The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-07
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have to give at Mr., Patrick 3 trial. We
were almost stuck for awhile, but ono
day Poor jim" got an inspiration.
.say that you did it because Mr..
Patrick told you to-
Howl / asked.
"Poor Jim thought while.
Chloroforml" he shouted; 1that,s
it, chloroform!' They can't prove you
prove that you did, So at the trial
i confessed that I administered it mT-
self at Mr.. Patrick 's suggestion, I
made a mistake when l said threw the
cloth in the FIRE afterward and it blazed
for 1t seems that chloroform won't
blaze. 1t was too bad we did not
know that before; still, you can't ex-
pect an Assistant District Attorney to
have universal knowledge. But it did
not seem to matter, because the jury
convicted Mr.. Patrick
Ot course, some people were nasty
enough to criticise me because I made
do? We had to find the right one, and
who could tell which was the right one
until all the others had been tried7
1t all over now, as far as I am
concerned but they will kill Mr.. Pat
rick, suppose, At any rate am free
and having as good time as the al.
lowance Captain Baker lets me have for
the rest Of my life will permit. But
1T, should be much larger. l am sorry,
of course, about Mr.. Patrick, but it
is his bad luck 1t might have hap
pened t0 any one in New York. It
wasn t my fault If they convicted him
Didn't confess that I killed Mr.. Rice
myselff Why should they kill Mr..
Patrick for thati
| don't quite see how. that law of
capital punishment is on the level. How
can it be right for all the people Of
the State OF New York to take a hu-
man life if it is wrong for one indi-
vidual to do the same thing7
But these are morbid and unreason-
able thoughts. "Poor jim" has for
bidden me to dwell upon them he
says; This is Christian country,
and we must punish those who break
same ono ourselves. - "Similia, simi,
libus curantur that is the legal
phrase. don't know what it means,
but 1t certainly sounds grand.
To Pleasanter Thoughts.
But, to turn to pleasapter thoughts.
Ism I it ridiculous how my friend,
Poor Jim, " fooled the dear old pub
llc' He said so much about the brutal
killing of Mr. Rice that they have en-
tirely lost sight Of the quiet and pleas
ant way in which Mr.. Patrick is being
The public did not know about
Poor Jim s private practice, and
those fake witnesses before the grand
jury were something they never sus-
pected
They are, however, getting onto the
District Attorneys press bureau, and
the John Doe proceedings, for the
psychic, epileptic" has Been indis-
Greet of late.
Tbo ,npbl;. k,,-.
the third degree, but in my case it was
not the brutal thing that they suppose,
1t Just a heart to heart talk. Such
swers every purpose sometimes.
Mr., Patrick is innocent. The public
have condemned him to death. Tho
public did it on my testimony, al
though ! am self-confessed perjurer
over and over again. And although I
yet, the public let me 90 free. "What
FOOLS some people are / am a fool,
put not as big fool as the jury who
believed my testimony
Now, here g a scream!' Do YOU
know what ''Poor jim" tells me, and
you bet he knows7 1 asked him one
Suppose, they should try me for mur-
they should try me7 Do you know thet
L could not be convicted7 Every law
yer, Will tell you that nothing I havo
said could be used against me. I
should not even be allowed to plead
guilty. The State would furnish money
to defend me. / should be acquitted Of
the, murder Of Mr.. Rice. And IF so.
IT proves that Mr.. Rice was not mur.
dered at all. and Mr. Patrick is inno-
cent. Then what is Mr. Patrick doing
up there in the death chamber7 Then
the best Joke of all Suppose you have
killed Mr. Patrick In the meantime and
find out afterward that ne was inno~
cent What will you do about it1
Think it over,
Oh; I'd almost forgotten something.
Mr., Rice left SS,000,000 of which no
less than S2,000000 has been divided
among the lawyers for the Rice estate.
- Poor jim recommended them to
Captain Baker
What part Of this did "Poor JIM
get' Nothing! He shouts in virtuous
indignation. Never mind, t'Poor jim. -
Neither did the institute for the little
colored children