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FORT MILL TIMES. 1 VOL, X. PORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1502. NO. 49. OLD HOCK'S STORY. . Bill Arp Writes About The Good Old Englishman. HOW HE SAILED TO AMERICA Left His Sweetheart and Shipped As a Stowaway?Girl Found Him Soon Afterwards. nr - a - ? \ji cuurse?01 course it was Tons Moore. How came I to sav that Burn3 t "wrote that pretty baiiad beginning "And I know by the smoke that so irrecfully curled?" I knew better and three letters and a postal kindly rorho knew better, too. What is an editor for if he does not correct a "lapsus pennae" like that? But I am glad 1 made the mistake for it has brought me three letters and a postol kindly correcting me. and proves that the people who read the old-time authors are not nil dead. The last line of that verse always reminds me of a good old man. a comrade, Captain John Hockenhull, an Englishman by birth, but a Georia rebel who used to recite poetry for us ...W..UU nit- 1:11111 |i nre in isoa ana iv>.i. Wr called him "Old Hock" and everybody loved him for ho was a corknev and dropped the h's where he should not, and vice versa. There Is always a charm In" broken English and to jnurder the king's English Is no great offense. "Old Hock" knew a good deal of Tom Moore and Hums and Hood and Campbell and It was a treat to hear him say: "The 'eart that is 'umble might 'ope for it frtj." He k iiew that othai sweet ballad of Anne Crawford: "Kathl/een Mavourneen, -be gray dawn fcs breaking. The hc>rn of the h?n?.'?r is heard on the mill." And Hie alway-- said "The 'orn of the 'unteH* '8 on Hie Tbe "Exile of Erin," which he called the "Hexlle of Herin." jras another of his favorites. He learned these poems from his sweetheart while he was an apprentice In London? an orphan boy bound for Beven years to hard masters, a brewer, and his dally service was to carry the jars of malt from the collar up a flight of stone steps to the door above. Tie never had a kind word from his master, and one day he tripped and fell and broke a jar and was bitterly abused for it. and told that he had forfeited the ?20 that he was to get when his term was out. He was then 18 and had yet three vears to toil at his hard, monotonous work. That night he poured out his heart to the girl he loved nad declared he would run away and go to America on the first sail vessel that left the port. That he would make some moeny here and send It to her if she would promise to come to him, and then they would marry and be so happy?and she promised. Within a week the opportunity came. He told one of the sailors his sad story and the sailor told the mate, and they took him aboard by night and hid him down in the hold of the vessel until the rood ship had weighed anchor and was far out to sea. "Old Hock" told It all to -js one cold night at Manassas and how sad and sweet was his last kiss, his last embrace, his last good bye. He choked up sometimes and the tears glistened In his eyes, but it was a pretty story and Dickens could bave built upon It and made a tender romance. This was away back in thp forties when our Stnte was building the Western and Atlantic railroad and wanted laborers and had sent a man to New York to hire immigrants ns they landed ' at. Castile Garden. "Old Hock" did not have to wait a day. but was hired and shipped to Atlanta and from there to Allatoona. where he did his first work. He said he did not feel safe upon the ocean voyage or in New York harbor, 'or he feared he might in some way he. caught as a fugitive and taken back, but when he got to Allatoona and saw 1 the woods all around him and thp high 1 hills and deep ravines and mingled with good kind-hearted men and women, he felt safe and free. "I never knew w'at freedom was before, and you Hamericans 'av no hidea w'at a blessing it is. The good woman w'ere I boarded and her daughter were so kind and gentle to me that T would av 'tigged them If I dared, but I thought, all of the time, of the girl I had left behind me and it nerved me to good, 'onest work and the eontraetor soon 1 raised my wages, and in six months I 'ad a 'undred dollars in bank and got a good man to send It to another good man in New York, and he found the samo eantain I eame hover with and 1 he took it to my sweetheart, and she came haek with him. and while f was i every day looking for a letter she took me by surprise ono morning and brought the letter with her. and we just fell in to heaeh hother's harms like?like?like?major hexeuso me , now. I must go and look hafter my 'oss." He had named his fine mare. , Emma, so that he rould call her Hemma. I reckon. Hut we made him finish the story afterwards and tell how one good friend voluteered to go after the license, and another after the preacher. 