The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-27
PATRICK CONVICTED. Found Guilty of the Murder of the Aged Millionaire, William N. Rice, on
 Sept. B, r9OO.
VERDICT GIVEN Al 6.i2 PM.
JURY DELE BUT 4 SCAN1
 THREE HOURS.

An Agreement Not Expected So Soon
 Counsel, Who Had Departed, Hur- riedIy summoned-w Women Removed
 From the Court-Convtcted Man Un-
 perturabIe-A Week from Next Mon-
 day Fixed as the Day fer sentence-An
 Appeal Wil be Mado-Mrs. Francis,
 With Whom Patrick Boarded. Causes
 aScene.
 New York, March 26.-Albert T. Pat
 rick, lawyer, was this evening convicted
 of the murder, on September 2S, 1900, of
 the aged millionaire recluse, William
 Marsh Rice. The penalty under the
 statute is death in the electric chair.
 A scant three hours of deliberation at
 the close of a trial prolonged for nine
 weeks and replete With sensational in
 terest sutficed to enable to jury to reach
 their verdict. The issue of the trial es-
 tablshes the charge that Patrick con-
 spired with MT. Rice's valet, Charles F,
 Jones, to obtain possession of the aged
 Texans estate estimated at $1O00,0o0, and that Jones killed his employer by
 the administration of chloroform at the 1 direct instigation of Patrick.
 At the close of Recorder Golf S charge, l which consumed the morning session of | the court, the jury retired This was at 1850 D. m. At 555 they notified the
 officer in charge that they were ready 1 to return to court, rather more than an oF ;,,ta ino limo having been devoted to luncheon. In anticipa- | tion of painful scene of excitement in | the event of verdict of guilty the un-
 usual step was taken of ordering all women to leave the court room. Among them were the prisoners two sisters and Mrs, Francis, with whom he boarded
 With grave faces the jury filed into their places, and some minutes Of pain full tension elapsed while messengers were scurryine in quest of the counsel, who had departed locking for no verdict for many hours.
 Calm and suave as ever and with con- tidence apparently quite unshaken, the prisoner was escorted into the court room He walked rapidly and took his stand, facing the jury with head erect and hands loosely clasped behind his back
 At the word guilty" which was pro nounced by Foreman Machell at SIP o'clock in tone low but distinct enough to be heard throughout the court, not the slightest change passed across Pat rick's imperturbable visage, and he re- mained standing in an almost listless attitude while tha customary poll of the jury was being taken, His aged father, 1 Captain Patrick, sitting almost at his [ side and straining to catch the word of | the foreman, started for an instant as | it's import reached him and then recov- 1 cred bravely and sat calmly awaiting I the further proceedings.
 A smile of triumph lit up the face of | Assistant District Attorney Osborne, 1 who hastened from the court immedi- i ately after Recorder Golf had at the re- quest of the prisoners counsel, fixed on a week from Monday as the day on which to pronounce sentence.
 The verdict was known almost imme- diately in the corridor, where the wo- men relatives and friends of the pris- oner were waiting, and a scene of dis dressing excitement ensued. Screaming llSSIPlltdilN, tnt piiSpIiti = tiuNSl SISttl ran about the corridor, begging piteous- ly to be allowed to see her brother. Mrs Francis tainted, and on recover ing broke from the attendants and rushed into the court room. from which Patrick had just been removed where she again fell in a swoon. Both women were removed to an anteroom and were sent home in a carriage,
 Captain Patrick bore the shock of the verdict bravely, and after taking leave of his son, as he was led back to the Tombs, would only say: 'It is hard we'll have to try again"
 None of the jurors could be induced to reveal how the verdict had been an agreement having been made to tell nothing
 A motion will be made for a new trial when the prisoner is arraigned for sen- -ence.
 What disposition will be made of Charles F Jones, the former valet-sec- l, ,etary of Millionaire Rice, who confess d on the stand that he placed chloro- ormed sponge in a cone over his sleep- ng employers face, no one connected with the district attorneys office would , ay tonight. Jones is not under indict- T nent for murder and so far as is known 6 not under indictment for forgery or onsniracv He testified On the witness tand that he expected to receive some for his confession. Pressed " MT. Moore to say that he had been romised absolute immunity, he denied :, hat this was so. Since cutting his :. hroat in an attempt to kill himself n while confined in the Tombs, Jones. un- ' CT the constant surveillance of police a fficials, has lived, with the exception n f a brief stay in the House of Correc- 4 ion, where he tried to starve himself to a cath at a privte boarding house up- - own. r The cost of the prosecution and con- :, iction of Patrick will amount up into .i he thousands, the only estimate that ', ould be obtained from any one con- ~ ected with the district attorneys office 2, cling perhaps $5O,000 or more.