The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-26
HERE'S HELP FOR PATRICK
FROM A BONY-FINGERED MAIDEN
VINO TALKED WITH OLD RICE.

Ready TO Swear 20 . Conversation I'm the
woman's Exchange (standing between
the Nfince Pies and tho Doyties.) a. to
Rioe's Testamentsry Intentions -Needs
Money. Too. butDefenco Won't Use Her
A m who called herself Emma
Warwick Long OF n 10 particular address.
found her way yesterday afternoon to
the onice OF Cantwell & Moore counsel
for Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer who Is
on trial for the murder Of William Marsh
Rice, and suggested that she could get
Patrick out OF his present troubles by
telling OF a talk abe had with old man Rice
In 1893. She met Rice, she said, in the
Exchange for Women's Work ct Fifty
ninth street and Madison avenue and got
into a conversation with him about charity.
Rice told her then, 80 she told Mr.. Moore,
that he didn't believe In ordinary charity
and hat he intended to oavea all his fortune
To a bright young lawyer.
-Therel' said the woman, what do
you think OF that for testimony They
couldn't shake me in cross-examinstion.
I know Just where we stood in the eI-
change
Then the woman grabbed at a bunch
Of the lawyers legal papers and a pen.
% as to draw diagram Nj. Moore rescued
the papers and the woman traced the dia-
gram In the air with a purple. bony finger.
the mince pies wers there she said.
'the home made j%ellies here. the doylies
over there and the Easter cards over here.
Mr.. Rice and I stood Just between the
minoe pics and the doylies when he talked
to me. II that wouldn't free Patrick I
don't know what would
But. to tell the truth. my name IL q mis-
homer; it's Long, but 1t ought 70 be Short.
I am always short of money. l am now.
Although / come from one OF the richest
families Of the South, l nave had for years
nothing but the commercial hospitality
OF boarding houses. and to-day l am in
the street. TIL this morning I lived at
226 West Twenty-second street, but they
put me out. The parlor floor can do no
wrong. but the hall bedroom must have
references from It's pastor
How do you happen to remember Mr..
Rice at his late day2" asked Mr.. Moore.
because he called me my young GIRL
and I was ~ then. / am a Made lady.
At 22e West Twenty-seoond street IL was
said that no Miss Long lived there. Miss
Long will not DO called by the defence.
Emma Patrick. the sister Of the accused,
called on the prisoner yesterday morning
at the Tombs and stayed for three hours.
II WAS the first tiTe that she had seen her
brother since no was arrested, sixteen
months ago. She was accompanied to the
Tombs by Patrick's former landlady, Mrs.
Addie NJ. Francis of $40 West Fity-eighth
street. and by Miss Susan Ward. a friend
OF Mrs. Francis. The three women were
the only callers that Patrick had.
When the women left he Tombs they
l.. sH-ae - NhA RHNaAn
by q lot Of men and boys with cameras.
Miss Patrick spoiled their plans for snap
thots by lodging behind a truck and tLen
running up Franklin street 10 Broadway.
whore she boarded a car and got TO the
Office Of Cantwell 4 Moore unde cover.
The prisoner and his four lawyers are
more confident OF scquittal at the END Of
the first week Of the trial than they were
before the Assistant District Attorney.
who has charge OF tho case began his open
ing address, Robert VI. Moore Of Cantwel
a Moore said yesterday:
If we're on the other sice In this case
! should have begun the prosecution by
putting Charles =. Jones, the val't, on the
confession for the benefit OF the jury
There are other criminal lawyers who
agree with MIR. Moore. In their opinion
the prosecuting attorney has confused the
jury at the outset by introducing. a mass
OF evidence relative &, alleged forgcries
without the slightest a.Iusion % tie crime
of murder.
As a matter Of fact Jones IL not n lie put
Oh the stand this we X al all and tho prose-
cution may not be ready 20 let tins Jury !
have uIs testimony before the latter pat
Of HCkt week.
Jones vii De- the lat important IT 1
nss-, saiu a represent tive a uIe Distfl"t
Attorney yesterday. and lao may 70 tue
last OF all. Al any 6rg called alter he ~
through II will be- just 70 stralg, ."H cut a
few MINOR points !
The first witness called Tomorrow vii
be James " Gerard 81 the Bowers a sands
Law Office. Who had just begun his te-t4-
my when court ~adJO-u't nI friday.
H. all be- iull1wel hy Capt. JruLe- A
Baker ard \ 3 MoldTuu Of l"Aa- VIC
knew all about hiN.'- buflucus Affairs. ~
th,r. H. Time the ur, -..CutlDr viii aI-0 on
Tomorrow The uudertakors Who were o.-
derrd by Patrick e. have unoIs body crO
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