The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-04-15
OSBORNE IS ACCUSED,
Wife Of Rice Case Defendant Makes
Charge Of Conspiracy.
MRS. DAVID SHORTS CHARGES
Calls Jones q Discredited Witness.
Statement That Husbands Bail
ls Excessive-EH0rts Made to
Entice Him From the State.

New York, April 14.-Mrs. David
Short wife of one Of the defendants
in the Rice will case, has given out the
following statement:
For six months after Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Osborne announced that
he would have my husband arrest
ed on charge Of forgery he was
not on.y allowed to have his liberty,
but every effort was made by the pros
ccuti0n to induce him to leave the
state.
when they found they could not In
duce him to do so, he was arrested,
and his bail was fixed at figure be-
yond any possibility Of his giving it.
This everybody tells me, and l myself
believe. was for the obvious purpose
of unduly influencing him, through his
great love for me and our two children
and his natural desire for liberty, to
perjure himself against Mr.. Patrick
and thereby corr0borate the universal
ly desplsed and discredited Charles +.
Jones. l watched Jones testify, and
everybody could see from his logged
manner and crafty look that his whole
story was a carefully concocted false
hood. I never in my life witnessed
such loathsome and despicable OBJ
ject as he made of himself
Husband a Truthful Man.
"There has never been any conceal
ment between my husband and myself,
and know the statement he made on
the witness stand is the absolute truth
and that lie will remain lifetime In
the gloomy Tombs prison before he
will dlshonor himself by bearing false
witness against his neighbor. love
my husband better than my life, and
as know he is victim Of persecution
my greatest grief is that cannot share
his Imprisonment. which leaves me
and my little children In want and
suffering, but which we cheerfully bear
for love of him and for The sake Of
truth and honor.
He values his own integrity and my
love for him too highly to dishonor
himself, for we place honor above life.
and | am sure that every true hearted
man and woman will agree with me in
the sentiment | expressed to him that
he must bring back to me his shield Of
honor untarnished if he wishes my re-
spect and love"
Shorts bail has been raised from
$1,000 to 100000. Mrs. Short says she
had arranged to furnish the smaller
amount and Informed Mr.. Osborne Of
her intentions, when suddenly the
amount was jumped to figures beyond
reasonable limit, and her hope of her
husbands early release on bonds is re-
mote.
As to the alleged endcavors to induce
her husband to leave town Mrs. Short
says they were exertcd by a man who
professed to interest her husband in
two business propositions, first one in
Buffalo and later another In Philadel-
phia. On advice of counsel he refused
to go on either occasion, Mrs. Short
declares, although had these deals turn
ed out to be of a legitimate nature her
husbands business profits would have
been greatly increased.
Mrs. Short thinks that the object OF
all this was to have it appear that her
husband had designedly become a fugi-
tive from justice for fear Of having to
face the prosecution. The supposed
business friend, she concluded, repre-
scented himself as a Colorado mining
man and man Of large schemes.
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