Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1902 — KILLING OF RICE DESCRIBED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KILLING OF RICE DESCRIBED.

Valet Jonea Explain* How Millionaire Was Murdered for Money. “I killed Rice. Patrick planned it.

Patrick tokl me to do it. Patrick was to benefit by it. I was his tool.” These

words of Valet Jones summed up his thrilling recital in the New York court of how he murdered old man Rice under Patrick’s directions, with the carefully and in accordance worked out conspiracy to seize the old miser’s millions. Amid breathless silence he told how he had, at Patr i c k’s direction, first fed the old

man on poisonous drugs—mercury, chloral, oxalic acid—and how finally Patrick induced him to strangle the aged millionaire with chloroform. Patrick sat motionless, pale and seemingly nerveless through the whole awful recital. Valet Jones himself was visibly affected as he told how he killed bis employer. Jones led up to this denouement of the great crime in which he declared Patrick had entangled him. He had told of the forgery of letters, checks, property transfers, and, finally, how the bogus will, duly witnessed, bad been made all ready for the forged signature. Then, according to the valet, Patrick had said that old Rice was living too long to suit their interests and suggested murder. The valet told how Patrick had cast about for a means by which to end the old miser’s life, of procuring and administration of the poisonous drugs, and finally of the obtaining of the chloroform with which the murder was committed.

LAWYER PATRICK.