New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-07
SEEK CADDIE FOR
CLEVELAND MURDER
Millionaire Killed Almost in
Front of Ex-Governor Mer-
rick'S Home
LAD HAD BEEN DISCHARGED
Young italian Had Threatened to
Get Even" According TO
Police-Dyna1nite Threats
Also Received by Family.
by Telegraph 70 The Tribune ]

by Telegraph 70 The Tribune
Cleveland, Aug. e.-The Cleveland pc
lice are seeking & young italian, former
| l. g golf ceddie at the Euclid Club. on
the theory that g desire on his part FOR
vengeance led 10 the Staying late last
night Of William Z. Rice, millionaire
law--e- and banker. Investigation by
ci1v and county detectives to-day led
them 70 abandon the theory Of attempted
robbery By two men advanced by Euclid
Heights village officers, who we're first at
the scene Of the Staying.
Their investigation led 10 the unea~th-
ing Of stories Of g grudge borne against
latter dismissal following an attack by
hin, on the master csdd1e Mr.. Rice in
terfered en- behalf Of the master caddie.
1afevr@ By name I44aas7rs is absent
from the city.
The dismissed caddie attacked tbs
master caddte Wtaen the latter forbade
crap shooting in the caddie house. He
was torn from his would-be victim, by
Rice and later discharged He is said
by John Grimes, the Rice coachn1an. to
| have threatened TO get even Threats
that the Rice home would be destroyed
/ b dynamite have been received since,
according TO relatives Of Mrs. Rice in
Nor-raIk, Ohio The dismissed caddie
has been IN Erie, Penn, but is known to
have returned to Cleveland recently.
Theory of Conspiracy.
Three men. q night Watchnan, z
rstrolman and z chauffeur, told the
police to-day that they had found
man or youth lurking in the rear Of the
Rice home just prior TO the murder
The man appeared TO be q foreigner
and fed when he was detected He was
pursued, but succeeded in making his
escape. These men also testified that
four shots were fired instead Of two,
as had at first been stated. Two bull
lets were found in Mr.. Rice's body, and
the other two are believed by the police
10 have been z signal to the r1aurderer'g
accompltces. who, it is thought, were
watching the other approaches to the
Rice home for their victim.
The police profess to have esta blished
that Mr.. Rice'g movements were closely
watched all of yesterday evening, and
that when he left the Euclid Club for
his home assassins were lying in wait
for him in at least three places The
stationing Of q man in the rear of the
house showed that the r;lurderers were
acquainted with Mr.. Rice's habits, as
he frequently walked across the golf
links and entered his home from the
back.
Mr.. Rice's body was found last night
lying IN the middle Of a roadway on
Euclid Heights, with two bullet wounds
in the head. 4 long and deep cash on
the left hand. which had almost severed
that member, showed that both q knife
and e revolver had been used in the
assault
Neither the money nor other valuabIes
on the body had been touched, thus eff
fectually disposing Of q possibility that
a highWaynaan had committed the muir
der
The body was found by Charles L
Vail. police officer It was still warm,
but when hurriedly removed TO d hospi-
Ill II WEE AOOItu t--d>t 1t-NT .l1fI CCtit
dead for some time.
Lived Alone with Servants
The members Of the Rice family, in
Guiding his four children, are spending
the summer at Cape Cod. and Rice has
been living alone in his home with the
servants.
The spot where the crime vas COM
rnitted was almost in front Of the home
Of former Governor Myron II Herrick-
Rice wsS in middle life and had been
one Of Clevelands most prominent at
torneys for sixteen years. Recently he
had acted IS counsel in the closing OF the
affairs Of various defunct banking insti-
tutions. and al early police theory has
led the department TO make inquiry y
any depos!tor in one Of these banks has
shown signs Of dennertia-
Etce's law partners. Judge z. J. Blan-
din and Frank H CHM. joined the police
early this morning In attempting TO run
down the slayer. They have offered
$4,000 reward for the arrest OF the muir
derer.
Apart from the caddie theory and the
fact that two foreigners were seen in
the vicinity Of where the murder took
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