Show EW EV TRIAL FOR FORs s PATRICK ASKED DOctors L Take lake Up the Case of ofT V T The Connecticut Murderer of Aged Millionaire M GRAVE AVE QUESTION INVOLVED CONTEMPT T EXPRESSED FOR EX EXPERT EXI EXPERT I I PERT TESTIMONY MONY N Y T Sept 20 Nearly or of tho Ule tz state representing cities and towns and including nue of the bost best known in the on are signers of a petition present d C to t Governor Higgings today in be bo halt of Albert T Patrick the lawyer and under sentence of death nc iL for fOl the thi of or the aged T millionaire William Marsh Rice to i t September 1900 The petition is ia as follows f w We Va tho the undersigned physicians of Now New York state have read the medical testimony t l presented ro entel on a motion for a aw anew new w trial Ito Recorder Goff in the case of dt Albert T Patrick charged with the murder of William Marsh Rice I Possibility of orM Mistake Tho conclusions of the th exports experts who testified on 01 the motion are quite at va variance varIance Variance and the questions are novel as aa yell as a grave graye and important to the V c members of society and especially to tor v r f the tle defendant and therefore should be Justly solved To this tills end we petition your excellency y to appoint a commis commission commission sion composed or of disinterested experts eXI erts from the medical profession to examine Impartially ImI into the ques questions questions questions at issue and report their findings at as early date as ns possible and thus avoid the possibility of mistake in the case of or Patrick as well voll as to got get the and just solution of the question Medical Question The main medical question involved in the conviction of ot Patrick Is ther the congestion of tho the lungs alleged to have been found round in the au autopsy autopsy topsy upon Rices body could have been caused by embalming fluid or must be betho bethe bethe the tho result of chloroform with which Tones Jones Ricos Rices valet in one Ofle of at his soy sev several eral contradictory con confessions said ho he j had killed the old man by b Patricks direction The petition was presented by F W lx Logan gan a prominent business man who Is js partner or of John T whose wife Io is Patricks sister Lyman C CSmith Csmith Smith of Syracuse and Samuel B 13 Thomas of New York of counsel for Patrick Few Refused to Sign Mr Thomas said the request for sig signatures natures had not been sent to the tho phy of the state until the second week in July and up to date nearly have returned their find more are arc coming in every mail man Only four physicians Mr Thomas says Sl S Sand and one of them theril was Indirectly con connected connected footed with the case had returned the petition with refusal to sign With the tho petition were filed flied about 20 letters prominent physicians several of tIm them addressed to the governor and ent through Mr rr Thomas reinforcing le t e petition A marked feature of or these letters was expressed by many of the writers for tor expert export testimony ren rendered rendered dered for pay by one side or tho the other i criminal II 0 |