Adams Mr Weeks moved for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was contrary con-trary to the law and the evidence Pie read ten grounds for his application bra br-a new trial basing them chiefly on the legal exceptions taken to the evidence and the rulings of the Recorder As soon as he handed In his exceptions Mr Weeks asked that the defendant be permitted to speak in his own behalf be-half To this Recorder Goff at Ilrst demurred saying that the request wan tnusual I but finally after some discussion discus-sion with Air Wceka ruled that Molln eux might be heard Mulinuux straightened himself up and began I thanic your Honor Uf the ermine for hich 1 stand convicted and for still another crime with which 1 um charged I arn absolutely and entirely innocent All of the evidence The Court Your are not charged with any other ciiiue Thu defendant supposed that I might refer to it since the District Attorney At-torney did not in his opening und closing clos-ing argument The iourtYour counsel has attended attend-ed to all of that matter Thu defendant Very well your Honor All of the evidence produced here does not point In the direction of guilt on my part 1 reter especially to the evidence of Miss Miller in regard lo the purchase of that silver bottle holder She did not sell It to me Also to the evidence of Mr Koch respecting the letterbox hired by somebody in the name of Harry Coinlah It was not hhcd by me Also to the evidence given by Mr Kutnow respecting sample boxes sent around the country by his firm none of them came to me Nor did I possess at any time any of the instruments which appear to have been used In this crime and I never for one moment had a murderous motive AH for the theories which the prosecution offers I do not think 1 should be convicted con-victed upon their suppositions or the guesses they may vlsli to Indulge In 1 cannot conceive your Honor how any honest man can believe the testimony testi-mony of Nicholas Hockinann who convicted con-victed me upon an Identification which was for sale Yellow Journalism put a price upon my head It was an Invitation to every blackmailer black-mailer every perjurer every rogue every man without principle but with tho price and lo that Invitation Mr Hoclnnnmi responded Tho handwriting handwrit-ing experts who have tosilllod against me your Honor may give their opinion opin-ion they may give their reasons what they believe what they think but I know that these hands never put pen lo paper to address that person a package pack-age or lo write thf disputed letters Your Honor will not permit us to make mention of the great injustice which Is a matter of history but experts ex-perts in handwrJMng have made mistakes mis-takes before and they have repeated It here Your Honor all this Is nothing to what la in my heart at thio moment Above and beyond everything else i denounce and despise the action of the District Attorney in attempting to vllll fy and attack the character of the pure and lovely woman who bears my name ft was the act of a blackguard It was a damnable lie Now your Honor I am prepared to hear you sentence me T am not ofrlad because I am not guilty Sentence was then pronounced and directly nftr Mollncaux was taken hack pn his way to the Tombs Almost Al-most before he had left the courtroom Mr Battle served notice to appeal upon DistrIct Attorney Gardiner and upon the Chief Clerk |