Books with author Roland Burnham Molineux

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...committed the murder at the instigation of the defendant. A self-confessed murderer, a triple perjurer, he is now scot-free, and an innocent man is in the Death-Chamber. These are the methods of the fourth degree. The Court of Appeals does not approve of them; one District Attorney has been removed from office by the THE LITTLE DOOR Governor; but another, he of the everready biography, has handed them down to his sons as an heritage of fame. The public has no idea of the enormous number of cases which are reversed by the Court of Appeals. Here is a recent one. A young man was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty-five years by a General Session's judge. But the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, when reviewing the case, said: "The defendant's guilt has not been proven. It is not even proven by the evidence that any crime was committed." This is a fact, and any one who will take the trouble to read the published decisions will find it and many more such instances. Of the convictions obtained by the District Attorney in the Court of General Sessions, a small proportion of the convicted men have money to appeal to the higher courts, and the percentage of new trials granted is high. How much higher would it be if all cases were appealed? In other words, think of the poor devils who are in State prison unjustly because of their lack of money. There is a remedy for this state of affairs. We have a legislature, a bar association, and a legal aid society. Among all these could not some arrangement be made for inspectors, to whom a man unjustly convicted could complain and receive assistance? Is there no relief or redress for the sufJ-THE LITTLE DOOR ferers.from the fourth degree, when even the third degree is forbidden by law? If the third degree is ...

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In 1899 Molineux was charged with first degree murder and his trial which ran from November 1899 to February 1900 was deemed The Trial of the Century, resulting in his conviction and the death sentence. However he was later acquitted after a retrial following an appeal, and soon after his release in 1902 wrote this short fictional work based on his prison experiences. The book includes an account of the trial which appeared in the New York 'Journal' as an appendix/

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Excerpt from The Room With the Little DoorOst of the following is true, M or founded on truth. A few are waits - products of my imagination; little stories that came into my mind from time to time. Some of them are from letters written home while I was confined in the Tombs Prison in New York City, and in the death-chamber at Sing Sing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This is a 1903 account of a man from New York City's high society who was accused of murder and spent four years in the notorious Tombs Prison in New York City and on Death Row in Sing Sing Prison in New York. It is a story told simply, clearly; the reader can easily picture her/himself in prison. Molineux's first trial guilty verdict led to the sentence of death by electrocution, which was overturned on appeal. He was retried and found not guilty. Roland Molineux's acquittal was the result of the New York courts enforcing more stringent limitations on the admissibility of evidence in criminal cases, which provided increased protection for the rights of defendants.