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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES-CALL.
VOLUME XI. NUMBER 67.
GREAT RICE MYSTERY IS
CLEARED BYACONFESSION
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Millionaire’s Valet Tries to
End His Own Life.
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CRIME
mWYER PUCK 18 IN 11.
The Dead Man’s Servant Has
Made a Clean freest cf the
Awful Crime.
Sw Y rk,N v. 1.-Charles F Jous,
secretary and volet to the late WlLam
Marsh K ce, whose desthooourr.it u. -
der suspicious ciicumetanoes, attempt
ed to oomuiit suioide in the Tombs at
at 4 o’olooK this morning by outtiug
bis tfaroa*. He was removed to Beil*-
vue boapltsl, and will probably recov
er. Jones was under examination in
the criminal court building yesterday
? ty Assistant District Attorney Os
Steerne and several deteotives, and it is
• reported he made some sort of state-.
jP'ent or oonfeaslon to the authorities,
Assistant District Attorney Osborne
"admitted today that Jons had made a
confe.eion, Aocordintt to Mr. Osborne,
Jones aaid for eome day* prior to
Rioe’a , death * atriok had given Rice
tablets of ■* grayish color; that Rice
took thi/se tablets from Patrick, and
that Patrick told him to take them, as
he had taken some himself; that about
this time Patrick and Rioe bad become
very intimate; that Rice on Saturday
■ent Jones to Patrick's bouse to de'
maod oertain papers from Patrick
that be (Patrick) bad io bis possession,
This was about September 12. The
table’s were taken every night until
the Friday before Rice died. The last
time l.saw him take them was on the
'Wednesday or Thursday before bis
death, Friday nigbt Rice appeared
worried and grieved about hiabueiness
in genera’, speaking of tbe Galveiton
fi)od and other things.
"He slept very little that nigbt and
aent me to Patrick’s house Saturday
morning, and told me if I did not re
turn with the papers, he would report
me to the authorities. Patrlok was
agitated, and aaid :
“I want to know Rice’s condition
and wbat steps he may take, and I
want you to telephone me; and if Rioe
takee any steps to notify the authori
ties, 1 want to know if you will be sure
and telephone me,
*‘l told him I would. When I re
turned Rioe was asleep, and nothing
more was said about tbe papers until
Sunday morning. HU mind was wan
dering Sunday morning be woke
up, and he talked incoherently. About
11 o’olock be improved, and naked
about tbe papers. Patrick finally oarue
to the bouse. Rice said be was very
nervous, and told him to ‘please go
away.’
“Patriok said: ‘1 have some smell
ing salts to quiet your nerves.’ Pat
riot asked for a towel and sponge and
I got them. 1 aaid I must leave the
room, and 1 left, and heard Patriok
raying he would remain with Rioe. I
heard Rce laughing a few minutes
later, and saw Rice lying on hie baok
with a towel over his bead, in a cone
shape, and Patrick holding it in his
right band. Patriok did not see me
and Rice did not see me. Soon as I
saw the condition of things, T laid
down and went to sleep, Patrick oalled
the next morniDg early, and had a
long talk with Rioe.”
Mr. Osborne says Jones described
Patrick’s death as fallows:
sick. Patricia'said
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to me, ‘Go and get a dooFor.’ I went
for one and he oavne back with me,
and pronounced Rice dead. Patriok
anked, ‘How i<>Dg has he been dead?’
The doctor answered, ‘Twenty min
utes.’ This was about nine o’olock.”
“While the undertaker was prepar
ing the body,” the statement contin
ues, “Patrick took me aside and said:
•Now, Jones, we’ve got to get all the
old man's papers; you know, we must
get all of them.’ We took all the pa
pers we could find, and Patriok bun
dled them all up and took them away.
Monday morning Patriok, came to
Rice’s bouse. He bad a check book in
his hand. He said: ‘This is Rice’s
book.’ Then he showed me two
check books signed ‘M. Rice.’ ‘Now,’
he said, ‘1 want you to fill out the
amounts of these ohecks,’ and at bis
request I one for *25,00 and
another for $05,000.”
RETURNED TO CUBA.
Miami, Fla., Nov. 1, —General Leon
ard Wood, commander of the depart
ment of Cube, and Lieutenant McCoy
of hie personal staff, arrived here last
night, They were immediately trans
ferred to the dispatch boat Kanawha,
which left at once for Havana.
CASE DRAGS ON.
New York, Nov. I—The hearing in
the proceedings to secure the removal
to the United States court of Georgia o
theGaynors and Greene wae continued
today. The cross-examination of Engi
neer Ripley, expert, for the defense by
District Attorney Erwin of Georgia was
continued The questions and answers
wore technical.
U NFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.J
Whilu working on a vessel Wednes
day, Mr. U. E. Tolnae, the ship carpen
ter, was the victim of an accident. A
large stick of timber fell upon him and
hie injuries a-e regarded as serious.
BRUNSWICK, UA. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1900.
in mi
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Ugly FiiM 01 Train lo
nidosta.
HE 1$ SEVERELY INJURED
Four Others Who Attempted to
Stop the Fracus Were
Also Injured.
Valdosta, Ga., November jl.—Sen
ator Hamrick ont Representative Har
den last night while rnroute to Val
dosta, and information today is that
Harden is dead. t
Four other legislators were also cut
in attempting to separate them, but
noneserlouely.
Hsmriok was also ooV, in the band.
The trouble arose qver Harden. if£p
ping Hamrick’s taws. /'
BYRD’S REPORT.
There Is Nothing in it to Cause So
Much of a Sensation
£A copy of Adjutant General Byrd 1 *
report has reached this oso*, and there
is nothing in it to create such a sensa
tion. The part which It is said re fleck
ed the late adjutant general reads as
follows: ' - 1
“I quote the above because it is about
the worst case I Bad, aad shows to what
a criminal looseness this branch of the
department had arrived, Ex-,
cellency put me on duty with the In
structions to “stop every leak” I couidT
ferret out, and admonished me to con-
duct my departments within their re
spective appropriations ”
Mr. Byrd said that inasmuch as the
late Adju'ant Kell did not manage the
affairs of the department he could see
no reason why the people should allege
that he attacked his memory.
TERRIBLE TYPHOON.
Hong Kong, Nov. I.—Despatches re
ceived here state that a fearful ty
phoon has caused havoc throughout
Annun, under French protectorate,
south of China.
The area covered by the destructive
storm was very large, , Sixteen hun
dred persons are reported as having
perished. Besides those killed 6,500
havs been rendered homeless, •* '
THE CHINESE MINISTER.
Pittsburg, Nov. I.—Wo Tang, the
Chinese minister, was the principal
speaker at the founders’ day exercises
of the Carnegie Institute this after
noon. He arrived tbie morning, and
was received by the oity officials.
ANOTHER DEAD.
New York, Nov. I.—Joseph Bacher
ach, a merchant injured in the Tarrant
ezpiosion on Monday, died today.
Search for bodies in the Tarrant
wreckage was kept u P ,-z.Vc^nTgkt,-bn t
none were found. ->
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Russia is as Yet UndeciOed
oi the Subject.
AMERICA AND FRANCE.
Those Two Countries are Standing
Together. Alignment of
Powers Complete.
Washington, Nor. i—The alignment
of the powers on the
agreement is now practically complet
ed, Russia being the only government
remalnlt&to be hoard f'om
Aside from Italy and Austria, whese
adheres**to the agreement Is expect
ed, owing to ‘thilr pptowl fetation a
witttijtelßitsn'y, Japan le the only of
the powers which has riven an un-
assent "to thd agreement.
As the matter now stands fiye of the
powers are united on all the terms of
the agreement, via:
Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Aus
trla, and Japan, Tw#t>f the powers—
the United States and France—accept
the clauses relating to the open door
and territorial integrity, Put withhold
action on the third clause, relating to
future procedure in case any of the
powers seize territory.
The course of Russia Is not known so
far as the officials here are advised, as
neither the state department nor the
Russian embassy hag received confirma
tion of any Russian answer. It has boen
the opinion of those best qualified to
judge that the Russian response will
be similar to that of the United States
and France, although this view is
somewhat shaken by the porsistent re
ports from Berlin that Russia will not
concur with the agreement.
ROOSEVELT DONE.
His Jaw Campaign is Now Over and
His Voice Apparently Good.
Buffalo, Nov. 1. —The It >osevelt spe
o:al left Buffalo this morning for
Jamestown, where it will remain to
night. It was scheduled to stop at
many places along the route. The
govern ;r felt well, and his voiee is in
appar-utly good condition. For the
first time since bis trip began, the
governor last night attended a dinner,
after he was all through with his meet
ings. Former Senator Laugblln,' of
this oity, gave a dinner to the orators
and newspaper men of the train. Gov
ernor Roosevelt made a few remarks
abont the pleasant features of the trip,
and the great assistance rendered by
those who accompanied him.
DARE DEVIL FELL.
Acrobat Seriously ißjurc-d at Valdosta
Yesterday.
Valdosta, Nov. I—Thfs afternoon
oue of tbc features of the open air cn
tertainrrien’.s oA the bill was the high
wire walk and trajeze performance by
BRYAN NOW IN CHICAGO,
AT THE HEADQUARTERS
Spoke in Indiana to Mam
v, ,_®Qth Crowds.
