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Show : PARTLY FAVORS PATRICK l: IN HYPOTHETICAL REPORT Mcdico-Lcgal Society Refutes Tcstfrnony of Valet j Jones Regarding Chloroform. Y ' r NEW TORK, Feb. 16. A committee ( '. . selected by the Medico-Legal society to Investigate the cause of death of AV11-f AV11-f - liam Marsh Rice, the aged millionaire I j who died in 1900, and for whose mur- 2 der Attorr.ey Albert T. Patrick has been awaiting execution thirty-five months, has made its report. .' i The committee furnished replies. to a list of hypothetical questions and asserts, as-serts, in substance, that Valet Charles Jones made a misstatement when be testified to having administered chloroform chloro-form to Rice. The assertion is made that such ah amount of the chloroform as was said to have been used would have left an odor which could have been detected hours afterwards.- In repiy to the queftion as to whether embalming fluid would produce congestion conges-tion of the lungs resembling that -caused by chloroform, the committee claims it could not. but that a condition so nearly near-ly like true congestion might follow that It could only be distinguished by bacteriological examination. Patrick's appeal probably will come up in court at the March term. |