1 and his landlady and her daughter baked some cake and got us a hextra supper and they were married that night at her 'ouse, and all he remembers about what the preacher said vast "Whom God "ath Joined together, lpt no man put hasunder." "Old Hock" was a' patriot, a good, honest and true man. His neighbors at his homo in Dawson county all loved and honored him. and there was not a man In his regiment (the Eleventh Georgia) more beloved by the men that ho fed. for he was chosen their commissary early In the war, and you know it Is so natural to love those who feed you well. When rations were short he would travel all night tt) secure supplies and the boys knew that If "Old Hock"' couldn't get what they wanted nobody could. But in course of time the old man got sick and Wanted to go home. Other officers had got furloughs, but he had never asked for one. Ho went to bod and sent for me, and told me he was sick and if he didn't get a furlough ho believed he would get sicker and porhaps die away from 'omo. 1 suspected that he was homesick, hut he looked sick and I sent up his application. The army had been for some days sweltering in the hot summer's sun not far from Richmond. The application was referred to headquarters at Richmond ,and I took it In to the proper official, who glanced at it and said: "Imoprtant movements are daily expected, and all furloughs to go home are strictly prohibited. The best I can do is to send the captain to Farmville for thirty days." There was an army hospital at Farmville, which was only 30 miles south of Richmond, \Vliere sick officers were sent to rost and be treated for their ailments. And so he indorsed upon it Farmville, and in the next blank said thirty days. Suddenly a thought came over mo that I could not resist. I knew that "Old Hock's" postoffice In Georgia was named Farmville. I stepped Into the hotel and took a pen and quickly added "Ga," to the word. I knew that It was risky and rascally, hut 1 did it. and took it to "Old Hock" and told him to get ready to leave next morning. How quickly he brightened up and how thankful he was to me. Ho went home on tho pass and came- back in due time, renewed and recovered. Ho said the conductor looked 'ard at him and at the pass, but let him go by the hospital and then he felt safe. I know If I had told him what I had done ho couldn't face the music and tell a lie. After the war his people sent him to the legislature and my people sent me there, too, and we rejoiced to get together again every night and rehearse the soul-stirring times that we had in old Virginia. From time to time I receive good, earnest letters from the young folks? girls and boys?asking what hooks to read and where to gjt them. One came today from a young miss who is teaching a country school. She says she c annot go to college, for she Is too poor, but manages to save a little money and wants to know what hooks to buy to improve her mind. Well, if I was too poor to buy some good encyclopedia, I would buy a Shakespeare, Macaulay, Goldsmith, Tom Moore, Burns, Pope Gray, Cowper, Campbell, Tom Hood, Caldrldge, Wordsworth and some of Scott's novels such as "Ivanhoo," "Kenllworth" and "Anne of Guernsteln." Buy some of Dickens' works, as "Domboy and Son" and "David Copnerflold." Then there is "John Halifax." by Mrs. Muloch, and "Ten Thousand a Year." by Warren. Buy "The Vicar of Wakefield" for the sake of tho hermit. Of course our own authors should not be neglected, such as some of Irvings' works and Hawthorne and Ixmgfellow and Bryant. Buy Hallock for his "Marco Bozaris" If nothing else. There are two text-books by Miss Rutherford, A n- at ? ... in nuifiis, via., mo cuuurea principal of Lucy Cubb institute, that should he In every respeetablo household. One is Unglish authors and the other is American authors. Both together make a good library and are always reody for reference. 