Background
RICE, Thomas Stevens was born on February 21, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Robert Wilbur and Margaret Lavinia (Mitchell) Kice.
RICE, Thomas Stevens was born on February 21, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Robert Wilbur and Margaret Lavinia (Mitchell) Kice.
Public Schools, Westmoreland Company, Virginia. Baltimore, Maryland; Baltimore City College, 1897. University Maryland Law School, Bachelor of Laws, 1899.
Admitted to Maryland. bar, 1899, and practiced in Baltimore. Writer for Baltimore Sun, 1899-1902. Legal expert, later sports writer Washington (District of Columbia) Times, 1903-1910, same with Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1911-1929.
Associate editor The Panel, criminal law magazine, New York City, 1930-1935, The Police Journal, New York City, since 1929. Sunday columnist on crime, Brooklyn Eagle, since 1932. American correspondent Sporting Life, London, 1920-1927.
Correspondent for Sproting News, St. Louis, 1904-1927. Member of New York State Crime Commission, 1926-1931, New York City commission on crime prevention, 1928-1934. Originator of “Rice Notations” on left handedness and circumcision, included in New York State police and penal identification records, 1935.
Editor: Criminal Receivers in the United States, 1928.
Member, Statutory Crime communications of New York State by Governor Smith, since 1926. Appointed to honorary New York City Commision on Crime Prevention by Police Commissioner Whalen. Lecturer on Criminal Investigation before Commanding Officers of Detective Force, Police College, of New York City Police Department, 1930.
Vice Chairman New York Board of Trade Sect, on Law and Justice, 1930. College Correspondent for Baltimore Sun, 1895. Also wrote for Baltimore World.
Joined Washington Times, 1903-1910, Brooklyn Daily Eagle Staff, Brooklyn, New York, 1911-1929. Free Lance and Special Writer for Evening Graphic, New York, 1930. Out lined, edited and wrote hist, preface for Criminal Receivers in the United States (by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928), for assn, of Grand Jurors of New York.Co., only book dealing with receivers of stolen goods.
Author of articles on crime and criminal investigations for newspapers and magazines. Member of American and Baltimore Bar Associations. Society of Medical Jurisprudence, New York.
American Prison Association. American Association of Criminal Law and Criminology. American Association of Legal Authors.
Baseball Writers Association of American. Kappa Sigma; F. and Master of Arts. Commandery. Clubs: National Press (Washington, District of Columbia), Newspaper (New York City), The Press (London), National Sporting (London).
Married Maude Anna Elderdice, December 7, 1911.