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THE FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1900, DRAMATIC DETAILS OF MILLIONAIRE e Lawyer Patrick, Aided by Valet Jones, Adminis- ters Slow Poison. w RK. Nov. 1.—The death of thy William Marsh Rice e dison-avenue apart- ' York X y the City went down 10 the Prison, desired to =ee me. I Jones and he was brought Warden's office, and I asked to see him if he wanted to see me. He said he did. 1 toid him that the law did not re- quire him to make any statement, and stated that anything he might wish to say would not be used against him and was not his lawyer. 1 told him he awyer and had betier consult with - 1ght it neces je said desired to make a state- sent for C of ius- rne & =ame 1wade his nto full that wh ain MeC wer fornb d E for to RiC Rice t from Patrick Ke ther hefore b Rice Wanted the Papers. s ery litle t g r L T went t e said he g everything he had wanted to know why pers. He. showed me tle which looked like me to dilute it in twenty brin; something: 1 salte, and het »d. give it to Mr. Rice d strengthen him very much. ed it to Mr. Rice. take it unless vou 1 tasted it and it ther acldy or metallic. Mr. Rice and asked me if I would take 1 smid not unless I knew ieft it on a stand three of ked 1 returned some B a mall part. 1 he had taken it and he said a monthful.’ It lock in_the aftern: the window looking « Vhen wae "Rice =at by at on Fifth av and remained there un- ti} 4 o'clock. Then he went to bed. I slight noise and went in. and was sitting by the window. iried 1o persuade him to o to refused at first I carried him im into bed. 1 told Mr. Rice X =aid hé would come to the he could do so without before I put him A if Patrick did not come morning he would notify the authorities and to teleplfone to this | effect to Patrick, and this was his last Sarning ALBERT MURDER LAID BARE J PATRICK . [ i i will be at the hov 7-0'clock. He came about 7 o'clock had a package of papers and -sat in air by the bed, talking to Mr. Rice, and Mr. Rice took the papers from_ him Mr. Patrick said: ‘Why do you wish the papers?” 1 do not remember Mr, Rice's nswer. Mr, Rice told Patrick that he s very mervous and did not wish to be troubled. Mr. Patrick asked me for a towel and a sponge and I got them for | him. He then asked me to leave the room. | T left the room. He said: ‘I will remain | with Mr. Rice until he goes to sieep and | will g0 out the side door.” Two minutes later 1 heard Mr. Rice laughing, after 1 left the room. I went to the door and peeped in and saw Mr. Rice lying on his} back and the towel was folded in a cone- | shape and was over his whole face and | >atrick was holding it over his face with | his right_hand. Mr. Patrick did not see me, nor did Mr. Rice. I opened the door t enough to see what was going on, and | t as soon as I saw . the position of | things I went and lay down on my bed and went to sleep.’ | Doctor Found Rice Dead. Osborne savs Jones described Rice's follows “Mr. Rice was very sick. to me ‘Go get a doctor.” I went for one and he came back with me and pro-| nounced Rice dead. Patrick asked: ‘How lorg has he been dead? The doctor an- | swered: ‘Twenty minutes.’ is was about 9 o'clock. Patrick asked the doctor | what wag the next thing to do. The doc- tor said to get an undertaker. The doc- tor commended an undertaker named Senfor at Madison avenue and Fifty- ninth street. 1 went there but did not get | Senior. Patrick said, ‘Never mind. I'll| get another.’ When 1 got back T found | an undertaker named owright there. Then Patrick took me aside and said: a. Patrick said | ld man’'s papers. Understand, we must get all of them.” We took all the papers we could find and Patrick bundled them | all up and took them away with him. Monday morning Patrick came to Mr. Rice's house. He had a check book in his hand, he said: ‘This s Mr. Rice's check .book.” Then he showed me two checks signed W. M. Rice. ‘Now,’ he said, ‘I want you to fill out the amounts of these checks,” and at his request I filled out one for §25.000 and another for $65,00 “Ag to the embalming of Mr. Rice's body, the letter used was dictated by Mr. Rice, either in July or August, but it was | not signed by him. saw this letter among Rice's papers