The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-11-06
JONES MAKES A CONFESSION
WHICH IMPLICATES PATRICK

get a DOCTOR / went for one and he
came back with me and pronounced
Rice dead. Patrick asked: How long
has he been deadY The doctor answer
ed: Twenty minutes 1t was about 9
o'clock. Patrick asked the doctor
what was the next thing TO do. The
doctor said to get an undertaken. The
doctor recommended an undertaken
named Senior. mt Madison avenue and
Fifty-ninth street | went there, but
did not get Senior. and Patrick said
Never mind; I'll get another
when | got back | found an under
taker named Plowright 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 up and took them away with him.
Monday morning Patrick came to Mr..
Rices house. He had check book in
his hand. He said: This Is Mr. Rice's
checkbook.' Then he showed me two
checks signed w. NJ. Rice. Now he
said, Il want you 10 Till out the amounts
of these checks and at his request |
filed out one for $4,000 and another
for $4,000.
'As 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. l saw this
letter among Rice's papers on several
occasions.
THE next day Patrietl returned and
had with him bank books and check
books. He had Il number of blank
checks. Il have some checks that
want you to ill out he said. one on
G. fa,
was filed out for S65,0O0 on s. NJ
Swanson x Sons, one for $4,000 on
the Fifth Avenue Trust Company and
one for S1350o0 on the same company.
He told me he had the proper right to
cash these checks before Rice's death
became known-his words were legal
right lie left at $50 or . o'clock and
said he would telephone me to dictate
messages to be sent to the relatives and
Baker, and to tell the bank if it called
up that the checks We're good.
About 11:30 o'clock lie called me up
and said: We've made IA bust of it He
again told me 10 tell the bank that the
checks We're all right. About ten min
utes later Mr.. Wallace called up and
asked for Mr.. Rice. He asked me If
the checks We're in my handwriting. |
told him yes if you send 1t up will
correct it, That is how he explained
the spelling of the name Albert Albert
instead of correctly. Then he told me
10 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 il called up again
that Mr.. Rice was dead.
Swanson came to the telephone and
asked about Rice. Then he wanted to
know all about it. | told him he had
died at o'clock the night before"
Mr.. Miller of the firm of Hornblower
Il Byrne was at the prison ward in
Bellevue hospital with Jones for an
hour.
Jones, he said. was unrcryed and
broken. He lay on his cot and sobbed
and cried like child. Mr.. Miller said
Jones told him that Patrick told him to
kill himself, as he had n better oppor-
tunity to do so than he Patrick), as
there was another man in the cell with
Patrick Miller said that Jones furth-
er quoted Patrick as saying:
what can i do? l have two child
ren. and what will become of them in
case | am tried and this Is found out? ~
Mr.. Osborne was asked what part of
the Rice estate Jones had expected to
get He said Jones told him Patrick
had assured him of being well cared
for, but had promised nothing more
definite. The estate, Mr.. Osborne said,
is estimated at from three to eight mil
lions.