The age-herald., 1902-01-31
SIGNATURES
 NOT GENUINE Damaging Testimony Against
 Patrick by Texans PROSECUTION FAILS AGAIN For the Tenth Time the Attorneys Made an Unsuccessful Attempt to Have the 1896 Win Ad-
 mitted as Evidence.
PROSECUTION FAILS AGAIN

New York. January 3o.-When Record trial of Albert F. Patrick for the murder of William Marsh Rice, he had for the tenth time ruled out the admission of the Rice will of 1896. which the prosecution has been trying to get into the record.
 Following the evidence of Baker Nor man s. Meldrum. who was again on the stand today, that the signature to the as- signment of MT. Rice's estate to Patrick was a forgery and that the signature to the 1896 will was genuine, came the testi- mony of James L. Blinn of Springfield Mass, a nephew of the dead man.
 Mir Blnn told of being summoned to New York by Patrick and said the latter told him he (Blinn) was to get sSO,0OO of the estate under the 1900 Patrick will ross-examination of MT. Blinn by coun- ell for the defense brought out that there was an arrangement by which witness was to derive s75,OOO from the Rice, in- stitute if the 1896 will was probated Un- der this 1896 will MT. Blinn's share was $50O0. Witness said that the arrangement was in writing. It came from Colonel Joseph Rice Civilian Marsh Rice's nephew) and he (Blinn) has signed the paper.
 Two Texans Testify.
 Two Texans testified today. They were Emanuel Raphael, secretary and mana ger of the Houston clearing house and also a trustee of the Rice Institute, and Arthur B. Cohen, clerk and agent of William Rice at Houston. Mir. Raphael told of the plans for the Rice Institute. He swore he was familiar with Rices signature and that the signatures on the checks the assignment of the Rice estate to Patrick and the paper which revoked Captain Bakers report to Rice's safety deposit box, were forgeries.
 Mir. Cohen swore the signatures to the 1900 will, the checks and assignment, were not genuine.
 At the afternoon session MT. Raphael said that under an agreement with Rice the rents from certain property were to be accumulated until there should be suf- ficiept to erect the institute building. None of the real estate was to be sold until after Rice's death. A paragraph of the charter of the Rice Institute was read showing it was provided that the trustees should not receive compensation for their services. Under the will of 1900 these trustees were to be paid. Never Knew of Patrick.
 MT Rice never knew of Patrick as an adviser of Rice. He received a letter from the old man about a week before his death. Mir Raphael said he was pay ing steflcr and bank cashier for IA years in Houston and had had to pass upon MT. Rices signature on checks more than g hundred dimes. MT. Osborne showed the Swenson checks. the assign ment and the revocation of Captain Bak- CTS right to go to Rice's safe deposit vault He declared that none Of these bore a genuine signature of William M. Rice.
 A large part of the afternoon was de- voted 10 the testimony of the newspaper reporters to whom Patrick gave a state ment of the case before his arrest and further evidence as to the safe deposit box and its contents. Arthur B. Cohen, clerk and agent for Rice at Houston, testified that the signatures on the will of 1900, the Swenson checks and the as- signment were forgeries. Cohen was on the stand when court adjourned.