Molineux, Roland B

(1866-1917)

   The murderer turned playwright had his one-act Was It a Dream? produced at Proctor's 23rd Street Theatre in 1903, following his acquittal, after mistrials and appeals, of the murder of Katherine Adams. Ten years later, his full-length crime drama, The Man Inside, was produced by David Belasco. Molineaux married Margaret Connell, who had helped with the play, but he soon suffered a mental breakdown and spent his last four years in the New York State Hospital for the Insane.