Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-11-27
PATR|CK'S PARDON
ALLEGED TO Be
RESULT OF DEAL
OPTION ON CRIPPLE CREEK MINE
SAID TO HAVE FREED AL
LEGGED SLAYER.

NEW YORK, Nov ga state
ment. verified under oath by George
@ Goodrich, purports to disclose for
the first time the truth about the par
don of A. T. Patrick by Governor
John A. Dix for the murder Of VIII
liam Marsh Rice, millionaire.
The pardon of Patrick on Thanks
giving eve, 1912, has always been
mystery. The reasons for granting II
we're not officially stated by Governor
Dix in detail SO far as the public
knew, no petition for the pardon was
before him officially, No adequate
explanation was made by Governor
Dix when he signed the pardon.
Four governors of New York had
refused to Interfere but Governor
Dix, without any new petition or
public hearing, so far as the public
knew. granted him full and free par
don without notice.
Now comes forward George {.
Goodrich formerly an intimate bust.
ness associate of John T. Milliken,
the st. Louis millionaire and brother
in.law of Patrick, who says that the
pardon was part OF a deal Tor the
control OF gold mines in Colorado.
Through this mining deal--a $25.
100000 consolidation Goodrich al
leges that the Wall street friends Of
Governor John A. Dix and some o.
his Albany associates planned tt
reap millions,
Joseph Walker g. Sons, OF 20 Broat
street, one of the Oldest and mos
influential firms in the financial dis
trlct are named by Goodrich as th'
bankers close to Dix, who were thu
Wall street promoters. The plan wal
to bring about Patrick's pardon
which Miliken, his wealthy brother
in.law, ardently desired, in return
for an option to the Walker interest
on Milliken's Golden Cycle Mininl
company, the greatest producer o
gold in the Cripple Greek district
John I. Milliken was the owne
Of the Golden Cycle mine, in Crippl
Creek II was not speculatiy
proposition It's stock was not o.
iered on the exchange II had pal
dividends of several hundred thol
sand dollars a year and il was sal
to be worth s6.000OOO
But MIlliken, who had marie
Patrick's sister was more intereste
IN Patrick's pardon than anythin
else in the world.
Walker a Son were very success
ful mining bankers In Wall street {
high standing. They we're exertin
all their ability to effect merge
Of gold mines In Cripple Creek
From 1900 to 1902 Milliken ha
tried in vain to get new trial f
Patrick; had spent fortune; hs
gone to the court of last resort al
had failed.
Walker & Sons merger had fall'
through because Milliken would n
sell his mining property TO anybo'
would not even discuss it. Tn
was the situation in the spring
1912 when George Goodrich, W.
known in the financial district as
promoter of mining deals and mi
ing expert of international expe
ence, first met Walker & Sons.
Goodrich had been associated wi
William Nelson Cromwell and w
street syndicate in an effort to efft
merger of these Cripple Gre
mines as far back as 1907. He "
an Intimate friend of Milliken a
mad gone to him representing
Cromwell syndicate to get an Opt
on the Golden Cycle mine
The Cromwell merger sche
failed.
When Walker 4 Sons took 1t
hve years later they also used Go
rich as agent to reach Milliken.
Now, Goodrich says Milliken t
him that he gave the option on G,
en- Cycle properties on November
1912, three days after the pardon.
Allen L. Burris, then president
the FL paso Consolidated Gold N
ing company and now president
The merger company.