The Washington times., 1902-02-20
JONES TELLS STORY
OF GIGANTIC PLOT
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taxes?" asked the assistant district at
torney.
Yes" replied Jones. about Decem-
Der l. 1899, he showed me the form of a
will At the same time Patrick asked
me what my salary was. told him $50
month and expenses. He said l was worth
twice as much, and that if l would go
into deal with him he would see that |
was well taken care Of"
Q. What else did he say about that form
of a will?
Gave Half to Patrick.
A. He read it to me. 1t purported to be
the will of William NJ Rice. 1t gave half
of all the property TO Patrick, and the
rest was divided among friends and rela-
tives and the William NJ Rice Institute.
/ asked him what he would do about wit
nesses. He said for me to leave that
to him. and told me TO copy the will on
Mr.. Rices typewriter. / did that at Mr..
Rice's home. and then Patrick took the
copy away. Patrick asked me if Rice had
any other will, / told him yes, and show
ed him the real Rice will of 1897.
Wns Not 81 Beneficiary.
Q. Where did you come in under this
will?
4. / asked Patrick why l was not
beneficiary. too. under our will. He said
that that would never do. because / was
too close to Rice, and the will would be
beaten on the ground of undue influence.
He said he would give me anything l
wanted later on fer my assistance. But
we changed the will seven times before it
suited Patrick
The witness testified that the first plan
was to get Wetherbee and Short, the
witnesses to the real will. to be witnesses
to the false will, but that Wetherbee re-
fused.
Question of Witnesses.
@. What did Patrick say when you
told him that Wetherbee had refused to
act?
4. He said for me to drop the matter
that l would have to be one of the wit
nesses and that he would get he other.
| refused, and told him again that / in
sisted on being a beneficiary. He said
said that he would get Morris Meyer and
David L. Short to be the witnesses.
The Final Form.
About this time Meyer wrote out the
final form OF our will for Patrick. Patrick
still got half OF the property. Patrick
told me to come to his office and meet
Meyer. did. Patrick locked the door,
took out the will and read it over to
Meyer and me. He asked us what We
thought~of it, and we both said it sounded
all right. Meyer was to be a witness.
Soon afterward I went TO the Presby
terrain Hospital When l did get out was
very weak. but insisted again on being
made a beneficiary He said no, and |
waited for better terms.
Wanted an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Q. What did Patrick do?
4. He said once more that I would have
to be a witness. l said would be ii he
would give ne some written acknowledge
ment OF the whole transaction, so that /
could hold him to his agreement to share
the fortune with me. He said No; I'm
too old to sign my own death warrant.
The witness then repeated many of the
minor points OF his testimony at the pre-
liminary hearing to show that Patrick
had schemed unsuccessfully to get into
direct communication with Rice.
Asked To Write Letters.
Q. What else did Patrick want you to
do?
\. He told ne to write lot of let
tiers. giving instructions as to how a viii
should be drawn, and assuring Patrick
that Rice had great confidence in him.
Q. What else do you know about the
letters?
A. Twas to put them on Mr.. Riees type
writer They were to appear to be let
tiers written by Rice TO Patrick. About
twenty letters of that sort were written.
l gave them all to Patrick. Envelopes
hand corner I mailed empty to Mr. Pat
rick.
why Envelopes Were Empty.
The dates on the letters were made to
correspond with the dates on the post
marks on the envelopes. The letters were
put into the proper envelopes afterward
by Patrick. That arrangement was TO
prevent exposure in case an envelope
should not be delivered but returned to
Mr. Rice.
Q. Have you seen those letters since2
i. I saw them at Patrick's Office. and
/ saw them in the Tombs, where Mr..
House. Patricks lawyer. had them.
had made carbon copies OF these letters.
The carb9ns we're kept in Mr.. Patrick's
Office. After AIr. Rice's death the carbous
were to have been taken back TO the
house. 500 Madison Avenue and filed with
all the other carbon copies Of Nj. Rjce's
letters.
@. Were they carried back?
Alleged List Admitted.
4. No. On the day after Mr.. Rice's
death Patrick told me he had destroyed
the carbons the night before
This list OF empty envelopes made out
according to dates on a yellow slip of