The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-02
ATTORNEY ACCUSED OF
Staying MILLIONAIRE
Jones, the Valet Is Alleged to Have Made Comics
sion Charging Patrick With Numbering Rice.
Doses Of Mercury and ChlOrOfOrm Administered BY
Sponge Are the Alleged Means Employed.

and what steps he VIII take. and
want you to telephone, and if Rice
takes any steps TO notify the authOri-
ties l want TO know if you VIII be sure
and telephone me- I told him that 7
would When I went back Rice was
sleeping. When I left PatrIcks house
1 went for the doctor. and when j re-
turned Rice was asleep and nothing
more was said about the paper until
Sunday morning His mind was wan
oerlnE sunday morning after ne woke
up. and he talked incoherently- About
II O'Clock he had improved, and he ask.
ed me about the papers. He asked me
why I did not yet them. 7 told hing
tHat Patrick had promised to call, bus
had not done SO. = t0ld me TO so auC
see him again, an f-JeIl him that he
had given him the last warning He
loId me to tell it to him i'm the pres
euce OF some person. I went TO see.
Patrick. and he said the papers We're
i'm his office and that he would get
them and bring them to me. This was
about [ or O'Clock. He did not do
So and I went to- his house about
o'clock He said He would bring the
papers. 7 told him To bring anything
me had in the house, and he wanted 10
know why Rice wanted the papers
Then follows the story of the final aCts
in the murder, the administering 0ft
the aHeSthetIc.
Jones continued as follows;
Finds Rice Dead
When [ walked up about 8 O'Clock
the morning following Eice's death.
having been IN the habit of carrying
water to him since his sickness / asked
hAm then If he wanted water. and he
did not answer 1 took up his hand
and it was limp and Iifeless- / at once
saw that he was either feigninE or
dead ] first looked around the house
for Patrick and sent for the doctor. I
told Patrick that Rice was either sick.
or dead. / asked him, Where have
you BEEN and how did YOU get away2'
He answered, j VIII go out and get
the doctor and come up The doctor
and Patrick came together about $50
or 9 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. The doctor replied, About TWEEN
ty 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
THE next day he returned and had
with him bank books and check books
/ He had q number Of blank checks. T
/ haze some checks that l. want you to
/ fiji out he said. fOne on C.. N. SVEN
.
/ out for $4,000 on $. NJ SwensOn &
/ Sons, one for $4,000 on the Fifth Ave
nue. Trust company and one for SI5J-uJU
/ on the same company He told me he
had the right TO cash these checks be-
. fore EiCe's death became known He
I left at $50 or o'clock and said he
. would telephone me to dictate messages
. to be sent to relatives and Baker, and
+ 10 tell the bank If if called up that the
+ checks were good. About 1880 o'clock
: he called me UP and said, We've made
I q bust Of it,
! He again told me TO tell the bank
I that the checks were all right About
ter minutes later Nh Wallace called
up and asked for Mr. Rice. He asked
T me If the checks were in my haUdwTir-
ing I told him. Yes If you send 1t
. uu 7 viii correct it That is how he
7 explained the spelling of the name Al
/ bert Albert instead of correctly Then
he told me to have MI Rice come To
the phone 7 said. Very Well and
rang off Then I called uD Patrick and
4 told him. He told me to tell them, II
= called up again, that Mr. Rice was
dead.
.swenson came to the telephone and
T asked about Rice 7 told him that he
Was dead. Then he wanted to know all
. about it. 7 told him ne had died at 8
o'clock the night before Patrick then
called me ND again and said. These
people have kicked over the traces "
Jones is Unnerved.
ar Miller of the firm Of HornbIower
G Ry-rne. was at the prison ward IN
F4IIeEue hospital with Jones for an
h1-T-
Jones, he said; was unneTyed and
broken He lay on his cot and sobbet
and cried like q child Mr. Miller said
Tonas told him that Patrick told him
to kill himself as he had better OPP
Do-fTruftv TO do so than he lPatrtcl1l.
J as there was another man IN the cell
with Patrick Miller said jones tuIJn-
I OH quoted Patrick as saying wv nat
I ran I do? have two children. and
what viii become Of them i'm case am
. tried and this is found out2'
I Mr. Osborne was asked what part
/ of the Rice estate Jones had expected
( ~ get. He said Jones told him Patrick
had assured him of being well cared
J for but had promised nothing more
definite. The estate. Mr. Osborne said,
is estimated 10 be worth from S5,Uuo,01D
to IS. 100000.
Mr.. osborne was asked if i'm the
/ event of Jones death his confession
/ could be used against Patrick.
'Of course not he replied.
. Some one suggested that Jones ante
norton statement could be secured ana
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 the
: death of Jones, the confession could not
he used. He is q lawyer He knows
that dead men tell no tales
Frederick House, attorney Tor Fat
b. rick and Jones, says he does not De
f 1ieve Jones ever confessed. He bases
{ his belief on what ne says Jones told
% him on Wednesday, that he had not
confessed and would not do So becau
\ he had nothing TO confess
MIC Lie LEE