Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-02

and sent for the doctor. | told friend
| Patrick that Rice was either dead or
sick | asked him 'sWhere have you
| been and how did you get away?' He
answered, i will go and get the doc
I tor and come up The doctor and
! Patrick came together about $3.50 or
10 o'clock The doctor examined Rice
and said he was dead. Patrick was
then very nervous and excited and he
asked the doctor how long he had
| been dead He replied, About twenty
! minutes.
After the body had been laid out,
Patrick gathered up all the letters. |
was with him, and had as much as he
to do with that He gathered up two
watches and all the money that was IN
the trunk. Patrick selected what ne
wanted from the papers. He told me
that he wanted all the valuable papers.
The next day he returned and had
with him bank books and check books.
He had a number of blank checks.
have some checks that | want you to
| fill OUT said he. One was filled out for
$65 900 on Swenson & Sons, one for
1925, 900 on the Fifth Avenue Trust
! Company, and one for S135, 900 on the
same company. He told me he had the
proper right to cash these checks be-
fore Rice's death became known, his
words were legal right He left at
$3.50 or o'clock and said he would
telephone me to dictate messages to
be sent to relatives and Baker, and
to tell the bank, if it called up, that
the checks were good. About 11:30 he
called me up and said: We've made
bust of it. He again told me to tell
the banks that the checks were all
right. About ten minutes later Mr..
Wallace called up and asked for Rice.
he asked me if the checks
Were in My Handwriting.
l told him yes, if you send 1t up l
| will correct it. That is how he ex-
| planned the spelling of the name Albert
| Albert instead of correctly. Then he
| told me to have Mr. Rice come to the
telephone. l said Very well, and rang
| off. Then l called up Patrick and told
| him. He told me to tell them if they
called up again that Mr.. Rice was
| dead.
Swenson came to the telephone and
he asked about Rice. l told him that
he was dead. Then he wanted to know
all about it. / told him he had died at
the night before. Patrick then call
ed me up again and said: These peo-
pie have kicked out of the traces He
! then dictated to me the message to be
sent to the relatives.
| Patrick came to the house between
and 5 O'Clock on Monday Mr. and
Mrs. Carpenter and their son. Robert,
were there. Mr.. Patrick asked them
to attend the funeral the following
! day. Mrs. Medium called and showed
me telegram from Captain Baker and
| asked ii she could assist in any way.
| The telegram said: Look out for prop
| erty and valuable That was the sub
! stance of it.. Patrick said not to say
anything and / will post you. Now,
Jones, we are in for it. Look for the
worst he said. l did not sleep much
| or could not. | knew we'll that those
checks were not right. Patrick. before
he left, told me to say that the checks
in question were TO settle the Holt
Claim. He told me he was going to
call off the cremation.
| Mr.. Osborne questioned Jones after
he had concluded the statement and
asked many questions, all of which
Jones answered and declared he an
sWered truthfully.
Mr.. Osborne was asked if he thought
there
| Would he Any More Arrests
in the case, and if any OF the notaries
! that had been interested in the case
would be arrested. He said he was
! not prepared to answer that question.
Mr.. Miller, of the firm of Hornblower
& Byrne, was at the prison ward in
Bellevue hospital with Jones for an
| hour
Jones, he said was unnerved and
broken. He lay on his cot and sob
bed and cried like a child Mr.. Miller
said Jones told him that Patrick had
told him to kill himself as he haG a
better opportunity to do it than he
| (Patrick), as there was another man
in the cell with Patrick Miller said
that Jones further quoted Patrick as
saying What can l do? l have two
children, and what will become of
| them in case | am tried and this is
found out?"
! Asked if he thought Mr. Rice had
been chloroformed, Mr. Osborne said
Jones had spoken of hearing the old
man laugh and he stated it is we'll
known that certain anaesthetic pro-
duces laughter.
Mr.. Osborne was also asked If
in the event of Jones death his con-
fession could be used against Pat
rick.
"Of Course Not" He Replied.
Someone suggested that Jones ante
norton statement could be secured and
used.
AN ante-mortem statement" said
Mr.. Osborne. made by a third party is
of no use. 1t must be made by party
about to die. No person knows better
than Patrick that in the event of
Jones death the confession could not
be used. He is a lawyer. He knows
that dead men tell no tales
Before leaving his Office Mr. Osborne
said that he had given out all of the
confession he intended TO give out at
the present time.
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