The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-05
TRIED TO SEE VALET JONES.
The Accused MANS Fdancee Visits
Bellevue Hospital.

| NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-Charles F. Jones
! the wouid-be suicide who made the sen
sational confession duplicating Attorney
! Patrick in the conspiracy TO secure The
! fortune of the late eccentric Millionaire
Rice. was delighted yesterday by the visit
| Of his sweetheart TO Bellevue Hospital,
where he is temporarily detained with a
| self-infiicted wound in his throat
! 1t was shortly after noon when two wo-
| men entered the reception room N the
| hospital and timidly enquired for Warden
! y BcuFke. Both women were fashiOndbly
! gewned. One was tall. slender, graceful,
| and handsome. When she learned that
| Warden O'Rourke was not in she wes
greatly disappointed and asked 10 see
some one who could give permission TO
| see a patient
Who is it that you desire to see?" the
attendedant asked.
Charles F. JONES' she replied. "and it
is very important that 1 should see him. -
The attendant told her that she could
not enter the prison ward without epe-
cial permit from the Police Department
or the District Attorneys Office
If | had only known that" she replied.
I would have arranged il. Now won't
you please go to the prison ward and tell
the policeman In charge that / am Miss
If it cannot be arranged for NE to see him
for just a moment. even 4 have TO see
him through a barred door,?
The attendant tried to arrange q meet
ing, hut the roundsman in the prison ward
would not even consent for The woman TO
get peep at Jones from behind a screen.
1T is just this way" she said. II am
Mr. Jones sweetheart and have not seen
him since he was arrested. l thought 7
could see him today, because / told
that Il was regular visiting day and l
could go through the hospital without amy
trouble.
Y do not care what may happen will
never believe THAI he ever did anything
wrong, and he got into this trouble through
that man Patrick. who used him as tool
without his knowing what was going on.
want TO tell him that | Will never de-
sert him
The Two women walked around the hos
pital ground and remained about an hour
in front OF the windows Of the room where
Jones is carefully watched. One of his
guardians told him OF the visit of Miss
Whitney. He jumped from his cot and
tried to get from behind the screen to see
the woman. So careful was the watch
kept on Jones that not even the regular
missionaries were allowed to conduct their
Sunday services in the prison ward
The only person admitted was George
Gordon Battle. who has suppianted Law
yer Frederick B. House as Jones' lawyer
Mr. Battle and Jones was in a very merry
mood
Mr. Battle. it is said, was retained by
Hornblower. Byrne. Miller & Potter, the
lawyers for Capt. James c. Baker, of Tex
as. who began the investigation which
landed Patrick and Jones in jail
Mr. Battle Will protect the rights of
Jones under an arrangement which has
beer. made with Assistant District Attor-
neg Osborne, and no one will be permit
ted to see Jones and obtain material TO
be used to cast diseredit upon his con-
fessioTI.
Mr.. Battle admitted that Jones had made
a statement TO MIR. Osborne. but that the
version made public might not be correct.