1 had rather give up any two other books than those. "The Fisherman's Prayer," hy Jean Ingelow, in the first named, is worth twice the cost of the book. Now most of these hooks can be bought nicely bound at prices from 50 cents to $1. But there are hundreds of good books hy such authors as Mrs. Austin and Charlotte Bronte and Mrs. Hemans. Mrs. Sigourney nnd others. I name only a few to fit the slender purse of our young people. You can now buy the plays of Shakespeare separately for a small cost, and so I would get "Hamlet," "Mac both." "Romeo and Juliet" and "Merchant of Venice." "When you aio able hy all means get a Cyclopedia of biography, so that you can turn to the interesting sketches of any great man or woman, such as Gallileo, Mozart. Handel. Raphael, Beethoven. Audubon, Linnaeus and hundreds of others. But don't crowd your youthful mind modern novels. They are made to soli ?that's all.?Bill Arp In Atlanta Constitution. Mnlnd'i Hterplrri Tenement Hon**. There is a unique tenement house in C.utlford, Maine. Years ago the old Universalis Chureh in that place was abandoned as a place of worship and it fell into the handB of several owners who converted it Into a large dwelling house hy the alteration simply of tho interior. Stairways were placed on the outside, leading to the upstair tenements. but beyond those exterior additions the church retained all Its former appearances of a "meeting house," and Is known locally as "The Church." The high steeple and its weather vane added little ornament and no usefulness to this rather odd dwelling house, but they continued to occupy this exalted if incongruous position until a week ago, when the carpenters tore down the steeple, and this old landmark of "Pious Hill" lost, aB It were, Its piety. LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS. The Session of 1902 Now A Thing of The Past. HOUSE. Last Day?The session of the South Carolina legislature closed Saturday by sine die adjournment. The closing day was devoted to the ratification of bills, resolutions of thanks and other matters customary on similar occasions. The State Company was elected Stato printer, on lowest bid. The speaker made a neat little sneerh tn the members, thanking them one and all for their uniform courtesy during the session. And the session of the Stato Legislature for 1902 became a thing of history. Twenty-sixth Day?In the Houso Monday morning the bill to fix the salaries of county officers was taken up and given second reading. The Houso passed the Senate bill after it had been variously amended. The bill is to tako the place of existing laws which are said to be unconstitutional. The only matter which provoked discussion was whether or not the auditors and the treasurers should get the same amounts. The Houso made the following changes in the Senate's provisions as to the aduitors' salaries: Barnwell, from one thousand to $1,200; ($SG6.6?5 to be paid by State and $423.33 by the county). Charleston from $2,800 to $3,200 ($2,200 to bo paid by the State and $1,000 by the county). Chesterfield, (torn $075 to $700. Colleton from $1.000 to $000. Dorchester, from $700 to $800. Georgetown from $075 to $1,000. Hampton?amount not changed, but county to pay $300 Instead of $100 and State $000 instead of $500. Oconee from $000 to $800. Pickens was changed from $675 to $525. but was restored to $675 when the House subsequently decided to pay treasurers and auditors the same amount. Union from $S00 to $000. The State pays two-thirds and the county one-third of each auditor's salary. Under the provisions for sheriffs, Charleston's was changed from $1,800 to $4,000; Cherokee from $800 to $1.150; Colleton from $1,300 to $1,200; Darlington from $1,500 to $1,800; Edgefield from $900 to $1,000; Georgetown from $1,500 to $1,800; Newberry from $1,100 to $1,100; Oconee, from $500 to $750; Orangeburg from $2,000 to $2,200; Pickens from $700 to $600; Span tanburg from $2,000 to $2,400; York from $1,400 to $1,350. The Senate bill provides "That the sheriffs of the various counties of this State shall receive annual salaries in lieu of nil costs and fees phlirirfinKIn ^ ugiuiiai tue county, as roil lows." etc.: After stating the amount | to be paid the salary of the sheriff of each county, the hill provides: "That in addition to the salary hereinabove provided, the sheriffs of the "arious counties of the State shall receive 120 cents per day for dieting each prisoner while in his custody, and actual traveling expenses for himself and prisoners and lunatics, when called beyond