on several occasions. Inasmuch as I went up town to see Senior, the undertaker, while Patrick made the arrangements for the undertaker, I did not see the letter that Patrick gave to the undertaker. I have seen it several times since, however, and can_state positively that it was the letter unsigned among Mr. | Rice’'s papers.” Jones Fills Out Checks. Assistant District Attorney Osborne this afternoon gave out a more detailed state ment of what Jones said of the happen- ings subsequent to Rice's death. He said, quoting from Jones' statement: “When I waked up about - o'clock the morning following Rice's death, having been in the habit of carrying water to him since his sickness, 1 asked him then if he wanted water and he did not answer. 1 took up his hand and it was limp and lifeless. . | at once saw that he was either felgning or dead. I first looked around the house for Patrick and sent for the doctor. 1 told Friend Patrick that Rice was either sick or dead. I asked him: “Where have you been and how did you get away? He answered: ‘I will go and get the doctor and come up.' The doctor and Patrick came together about 8:30 or 9 | tor replied: | were,. ‘legal right THE ATTORNE AND VALET WHO CAUSED THE DEATH OF MILLIONAIRE WILLIAM MARSH RICE BY SLOW POIS G AND CHLOROFORM IN ORDER TO LOOT HIS ESTATE, AND THE SCENE OF THEIR | MOST SENSATIONAL CRIME. | _Patric about 6 or ‘Now, Jones, we've got to get all of the |o'clock The doctor examined Rice and said he was dead. Patrick was then very nervous and excited and he asked the doc- tor how long he had been dead. The doc- About twenty minutes.’ Af- ter the body had been lald out Patrick gathered up all the letters. I was with him and had as much as he to do with that. He gathercd he two watches and all the money that was in the trunk. Patrick selected such as he wanted from the pay He told me that he wanted all the valuable papers. returned and had with him bankbooks and checkbooks. He had a number of blank checks. ‘I have some checks that I want you to fill out,’ he said. M. Swenson & Sons for $25,000." One was filled out for $65.000 on M. Swenson & one for $25,000 on the Fifth-avenue Trust Company and one for $135,000 on the same company. proper right to Rice's death heca sh these checks before e known—his words He left -at 8:30 or 9 and sald he would telephone me o'clock | to dictate messages to be sent to relatives and Baker and to tell the bank, if .It called up, that the checks were good. About 11:30 o’clock he called me up and said: ‘We've made a bust of it.' He again told me to tell the bank that the checks were_all right. About ten minutes later, Mr. Wallace called up and asked for Mr. Rice. - He asked me if the checks were in my handwriting. 1 told him ves, if you send up I will correct it. “That is how he explained the spelling of the name Albert “Abert’ Instead of correctly. Then he told me to have Mr. Rice come to the tele- phone. 1 said: ‘Very well,’” and rang off. Then 1 called up Patrick and told him He told me to tell them if called up again tnat Mr. Rice was dead to the telephone and asked about Rice 1 told him that he was dead. Then he wanted to know all about it. T told him The next day he | ‘One on | e told me he had the | Swenson came | AT LAST %Confess‘ion of Victim’s - Servant Followed by Attemp_tgd Suicide. chloroformed Mr. Osborne satd Jones had { he had died at 8 o'clock the night before ! iring the old K | Messages S:mt to Relatives. “Patrick then called me up again said: ‘These people have kicked over and the trace: He then dictated to me the mes- sage to be sent to the relatives. The one [ he used agair { to Captain Baker read: ‘Mr. Rice died )f course last night at 8 o'clock. Doctor's certifi- Some one cate reads weak heart, old age, dlar;, mortem sta rhoca. Funeval to-morrow, 10 o'cloc sed. Messages of a er were sent et ilar cha pthers. Patrick a > follow between 4 and 6 about 8_o'clc Th 9 o'clock 1 not! men hang me to the lawyers. | x_about these me: not to let them in. O 2 in and said he was from a of ice DENIES HAVING CONFESSED. | Jones Tells His Attorney That He W S AT R Setiies oe 1o o Whan I don't remember e ctly my Sweated.” but whatever they were they were not | NEW YORK, No terick House “Patrick telephioned