G rant, wh ijie Aemerity and foolbard 1-
nees has well earned him the sobriquet
of “Dare Devil.”
When be appeared to do his turn, the
picture of life, agility and recklessness,
resplendent in his fleshings and glit
<
terlng bespangled trunks he was greet
ed with Bounds of enthusiastic applause.
But, 10l as he was performing one of
hts hair raising teats on the trapeze.the
multitude was struck dumb with awe,
for the intrepid acrobat through an er
ror of judgment, missed the trapeze, he
httfT through the air,
to grasp, and fell to the ground below,
a distance of .TO feet.
The man while not dead, is seriously
injured.
GOULDS GLAD OF IT.
Brothers in New York Pleased at
Frenoh Cour’s Action.
New York. Nov. I.—The news of
Mr, George Gould’s appointment by a
Frenoh court as administrator of his
sister’s (Countess de Csstellane) prop
erty was oonveyed by a reporter to the
Gonld brothers in their Broadway of
fice. Mr. George Gould sent out
word that he oould say nothing,
though he might make a statement
later. Mr. Edwin Gould likewise de
clined to be interviewed, but aaid that
he was glad to hear the newa, Mr.
Frank Gpuld said limply that hig
brother George must do all the talk
ing. Mr. George Gould summoned his
two brothers into his own offioe, where
the doors were dosed and they confer
red for nearly an hour. Asa result of
this talk, it was aaid George Gould
will soon start for Paris to take charge
of the Castellane affairs.
AMOUNTS TO MILLIONS.
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Caetellane’s Debts Are Still Growing
Rapidly.
Paris, Nov. I.—Farther details re
garding the appointment of George
Gould as trustee for Cjuntess Castel
lane, show the indebtedness of Count
Boni and his wife to be over 23,000,003
francs. Of ibis sum there was spent
in real estate, in connection with a
charity bazaar and their private home
on-Avatuie * Maiakoloff. nearly 4,000,
_ r
OOOWW iC*; mortgages, 7,000,000 franes;
loans, notes and tradesmen’s bills,
4.293,155 francs, apd on art and bric-a
brac dealers, 9,100,(5p francs. M.
Wertheimer, one or art dealers in
tsrestedj, olaime i|gju good* were
boughUXhen takaniack, and then re
sold to the a mo unMy^H.(>oo.ooo francs,
and that in these transaction., there
now remains due h m the sum of 2,-
000,000 frmos, , ’
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EDUCATOR DEAD.
Oxford, Eng., Nov. I.—p r qf. Max
Muller was buried today.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CANDIDATE SCORES
THE MONOPOLIES'
1818 BUSINESS KILLERS
His Special Car Rambler Arrived
in the Windy City in the
Afternoon.
CtawlovdMiUe, lud., Nov. 1.-i.,
Bryan’s private oar Rambler, was at
tached to a train which left Cincinnati
at 3:30 o’clook this morning and the
first stop for speaking was made at
Jamestown, Ind. Mr. Bryan spoke
for ten minutes to a good orowd at tbs
station, dealing with the general issuea
of the campaign.
Mr. Bryan was received at C’raw
fordsvllle by another friendly and fair
sized orowd. He charged the republi
can party with a departure from the
principles of its fathers aod quoted
Lincoln on the Declaration of'lnde
pendence. Speaking of the influence
of the trusts on communities, Mr.
Bryan said:
“Yon yourselves have seen some
thing of the efifeots of monopoly. Yon
hsve seen how in the campaign of 1596
in your own factory here people were
warned that if I wae eleoted they
would lose their employment, but if
Mr. McKinley was eleotptJ, they would
have employment; sad yet the trnst
took in the factory and closed it down
and you have lost that fao.ory today,
hr would have lost it but for the faot
that there is now a match factory
there. But you have got a large match
trust and unless you destroy the trust
it will destroy your factory here end
run it out of business.”
The Bryan special reached Chic ago
this afternoon.
VISIT DELAYED.
London, Nov. 1. —Lord Roberts, who
was scheduled to leave South Africa on
the 15th of November, has postponed
his departure, owing to the fact that one
of his daughters is ill with enteric fever
at Pretoria.
CARLI3TS WEAK.
Madrid, Nov, I.—The latest news
from the Carlists’ movement are more
favorable to the government, it being
asserted that Chlsf Berga’s band ha
made overtures of surrender, if par
doned The government, however, has
decided to act vigorously, snd to pardon
no one.
POLICEMAN SUICIDES.
Augusta, Nov. I.—David Redd, a po
liceman, suffering from consumption,
killed himself yes’erday,