the county. The House changed the Senate's figures for clerks of court in the following particulars: Chesterfield s350 to $100; Georgetown $500 to $000; Marlboro $f>5fr to $500; Oconee $250 to $300; Spartanburg $500 to $1,500; York $100 to $300. And the following changes were made as to county supervisors: Abbeville $10 for clerical services; Rarnwell $800 to $900; Florence $ti00 to $750; Oconee $300 to $500; Orangeburg $400 to $350; Richmond $900 to $1,200, I with the provision that this docs not apply to current term of office. The House changed the Senate bill as to the pay and service of county commissioners as follows: In Anderson to get pay for not more than 40 days (Senate had it 25 days); Greenville from 75 and mileage to 150 days and no mileage; G: \ I ft a I1 to 35 days; Hampton from $3.00 and no mileage to $1.50 a day and mileage; Laurens $100 per annum (omitted from Senate bill); Lexington county $250 to $300 each per annum: Marion county 40 to 30 days; Marlboro $3 per day, not to exceed 25 days and mileage at the rate of 5 cents a mile (omitted from Senate billf Ofnnn# toso .... v v. C(|l II to $300 each; Richland $2 ppr day for 25 days and mileage. Clerks of county hoards?Aiken $200 to $225; Edgefield $75 to $150; Georgetown $150 to $200; Dorchester $75 (not in the Senate bill); Horry $150 to $100; Laurens $150; York $1,000. Township commissioners were to get $1.00 per day in the Senate bill, but the House changed this to $2 per day. i ,i? changes as to county superintendents of education were: Bamberg (where the auditor does tho wormk) from $25 to $5; Darn well $150 to $500; Charleston $600 to $750; Cherokee $300 to $ i '; Fairfield $450 to $500; Hampton $100 to $450; Lexington $500 to $600; Marlboro $100 $600; Newberry $600 to $650; Richland from $1,000 to $1,150. In I^exington. Charleston and Newberry counties special provisions for traveling expenses were inserted, but were afterwards taken out as it was reaped tho constitutionality of the bill might be made questionable. The traveling expense then was Included in tho regular salary. Township assessors and city boards of assessors are to be paid $2.00 per day. Twenty-seventh Day?The house gave third reading to the railroad consolidation bill, to the bill fixing tho salaries of county officers and three local measures. Second reading was given Mr. McGowan's bill to change the penaity for non-payment of taxes; Mr. Carter's bill to regulate the sale of seed cotton; and Mr. Lockwood's bill to abolish the office of phosphate inspector. There was a long and acrimonious discussion over the bill to allow county boards of education to appoint teachers I for county institutes. The bill was I L v finally withdrawn from the -Senate and killed. The House held an evening session and dispatched a good deal of routine business. Twenty-Niueth Day?When th? house met it was for the purpose ol considering an attenuated calendar a mere skeleton of its former self Yet there were 80 second reading bills left. The house had by resolu tion Tuesday night agreed to strike from the calendar all second reading house bills. In this way about a bun dred house bills went to their destrue tion. being nothing but senate bills to ut avicu uil uy me nouse. There were 15 third rending bills, but some of them although having passed second reading Tuesday night, were killed yesterday. Among the third reading bills which were sent to the senate were Mr. Weston's relating to improvements on property af State hospital for the Insane, Mr. Kinsey's bill relating to publication Df legal notices. Mr. Racot's resolution to create a commission for the St. Louis exposition, and Mr. Lockwood's to abolish the office of phosphate inspector. There was one incident which laused some interest. The house several days ago killed Mr. Richards' bill to increase the value of scholarships at Winthrop college. Mr. Richards Tuesday night took up a bill to provide for courts in Kershaw and moved to strike out all after the enacting words and to substitute therefor his bill relating to scholarships. There were several protests entered but the speaker ruled that the motion was competent. Mr. Richards stated that if the body of the hill he proposed should he adopted he would change the title accordingly. The house filibustered until nearly midnight and adjourned with this matter pending. SENATE. I^ast Day?The State Senate adjourned Saturday