The age-herald., 1901-04-04
VALET JONES
 CONTINUES HIS
 AWFUL STORY Goes Into Shocking Detail of
 the Murder A MAN WITHOUT EMOTION He and Patrick Were Economi-
 cal With Rice's Money. TRIED TO SAVE IT FOR THEMSELVES When Asked About His Attempt To Commit Suicide Jones Was Just as Cool as Ever-TestImony | Could Not Be Shaken.
He and Patrick Were Economi-
 cal With Rice's Money.
TRIED TO SAVE IT FOR THEMSELVES

New York. April 3.-Charles F. Jones, who was the valet secretary of William M Rice, the aged millionaire who, ac- cording to Jones' confession yesterday, was murdered by the use of chloroform in September last, finished his testimony today on direct examination in the pro- ceedings before Justice Jerome. charging Albert Patrick with murder. When court adjourned on Tuesday people went out of the little room In which Justice Jerome was conducting the examination of law yer Patrick, filled with wonder at the extraordinary story of the man who con fessed that he had placed over the face of his benefactor as he slapt a folded napkin saturated with chloroform, there by causing the death of the milliona '. Today they heard the same story re- peated under a different condition, but with even more dramatic surroundings. The story of the murder and conspiracy which Jones outlined on Tuesday he today | filled in with a wealth of detail with won- derful coolness and nerve.
 According to the story of the valet sec retary he and Patrick had drawn up the
 bogus will and were waiting with what
 patience they could for old man Rice to
 die, when a mill burned down in Texas
 Rice's connections there desired to re-
 build 1t, and he spoke of advancing the s10o,000 or s125,o00 required to replace the burned property.
 Could Not Spare $25,o00. Patrick told me to use all my infu- ence," said Jones today, with Rice not to rebuild the mill, as this would take all the ready cash from the estate'
 But Rice insisted advancing the money, and presently authorized a draft for $25,000 from one of his correspondents in Texas. Word of the draft arrived in New York on Saturday, and Jones, in accordance with his compact, told Pat rick about it. It was only s25,0O0, but &C., cording to the valet Patrick felt that he could not spare even this much out of the millions that he was already counting as his own.
 ''He then said" testified Jones, that he would have to do something to get Rice out of the way before Monday, when the draft would arrive"
 Even more illustrative of the caution and thoroughness of the alleged plot con- ceived and carried out by the men was another instance related by Jones. The manager of Rices estate in Texas, a man named Cohen, was in the habit of send ing a check made out in his name for bis salary to Rice monthly. Rice paid him by signing the check and mailing it back to him. When one of these checks came along, after Rice had signed 1t and given it to Jones to mail, Jones turned in over to Patrick in order that the latter might Qnff hn ufo f,Yra ha ta<f check that came from Cohen was signed with the forgery of Rice's name and sent along In order, by Its passage through the banks of Texas, they might test the merit of their forgery The experiment was an entire success. and gave them yet to come.
 Jones' Effort at Suicide.
 There was one point to-day at which it was confidently expected Jones would give some sign of emotion. It was even anticipated that he might brake down. This was when he was asked about the effort he had made at suicide In the tombs but expectation was again disap- pointed. He told of Patrick's suggesting that he take the, blame of the whole thing, of his refusal to do so, of Patrfcks handing him a knife with which to cut his throat and for the throat cutting itself with as little feeling as he showed the day before when he told how he chloroformed his helpless millionaire ben efactor.
 But 1t was on cross-examination that Jones really demonstrated that he was emotion proof. Robert F. Moore, Patrick's lawyer, and the same man who saved Dr. Kennedy from the death chair at the recent trial, went about the cross-exam- ination in a spirit of thoroughness that would have dismayed most men. Grad ually he felt along the outline of Jones story until he had satisfied himself that there was nothing to be gained by a patient examination and then he at- tempted to storm Jones' position. When he spoke of the killing of Rice he called 1t murder and he kept the electric chair in the mind of the man on the witness stand, who answered everything as calm ly and quietly as if the thing was merely a perfunctory rehearsal.
 It was impossible to shake the testi- mony of the witness. He had a memory like an almanac
 Perhaps the only point where the at torneys for Patrick even appeared to shake the nerve and the confidence of Jones was when they extorted a state ment from him that he hoped by telling his present story to escape the death pen alty for murder. He said his lawyer, Mir. Battle, had assured him that he could do nothing for him; he knew Battle had talked to Osborne and he gathered that if he did tell the whole truth some measure of consideration would be shown him. This and his conscience. he said, induced him to admit the guilt of murder.
 Patrick's defense will be general de-