The sun., 1900-11-03
THE JONES CONFESSION,
II May ,'ause More Arrests IN tie
Rite Gaze.
WHAT Mr.. OSBORNE THINKS.
Declares He Believes Jones Knew ns
Much as Patrick Did About What
Was Going on and What
Was to Happen.

New York, Nov. 2.-The confession and
attempted suicide in the Tombs of
Charles +. Jones. valet to the late VIII
lam NJ. Rice, and under arrest, with Al
bert Z. Patrick, Rice's attorney, on the
charge of forgery, do not seem 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
valet 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 that their arrest might fol-
low when the right time came.
"There are others concerned in this
conspiracy" said Assistant District At
torney Osborne. Il shall not make arrests
Immediately, but there is one of the wit
ncsses of the assignments of whose story
don't believe a word. That one, / be-
lieve, was in with the others"
As to the relative guilt of Jones and
Patrick, Mr.. Osborne said that he be-
lieved that both were in the conspiracy,
that one knew quite as much as the
other and that either might be put on
trial with the other as witness.
used by Patrick when he put TINT funnel
over the old mans face" said Mr.. Os-
horne. Il don't know that any annsthetic
was used. | don't even know whether this
confession is true. NBut / am confident of
this that Jones knew ns much at Pat
rick did about what was going on, and
that before the old man died they both
, knew what was going TO happen"
, What Jones Told Miller.
/ Lawyer w. w. Miller, attorney fol
Captain james X. Baker, who had more
i than any person to do with the investi
CATION into Rice's death, said that wheI
: he saw Jones in the hospital the vale
said to him that Patrick had threatened
. to kill him if he did not commit suicide
according to the man, Patrick said t.
II him: Zones, l have pill in your pie
/ You had better take your life. Here !
: the knife to do it with.
II Jones is said to be- recovering ut Belle
vur hospital The wounds which he III
tlictcd on his neck are superficial, an
the young man appears to be suffern
from loss of blood and shock rathp
4 than from anything else. All day IN
night he was sobbing almost continual,
and he is said to have cried out to on
= OF the lawyers who saw him; My Got
= My God, To think what ! have don
= to my best friend, the only friend bat
n !, MIR. Rice! Only think that | was IN TIN
u. = other room and knew that he was beir
% killed aud didn't raise my hand TO hc
IN him.
~ Lawyer Patrick, i'll the Tombs, st
= maintains that the confession made
!, Jones il ii monstrous lie. Frederick
~ House called on him during the ia
:" = After The interview Mr., House said til
= he would make no public naowe i'll Il
case until after Jones was strong enou:
=, 10 tell him his whole story i'll detail. !
- declared that The whole proceeding
> which il statement was procured fro
4 Jones WAS ''an outrage, 4 peryersian
! justice and an eternal shanc. lle III
!. said that he had consulted counsel aS
- - the adyisnhilty aud the legal groun
y for requesting Tie governor to coure
- IN cNtlitorliunfy grand jury for ilte pt
/ puse of Investigating The case