after they _left, | Attorney for Pa i ahout 1 0’ Mr. Meidon called an- |2 later statement cor NEASS showed me a legram from (aptain Ba > ker and asked if he could assist in an way. T gram sa‘d:. ‘Loc. out for v That was_the trick ca.led abou led [ told him d hal o's al fairs. He said o would be F e ed me again ab in Bawer and a When he came had the night bhen told » said not post Knew it w ntrary for you to be admitted < Jores, ‘but I t with w at- was taken pa told me to say tn what | _suppe tion were to settle the Hol There 1 found Mr. was going to call McCluskey, Captain B off the cremation. The detective e Mr. Miiler and two tioned and hung around continually and en whom I do not know.’ Patrick_again said not to mention any ‘I suppose that was ¢ thin t medicines. When the detec- ers who Is referr tives returned I went to breakfast with borne as a friend ¢ them. They told me I was wanted at po- have his name lice headquarters and that I would mee* » make a a representative of the District Attorney’'s ey want you to ¢ office and that no dispesition of the body | they wanted me to would be made until the Coroner was no- | checks w forge tified. When 1 went tu police headquar- ters 1 met Mr. Osborne from toe District Attorney’s office. 1 then heard that Cay tain Baker would be in the city and 1 was to tell Captain Baker what I knew.™ Mr. Osborne questioned Jones after he had concluded the statement, and asked many questions. all of which Jones an swered, and declared he answered truth- them just what I i had « fully. Mr. Osborne was asked if he thought there would be any more arrests in the case and if any of the motaries that had been interested in the case would be ar- rested. He said he was mot prepared to answer the question. Mr. Miller of the firm of Hornblower & Byrne was at the prison ward in Bellevue Hospital with Jones for an hour. The Valet Breaks Down. interests, ““‘Then some one, eitber M Baker, said that I had bett | Jones. he said. was _unnerved and myself. was tole brokey. He lay on his ot and sobbed sed. 1 repiie ) ond cdied like a child. Mr. Miller sald | what Pairick had z Jones told him that Patrick told him ta kill himself. as he had a better opportu- v to do so than he (Patrick). as there truthful_confession harm. Then three were prepared by Mr. differen Osborne. Wwas another man in the cell with Patrick. | was read to me and I was as Miller said that Jones further quoted Pat- | one of them. I declinea. I sald I would rick a¢ saying: “What can I do? T have ' talk no more. I told Mr. Oshorne that b two children, and what will become of | had no right to treat me as he 1 | them in case T am tried and this is found | that I would say no more save in ¥ out?” | presence, Mr. House." Mr. Osborne was asked what part of the Dr. Walter Curry, who attended M Rice estate Jones had expected to get. He ce during the Hiness which preceded sald Jones told him Patrick had assured death, and who wae called in after him of being well cared for. but had | ward, said to-night ihat wh was promised nothing more defimte. The. es- led on the day $ tate, Mr. « . Is estimated at saw no towel or did he detect or_other anesthetic not_recall anything about the or feeling of the body that woulé from 0 The information that Jones desired to make a statement came to the District Attorney, Mr. Osborne said, through a friend of Jones, who was present at the | that death was caused by poison or an time the statement was made. Mr. Os- | anesthetic. borne declined to give H‘]nehfrrgn:d; name. aaaa——— Mr. Osborne said word ha eén sent at o the same time to Patrickefelling him the | __ Vietory for co‘_’”“_’”iv“" | District Attorney would Be giad to hear | WINNIPEG. Man.. Nov. 1L—In the loca | from him if he cared to make a statement. | by election in Center Winnipeg to-day T Mr. Patrick replied that he did not care to | W. Taylor, Conservative, was elected Ly | say anything about any crime, but would | a majority of 164 over Ro t Muir. The | like to see Captain Baker about the es- | victory is of great importance to the Con- tate. The District Attorney safd the State did not care to discuss the estate, but rather Rice’s death. servatives on account of the coming Do- minion elections next week. Center Win- | nipeg has been a Iiberal stronghold for e da ate sur it will not de Republicans listen to - a Democratic epee hope that the Democrats w esy shown by these Re ne to the Republi- 2 %re to be delivered for no party has any claim upon the voter except as the party can show that it is e Hub (CHAS. KEILUS & €0.) . STEIN-BLOCH C0Q,'S8 SUITS AND OVERCOATS OF FABRICS AND FASHIONS THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY NEW Exclusive High=Grade Clothiers HACKETT, CARHART & CO.'