The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-18
81 am Safe" Patrick Told His COun-
sci When Women Testified.
OSBORNE DID NOT CROSS EXAMINE
THEM AT ANY LENGTH.
They Sang Hymns With the Defendant at the
Time Jones .Swore He Was Concentrating
the Murder of Rice.

to repeat a conversation he had with Rice
regarding Patrick.
Counsel for the defendant said they de.
sired 20 show that Rice told Schepflin he
had made Patrick his heir aud Recorder
Gotf said he would reconsider his refusal
20 allow the conversation as evidence IL
the defense could show authority for ad-
mission Of such testimony. Today Mr..
House of ratricks counsel said he had
found such authority and was preparing
brief.
Mr.. Schepnn left the stand pending a
settlement OF the point aud Miss Alice
Potts daughter OF John II, Potts, lawyer
friend Of PatrIck's was called She said
| she was at Patricks boarding house on the
afternoon OF the day Rice died She met
Mrs. Elliott and Miss Mabel Elliott OF
Chicago there. They all talked with Pat
rick. who did not leave the house between
3 and $50 o'clock that afternoon Charles
i. Jones. Rico's attendant and clerk. ties.
/ tilted that Patrick met him on the street
| Mt o'clock that day and gave him the
| chloroform with which Rice was killed.
Miss Mabel Elliott then testified that
she saw Patrick at breakfast st $50 a.
m, AT dinner at 1890 aud at supper at
d.15 r. IN. 90 the Sunday Of Rlces death
During the afternoon she played the piano
and Patrick sang hymns. Patrick was
still in the house when tho witness went
10 church in the evening
Mrs Margaret j. Elliott corroborated the
evidence given by the daughter.
Benjamin w. Lewis. superintendent Of
the st. Paul building. where Patrick had
an office in 1899 was called to contradict
-
ington, Conn, who said he met Patrick
at Patricks Office IN the ST. Paul build
ing ln March, 1900, aud that Patrick asked
him 70 see Mr.. Rice and try to arrange
a compromise Of the Rico-Holt litigation
Mr.. Lewis testified that Patricks leas,
expired In May, 1899, and that he hal
nad no office In the st. Paul bundinl
since that date
Morris Meyer, a lawyer and notary. testI
fed that he wns employed as clerk 4
Patrlck's Office. Patrick sent him to So
Rice on business and he was shown int
ltco's room by Jones. Six months later
on June 30, 1900 he was I'm Rice's room
and witnessed viii made by Rice. II
signed the viii after he had seen Rice sig
II. Rice signed on each OF the four page
Of the will and asked Meyer TO do tn
'"'i'' i"' Nilh'oH Hhlh nc also saw iJtNl
A. Short sign on each Of the four page
Of tho VIII which is the one known a
the 1900 viii which gave Rices residuar
estate 10 patrick
Meyer said hp also witnessed Ricc'g sig
nature 10 the general assignment to Pat
rick Of the llfth Avenue Trust compni
and the safe Deposit assignments 1hcS
assignments We're signed September II, NV
days before Rice died. Never said TIA
papers were signed by Rice Ia his pre,
encc after which he affixed his name as
witness. They We're signed in the dinin
room Of Rice's apartments.
On cross examination Never said TN
hrst knowledge he had Of tho trouhl
, about the disputed signatures came frai
Q The newspapers, His evidence on eros.
> examination, which was unfinished who
, court adjourned for the day. did not dir,
4 materially from his direct testimony