The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-21

said . law should be passeo 70 psevenS doctors giving chlcSoform to their patients. We talked of the enece or chloroform and said did not believe the effects could be found a1ter oeasn. Did you tell Patrick of that conyersar tion?"
 1T did and gave him the masasine
 article to read. and we talked It over.
 Patrick said he had often wondered what
 would bN the effect of chlorofcvm on
 person afflicted with heart trouble. put
 fine question to pr. Curry and he said %
 little chloroform would be needed to HI
 q person who had heart disease that It
 was doubtful if any trace of the poison
 would remain after death.x told Fatrick
 what pr. Curry had said and ne saio ne would talk to pr. Curry himsen
 Iones wrote to his brother again. hs said. this time at Patrick's suggestion. ana got two ounces more of chloroform. "Evcry time saw Patrick." contiuued Jones. s'he asked me If Ar. Rice vas gaining strength. One day he said, 'why don't you rive him mercuryT He knew | that Doctor Curry had prescribed mer- curial pills for me. l told him t would l be impossible to give Mir. Rice anything | in his meals, but that l might psrsuaoe | him that they were good for him py l taking some in his presence Rice took | | the illness was caused by some eggs he had eaten. He continued to take the hills. about one in two days. They oio | him good. Patrick was surprised wnen I told him. He gave me sono pills ol mercury and said that they would nct hurt me. but would settle Rice. l LOOK one and if made me sick. Mir. Rice LOOK one also in my presence. He told me he had taken a second one. Tney brought on a severe diarrhea.
 Jones told of the visit Of Mrs. van Alstyne, . friend of MT. Ricea sne brought him some bananas and ne ate i!e nine of them. They made him very III
 and pr. Curry was called in. That was
 about ten days before his death.
 "On the Wednesday or Thursday befQre
 his death," the witness went on, he took
 another mercurial pill. The next oay he was very sick and on Saturday ne was delirious. Dr. Curry visited him and gave him some medicine. Mrs. Carpenter a friend, called that day. MT. Rice erieo and talked deliriously. got Mrs. Car. penter out of the room. MT. Rice askeo | for the doctor and told him pr. Curry had just left. He would not believe me | and insisted that some one go for pr. | Curry. I sent for the doctor. MT. Rice | asked me if I thought Mrs. Carpenter | had called because she thought him very | sick and said she thought him sick. "Mr. Rice walked about the room a bit and then sat down in an easy chair ana 1 went to sleep. 1 told Patrick over the l phone all that occurred and at ms invita- | ton met him in restaurant m oiAtn l Avenue where he had lunch. toid nm
 a draft for s25.0oo had arrived rom .ne
 ou mil, Patrick told me to get back | tn ,he house and if I wanted him later to l call him up at the Y. M. c. A. on Faitn | Street. | "I returned to the house. Dr. Curry was there and Mir. Rice was still asleep. 1 I walked to the elevated station with Dr Curry and he told me that MT. Rice was very sick. but that he would pull | through with good care. The next day' I sunday, pr. Curry said MT. Rice was getting along well. but must pc careiul as to his food. Patrick told me 70 ie,
 him know what Dr Curry salo. sna o,,. | cid so. Patrick said he had some oxahe f acid at his office and that he would Esi ,t for me to give Mir. Rice. Ho told me | to btiv some alum so as to be sure or tne | measurements when l compared IL "itn l oxalic acid.
 l q read about oxalic acid in the ency- | clopedia. and took the book with me when | I called on Patrick. He took me 70 nis room. where he took two square bottles | from his pocket and told me 10 pc careIul l of the mixture, as 1t would corrode ms throat. but in that proportion 1t would | ba tasteless and would paralyze his heart | I took if to Mir Rice's room and made tba mixture. I took a mouthful of 1t In MT. Rice's presence, but did not like 1t. That was late in the afternoon Of Sum day. the day Mir. Rice died. He was Tar from well and fell once when he tried 10 leave his chair. I picked him up ana laid him on his bed and he went to sleep.
 "I wrote a telegram and went out to
 send 1t. teiephoned Patrick and he
 met me at the telegraph office. Patrick
 said 1t was time to give MT. Rice the
 chIoroform. Now that the draft had ar
 rived from Texas and Captain Baker
 was coming. we should lose all we' had
 gained If Mir. Rice was not put away at
 once.
 'I objected, and said that would never
 agree to do anything of that sort' put
 Patrick insisted and yielded. I made
 a cone of a towel saturated with chloro-
 form and placed 1t over my own face.
 felt the effect and then put more chloro-
 form on it and went into Mir. Rice's room.
 He was still sleeping. I put the cone
 over his face and ran out of the room.
 There was a violent ring at the door
 bell just then and I looked out and saw
 some one. I think 1t was woman, but
 I was too excited to be sure. went
 back to MT. Rice's room. He was lying
 just as I left him. I took the towel off
 his face and put 1t in the fire. It burned.
 Then I opened all the windows and tele- phoned to Patrick. Patrick told me to say if all was over that Mir. Rice was very ill., and that was the message gave.
 Patrick said he would come over, but that he did not want to get there before pr. Curry arrived. They reached the
 house together. met them and told them
 He Is dead Patrick exclaimed. oh, my God, that is the worst thing that could have happened to me- He told me before
 hand that he intended to say that to de-
 ceive Dr. Curry. The doctor said he
 would need an undertaken, and Patrick
 said. Yes. and death certificates
 'Dr. Curry made out the certificate and
 the undertaken was sent for. Patrick vis-
 tied the room where Mir. Rices papers
 were kept and took away with him all to me in Dr. Curry's presence and gave no hint of anything wrong"
 Jones told of the happenings the day after MT. Rice's death. He said Patrick called him over the telephone and told him he had made a mistake in the Swen- son check. If they call you up on the telephone" Jones said Patrick told him,
 tell them the check is all right"
 They did call and did as he directed. Later Patrick told me if there were any more inquiries. to say that Mir. Rice was dead"
 Mir Osborne suggested an adjournment here, but the Recorder wanted a more minute descriptiOn of the towel c0na ana