New-York tribune., 1901-04-06
TO CORROBORATE JONES.
WALLETS BROTHER SWEARs THAT HE
SENT THE POISONS.
MAN WHO MADE CONFESSION EXAMINED
BY CRIMINOLOGIST-TEL GIRLS
AND JANIToR TO AID IN
THE PROSECUTION.

Assistant District Attorneys Osborne and
Garvan had q conference yesterday in the Dis
trict Attorneys Office with Charles F. Jones,
who at the examination OF Albert T. Patrick,
the lawyer charged with the murder of w. NJ.
Rice, confessed to the murder of Rice and gave
testimony deeply duplicating Patrick in the
crime. Adele Marie Rique, crimnologist. was
present the conference with letter from
Justice Blanchard Jones at first objected to her
examining him, but finally consented, and was
carefully questioned by her.
In speaking of the status of the Patrick case.
Assistant District Attorney Osborne said that
the prosecution has proved that Patrick. the
day following the death Of Rice, had tried to get
checks cashed purporting to be signed by Rice
According 10 the testimony of Mrs. Francis, 1t
had been proved that Patrick was never Rice's
lawyer. 1t had been proved that Patrick offered
Will for probate, by the terms of which he was
to receive nine-teEths of Rice's fortune. II had
been proved that Jones saw Patrick on Sunday.
the day of the murder between and O'Clock:
that Jones telephoned to Patrick at and again
at S o'clock 1t had been SHOWN by DR.. Curry
that Patrick came to him on Saturday and in
quired how Rice was getting along, when there
was no cause for apprehension as 10 Rice's con-
dtion It had been shown by Pottss testimony
that Patrick had said that the Holt case was
settled for S250000 and he was the lawyer.
when in fact the case was not settled and Pat
rick not the lawyer. being merely a com
missioner to take evidence.
The prosecution intends to introduce two tele-
phone girls from the Columbus central
and one from the Thirty -eighth-st. central.
Rice's telephone in the Berkshire apartment
house 500 Thirty-eighth-st Patrick
had telephone placed in the house in which
he boarded. and which Mrs Francis and he
paid for This telephone was 1914 A Columbus.
BY these telephone girls an effort VIII be made
to prove that there were calls between & and )
O'Clock Sunday night between the two num-
bers
The prosecution has an affidavit from w. L.
Jones of Harris County, Tex, a brother of the
valet in which ". L. Jones says that in July
he sent his brother at the latter's request two
ounces of chloroform. The affidavit says that
Jones the valet, said in his request for the
chloroform that a friend Of his was expert
rnenting for a toothache remedy. The choro-
form was sent by the American Express Com
pany. Later he sent his brother TWO ounces
more Of chlorOform and two ounces OF lauda-
mum. These were sent by the same express
company.
Jones the valet testified that Patrick told
him that he spent the whole day Monday at his
office No 90 Broadway. tearing up papers
The janitor of the building Will he produced TO
Patrick on Monday night. The next day plumb
ers had to he called in TO take the wastepaper
from the closet. Mr.. Osborne said that the
brother Of Jones would not be called until the
trial, but that his affidavit would be produced
in the examination.
Mr. osborne in commenting on the statement
OF Justice Jerome that Jones's testimony must
be corroborated pointed out Section 3.f, OF the
Penal Code which sets forth that any cir
cumstance which tends TO prove that the accom-
plice or alleged accomplice was cogniZant of the
death of a is sufficient. MI osborne
says that there will be proof that Patrlck
was Informed by Jones Of Rice's death. and
that this under that section Of the code, would
be sufficient confederation.