Belasco, David, 1853-1931; Theater -- United States
_Simon Levi_ David Warfield.
_Mrs. Levi_ Mrs. Jennie Moscowitz.
_Mrs. Eagan_ Marie Bates.
_Callahan_ Louis Hendricks.
_Isaac Leavitt_ Harry Lewellyn.
_Mrs. Leavitt_ Helena Philips.
_Meyer Cohen_ Harry Rogers.
_Mrs. Cohen_ Marie Reichardt.
_Mo Fininski_ Frank Nelson.
_Richard Eagan_ George LeGuere.
_Minnie_ Charlotte Leslay.
_Dawkins_ Horace James.
_Customer_ John A. Rice.
_Helga_ Janet Dunbar.
_Miss Manning_ Frances Street.
_Misses Crompton_ { Margaret Johnson.
{ Maud Roland.
_Miss Finch_ Ethel Marie Sasse.
_Mrs. Smith_, a shopper Geraldine de Rohan.
_Policeman_ George Berliner.
_Chestnut Vendor_ Tony Bevan.
_Visitors_ { Watson White.
{ Douglas Farne.
{ Irving Laudeutscher.
{ Frank L. Van Vlissingen.
_Man from Hester Street_ Michael Levine.
_Newsboys_ { Meyer Howard.
{ Jess Kelly.
A MANIAC’S PLAY--“THE MAN INSIDE.”
A singular yet characteristic incident of Belasco’s career was his
production of a play called “The Man Inside,” written by a madman who
had been the central figure in one of the most notorious murder cases in
modern criminal annals,--Roland Burnham Molineux. That poor wretch is
the son of a much respected citizen, General Edward Leslie Molineux, who
gained rank and honorable distinction in the Union Army during the Civil
War. He was arrested, February 7, 1899, charged with the murder of Mrs.
Katherine J. Adams, who died, December 28, 1898, of poisoning by
cyanide of mercury, which she unwittingly swallowed mixed with a
medicine received through the mails and which it was alleged that
Molineux had prepared and sent. His trial began, November 14, 1899,
before Recorder (now Supreme Court Justice) John B. Goff and continued
for fifty-five days, ending, January 7, 1900, with his conviction of
murder in the first degree. On February 16 Recorder Goff sentenced
Molineux to death and he was then taken to the Sing Sing Prison, where,
for many months, he was incarcerated in the “Death House.” His case was
carried to the Court of Appeals and, October 15, 1901, he was granted a
new trial which began, before Justice Lambert, in Part--of the Supreme
Court, October 17, 1902, and ended, November 11, with his acquital,--an
issue which, at the time, was regarded by some persons as a miscarriage
of justice. The second jury which heard all the testimony, however,
found him not guilty and he therefore stands vindicated. Mrs. Adams,
meanwhile, certainly was murdered and the guilt of that crime has never
been legally placed.
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