Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-11-30
PATRICK AFTER
RICE MILLIONS
Intends to Offer Rejected
Will for Probate.

ICN iOhhy WV W A4icSht
rick, following a two hours conference
with William K. Olcott, his attorney,
stated that the forgery Indictment
| found against him before the murder
indictment had been dismissed and In
dicated that he will fight to probate
the second William Marsh Rice will.
Patrick insisted that the will was
genuine and said that he had been sent
to prison as the result of a tremendous
! conspiracy In which the heirs Of Mr..
Rice had spent $3,500.000 to convict
him.
Patrick went down to his lawyers
! office. The conference with Mr.. Olcott
followed, and then the newspaper men
were asked in.
Former Assistant District Attorney
Francis P. Caravan had said that Pat
rick had admitted to his trial lawyer,
Frederick 3. House, now q magistrate,
tina. he had murdered Rice. Patrick
was first asked whether he cared to
explain his refusal to release Magis-
| trate House from his obligations as
J counsel.
81 see no need for special e1plana-
ton at this time about that matter"
said Patrick. my brother-in-law. Mr..
Milliken, has already answered that
fully. The statement that l confessed
to House is part Of the general case
against me-"
Insists He 10 Executor.
when do you begin your fight for
the Rice mtllions2" he was asked.
81 have never made any claim to the
Rice Millions" he answered. Il was
simply made under the will the execu-
tor Of a trust. Reports that l said that
l was entitled to a share In the Rice
millions are simply part Of a consptr.
acy against me. l was appointed Mr..
Rics's agent, the trustee OF q trust
which was to resemble the Sage foun.
dalton. Before anything could have
been done Z corporation would have to
have been formed to handle the e.
tate. These things were all provided
for in the last will of Mr.. Rice, which
was a true and lawful will. as will be
shown In due course Of time"
"A charge Of forgery was made
against me at that time, but these
charges were not sustained.
1.-THE two witnesses Of the Will were
indicted with me for forgery. Neither
Of these men have been tried. When
Mr.. whitman became district attorney
he could and no evidence against them,
and the indictments were dismissed.
These men were Morris Meyers, who
today is a practictng attorney in this
city, and David L. Short, a prosperous
travelling salesman, now living In Phil
adelphia.
Rice Afraid of Fraud.
"Mr. Rice was afraid eff fraud, and
sent them to Mr.. Rice as a precaution.
The fraud which he feared found fruit
in my arrest and conviction. He fear
ed that there was a conspiracy on the
part of the disappointed trustees un.
der the first will. l also believed that
there was a conspiracy"
! When asked who was behind this
conspiracy Patrick went into an ex.
tended review of the Rice will case
and said:
"My conviction was engineered by
enemies Of mine, enemies whom |
made through my fidelity to the will
Ct Mr.. Rice. The court Of appeals In
Its dissenting opinion said that MUIR
der had never been proved In my
case"
James W. Osborne, the assistant dis.
trict attorney who prosecuted Patrick.
said that there has never been a plain.
er case Of first degree murder than the
death of Rice.
Francis P. Garvan characterized
Governor Dix's action as an outrage
Mr.. Caravan helped Mr.. Osborne ii
the prosecution.