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Show PATRICK'3 PETITION DENIED. Man Convicted of Murder of Millionaire Million-aire Must Serve Sentence. Washington. Tho petition of Al- nert T. Patrick, tho Now York lawyer who Is serving a llfo seutenco in tho stnto prleon nt Sing Sing on tho-chargo tho-chargo of having murdcrd nillllonnlro-William nillllonnlro-William M. Rico, for a writ of habeas corpus, was decided by tho supremo court of tho United States on Mondny adversely to tho petitioner. Patrick, chnrged that tho caso against hint. wns a conspiracy nnd urged that In commuting tho sontenco of death j which the court Imposed upon him, i to ono of llfo imprisonment, Governor j Hlgglns had resorted to a moro cruel method of punishment. Ho nsked to-be to-be released from prison under tho- theory that tho whole proceeding had & been unconstitutional nnd Invalid. Tho decision of tho court wns announced an-nounced by Chief Justice Fuller. |