Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Says He Killed Millionaire Rice. [ARTICLE]

Says He Killed Millionaire Rice.

Valet Charles F. Jones, who confessed originally that Lawyer Albert T. Patrick chloroformed the old millionaire, William Marsh Rice, and confessed, secondly that Patrick killed Rice by administering mercury, testified at New York that he him seif poisoned Rice with mercury and oxalic acid and killed him with chloroform, all at Patrick’s suggestion, because Patrick’s plot to get the old man’s money had reached a point where Rice must die to make things safe.