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2.
New York World,
February 10, 1900, p. 1.

3.
Brooklyn Eagle,
February 9, 1900, p. 2;
New York Sun,
February 10, 1900, pp. 1–2;
New York Journal,
February 10, 1900, pp. 1–2;
New York World,
February 10, 1900, pp. 1–2.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE

1.
Brooklyn Eagle,
February 10, 1900, p. 1.

2.
New York World,
February 11, 1900, p. 2.

3. Scott, pp. 163–65.

4.
New York Sun,
February 11, 1900, p. 2.

5.
New York World,
February 11, 1900, p. 2.

6.
New York Sun,
February 11, 1900, p. 2.

7.
New York World,
February 11, 1900, p. 2.

8.
New York Times,
February 11, 1900, p. 1.

9.
New York Sun,
February 11, 1900, p. 2.

10. Ibid.

11.
Brooklyn Eagle,
February 10, 1900, pp. 1–2;
New York World,
February 11, 1900, pp. 1–2;
New York Journal,
February 11, 1900, pp. 1–2;
New York Sun,
February 11, 1900, pp. 1–2;
New York Times,
February 11, 1900, p. 1.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO

1.
New York Sun,
February 12, 1900, p. 1.

2.
New York World,
February 12, 1900, p. 2, and February 13, 1900, p. 2.

3.
New York World,
February 12, 1900, p. 1.

4.
New York Sun,
February 12, 1900, p. 1.

5.
New York Sun,
February 12, 1900, p. 2;
New York Times,
February 12, 1900, p. 6.

6.
New York Journal,
February 13, 1900, p. 16.

7.
New York Herald,
February 17, 1900, p. 2.

8.
New York Times,
February 17, 1900, p. 2.

9. Ibid.

10.
New York Sun,
February 17, 1900, p. 2.

11.
Brooklyn Eagle,
February 16, 1900, p. 1;
New York Times,
February 17, 1900, p. 2;
New York Journal,
February 17, 1900, pp. 1 and 2;
New York Sun,
February 17, 1900, pp. 1 and 2;
New York Journal,
February 17, 1900, pp. 1 and 2;
New York World,
February 17, 1900, pp. 1 and 2.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE

1.
New York Times,
February 17, 1900, p. 2.

2.
New York World,
February 17, 1900, p. 2.

3. Ibid.

4.
New York Journal,
February 17, 1900, p. 2;
New York World,
February 17, 1900, p. 2;
New York Times,
February 17, 1900, p. 2;
New York Sun,
February 17, 1900, p. 2.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR

1.
New York Journal,
February 17, 1900, p. 1;
New York Times,
February 17, 1900, p. 1;
New York Sun,
February 17, 1900, p. 1.

2. Ibid.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE

1.
New York Times,
August 27, 1898, p. 11, April 1, 1899, p. 12.

2. Denis Brian,
Sing Sing
(Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2005, p. 22).

3. Roland Molineux,
The Room with the Little Door
(New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1902), p. 21.

4. Ibid., p. 25.

5. Ibid., p. 20.

6.
New York Journal,
February 20, 1900, p. 4;
New York World,
February 20, 1900, p. 14.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX

1. In 1901, to distinguish it from its notorious prison, the village changed its name to Ossining. At the time of Roland’s arrival, however, it was still known as Sing Sing.

2. Scott, p. 169.

3. Scott, pp. 169–71; Pejsa, pp. 220–21.

4. Scott, pp. 173–78.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN

1.
Brooklyn Eagle,
March 3, 1900, p. 12.

2.
New York Sun,
March 3, 1900, p. 1.

3.
New York Journal,
March 5, 1900, p. 3.

4.
Brooklyn Eagle,
June 11, 1900, p. 5.

5. A vivid description of Milburn can be found in a memorial address delivered by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo of the Court of Appeals in December 1930 and privately printed by the Carnegie Corporation. See also the profile of Milburn in the
Brooklyn Eagle,
September 15, 1901, p. 15.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT

1. Molineux,
The Room with the Little Door,
p. 52.

2. Brander Matthews,
His Father’s Son
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896), pp. 211–12.

3. Lewis Lawes,
Life and Death in Sing Sing
(Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928), pp. 163–64.

4. Ibid.

5. Molineux,
The Room with the Little Door,
pp. 26–29.

6. Ibid., p. 209.

7. Ibid., pp. 198–207; Lawes, p. 161.

8. For a list of the men put to death in Sing Sing between February 1900 and August 1901, see Scott Christianson,
Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House
(New York: New York University Press, 2000), p. 148.

