The sun., 1901-04-15
OSBORNE IS ACCUSED.
Wife of Rice Case Defendant Makes
Charge of Conspiracy.
MRS. DAVID SHORTS CHARGES
Calls Jones n Discredited Witness.
statement That Husbands Bail
Is observation-disclosures 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
"a on charge Of forgery he was
not oE.y allowed to have his liberty,
but every effort was made by the pros
ecution 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
ana his natural desire for liberty, to
periurc himself against Mr.. Patrick
and thereby corrohorate the universal
ly despised and discredited Charles f..
Jones. l watched Jones testify, and
everybody could see from his dogged
manner and crafty look that his whole
story was carefully concocted false
hood. / never in my life witnessed
such loathsomc and despicable OBJ
,ject as he made of himself.
Husband a Truthful Man.
."rhere has never been any conceal
nlcnt between my husband and myself,
and know the statement he made on
the witness stand is the absolute truth
ana that he will remain a lifetime in
the gloomy Tombs prison before he
will dishonor himself by bearing false
witness against his neighhor l love
my husband better than my life. anC
as know he is n victim of prosecutor
my greatest grief is that cannot share
his Imprisonment. which leaves nj
and my little children in want an'
suffering. but which we checrfully bea
for love Of him and for the sake Q
truth and honor.
.Ilc values his own integrity and m.
love for him too highly to dishono
himself. for we place honor above lifo
and / am sure that every true hearte'
man and woman will agree with me i
the sentiment expressed to him-thh
lie must bring back to me his shield q
honor untarniShed if he wishes my II
snect and love-"
shorts bail has been raised frot
$1,000 to $4,000. Mrs. Short says sh
had arranged TO furnish the Smallt
amount and Informed Mr.. Osborne {
her intentions, when suddenly II
amount was jumped to figures beyor
reasonable limit, and her hope of h'
husbands early release on bonds is r
mote
AS to the alleged endeavois TO Undue
her husband to leave town Mrs. Sho
says they were eXerted by man WI
professed to interest her husband
two business propositions, first one
Buffalo and later another in Philad'
phia. ON advice of counsel he refuS'
TO go on either occasion, Mrs. Sho
declares. although had these deals tu
ed out TO be of Il legitimate nature i
husbands business profits would ha
been greatly increased.
Mrs. Short thinks that the object
all this was TO have ii appear that h
husband had designcdly become fu
tive from justice for fear Of having
face the prosecution. The sunpoS
business friend. she concluded, rep
sented himself as Colorado mini
man and man of large schemes.