The Lamar register., 1900-11-07
JONES MAKES A CONFESSION
WHICH IMPLICATES PATRICK

get doctor. / went for one ana he
came back with me and pronounced
Rice dead Patrick asked: How long
has he been dead% The doctor answer
ed: Twenty minutes 1t was about 8
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. at Madison avenue and
Fifty-ninth street. | went there, but
did not get Senior. and Patrick said:
Never mind; I'll get another
when l got back l 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..
Rice's house. He had check book in
his hand. He said: This is Mr.. Rlce's
checkbook' Then he showed me two
checks signed w. NJ. Rice. Now he
said. 4 want you to fill ont the amounts
of these checks and at his request l
filed out one for $4,000 and another
for S65,0OO.
las to the embalming of Mr.. 1tlce'n
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.
1.-The next day Patrick returned and
had with him bank books and check
books. lie had n number of blank
checks. L have some checks that l
want you to fill out he said. One on
| S. NJ. Swanson 4 Sons for SO, 900 One
was filed out for $G5,OO0 on SIN.
! Swanson & Sons. one for $4,000 on
the Fifth Avenue Trust Company and
one for S135. 900 on the same company.
| He told me he had the proper right to
cash these checks before lticc's death
became known-his words were legal
right He left at $40 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 II 1t called
up that the checks We're good.
about II 80 O'Clock he called me up
and said: We've made n bust of it He
again told me to tell the bank that the
checks were all right. About ten min
utes later Mr.. Wallace called up and
ask,l for Mr.. Rice. lie asked me II
the checks We're in my handwriting. l
told him yes. If you send it up ! Will
correct it, That is how he explained
the spelling of the name Albert Albert,
instead of correctly. Then he told me
to have Mr.. Rice come to the telephone.
l said: Very WELL and rang on. Then
l called up Patrick and told him. He
told me to tell them If called up again
that Mr.. Rice was dead.
"Swanson came to tile telephone ana
asked about Rice. Then he wanted to
know all about it. l told him he had
died Mt o'clock the night before"
Mr.. Miller of the firm of Hornblower
& Byrne was at the prison ward in
Bellevue hospital with Jones for an
| hour.
Jones. he said. was unnervcI and
broken. He lay on 1iis cot and sObbcd
and cried like child. Mr.. Miller said
Jones told him that Patrick told him to
kill himself. as he had 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 l 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 ZONES 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 ut from three to eight mil
lions.