The age-herald., 1902-01-28
Coronef's Physician Williams
 Describes condition of Body
HEART AND BRAIN NORMAL
Says Lungs Were coneestcd From Ad- ministration of Some Gaseous IT, ritant-Chlorofor Could Have
 Caused Such Congestion.

New York, January 27.-The second day of the trial of Lawyer Albert T. Patrick, accused of the murder of William M. Rice, brought It up to the point where the cause of the death of the millionaire is sought to be determined.
 The first witness along this line of in- quiry introduced by the prosecution was pr. Hamilton Williams, one of the phy- sicians attached to the coroner's staff, who attended the autopsy. The gist of his evidence was that the lungs were congested and that this was due to the inhalation of some gaseous irritant and that chloroform would have produced such a condition of the lungs. He later said pneumonia could produce the same condition.
 When court was opened James w. Girard was recalled and his cross-exami- nation continued. He said he was one of the counsel retained to support the 1896, or Baker will before the surrogate If the 1900, or Patrick will, were to be sus- tained, he said his clients, the William M. Rice Institute, would receive several mill lion dollars less than it would under the 1896 will.
 Suggested Settlement.
 It was after the witness and Captain Baker had had conference with Pat rick that the witness told Assistant Dis trict Attorney Osborne what Patrick had said:. Why can not you get together and settle this ma..er up?r
 It was also decided at this conference that Rice's papers should be placed in neutral custody pending decision as who should be in rightful custody.
 Captain Plowright, the undertaken, who was called in by Patrick to prepare the body of Rice for cremation testified that he had said to Patrick that it would re- quire twenty-four hours to prepare for cremation and suggested embalming, to which Patrick consented.
 John S. Potter, Plowright's assistant, testified that Patrick had shown him letter signed by Rice expressing the wish that after death his body should be ere mated. The morning set for crem alton he had been called up by telephone by Patrick and told the cremation must be called off in consequence of telegram he (Patrick) had just received from Texas, but that it would probably be held a day or two later The letter to which the witness alluded was dated ugust g. 1900.
 Lungs Were Congested.
 Dr. Hamilton Williams, a coroner's physician, testified that the autopsy on Rice's body showed the brain, heart and kidneys normal; but an intense conges- ton of the lungs. The condition of the lungs, the witness said, was induced by the inhalation of some gasious irritant. Chloroform. he said would have produced the congestion.
 "I believe" Dr. Williams said in reply ing to a question, that nothing else than a gaseous irritant could have produced the condition of the lungs. I may say instead of believing, that I know from experience this to be the fact
 The witness explained in great detail the action of chloroform on the bronchial tubes Pneumonia he said could produce the conditions he found in Rice's lungs He found all of Rice's organs normal ex- cept for the lung congestion. The outer and inner vessels of the brains cavity were nomral. The membranes of the throat were likely to blister when chlo- roform was administered. The only ad- mission the defense secured from the witness was that many of the ordinary indications of death from chloroform were absent in the case of MT. Rice