Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-10
A. DAMAGING STATEMENT
MADE BY JONES The VALET
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ing. About midnight on Monday I re-
ceived a telegram from Captain Baker,
Telling Me to Take Charge
Of Mr.. Rice's effects
Mr. Patrick came in response to
your telephone message?"
Eyes, SIR
about what time was it that he ar
rived?"
''Mr Patrick said it was 2 o'clock"
could you not fix the time your
self? Were there no clocks in the
room?"
q object" said District Attorney Os-
borne; this is not important
ut is very important, l assure your
honor it is of great Importance to Mr..
Patrick to fix the time of his visit"
said Mr.. Moore. The witness said the
clocks were of the 24-hour kind and
that he wound them.
Jones went on to say that the funeral
was postponed until Thursday and told
of the arrival of four police officers at
the apartments. Jones denied that he
had had converse ton with Mr.. Os-
borne in the house Of detention, during
which Mr.. Osborne had threatened to
get magistrate and have him recon-
mitted to the Tombs.
Mr.. Moore then announced that the
cross examination of the witness was
closed.
Mr.. Osborne then asked the witness:
ITO whom did you first tell the story
of the chloroforming of Mr.. Rice, the
story which you have told here?''
Mr.. Moore objected on the ground
that the statement was a privileged
communication between the co-defend-
ants and their legal advisers, but after
a long argument the question was al
lowed.
Jones replied: 81 told it to Lawyer
Fred. B. House. Mr.. Patrick was pres
ent at the time. told him
That 1 Ha- Given Mercury
to Mr.. Rice and afterwards had admin
istered chloroform to him. Patrick
told me to tell the truth, but Mr. House
said that it would not do for Mr.. Pat
rick to be made to appear as closely
in it as myself. Patrick said at this
meeting that the reason that Rice had
to be put out of the way was that the
drafts were coming on and they could
not afford to let them be paid"
To the best of witness recollection
this meeting between Mr. House, Pat
rick and himself was the day after
Prof. Witthaus had said he had dis
covered traces of mercury in Mr..
Rice's stomach. This, witness thought,
was on Friday before the Monday he
had the talk with Mr. Osborne.
'fDid Mr.. Patrick ever transact bust
ness for Mr.. Rice?"
HE once went to the commissioner
of jurors for Mr. Rice. but it was who
asked him to do so, not Mr. Rice"
On one occasion, Jones said, Patrick
asked the colored cook Maria Scott if
she knew that she was accused of hav-
ing poisoned Mr.. Rice by putting pois-
on in his food and she was frightened
and said she knew nothing about it.
Re-cross-examined by Mr. Moore, the
witness said that he had talked with
Captain Baker before he had told Mr..
House the story of the chloroforming.
Miss Lillian Scherer,
an operator employed by the New York
Telephone Company at the Thirty
eighth street exchange Office, was call
ed. Examined by Justice Jerome, the
witness described the working of the
exchange when a call is received and
produced slips which she made out on
the occasions when Jones had called
up Patrick and other persons. One of
these slips showed that a call had been
received between 6 and O'Clock Sum
day. September 23rd, from some person
using the telephone in Rice's apart
ments for connection with the tele-