The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-02
THE RICE CONSPTRATORS
Mr.. Osborne Declares That Other
Arrests Are Likely.
New YoriS's Assistant District Attor-
ney Convinced That Patrick and
Jones Had AccompIIees-The Valet
Recovering From, His Wounds, But
in Very HysterfcaI Condition.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-CharIes F. Jones,
the young valet TO the millionaire, Will
liam Marsh Rice, who tried to kill himself
| in his cell in the Tombs yesterday morning
after he made a confession Involving At
torney Albert T. Patrick, his alleged ac-
complice in the conspiracy to gain the
fortune of the aged recluse, was said to ba
recovering today at Bellevue Hospital. The
wounds which he inflicted On his mech are
superficial and the young man appears to
be suffering from loss of blood and shock
rather than from anything else.
All day yesterday and last night he vas
sobbing almost continually and he is said
to have cried out to cne of the lawyers
who saw him: MY God Ny God! To
think what 1 have done to my best friend.
the only friend I had, Mr.. Rice Only
think that I was in that cutter room and
knew that he was being killed and did not
raise my hand to help him
Attorney Patrick, in the Tombs, still
maintains that the confession made by
! Jones is monstrous lie. Frederick B.
House called on him this morning. After
! the interview Mr.. House said that he would
i make no public move in the case until
after Jones was strong enough to tell him
his whole story in detail He declared
! that the whole proceeding by which a
| statement was procured from Jones was
| ''an outrage, a perversion OF justice, and
an eternal shame" He also said that he
had consulted counsel as TO the advisa-
bility and the legal grounds for requesting
the Governor to convene an extraordinary
! the case.
The confession and attempted suicide OF
the valet do not seem even yet to end the
! developments in the strange case of al
! legged conspiracy and murder. Other per-
| sons than the attorney, who, If Jones'
| confession is true, knows more than any
| one else about the mysterious death OF
| his aged client. and the weak-willed va
/! let, who is supposed to have been his
dupe, are believed by the prosecuting au-
| thorities, TO be involved in the case, and
it was suggested today that their arrest
| might follow when the time came.
| There are others concerned in this con-
| spiracy," said Assistant District Attor-
ney Osborne this morning. I shall not
make arrests Immediately. There is ons
of the witnesses of the assignments Ct
whose story don't believe q word. That
one, I believe. was in with The others
as to the relative guilt of Jones ard
! Patrick. Mr. Osborne said this morning
/ that he believed that both we're in the
/ conspiracy. that one knew quite as mu h
as the other and either might be put en-
! trisl with the other as witness.
! y don't know what anaesthetfc was Used
! by Patrick when he put that funnel over
the old mans face" said Mr.. Osborne
81 don't know that any anaesthetic las
used. l don't even know whether this
confession is true. But l an confident OF
( this. that Jones knew as much as Patrick
did about what was going On, and tnat
before the old man died they beth knew
what was going to happen
! w W. KILLER, attorney for Capt. James
/ X Baker. who had more than any person
TO do with the investigation into Riee's
death, said this morning that when he saw
Jones in the hospital yesterday the valet
said 10 him that Patrick had threatened to
/ kill him If he did not commit suicide Ac-
! cording to the man, Patrick said to him;
ZONES. I have pill In your pie You
had better take your life. Here is the
knife to do ii with