The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-12
the HEARING CLOSED
,rsrICE JEROME RESERVES HIS
DECISION.
PATRICK STAYS IN ToMBs.
VIII PROBABLY BID HELD FOR
THE GRAND JURY.

raider Common Law Would Have to
Hold Him ON Statements of Jones
AIone. Said Justice JerOme-Stat-
,,te. May Change This-Examina-
zion waived by short, Meyers and
Patrick on Forgery Charges-No
nvtdenee That Rice Was Murdered,
said Attorney Moore.
>-eur York. April 1.-THE hearing In the
..za of Albert T. Patrick, charged with
che murder of the aged millionaire, Will
ian, Marsh Rice. closed this afternoon
ND Iustice Jerome announced that he
,.sarved his decision, but hoped to make
:, known by next Monday. 1t rests with
rrstice Jerome whether or not Patrick
will be held for the grand jury. Mean
while Patrick will stay in the Tombs.
In summing up for the prisoner. his
,onnsel. Mr.. Moore, presented several
reasons why he thought Patrick should be
freed The last one was this:
Admitting. if you will, that Patrick is
,,iIrv Of forgery, confederation of that
has no bearing on the charge Of murder.
We contend that there Is no evidence
that Rice was murdered"
THAT may be-" said Justice Jerome.
..nr+ under the common law, on the state
ments of Jones alone, 1 should have to
hold the defendant for the grand jury.
Whether the statutes change this, in re-
card 70 holding a defendant for the grand
iirv is the question. That is a mere
question of law and can easily be set
tied"
Charged With Forgery Also.
Mr. Moore acting for David L. Short
and Morris Meyers, waived examination
on the charges Of forgery against them
as he also did concerning the charge of
forgery against Patrick. The latter was
demanded to the Tombs without bail on
the murder charge, but no bail was fixed
for him in the forgery matter while
short and Meyers were held in bonds of
$1,000 each.
Expert KinsIey Testifies.
The first witness to-day was William ].
Klnsley, an expert on handwriting. Inc
witness was handed several checks by
Maid by Swenson & Co., and signed by
Wigiam NJ. Rice and then was handed
the 1900 viii and the checks for $4,000
and s65 Coco drawn on Swenson & Co., in
favor of Patrick Mr.. Kinsley said that
in his opinion the signatures on the Will
and on the SIS, 900 and 5000 checks were
not written by the person who had signed
the checks presented by the prosecution
as bearing the genuine signature of VIII
liam VI. Rice.
Assistant District Attorney Osborne
then handed the witness the assignment
and
what is known as the Cremation Let
ter" and Mr. Kinsley said:
u have already compared the sigma
lures on these papers with the admitted
signatures of the late Mr.. Rice and 1 say
that in my opinion they were not writ
ten by the same person."
Defendants counsel, Mr.. Moore, then
asked the witness if he had any personal
knowledge of the handwriting Of Mr.. Rice
other than that certain sigma lures were
shown him as being in Mr.. Rice's hand
writing, and the expert replied that he
had not.
David n. Carvalho another handwriting
expert was called. He eorroborated
Kinsleys testimony.
Found Plenty of Mercury.
Prof Rudolph Witthaus, an expert in
chemical analysis, testified that he had
made an examination of the internal or
gans of William M. Rice. In the stomach
he found traces of mercury; in the in
testines he found about half a grain of
mercury in the kidneys about one-ninth
of a grain of mercury and in the liver
an unwo.ghable quantity of mercury.
There was not sufficient mercury to cause
death, but the presence of it IN the or
gans indicated that a larger quantity had
been taken by the deceased, but just how
much he could not determine. Witness
said he had seen the brain and lungs
but was unable to tell of their condition.
as he is not sufficiently conversant with
these organs to give any expert opinion.
on denomination the professor said
that traces of mercury would remain in
Ihe system several months after the
drug had been introduced in the body. He
could mt say how long the fumes of
chloroform would remain about a person
TO whom the drug was administered by