The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-05
HAS ENOUGH OF II
RECORDER TIRES OF EXPERTS
 TESTIMONY.
Informs the Prosecution in tn Patrick Case That If Kinsley Was Put on Bank Tellers
 Would Be Barred.

New York, March 1.-The evidence of John Truesdell, handwriting expert from Syracuse, was continued today in the trial of Albert T. Patrick. He testi- fled yesterday that the disputed sigma lures were forgeries. Today Robert Moore of Patrick's counsel showed the witness some conceded signatures which he said resembled more closely the dis puted signatures than those put in evil dence by the prosecution and the witness said 1t was true that in some of them shaded down strokes and other man. nerisms of MT. Rice's handwriting were lacking.
 Leonard B. Mallally. for eighteen years paying teller at the Phenix Bank, testi- fled that in his opinion none of the dis puted signatures was written by the same hand that wrote the conceded sig natures. c5
 Walter O. wetherbee of swenson's s Bank, told of a conversation with MT. made to him two days later. The defense objected to the witness testifying as to his corversation on the ground that Jones had not been sufficiently lcorrobo- rated al to the assistance to the conspir- acy to >commit murder. The objection was sustained.
 Assistant District Attorney Osborne then called William J. Kinsley, the ex- pert in handwriting. The Recorder said there had been enough handwriting ex- cert testimony and told Mir. Osborne that If he put MT. Kinsley on the, stand he would not let him examine anX more bank tellers. MT. Kinsley was excused and Mir. Osborne recalled Mir Wetherbee and repeated the questions before ruled out by the Court. The defense objected but Recorder Goff reversed the former ruling and allowed the questions.
 Jones called upon me-. Wetherbee tntr [ ar1 fnI x1ync c useless for me-to ask Mir. Rice for money and that Mfr. Rice was done with me. Then he brought up the subject of the 1896 will and asked me if I was not a witness to it. I said I was"
 MT. Wetherbee said he discussed the terms of the 1896 will with Jones.
 Jones told me-" the witness went on.
 that MT. Rice had accused me of steal that was false. but he said had better not go to MT. Rice's house again. Then he said I have a business proposition to make to you I asked him what 1t was. He said he had prepared new will for MT. Rice to sign. He suggested that he bring the will to me for consid. eration. I said I did not want to see it. He told me the names of the executors of the 1898 will and proposed that let my name be substituted for Judge Bar tine. Jones said: Some times Mir. Rice goes to sleep in a chair and he wakes up dopy. On those occasions I can get him to sign anything. We can fix up the will. You get one witness and I'll get the other. You make good thing out of it. and no one will be the loser.' I declined the proposition. Jones told me his law yers had been after him and had sug- gested the idea. I asked him if Mir Rice knew the lawyers and he said he had met one of them. Jones said the will could be drawn so that the mouths of all the heirs under the 1896 will would be closed by legacies"
 Wetherbee's cross examination was postponed until tomorrow and Edward C. Manners was called. He was a sten- ographer at the hearing of the Rice-Holt litigation. He said that to the best oi his knowledge during the sixty days he was employed at the hearings he never saw Mir. Rice or Patrick together. They never met while he was in the room Cross examined by MT. Moore, Mfr. Man. ners said he had done a great deal oi work for Captain Baker. He was not present at the hearing held in MT. Rice's l apartment in the latter part of 1899 ana 1 could not say if Patrick was there or not l The court was adjourned until tomorrow