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS OF MATERIALS AND PATTERNS THAT HAVE NEW IDEAS AND STYLE PARAGON PANTS ARE RIGHT SOLD ONLY HERE. 13 KEARNY ST. THURLOW BLOCK. ns by which ‘they can serve | : willing to sub- American_people. In this speech Mr. Bryan referred brief-| Iy to the financial guestion by way of at- tack upon the Republican position. { The following was his language on that | point: “1 want the Republ: ey ask for substl ang to explain why f = bank note greenback. 1 financial bill | put_section 14, which " revives - the f intetr vl bimetallism. Why hope of International bimetal- ld =tandard is a good thing? fend a perpstual debt, for you e a bank note system resting on bonds a permanent system without | having permanent bond | There was a brief stop at the fown of Lowell, which was not originally on the programme. Mr. Bryan was listeried to by a large and attentive crowd in the city of Ham- mond, which was his last stopping place | in the State of Indiana. In. his speech at that point he gave considerable attention o the questisn of government by injunc- | tion. saving, among other things: | “Since the last election men have been shot down on the hlshwny by govern- | ment by injunction, and the laboring man | realizes that government by injunction is mereiy a process by which laboring men {are deprived of t by jury when they | come into conflict with a great corpor: | tion. . We want to abolish government by lneuncl\on. The Republicans have not tried t . and not one of them in tnis gn has said a_word on that sub- Ject, Republican candidate for | Vice Presidert wrote something about it | four vears 2go. During the campaign he | had occasion to express himself en this subject and said the laboring men who | were opposed to government by injunc- tion were jike their remote skin-clad an- | cestors, who ate the mammoth and the wily rhinocercs.” Digcvssing the question of imperialism at_Monticello Mr. Bryan said: “A Republican said not long ago that | | nations might dle whether they expanded | or not. but that only expanding nations | left a glorious history. ‘It is not necessary | that a republic should. die. The empire baséd op force will fall when a superior force arises, but a republic resting on the Declaration -of Independence. and admin- isterad according to the doctrine of equal | rights to all and speclal privileges to none | | need rever die. wili never die, can never | fie, 'and such 4 republic we want this to be. If you love liberty, then remember that the Filipino loves it in’the Orlent. If you are entitled to - self-government | | here, remember that he is entitled to it | | theré. But when you get:off ‘the doctrine | | that all men are created equal. upon what | \will you stand when you demand a right to_a volce in your own government?” | Mr. Bryan's speech to_the large audience which greeted him at Monon was an ap- peal to Republicans to lay aside party vrejadice ani act ‘upon the basls of pa- irfotism. He sajd that while many Re- publicans disapproved the position of their party on mary questions, they would try to silence their consciences and avoid | teaving their party. The Republican lead- | ers seemed to think the rank and fle of the party wovld vote for anvthing fust so f was in the platform. but he believed they would b2 disappointed In this expec- tation at the coming election. for the masses of the party could not fail to see that that party makes the poor man pay more than hie share of the cost of gov- ernment and the rich man less than his. i |B CARLIST BANDS ABE DISPERSED Revolutionists in Epain Are Much Discouraged by Repulses. PRARE A Bpecial ald. Copyright, 1900, by the Herald Pub- lishing Company. BARCELONA, Nov, 1L.