9.
New York Times,
November 23, 1900, p. 14. Kennedy would be tried two more times, in February and June 1901. Each trial resulted in a hung jury, and the indictment was finally dismissed with the consent of the district attorney. Kennedy returned to his home in New Dorp, Staten Island, where he practiced dentistry for another fifty-seven years before his death in August 1948 at the age of eighty-one. See
New York Times,
August 26, 1948, p. 4.

10.
New York Times,
November 30, 1900, p. 3.

11.
New York World,
January 5, 1901, p. 3.

12.
New York Times,
January 7, 1901, p. 6, and June 16, 1901, p. 15.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE

1. Margaret Leech,
In the Days of McKinley
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959), pp. 575–85.

2.
New York Times,
June 17, 1901, p. 3.

3.
Brooklyn Eagle,
June 17, 1901, p. 1.

4.
New York World,
June 18, 1901, p. 2;
Brooklyn Eagle,
June 18, 1901, p. 3.

5.
Brooklyn Eagle,
June 19, 1901, p. 1;
New York World,
June 19, 1901, p. 3, and June 20, 1901, p. 4;
New York Times,
June 20, 1901, p. 3.

6.
Brooklyn Eagle,
June 19, 1901, p. 1.

7.
New York World,
June 20, 1901, p. 4.

CHAPTER EIGHTY

1. Robert J. Donovan, “The Man Who Didn’t Shake Hands,”
New Yorker,
Vol. 29 (November 28, 1953), p. 122.

2. Leech, pp. 589 ff.; Mark Goldman,
High Hopes
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983), pp. 3–12.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE

1. With its ubiquitous red-tiled roofs and wildly eclectic mix of architectural elements—from Islamic minarets to Italian loggias—the Pan-American Exposition was a baroque fantasyland of riotous color and garish design: a “Rainbow City”(as it was immediately dubbed) in striking contrast to the marble-like splendor of Chicago’s great “White City” of 1893.

2.
New York World,
October 30, 1901, p. 1;
New York Times,
October 30, 1901, p. 3.

3. Several of the judges dissented from Werner’s strict interpretation of the “uncharged misconduct” rule (as it has come to be known), arguing that there are additional circumstances when evidence of previous crimes is admissible. All seven agreed, however, that the testimony of Dr. Henry Beaman Douglass—who stated that Barnet had told him of having been sickened by the Kutnow’s Powder he received through the mail—was hearsay and should not have been allowed. See
The People of the State of New York, Respondents, against Roland B. Molineux, Appellant;
Thomas J. Reed, “How the Uncharged Misconduct Rule was Born,” 2003; Joseph O’Shea, “The Molineux Rule,” Joseph O’Shea, 1990; and Marvin Schechter, “Molineux Unleashed,” 1998.

4.
Brooklyn Eagle,
October 15, 1901, p. 1;
New York World,
October 16, 1901, p. 1;
New York Times,
October 16, 1901, p. 1;
New York Journal,
October 16, 1901, p. 1.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO

1.
New York Times,
October 17, 1901, p. 5;
New York World,
October 17, 1901, p. 1.

2.
New York World,
October 18, 1901, p. 1.

3.
New York Times,
October 18, 1901, p. 5.

4.
Brooklyn Eagle,
October 16, 1901, p. 1.

5.
Brooklyn Eagle,
October 20, 1901, p. 3. A signed typescript of General King’s speech exists among Edward Molineux’s personal papers, now in possession of his great-grandson, Will Molineux.

6.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 11, 1901, p. 7.

7.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 12, 1901, p. 5.

8. See Forest Davis, “12 Trials that Gripped New York: How Gallant Old General Molineux Led a Lost Cause and Won,”
New York Telegram Sunday Supplement,
January 13, 1931, p. 1.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE

1. At the time of his release from Sing Sing, Roland, like the General, told reporters that “nothing but an acquittal will satisfy me now.” See
New York Sun,
October 17, 1901, p. 1.

