New-York tribune., 1902-03-18
SHE CONTRADICTS JONES
WOMAN SAYS PATRICK WAS At BOARD
ING HOUSE.
VALET HAD SWORN LAWYER GAVE HIM
CHLOROFORM IN STREET AT SAME
TIME-MYERs on THE STAND.

CHLoRoFORM IN STREET AT SAME
TIME-MYERs on THE STAND
When the eighth week of the trial Of Albert l.
Patrick began yesterday there was a record OF
seventv-six witnesses examined for the prose
cution and fourteen witnesses for the defence
with forty-two hundred pages of testimony 1t
was said that the trial would last through the
present month Counsel for Patrick declare
that they have already shattered the conten-
ton Of Assistant District Attorney Osborne that
Patrick caused Jones, the former valet 10 kill
W NJ Rice with chloroform, and have proved
that Mr. Rice knew Patrick well.
Patrick's counsel yesterday morning called
Miss Alice Potts as a witness to disprove the
testimony Of Jones that he met Patrick in the
street AZ 2 p. m. on the day Of Mr.. Rices death
and received from him a bottle Of chloroform.
Miss Potts testified that she at Patrick's
boarding house that afternoon, and met Mrs. Ell
lott. Of Chicago and her daughter at the house.
They we're with Patrick from p. m. until 6:3O
p m, she said. and he was never out of their
sight all that time
Miss Elliott. who is studying TO be mission
ary, testified that from noon until p.
the day in question Patrick in her sight IN
the house. She him again at supper, from
6:15 20 100 p. N. In the afternoon, she said,
she played the piano and Patrick sang hymns.
Witnesses We're called 10 show that Patrick
did not have offices in the St Paul Building in
March, 1900, disproving a statement that he ap
pealed TO witness for the prosecution at that
time 10 arrange a compromise of the Rice Holt
litigation. The contention Of the defence is
that Patrick made the appeal in March. 1899.
Morris Meyers, Of the witnesses TO the
alleged forged Rice will of 1900. testified that he
was a lawyer employed in Patricks office in
T,rpa nd H. Da.- NJ
RIce's rooms on June 80, in company with David
l. Short. TO witness the signature of Mr. Rice
on the will
What did you do on that occasion?" asked
Mr.. House. of Patricks counsel.
Il put my name on that document" was the
prompt reply
onwha. had Mr.; Rice done? HE HE, signed his
9-MT,sso T,so signed 4Ist? p, A-ME; l.: M Fice s,s
so,-s, la you You see MI kse ssR f5 his name TO that
omwhat did short 90? Ale also signed each
.Q.-How long had you known Mr.. Rice? .A-For
ODD you him September q, 1900? A-Yes
his fiat
Meyers said on that occasion he witnessed Mt.
Rices signature to the paper which has been
known throughout the case as the Safe Deposit
Company's assignment. Before he witnessed the
paper Mr.. Rice signed It. he declared.
f You S when Ey you 0 wtResSed tn 9 those
apartments. He used that as his business room.
Mr.. Osborne cross-examined Meyers al great
length. They squa billed continuously. 1t was
drawn battle between them. Meyers insisted
upon explaining his answers and Mr. Osborne
let him talk until he began say something in
favor Of the defence. Then he stopped him
Patrick's lawyers objected and Meyers objected,
and Mr. Osborne shouted. The Recorder looked
tired, and the jury yawned. Nothing Of any
Importance was developed by the cross-ex-
animation except that Meyers is a bright young
man. that he makes change in the testimony
he gave before Justice Jerome and that his
memory is Of that convenient kind that recalls
the things his friends want 10 know about and
fOrgets those that might help his enemies.
Meyers and Short are under indictment for
forgery in connection with the 1900 will and
are at liberty under $4,000 bonds Meyers said
that he was twenty-siX years old. that he had
lived in this city nearly all his life. and that he
had known Patrick since June, 1896.