—The first band of Carlists which appeared at Badalona, forty men strong, has béen dispersed. That in the nelghborhood of Iqualada, which also consisted of forty men, had an engagement with the Civil Guard, of whom two were wounded, one mortally. At present the Carlists are completely discouraged. There are few ‘‘Partidas” in the environs of Berga, in all about 100 men. In an engagement between them and the Civil Guard of Mozos Escuadra two insurgents were killed. Troops, both of cavalry and infantry, are pursuing them to-day. A new *Partida’’ of four- teen men has appeared at Ravents Bridge, near Berga. Three depots of arms and equipments | were discovered yesterday at Barcelona. Carlist clubs have been tlosed. fFwenty- five arrests have been made, one of the o‘rron! arrested being the Carlist general oliva. The opinfon of the authorities is that the movement is not one of extraordinary importance. They do not belleve the Car- list party is in a position to carry on a war, though the industrial crisis at pres- | Snt prevafiing might favor the movement. Many persons are still unconvinced as to the aim of the movement and are not sure that the insurgents are really Car- lists. The Captain General of Barcelona refused to accept the troops the Govern- ment_wanted to send to him. The Civil Governor is of the opinion that he has crushed the conspiracy by the discovery of arms and equlrment. but it is not be- lieved that he will have much influence in the march of events, for the real danger liea in (e ‘appeararice of & mew Carlist and. The population {s very much excited and gives credence to all kinds of extraordi- nary stories. MADRID, Nov. L—The following state- ment has beén issued by the Spanish Min- ister of the Interior: “The revolutionary movement is on the decline. It is now limited to the band in the mountains near Berga, which is flee- ing before several columns of Government troops, The rest of the peninsula is calm. The troops have returned to Igualada. They encountered no revolutionaries. Stops the Cough And works oft the cold, Laxative Bromo-Qui- nine Tablets cure a,cold in one day. No eure, no pay. Price 2 cents_ . Cable to The-Call and New York Her- | CERMANS SHOW 10 QUARTER Chinese Treated With Aw-: ful Cruelty by. the Soldiers. ERRAE IR BERLIN, Nov. 1.—Considerable impa- tlence at the meagerness of the news from China is finding expression here. The In ference is that German censorship over | such information is very strict. Letters from privates in China begin to | v into the social democratic | papers, showing that the German troops | find their give no quarter. The Bremen Buerger Zeltung publishes a letter from a soldier in Peking who gald he witnessed the fol- lowing scene: Sixty-elght captives, some of them not yet adults, were tied togetier by thetr pigtalls, beaten bloody by the Germans, compeiled dig their own graves and then shot en masse. The Halberstadter Volks Zeitung prints a communication from Peking, in which the writer says ‘“No prisoners are taken. All are shot or, preferably, sabered to save ammuni- tion. Sunday afternoon we had to bayonet seventy-four prisoners. They had killed one of our patrolmen. An entire battalion pursued them and captured sev- enty-four alive. It was cruel; it was In- describables” NOMINEE FOR SENATOR COMMITS SUICIDE GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 1.—Coun- ty Treasurer B. Proctor, nominated by the Republicans for State Senator from the Seventeenth District, committed sui- cide to-day by taking laudanum. Cam- nl*n criticlsam of alleged Irregularities n the administration of the county treas- said to have impelled him ‘to tak» ury is his life. His deputies stoutly maintain that th s accounts. is no shortages in —_— Avondale for Sale. DUBLIN, Nov. 1.—Mr. Boyland, who purchased Avondale, the estate of the late Charles Stewart Parnell, which was sold at auction yesterday by the Land Judges Tourt, declines to reserve the Parnel residence alone to ‘the trustees of the American fund. He will, however, resell the entire estate for £8000. — .. Guilty of Murder. WALLACE, Idaho, Nov. 1.