2.
New York World,
December 7, 1901, p. 1.

3.
New York Times,
March 11, 1902, p. 6.

4.
New York World,
October 19, 1901, p. 3.

5.
New York World,
September 14, 1902, p. 17.

6. Scott, p. 180; Pejsa, p. 227; Klaus, p. 40.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR

1.
New York Sun,
September 20, 1902, p. 1;
New York Times,
September 20, 1902, p. 1, and September 21, 1902, p. 3.

2.
New York World,
October 21, 1902, p. 1.

3. Ibid.

4.
New York World,
September 14, 1902, p. 8, and October 2, 1902, p. 6.

5.
New York Times,
August 10, 1902, p. 11;
New York World,
September 14, 1902, p. 16.

6.
Brooklyn Eagle,
October 21, 1902, p. 1.

7.
New York World,
October 22, 1902, p. 2.

8.
Brooklyn Eagle,
October 31, 1902, p. 1.

9.
New York Sun,
November 1, 1902, p. 1.

10. Ibid., p. 2.

11. Klaus, p. 36.

12. Ibid.

13.
New York Sun,
November 1, 1902, p. 1;
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 1, 1901, p. 1.

14.
New York World,
November 2, 1902, p. 1, and November 1, 1902, p. 1.

15.
Brooklyn Eagle,
October 13, 1902, p. 1.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE

1.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 3, 1902, pp. 1 and 24.

2.
New York Sun,
November 7, 1902, pp. 1–2.

3.
New York World,
November 7, 1902, pp. 1–2.

4.
New York Times,
November 7, 1902, p. 1.

5.
New York Sun,
November 7, 1902, p. 2.

6.
New York World,
November 8, 1902, p. 2.

7.
New York World,
November 9, 1902, p. 16.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-SIX

1.
New York Sun,
November 11, 1902, p. 1.

2.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 10, 1902, p. 1.

3.
New York World,
November 11, 1902, pp. 1–2.

4.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 11, 1902, p. 1;
New York Sun,
November 11, 1902, p. 1.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN

1.
New York World,
November 12, 1902, p. 1.

2. Ibid., p. 2.

3.
New York Times,
November 12, 1902, p. 1.

4.
New York World,
November 12, 1902, p. 1.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. Klaus, p. 40.

8.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 12, 1902, p. 2.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT

1.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 12, 1902, p. 1.

2. Scott, pp. 182–83.

3. Pejsa, p. 9.

4.
New York World,
November 12, 1902, p. 2.

5.
New York Times,
November 12, 1902, p. 1.

6.
New York World,
November 12, 1902, p. 2.

7. Scott, pp. 184–86.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE

1.
New York World,
November 20, 1902, p. 1.

2.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 18, 1902, p. 1;
New York World,
November 20, 1902, p. 1.

3.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 18, 1902, p. 1;
New York Times,
November 18, 1902, p. 1.

4.
New York World,
November 20, 1902, p. 1.

5.
Brooklyn Eagle,
November 18, 1902, p. 2.

6.
New York Times,
November 3, 1903, p. 1; Pejsa, p. 236.

7.
New York Times,
November 15, 1903, p. 21.

8. Klaus, p. 41; Pejsa, p. 236.

9. Randall Irving Tyler,
The Blind Goddess
(New York: Stuyvesant Publishing Company, 1899), pp. 11, 24, 44, 65, and 73. In coming decades, the Molineux affair would inspire other popular works, most famously Anthony Berkley’s celebrated 1929 mystery novel,
The Poisoned Chocolates Case.

10.
Brooklyn Eagle,
December 9, 1902, p. 7.

11. Victor C. Calvert,
The Great Poison Mystery,
1902.

12.
Brooklyn Eagle,
December 9, 1902, p. 7.

13.
New York Times,
December 2, 1902, p. 3;
Brooklyn Eagle,
December 9, 1902, p. 7.

14. Kathryn M. Plank, “Introduction to
The ‘Rake,’
”
Papers on Language & Literature,
27 (Spring 1991), p. 140.