Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1906 — GETS ANOTHER CHANCE. [ARTICLE]

GETS ANOTHER CHANCE.

The Mint Remarkable ' Defease la Criminal History, ' = Albert T. Patrick, the condemned -New York, lawyer, who has put up one of the most Remarkable‘fights for life known inT f criminal history, JpBS been granted a reprieve until March 19 by Gov. Higgins, that his attorneys may move for a now trial on the grounds of fresh Evidence. The crime for; which Patrick was convicted was that of being the principal in the murder of OsIPJJ/ William Marsh Rice, \ \ . an aged and - very . } * wealthy reeiuse, in -A- .?• patbi ck. # thc latt(lT * s apart-' ments in New' -York Sept. 23, 1900. It was alleged that Rice was the victim of a plot in which his valet, Charles F. Jones, gt. the. instigation and . under the direction of Patrick, murdered his master by 'the use of chloroform. A check against one of Rice’s bank accounts, found to be a forgery, led to the arrest of Patrick and Jones on Oct. 4, .1900. Jones confessed to the murder in several contradictory statements. He was accepted as a State witness and was never tried. He is now living in Texas. Patrick, himself an able criminal lawyer, had the assistance in his defense of spite - Uf"ati"walS' found guilty of murder in the first degree and April 8, 1902, he was sentenced to death. Then began that remarkable fight for a retrial. Every possible means have heen used to delay execution of sentence and get his case once more before the courts. An appeal in * very court in the State open to him has been made, but always in vain. The plucky fight put up by the condemned man has attracted world-wide attention, and a great deal of sympathy for Patrick has been shown. Commutation of sentence was asked for recently in a petition signed by, suck .men as . Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, former President Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain anil others.