—The jury in the case of Edward Rice, on trial for the murder of Matthew Malley, a cigar deal- er, on the first of October, to-day brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. ——————— [G6S THROWN rested and Declares He Is a Dem:crat. CHICAGO, Nov. 1—Four eggs wers hrown at Willlam J. Bryan to-night jus as he left the Central Turner Hall, Mil- waukee avenue, when he had concluded his address. The eggs were thrown by John R. Myers, a sign painter, was placed under arrest. The other Mr. Bryan had just passed through the door of the building and was walking which was waiting to greet Mr. Bryan as he left the hall. being fresh, struck Policeman Culking squarely on the forehead und streamed { down his face. Culkins saw the men who threw the eggs and made a rush for them. Myers was the only one whom he couli catch, the others slipping away in ihe crowd. The hall was surrounded by a large crowd and as soon as it became known | the excitement was intense. | men made a rush for the | was: only by desperate e kins managed to A hundred risoner and it hold on te his man. {and all the policemen were compelled (0o n_the patrol wagomn. ‘When locked up at the W nue police station Myers deciared posi- tively that he had thrown no eggs at Mr. Bryan personall had no intention whatever of hitting him. He declar had crowded close to the carriage and that the driver had struck him with h whip in order to make nim stand back. ltn;clh:gl h.n?i l_lnu.»y m;omhptly hurled fihe at the driver and that just as the: ('if.?.o Mr. Bryan came throu'!rh the door}: way. Myers declares that he is a Demo- crat an throwin, esr at the candidate of his party. 2 deéclined -to give the names of his companions and could give no ex- meeting carrying bad pockets. GEORGIA LEGISLATORS FIGHT WITH KNIVES ATLANTA, Nov. 1.—A special from Val- eggs - in their 5000 voters have proclaimed the best above all the ““American’ clear Havana clgar. . ta, Ga. s a fight in which knives were used occurred on the train bringing AT MR, BRHAN | One of the Assailants Ar- three or four young men, one of whom, | men escaped. | toward his carriage when four eggs | whizzed at almost the same moment over | his head-and struck in the crowd beyond, | One e{g. which lacked a good deal of | that eggs had been thrown at Mr. Bryan | forts that Cul- | | Several policemen came to his assistance | | use their clubs before the erowd would | | glve ground and allow Myers to be placed | t North l\'(‘-“ ed | that in his anxiety to obtain a good view | of the candidate as he left the hall h3| He returned to where his friends wers | planation of why they had come to the | Asked if he thought Mr. Rice had been | twenty years. | the Georgla legislators here to attend the Count Boni and his wife to be about 23.- | State Le; el,n:nro,l Mr. Harr‘.r‘;\ of Wi!k,;- 500,000 franecs. Of this sum, there was County was saverely stabbed.- Mr. Cann of = E {Chatham and two others were injured in ¢XPended on real estate in connection | trying to stop the fight. Mr. Harden's | With the Charity Bazaar and their private condition was so serious that he was left at Forsyth for treatment el il BONI CASTELLANE SPENT A FORTUNE ON BRIC-A-BRAC | idence on the Avenue de Malakoff, 3.- 702,000 francs; mortgages, 6,585,260 francs: , notes and tradesmen’s bills, 4, 155 franes, and on art and bric-a-brac dealers, 9,100,000 francs. M. Wertheimer who Is one of the art dealers interestec claims goods were bought, then taker back and then resold to the amount 8,000,000 francs. and that ®n these transa tions there now remains due him the sum of 2,000,000 francs. PARIS, Nov. 1.—Further detalls regard- ing the appointment of George J. Gould the Countess indebtedness of | | as trustee for his sister, Castellane, show the ur $1.30 hat When you see our $1.30 hat you will observe that it is far from the run of hats usually sold at this pn‘re‘. It's a hat that i sells for $2.00 in stores where they sell nothing but hats. We sell the hats for $1.30 because we sell at clothiers profits and not at hatters’. - Derbys, Graecos, Fedoras and Violets; colors black, brown, cedar, steel, pearl, blue. See themin our hat | window. | Ladies’ tailor-made hats, three shapes—Fedora and the |l large and small “Ladysmith”; colors: Oxford gray, steel blue i or brown, with any color puggaree; value $2,50; our price | i . would never have thought of | $l.50 | | | snWoob. 718 Market Street.