The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-12
BODIES WANTED IN RICE CASE.
MEDICAL TESTIMONY DELAYED
IS.PiTRICK HEARING.
stanberry Produces Diaries with Pages
Torn Out Drunk, lie says. II Certain
Entries Are HlS Jerome Tackles a
BeaI Texan and Centre street Hears

hohh W "'N ~ ~
Entries Are Hns Jerornc Tackles a
Beai Texan and Centre street Hears,
The examination OF lay witnesses for
Aiuert T. Patrick on his motion For a new
trial was completed yesterday and all that
remains now is the medical testimony at
both sides, '
An adjournment was taken until April
% in order to give District Attorney Jerome
an opportunity t prerare his med!cal
testimony. He said II was a hard Job
to get the proper kind OF bodies to expert
ment on, hut that experiments we're Icing
msda in this and other States. The expert
ments are for the purpose of fnilng out
what effect. embalming~ huid ,has-.eR the
lungs and whether it would cause the same
congestion a. chloroform.
Serct. Alexander b. StanberrY, who
has a very poor memory and is AFRAID TO
answer some questions because If he dld
he would be degraded, spent another I'M
comfortable afternoon yesterday lie mad
been ordered by Recorder Gof, before
whom Patrick's motion is being heard,
TO produce some diaries and letters he said
no believed he had received from lawyers
and others connected with the Rice will
oase and the Patrick case, but he could
onlv show two letters from I awyer Holt
of Houston, Tex. Those letters we're
written before Rice's death and were
of no value. Then he showed three books
which he said were diaries. He Objected
to them being read and appealed to Re-
corder Golf, who said he would have to
give them up.
According to that" said Stanberry.
Il suppose | will have to give up all my
correspondence"
One book was an 1901 diary. A number
OF pages were torn out. Some of the
pages covered the dates on which Stan
berry was quite active in this city in the
Rice will case. He denied that he tore
out the pages Yesterday or the day before.
He thought it was from three to five days
ago. He said that the pages contained
entries about his family affairs.
1t was brought out that Stanberry was
examined by Assistant District Attorney
Caravan last Saturday. He was brought
over from Governors Island, where he has
been keeping his diaries. Mr.. jerome
wanted TO know If Stanberry hadn't de-
atroyed the diaries after his visit to Mr..
Caravan, but ~Stanberry was sure that II
must have been some time before that.
One of the books ~Stanherry produced
didn't have any writing in it. MIR. jerome
wanted to know about a diary Stanberry
kept in the Philippines. ne Couldn't re-
member any SlCn diary, although he SAID
he kept a number of memorandum books.
II amt say | didn't have n diary then,
he said to MIR. Jerome, "as you would prob
ably make out that a market book was a
diary
daryl asked Mr.. Jerome.
"Because your reputation is such that
you would bring a mans family into it,
said Stauherry.
KEGS" said Mr.. jerome; what did you
mean by that?'
the soldier. If wrote THAT must have
been very drunk Ss Is ! aim abouf iq a Miss mg gsnIab
mentioned in one of S~tanEerry's letters.
Again S~tanberry appealed to Recorder
Gof, but he was told to answer; lie de-
clined on the g"oubd that it would disgrace
Isn't it a matter of fact that you have
been convicted Of crime four times?' asked
Mr.. Jerome.
He was asked il lie hadn't told Lawyer
Auerbach of Davies, Stone q Auerbach
Il may have" said Stanterry. why
don't YOU ask Mr.. Auerl ach?"
He explained to w, Nj; r.. ,Olcott. c0uiseI
for Patrick, that lie used some, Of the leaves
Of his diary to light cigars and his plne.
Il don't smoke cigarettes" he said, looking
at Mr.. Jerome,
When Stanberry left The stand he wasn't
in a very pleasant mood. He talked of
sking for a colrt-martial. Mr., jerome
may send a copy of his testimony to the
Then ex-Chief of Police Blackburn Of
Houston and Edwin d. Mack nzie, a court
stenographer of Houston, we're called. They
admitted that what they knew about Jones
was hearsay. Their affidaVits were thrown
out.
One was by Mrs. Ann Allen Wright Of
Houston. She said that Jones and Mayor
ri. Baldwin Rice had known each other
since they were boys. She said that she
had seen Jones and Mayor Rice together
This was in contradiction OF Mayor RiCe's
testimony, who said that he didnt know
Jones and had never seen HIM.
She admitted that she was unfriendly
to Jones, and i. was brought out that Jones
had been intimate with her daughter.
She said that she had four sons and a nu-
Der OF male relatives and, being Texans,
thew would probably make II uncolnforta-
? BILE for Jones il he ,howed up in that section
She said that no member OF her family
had seen Jones around Houston during he
time he is said to have been telling a number
of pefsons that Patrick is innocent Of the
murder Of William Marsh Rice,
Then came John y. Geisberg, one OF the
oueorest witnesses yet produced. He made
an affidavit about seeing Jones and Mayor
Rice in a Houston street car. He sat be
3 hind them and overheard Mayor Rice
saw something TO Jones about money, but
didn't pay particular attention 10 the con-
versation. This was to ~corrohorate
the story of Miss Gaillard, the Texas
achoolma'am.
Geisborg is almost stone deaf-so deaf in
fact that Mr.. Jerome, standing within two
feet of him, had to yell so loud that he could
be heard out in Centre street. Even then
Geisberg had difficulty in hearing him 8,
He admitted that altogether he has made
three nfidavits in the case, and that he
saw Miss Goillsrd before he started North,
Two other witnesses were called who
said that they had concentrations witt
lafayette Jones in which he soid he lied
when he testified that he had sent chloro-
form a.. his brother. Charles F. Jones.
About that time Mr.. OlcOtt asked Mr.,
Jerome if he had a picture Of Charles F.
Jones. Mr.. Jerome said he had not, adding:
Il wish we had. II We had we would
nave duplicates made and then maybe
we would have HIM"
ar. Jerome's remark was taken to mean
that a search is being made for Jones,
but that 1t is impossible to get him.
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