| Show IN BEHALF lf OF I ALBERT l t T t 1 r PATRICK i I Hundred Physicians Sign Their Names to Petition To Gov Higgins WANT AN EXPERT COMMISSION T Fo i nt nl J ami tutu lt Hirt us II us it II Jo Albany N Y V Sept JWO 1100 of oC the state representing Kl t nibs HIM and towns lowns an and nd Including Mine of ol the Ihl ot est knon knolin In the are signers of a petition presented to ties Gor Go higgins today toiJa in behalf of or Albert theft T Patrick the lawyer Inor and un usa under under der of ot death deuth since Ime 1901 for lor the murder of the tho aged Texas millionaire William Marsh Rice In September r 1 The petition Is as an follows follow We WI the undersigned p of or orew New ew York stats state Ila baas e red read the medical testimony I II 10 presented on a It motion for tor n a anew new nell trial to Recorder hoff In its the tha ease case rn fl flot of ot Albert T Patrick charged barged with this the th murder of William Marsh Rico JUco The Tho conclusions of the Ih experts who testified on the motion are quite at Ht va we variance a c anti 1 the questions are 1110 novel n I as well aceil as a grave and Important to 10 the members of or society and nd especially to the tho defendant and therefore literature should b be justi jOsti solved wi nd To this end cud we VII petition your our excellent E to appoint a commis sion composed of ot disinterested ltd experts RoI hod from the medical profession to 10 examine Impartially Into the th flue ques questions tione at lit Issue ue and report their findings at as n early date dall a as possible and tItus thus avoid nold the possibility of or mistake In the th case caf of Patrick as u well ns nl to 10 pet get the fuel final end stul just solution of ot the question lIon The Tho malts main medical question que Ion Involved I 1101 d vital lIal In the conviction of 01 Patrick Is 11 whether the congestion of ot the Ihl lung lungs to have been found In the au autopsy topsy tofta toi Rices body ho l could have ha beets been caused by hi h embalming fluid or snOrt must be bethe bethe the IIII result of It chloroform with which Jones Jetties Rices valet In its one of nf his cov cover 50 0 er ral rai H I confessions said 1 he ht had killed the old utah by b Patricks di dl direction direction The petition was WIS presented by b F W IV lx gan a II prominent business hUFines man malt mil II who Is 18 partner of o John T whop who wife alft wl is Patricks sister lister Iyman Iman C r CSmith CSmIth Smith of Syracuse Ami In Samuel U B BThomas Thomas of ot New 1 York of or counsel for tor Patrick k kIr Mr Ir Thomas said Ih the for sig signatures signatures natures had hd not b been tj n s sent nt to tile WI pity phy ph of ot the till state FlaIl until the week In July JUI and up to date datt nearly have hae returned their signatures II nash anil more atone are nIl coming In every eer Ctr mall mail Only four lour physicians Mr Ir Thomas Thames says ansI and andone am amone one of ot them was 1811 Indirectly connected with the case ate had returned the peti petition petition tion with refusal r I to In sign With the po potation P tation lallon were er flied about 2 20 0 letter from prominent physicians several of 01 thrill them addre addressed cd to 10 the IIII governor and arid Mill through h Mr Ir Thomas Thom reinforcing the formal petition A marked feature ot cC these e letters wa ass A the contempt expressed ed by b teeny many of or th this writers for tor expert testimony render td d fJ for lor or pay JIll by h one on Me akle or the other oilier It i fl Sanpete A Johnson John H H II Summit W Archibald M J H II Hah 11 G A Home M n Wn K E I MilleT 10 Ir Wayne H J Weber eber W I 1 Stewart PERMANENT T ORGANIZATION TIO The committee on permanent organization i iza za CIon Is III a I as follows follow D Marshall r baIL Box ehl J K F Universe CacheN II n Moore Ioor G 0 Miller Stahl Emery meryA ImerA A Brinkerhoff P 1 Martin U I Clark lark E F 1 Deal VI Kane E D Woolley noile Joseph Morgan MorganA lorg nA A R n Porter Plute 1 l Snyder Salt lIk A Ue Lee San Juan JU Not H K It Smiths R n Summit James Hesden T o E O 0 1 K Pou Jou et t O 0 Lawrence K J Washington K J 3 Milne lIIlIe Wayne H J W Vade RESOLUTIONS IH AND AD PLATFORM r W V Dall Bait K P J Merrill A V Smith Carl Carbon Olsen Olfen 01 DavisE M I Emery H T F Hayes Not ot represented P I 1 Martin A Arthur Arlhur Juab Henry Adams Adam Kan H n Carroll Day Va Morgan T Harding Morris Salt Halt A Smith Han Fan lIn Juan Not D I H It Erickson Summit H S 6 Townsend Town end a n McBride e Chas De Clove A C Hatch W Cannon annon W iio Jos Erickson Weber William The of 01 Mr name was cas greeted With Ch ra AS tot It U had hid been FU he h would tail fall to manage mana e hit his delegation |