sine die. Ratification of bills and resolutions of thanks occupied the most of the day. No new business was taken up. and no important matters wero acted upon. The session for the most part has been a harmonious and pleasant one. No legislation of a radical or revolutionary character has been enacted and the session just closed lias been marked by conservatism. Twenty-sixth Day?The Senate got down in good shape and transacted a lot of business. Many bills received men nmii ie'uuiug, uuu some omors were killed. The chief interest in tho day's proceedings centered in a speech by Senator Stanland, in which he made the charge of mismanagement and extravagance against tho directors of the State dispensary. A bill passed its third reading forbidding the directors from buying liquors except upon a requisition from tho State commissioner. Yesterday Senator Stanland asked leave to withdraw from the files of the Senate his bill p oviding for the establishment of a Senate soldiers' home. There was no chance for tho passage of the bill at this session. Senator Stanland's request was complied with and tho soldiers' homo scheme is dead for the present at least. The bill establishing Lee county was given its third reading. The Senate has amended tan bill In certain unimportant particulars and the bill will go back to the House for concurrence ?a mere formal procedure. Mr. Prince's bill to povido for recovery of damages from railroads when they convert to their own use coal or other freight in transit, was given its second reading. Twenty-seventh Day?The Senate did a very good day's work disposing of a number of matters at the day session. and at night commenced work on the general appropriation bill. One of the results of the morning session was the virtual passing of the street ear vt i'.l.ule bill, with necessary amendments. hut not applying to Charleston At night there was quite a debate over tlie military item in ttie appropriation hill. The Senate adjourned at 10 p. m. Twenty-Nineth Day?Tho senate spent all of tho day, both morning ami uigui sessions, in considering tun appropriation bill. After considerable discussion the item giving $1100,000 for pensions was allowed to stand. The appropriation for Wlnthrop college was increased front $50,000. as fixed by the house, to $55,000. The senate reversed its action of the day before and restored the item giving an appropriation to pay the transportation of the State troops to the exposition at Charleston. At the night session the senate gave a second reading to house joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to aid certain townships that voted bonds in aid of a railroad that was never built. The appropriation bill was the first matter taken up as unfinished business, and Senator Sharpe resumed his argument in opposition to the increased appropriation for Winthrop college. The committee amendment of $55,000 was then adopted. The committee had recommended $150,000 for Confederate pensions, instead of $200,000 as the bill camo from the house. Senator Graydon spoke in favor of $200,000 for the soldiers. Last year the legislature voted $150,000 for pensions. but by a mistake they only received $100,000. Therefore he favored giving $200,000 this year. If they had gotten $150,000 last year he would have favored this sum this year, but he felt that the people of the State owed tho old soldiers $50,000 and he wanted the legislature to pay it. In justice and equity the appropriation should be $200,000 this year. In your patience ye are strong.?Mrs. E. D. Browning. HAD A FREE FIGHT Tillman and McLaurin Come to BlowsIn the Senate Chamber, J BOTH SUSPENDED FOR CONTEMPT. Sensational Development In the Old Contrnvprcv Upfvvi?<*o flip ^pnior hi ii i \ auu uimuiu fist light. Mr. Mrl^aurin received :i heavy blow on the forehead. while Mr. Tillman got a bail punch on tho nose, which brought blood. Assistant Sergoant-at-Arms l.nyton sprang over desks to rca< h and separate the combatants, and himself 10coived several blows, lie got between them finally and by main strength wrenched them apart. Senators Warren of Wyoming and Scott of West Virginia, two of the most powerful men in the Senate, leaped to lii.s assistance and, pinioning the arms of the belligerent. Senators, forced them into their seats. Intense excitement prevailed in tho Senate and in the galleries, which wero thronged with people who had been