The age-herald., 1902-03-05
MORE HANDWRITING
 EXPERTS TESTIFY Recorder Says No More Are Needed in Patrick Trial EVIDENCE AGAINST JONES Witness Tells of Proposition Made to Him By Jones to Change the Will
 of Mr. Rice-WouId Sign
 Anything.
EVIDENCE AGAINST JONES

New York, March 4-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 of the name of Will liam Rice. Today Robert Moore of Pat ricks counsel showed the witness some conceded signatures which he said re- sembled more closely the disputed sig natures than those put in evidence by the prosecution, and the witness said it was true that in some of them shaded down strokes" and other mannerisms of MT. Rices handwriting were lacking.
 Leonard B. Mallally, for eighteen years paying teller at the Phoenix Bank. testi- fled that in his opinion none of the dis puted signatures were written by the same hand that wrote the conceded sig natures.
 Walter 0. Wetherbee of Swenson's Bank told of a conversation with MT. Rice on January l, 1900. and of visit Jones made to him two days later. The defense ob- jected to the witness testifying as to his conversation on the grv>1itl that Jones had not been sufficiently corroborated as to the assistance to the conspiracy to commit murder. The objection was sus- tained
 Expert Called.
 Assistant District Attorney Osborne then called William J. Kinsley, the expert in handwriting. The recorder said there had been enough handwriting expert tes- timony and told MT. Osborne that if he put MT. Kinsley on the stand he would not let him examine any more bank tell CTS. MT. Kinsley was excused and MT. Osborne called MT. Wetherbee and re- peated the questions befc<e ruled out by the court. The defense objected, but Re- corder Golf reversed the former ruling and allowed the questions.
 Jones called upon me-" Wetherbee said, lon January and told me it was useless for me to ask MT. Rice for money and that MT. Rice was done with me. Then he brought up the subject of the 1896 will and asked me if I was not witness to it. I said 1 was
 MT. Wetherbee said he discussed the terms of the 1896 will with Jones'
 Jones told me- witness went on, that Mir Rice had accused me of steal ing 5000 bond Of course, I told him that was false, but he said I 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 it was. He said he had prepared a new will for MT. Rice to sign. He suggested that he bring the will to me for consideration I said I did not want to see it. He told me the names of the executors of the 1896 will and proposed that I let my name be substituted for Judge Bartine. Jones said: Sometimes MT. Rice goes Co sleep in chair and he wakes up dopy.'
 Could Get Him to Sign Anything.
 "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. l declined the proposition. Jones told me his lawyers had been after him and sug- gested the idea. I asked him if MT. Rice knew the lawyers, and he said he had met one of them. Jones said the will could be drawn so tE.t the mouths of all the heirs under the 1896 will would be closed by legacies.'
 Wetherbee's cross s-eXamination was postponed until tomorrow, and Edward c. Manners was called. He was a stenog- rapher at the hearing of the Rice-Holt litigation. He said that to the best of his Knowledge during the sixty days he was employed at the hearings he never saw MT Rice or Patrick together. They never met while he was in the room. Cross-ex- amined by MT. Moore, MT Manner said he had done a great deal of work for Captain Baker. He was not present at the hearing held In MT. Rice's apartments in the latter part of 1899, and could not say if Patrick was there or not.
 The court was then adjourned until to- morrow.