The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-07
RICE MURDERED BY A CADDY?
HE HiD ONGE INTERPRETED N
o. iRREL At ETCIID CLf %.
Rslsber, seems Not to Inderb III> Death
VAS Attacked Near Home b, Tive
Wen who. FaiilnE 60 stab Him. shot
hin, Dead Nrs RIee on Way Home.

CLEvFIASD. Aug. e.. His Interference
in a quarrel Of cadcies employed on the
Euclid Clubs course is believed ~ have
brought about the murder last night Of
William l.. Rice. a lawyer. whose body
was found in the street on Euclid Heights
almost in sight Of his home
The police tonight are seeking
youthful Italian. once a caddy AT the
club. who is known to have returned 10
this city from Erie. Pa. whittier he went
several months ago after being dismissed
a. q result Of a fight in which Mr. Rice
interfered
The cadldy ~ said Ivy John Grimer.
coachman ia tho Rice family. to have
threatened To get even with Mr.. Rice.
The boy vas diVmissed after attacking
tho master Caddy because the master
caddy forbade crap shooting IN the caddy
house.
THAT threats 10 destroy the Rice home
by dynamite have been received since
that episode was also made known To
the police to-day through Norwalk. Ohio,
relatives 81 Mrs Rice Police guarded
the home Tor "A ii me
Detectives scout the robbery theory
advanced by the Euclid Heigh', police
who first were on the scene They point
to the fact that siSa In money. an opal
stick pin. a gold watch and diamond
studded cuf links were not touched
Deputy Coroner Drocge. who examined
the body to-day. also thinks some other
motive than robbery must he found
He says the condition OF the body ind
Gates that Rice fought his assailants until
they risked the noise Of the two shots
when they had failed 20 end his life with
stiletto
On. bullet. entering Rice's right eye.
killed the lawyer. Another graz~d his
temple He was alive when found by
an automobile which arrived on IN" scene
soon after the murder Garfield White
Hospital. to which the automobile carried
the wounded man. was crowded and he
was dead before ~ Luke's Hospital was
reached nearly half an hour after the
shooting
The police have been fired to eItraor-
binary effort by the offering to-day Of
a 5000 reward by Judge r. J Blandin
anu 0ulus MI. NICE Ia" Ilhll-
ners. and several other lawyers.
That two mon committed the murder il
the belief Of officers who examined the
tracks about tho scene Two men dressed
a. lsborsrs were secn near the spot some
TINA bsfors -ths shsoting by Q nnsrassr II
the Euclid Club who met Mr Rice az the
latter was leaving the club door soon after
10 o'clock last night
Mr. Rice was so years old He had hand
in the organization Of many Of the city's
big enterprises and handled mostly large
financial transactions He seldom APP
pcared in court He made his mark in the
early 'Oe. when he rollowed Thomas
Axw orthy. ahsconding City Treasurer
to England and returned with much Of
tho tIOO 0OO taken from the treasury
For fift~en years hs had been judge
Blandin's law partner He was educated
in chester. Pa. and read law later IN
Ohio.
He was a member Of the Country.
Euclid. University and Cleveland Yacht :
clubs and n director in many large con ,
-erns here lie was a lover Of horses and /.
m ardent golfer. Indeed he had spent |
he afternoon preceding his death on the
inks at the Euclid Club
BOsroS. Aug o--My husband did not |
nave an enemy in the world lie was
by robbers. | am sure said !
Mrs william l. Rice AZ the South station !
at $50 to-day.
Mrs. Rice was AZ wianno with her
four children when the news that her h,is-
Dand had been found shot dead was told .
,er She caught the first train for Bos-
on. reaching here at $50. just in time to
make connections for Cleveland She
will reach Cleveland AZ noon to-morro W