attracted by the spirited debate. Everybody was on his feet. Not a word, however, was spoken. Senators stood about tho chamber, for the moment quite helpless and pale to the lips. Finally order was restored partially, and in tho midst of inteso excitement the Senate went into secret legislative session. For two hours the S"nato discussed the event behind (dosed doors. When the doors were reopened it was made known that both of the South Carolina Senators by unanimous vote had been declared to he in contempt of the Senate. They were permitted, by a vote of the Senate, to make apologies to tho Senate. The statements were listened to by both tli * Senators and the people in the galleries with breathless interest. Senator Tillman left the capitol when adjournment was taken for recess and did not return foir the night session. Senator McLaurin was in tho chamber about S o'clock, but left early. Neither Senator, when seen at his homo, would make a statement. The Pope's Anniversary. Rome, 1 iy Cable.- The Pope Thursday entered on the twenty-fifth year of his pontificate. Although the main celebration of the jubilee is postponed until March fird. when the combined .vou.ais in me jumtcc and coronation will be observed. The day was marked by the singing of a te deum in St. Peter's, and other observances. The Pontiff was the recipient of congratulations from all sides. Arrival of Prince Menry. New York, Special.?Prince Henry of Prussia, representative of his brother, the Emperor of Germany, at the launching of the lattor's Ameri eanbuilt yacht, reached New York Sunday and was cordially welcomed as a guest of the nation. The land batteries that guard the outer harbor fired salutes of 21 guns; the rifles of a special naval squadron assembled in his honor re-echoed the sentiment; there were verbal greetings from the representatives of President Roosevelt. the army, the navy and the cit.y of New York, and a great crowd lined the way in the city to see the German sailors and the Prince of Germany. and Junior Senator J-roni S. C. Washington. Special.?Washington's birthday wis signalized in the United States Senate by a list Tight. The two Senators from South Carolina wine the active participants in the affray. Mr. Tillman, in tin course of a speech upon the Philippine tariff, made serious reflections upon the honor of his colleague, Mr. Mcljourin. In brief he charged that Mr. M< Laurin's vote in support of the ratification of the treaty of Paris had been cast through the air of improper influences. His statement was developed in a colloquy between him and Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin. Mr. Tillman at first dcclim il to mention names, hut when the Wisconsin Senator reminded him that he owed it to himself, to the Senate and to the country "to name tho man," Mr. Tillman indicated that he referred to his colleague from South Carolina. Little imagining that his words wore likely to lie prohetic. Mr. Spooner remark <1. sentenliously: "I will leave the Senator to fight that out with his colleague." Mr. Mcl.aurin was not in the chamber at the lime, being engaged in committee work; hut lr> was sent for and appeared ju.st as Mr. Tillman concluded his speech. Pale as ashes. Mr. Mcl>aurin rose to aiuircss the Senate, speaking to a cptcstion of personal privilege, lie reviewed Mr. Tillman's charges lwielly and then denounced the statement made by his colleague as "a wilful and deliberate lie." Scarcely had the words fallen from his lips when Mr. Tillman, sitting a few scats from him. with Mr. Teller of Colorado between them, sprang at him. Mr. McLaurin, who had half turned towards Mr. Tillman, met him half way, and in an instant the two Senators, having swept Mr. Toller aside, were onpnoail in .... i TELLS HOW HE KILLED RICE Jones, the Valet, Calmly Gives His Story of the Murder. PATRICK TUTORED HIM IN CRIME Th? Dramatic Narrative Hold* All Wko ^ LlatCDNl to It Spellbound For Two H Hour*? Doirrtbcii How the Chloroform I W?? Administered to the Sleeping Milllonulre? Pntrlck Instigator of Deed, j I New York City.?In the trial of AI^ I bert T. Patrick on the charge of mur dcrlng William M. Itlee, the oetogona- 1 rlan nillllonnlre, Charles F. Jones, who 1 acted as the dead man's valet and sec- | retary. without a tremor In his voice, ] In a tone low and soft, and looking I Patrick In the face for two hours told on the witness stand how he had killed It Ice. It might have been anything Joue3 was telling except something that was exciting. Jones went over the story of how ha and Patrick had talked about the will, lie told of forged checks, of checks and letters written by ltlce and signed by Patrick, so that in ease of trouble after Rice's death the forged signatures would have a standing aa genuine v ' ones, having been so acknowh dged b. i persons Interested. "He told me." said Jones, "that It / v? would 1h> a good Idea to have those signatures accepted by Mr. Rice's agents as genuine, as they could be used In ease of a fight over the will." "What was said of chloroform?" 