Edward L. Molineux

from The New York Times, June 11, 1915:

    GEN. E. L. MOLINEUX
        DIES IN BROOKLYN
   Civil War Veteran Spent a For-
      tune in Defense of His
         Son, Roland B.
    HIS RECORD AS A SOLDIER
 Once Commander of the Military
    Order of the Loyal Legion--
     How Son Lost His Mind.
 General Edward Leslie Molineux, the
soldier and manufacturer and the father
of Roland B. Molineux, who was convict-
ed and later acquitted of the murder of
Mrs. Katherine B. Adams, and in whose
defense his father spent a fortune, died
yesterday at his home, 117 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, in his eighty-third
year.
 He was born in London, England, and
came to this country in his boyhood.
General Molineux was educated at the
Mechanics' Society School in this city
and when the civil war broke out was
Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-third
Regiment of the New York National 
Guard. He entered the war as Colonel
commanding the 159th New York Vol-
unteers, in in the campaigns against
Port Hudson, Red River, Petersburg,
and in the Shenandoah Valley was com-
mander of a brigade.
 When the war ended, General Moli-
neux was brevetted a Brigadier Gen-
eral and a Major General of Volunteers.
In 1880 he was appointed Brigadier
General of the Eleventh Brigade of the
National Guard of the State of New
York and five years later was appointed
Major General of the Second Division
of the same.
 General Molineux was Commander of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
in 1886. He was a director of the F.
W. Devoe & C. T. Raynolds Company,
paint manufacturers. Shortly after the
European war began General Molineux
realized that his paint factory would
soon be deprived of its foreign supply
of color materials, and he suggested to
his son that he set to work in the la-
boratory and find a substitute for these
pigments.
 Roland B. Molineux worked day and
night, and for a time it was believed
that he was about to make an important
discovery, but each time he failed. It
was believed that these disappointments
brought on the nervous breakdown that
ended in his being committed to the
New York State Hospital for the In-
sane at Kings' Park last September.
 In November, 1913, Roland B. Moli-
neux's play, "The Man Inside," was
produced by David Belasco in this city.
The play, which had but a short run,
was said to be an accurate portrayal of
the author's experiences and sensations
in the death house at Sing Sing, where
he was incarcerated for twenty months
before being brought to trial for the sec-
ond time, when he was acquitted.