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Show CONFESSION BY JONES NOT GIVEN CREDENCE New York, Jan. 7. Humors that Charles F. Jones, who was valet to William Marsh Rice at the time of his death in 1900, for which Albert T. Patrick Pat-rick Is serving a life sentence in Sing Sing, was dying in Texas and was anxious anx-ious to retract the confession upon which Patrick was convicted, are given giv-en little credence by Patrick himself In his cell at Sing Sing yesterday Patrick Pat-rick said to the warden that he placed little or nr value in any possible statement state-ment or eonfesslon coming from Jones. He was unable to confirm the report that his brother-ln law, John T. Milli-ken Milli-ken of this cltj', had been summoned to Texas by Jones. It seems likely that the talk of a confession by Jones originates with the activity of Patrick's relatives here, who are renewing their endeavors to bring about his freedom. Patrick himself says that further efforts looking look-ing to his release through habeas corpus cor-pus proceedings are to bo made soon. |