1 "Patrick said that would he an easy wav to nut Mr. Itlra nwnv An nrtlnln in a magazine gave the idea. Some* tiling amis said about getting chloroform and Patrick said it Avas very hard to get. thnt one had to have all sorts oL' certificates before the druggist would sell it. I told rntrlek he could leave that to me. I wrote to my brother. "I sent my brother $."> and he sent me chloroform in a four-ounce^ Me l?a ked in a Avooden box." ^ \ lie told of talking about tlu > ^ of chloroform with Mr. ltlce r ^ Patrick. Of Patrick the valet "Patrick said he had often a what would be the effect of on a person alUicted AVlth heart iroubi I put the question to I)r. Curry, and he said so little chloroform would b needed to kill a person avIio had hear. diRcas that It was doubtful If any traces of the poison would remain after death. I told Patrick what Dr. Curry had said, and he said he would talk to Dr. Ourrv himself" Jones said Patrick, after saying Rico was living too long, suggested that laudanum or an acid be given to liim, and then asked If Jones could not get the chloroform, which Jones snhl ho got later. He told of giving mercury pills to RFe and of Patrick's inquiries in regard to Rice's condition every day. From this Jones got down to the murder, and said an attempt had been made to 'do away with Rice by giving oxalic add to him. Rice did not like it and refused to take It. He then told of the day Rlee was murdered, saying: "I 'phoned Patrick and he met me. Patrick said It was tltne to give Mr. Riee the chloroform. Now that the draft had arrived from Texas and Captain Raker was coming we should lose all we had gained If Mr. Riee was not put. away at once. I objected that I had never agreed to do anything of that sort, hut Putrick Insisted and I yielded. "I made a oone?nf a towel saturated with chloroform and placed It over my own face. I felt the effect and then put more chloroform on it and went iuio .Mr. nice s room. lie was sleeping. I put the cone over his face and ran out of the room." said Jones, looklncr at Patrick. "There was a violent riiiR at the door hell Just then, and J looked out and saw some one. I think it was n woman, hut. I was too excited to be sure. I went hack to Mr. Rice's room. He was lying; Just oh I left hiiu. I took the towel off his face and put It In the lire. It burned. Then I opened all the windows and telephoned to Patrick. "Patrick had told me to say if all was over that 'Mr. Rice was very 111,' and that was the message I gave. Patrick said he would come over, hut that he did not want to Ret there before Dr. Curry arrived. They reached the house together. I met them and said to them, 'He is dead.' "Patrick exclaimed. 'Oh, my Cod! That. Is the worst thinR that could have happened to me!' He told me beforehand that he Intended to say that to deceive Dr. Curry." Jones told of Dr. Curry's examination of Mr. Rice's body. At Mr. Osborne's invitation the witness told of the happening's of the day after Mr. Rice's dpath. He said Patrick called hltn ?? *?? ? " uu tuc i I null I" 1IIIU told him that he had made a mistake in the Swcnson cheek. "'If they call you on the 'phone,'" Jones said I'atriek told him " 'tell them the check is all ri?lit.* They did call, and I did as lie directed. Later I'atriek told me. still over the wire, that 11' any more inquiries were made to say that Mr. Itice was dead." Jones had talked, giving his story in a narrative form, without stop, for about two hours, and his voice was giving out. District Attorney Osborne suggested an adjournment, hut Recorder tloff wanted a more m!nu*e dese.rip tlon of th<> towel cone and chloroform, and questioned the witness himself. After a brief cross-examination the Court was adjourned for the day. - ,35 . \ j i idi&i Jik J6L* I