Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-04-03
PATRICK is GUILTY
Convicted of the Murder of the
Aged Millionaire.
The bury Was Out Three Hours--NOt
Muscle of the Prisoners Face
Moved as the Foreman of
the Jury Announced
the Verdict.

New York, March 27.-Albert T.
Patrick, lawyer, was last evening con-
victed of the murder on September
%, 1900, of the aged millionaire re-
cluse, William Marsh Rice.
The penalty under the statute is
death in the electric chair.
A scant three hours of deliberation
at the close of trial prolonged for
nine weeks and replete with sensa-'
tional interest sutiiced to enable the
jury to reach their verdict. The issue
of the trial establishes the charge
that Patrick conspired with Mr..
Rice's valet Charles f. Jones, to OBJ
tain possession of the aged Texans
estate, estimated at $7,000,000, and
that Jones killed his employer by the
administration of chloroform at the
direct instigation of Patrick.
At the close of Recorder Goff's
charge, which occupied the morning
session of the court, the jury retired.
This was at 1850 p. IN. At 5:55 p. m.
they notified the officer in charge
that they were ready to return to
court, rather more than an hour of
the intervening time having been de-
voted to luncheon.
In anticipation of a scene of ex-
citemcnt in the event of verdict of
guilty, the unusual step was taken
of ordering all women to leave the
court room. Among them were the
prisoners two sisters and Mrs. Fran
els, with whom he boarded.
The members of the jury filed into
their places, and some minutes of
F,tI all al 1,-Ii Ia
gers were endeavoring to find the
counsel, who had departed, not ex-
pecting a verdict for many hours.
Calm as ever and with confidence
seemingly mistaken, the prisoner was
escorted into the court room. He
walk / rapidly and took his stand
faciE the jury with head erect and
hands loosely clasped behind his back.
At the word guilty pronounced
by Foreman Machell in a tone low
but distinct enough to be heard
throughout the court, not the Slight
est change passed over Patrick's
face and he remained standing in an
almost listless attitude while the Gus
tomary poll of the jury was being
taken. His aged father, Capt. Pat
rick, sitting near him, and straining
to catch the statement of the fore
man, started for an instant as its inn
port reached him and then sat calmly
awaiting the further proceedings.
A smile of triumph lit up the face
of Assistant District Attorney Os-
borne, who hastened from the court
Immediately after Recorder Goff had,
at the request of the prisoners
counsel, fixed on a week from Mon
day as the day on which to pronounce
sentence.
The verdict was known almost i'm
mediately in the corridor where the
women relatives and friends OF the
prisoner were waiting, and a scene of
excitement ensued.
Patrick, after taking leave of his
father, was led back to the Tombs
A motion will be made for a new
trial when the prisoner is arraigned
for sentence.
The cases of David /. Short and
Morris Meyers, the witnesses to Pat
rick's will, who testified for him aG
the preliminary hearing before JUS
tice jerome and were indicted for
perjury as a result of their testi-
mony, will probably be moved for
trial in about ten days.
What disposition will be made of
Charles +. Jones, the former valet
secretary of Millionaire Rice, who
confessed on the stand tnat he placed
a chloroformed sponge in cone over
his sleeping employers face, no one
connected with the district attorney
office would say. Jones is not under
indictment for murder, and so far as
is known is not under Indictment for
fOrua1.V or. conSDiracy