The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-08
MAKES
A STATEMENT
PrOclaims His Innocence of
Millionaire Rice's Murder.
SAYS HE rs VICTIM
OF A CONSPIRACY
Peculiar Treatment of Valet
Jones by Officers.

! New York, April Lawyer Albert T.
Patrick, who is charged with the muir
der of Millionaire Rice, made a state
7 ment tonight concerning the. case He
had been asked TO say something con-
4 concerning a story printed in morning
paper to the effect that Valet Jones had
I spent several hours. accompanied by
policeman attached to the district at
| tornev's office, in touring the tenderloin
district. According TO this story, hotels,
concert halls, gardens ard theatres had
| been visited by the prisoner and his at
! tendant. and dozens of drinks taken Ol
/ this point Lawyer Patrick sa1o' -
4 have known that this klnsi OF lhlh5
I has been going on for several weeks;
J could not haze sworn that such was the
case but ] have heard from. various
/ sources that Jones was plenutuliy sup
l piled with money, was taken out Dug
gy riding and was otherWlse Itss' leu
/ with kindness and consideration.
/ Patrick then went on TO speak OF the
! Rice murder case This is the nrst time
| that he has made any statement since
his arrest He said:
Jones never killed William NJ klce-
! Had he done so he never would nave
1 testified to it, especially as the dlstIlct
attorney has promised him no immunity,
i nor would his counsel. even thOugn pro-
vided by Captain Baker, have permit
/ ted him to do so. His confidence is due
to the fact that William NJ. Rice at the
\ age of S4, died of neart failure. as ala
] his brother F. A. Rice yesterday, at the
| age of 20, and there never. will be any
proof otherwise.
Calls it Fairy Story.
! ''rThe only crime of which Jones is
| guilt of is that of conspiring against
the 1900 will and that of peEury IN
! the present proceedings. His fairy story
/ is the result of d collaboration Win
/ James A Baker, Jones' lawyer; MI
] Battle who is hired by Baker: Assist
! ant District Attorney Osborne and Pro-
fessor Witthaus, the professional e1-
! pert whose report Osborne Tor the last
( six months has been expecting IN d
! few days, and who swore that Rice died
| of mercurial poisoning, II he did not
! die of something else.
The object OF Jones story is to nave
| me held in prison pending the VIII Ut
! igation. 1 have already been in prison
J six months on the forgery charge with
| out even being indicted and l do not
/ believe that there is any serious inten-
! ton to try me on a criminal charge be-
/ fore a jury. My arrest on a murder
/ charge and the desperate attempt TO
! hold me is due entirely TO my ability to
/ give bail upon any less serious charge.
! The stock in trade of the opposition to
| the 1900 will is their already demon
/ strated ability to control the
district attorneys office; that
is to say. that portion pre-
| sided over by Osborne, over which there
seems to be no administrative super
/ vision.
/ so far the tactics employed against
/ me have been the giving out by Mr.. Os-
! borne continually of statements known
/ by him to be false, in order to cause the
! public to PREJUDICE me guilty, so as to
/ justify false imprisonment and to pre-
1 vent fair trial; the wrongful impris-
/ Onment of myself and the bounding by
detectives of those who appear to favor
ne; the abuse of the process of the
/ courts by wrongfully subpoenaeing, in
the name of the court persons to per-
/ sonally appear before him and submit
to examinations in his Office.
Conspiracy is Charged.
THE use, under the guise of profess
! siOnal handwriting experts, 70 swear
that the signatures of the 1910 will
] checks. assignments, etc. are f2rgeries
and the procuring of false testimony
are all in the same line. Jones sVOre
on the witness stand. and Osborne adj
mitted it in open court, that Jones had
] informed Osborne in January that J mes
/ had killed Mr.. Rice with chloroform and
j that subsequently, in collaboration with
/ Witthaus on Feb. q, the present com
plant, charging me with killing Rice
with mercurial poison was made at the
instance of Osborne in an attempt to
deprive me of all knowledge of the ma
ture of the accusation against me until
he had used as witnesses those whom
he supposed to be for me.
Il have been informed that Jones has
been Tor several weeks past permitted
] to roam the streets. So far as I am
concerned I have no objection. provided
that Jones be kept within the jurisdic-
| ton of the court.
1T would take but little corroboratfon
! TO convict Jones upon his own confess
sion, but 1t would take a great deal to
convict me upon Jones' accuration If
l am held or indicted for murder. Jones
VIII certainly be also, and 1 would sure
~ be acquitted but in his effort 10 ba,-a
himself corroborated he might be con-
Etcted, innocent though ae is. and then
ne would surely be electrocuted for no
hand could save him.
Says Jones is a Tool.
Jones is stalking his life upon the
ability of the handwriting experts to
discredit Rice's signature, which Jones
saw him write and which he shows by
his numerous statements and uncer-
tain testimony that he knows Rice
signed. Jones may rest assured that
those for whom he has Outlawed himself
| from mankind will abandon him when
they can TO longer use him.
As 10 my own position / can only
say mat L VIII be indicated and win
be able to discharge all duties deVOIvine.
! upon and maintain all rights heiOngin o
TO me- all of which, however, is in the
| hands OF my able and conservative at
! torneys.
/ 'OI personal revenge I have no
| thought. but if I am convicted of Rice's
murder / shall do my utmost to convict
all complicated. in which event I am
sure l can prove the motive for the az
legged viii of 1896 and the fnstigators
TO be persons striving to uphold ii. and
proving that Jenes did the deed. beIiev-
| ing that he could thus prevent the con-
summation of Mr.. Rice's plans through
I me-"
District Attorney Philbin was asked
today what be knew of Jones' alleged
tour of the tenderloin. He replied tbat
he knew nothing whatever, except what
he had read.
Have you at any time given permits
/ sion Tor him to absent himself from
the house of detention. except when he
was in attendance at cours?''
/ have not, he replied
MT Osborne said: Il have read the
statement made by Patrick and have
! nothlng to say. 1 cannot make mvseIf
! popular with the criminal classes and
expect to be malighed at every chance .
Every answerable want can be sun
| piled through Herald Insured wants.
Salisbury Stands Trip Well.
Nice April S.-Lord Salisbury has ar
| rived at Bealciliu. He was but little