The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-02

ried him and put him in bed When l left
/ told Rice what Patrick had said about
the papers and of his saying he would COME
10 Tie house.
Mr. Rice was very sick. Patrick said
to me: Go get a doctor / went for one
and he came back with me and pronounced
Rice dead. Patrick asked: How long has
he been dead? The doctor answered:
Twenty minutes This was about 3
o clock Patrick asked the doctor what was
the next thing TO DO. The doctor said to
get an undertaken. The doctor recon-
mended an undertaken named Senior, at
Madison Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. l
went there. but could not get Senior. and
Patrick said: Never mind I'll get an
other When / got back found an I'M
dertaker named Powright there. Then
Patrick took me aside and said Now,
Jones, We've got to get all of the old mans
papers. Understand we must get all of
them We took all the papers we could
find. and Patrick bundled them all up and
took them away with him Monday Morn
ing Patrick came to Mr.. Rice's house. He
had checkbook in his hand. He said:
This is Mr.. Rice's checkbook.' Then he
showed me two checks signed w. NJ Rice
Now he said. 1 want you to fill out the
amounts of these checks and at his re-
quest l filled out one for $4,000 and an
other for S65, COO.
las to the embalming of Mr.. Rice's
body, the letter used was dictated by Mr..
Rice either in July or August. but it was
not signed by him. / saw this letter
among Rice's papers on several occasions.
1nasmuch as l went uptown to see Senior.
the undertaken, while Patrick made the
arrangements for the undertaken. / did
not see the letter that Patrick gave to
tine undertaken. / have seen il several
times since, however, and can state posi-
lively that it was the letter, unsigned,
among Mr.. Rice's papers,
Most of Mr.. Osborne's information from
Jones was in the form of letter written
on prison paper. both sides of which were
written on. He does not state what be-
came of the bottle, but Detective Ser
geant Mcknight yesterday went to Rice's
late apartments and there procured sew
eral bottles. They were all taken TO the
office at police headquarters.
a note was sent this afternoon to Pat
rick in the Tombs. embodying the sub
stantial facts stated in Jones' confession.
Patrick sent back word that he did not
believe that Jones had made any such con-
fession and that il he had he had simply
told mass of lies Patrick stated he was
innocent and that he hoped to be so
proven in the course of time.
Jones is still in critical condition at
Bellevue Hospital, where he was taken
Immediately after it was discovered that
he had cut his throat with small pen
knife in his cell at the Tombs.
Jones' condition was discovered by one
of the keepers about o'clock, but he
had then been bleeding for half an hour
or more, and was extremely weak The
keeper had heard him breathing heavily,
and a call was sent to Bellevue for an am
bulance, and DR.. o'Reilly reached the
Tombs at 4:i5 o'clock a. m. He found
the valet lying in his cell in a pool of
blood. The man would have died bad
he gone fifteen minutes longer without
medical care. As it was. Dr. O'Reilly had
to administer stimulants repeatedly be-
fore he dared to put the man in the am
bulance for removal to Bellevue. At the
hospital he was placed in the prison ward
and q policeman and two keepers were
assigned to guard him. BY o'clock he
had regained his strength somewhat, ard
had regained consciousness, but nobody
was allowed to see him.
In their first announcement the Tombs
officers said Jones had used small, sharp
penknife, but later they declared it was
rail file Commissioner Lantry, Of the
department of correction, said that Night
Keeper John Curran. who had found the
ilitluptSu hiAi sioS oOH'~S
had cut his throat with small pen
knife, such as is used for cleaning the
nails He said he got this from Albert
T. Patrick, Rice's counsel, who is also
imprisoned. The commissioner said, how
ever, that Patrick had denied having
given the knife to Jones. and had de-
clarcd that he knew nothing about the
attempt CT Jones to end his life. Com
missioner Lantry ordered a full investi-
cation, with reports from the keeper on
the tier and Night Keeper Curran.