The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-23

Assistant District Attorney Rand OBJ
jected to further answer and was sus-
tanned.
Did you or did you not shoot Caesar
Young. Nan?"
Il did not. / would give my life
to bring him back IL 1t were in my
! power" she answered.
It was 2 O'Clock when Miss Patterson
took the stand. The court room was
crowded and the police reserves had
been summoned TO help quiet the great
throngs which crowded about the court
! room.
Judge Davis who presided had beside
him on the bench the Ear OF Suffolk.
who is soon to marry Miss Daisy Letter
Of Chicago.
Miss Patterson, her eyes red with
weeping, stood by her chair in the
stand nearby. She was evidently nerv-
Gus, but the self control, which has ever
characterized her movements did not
desert her at this trying hour. She was
attired in a plain black gown, which
s~trikingly set off the pallor of her q
tenance. She gave her name as Nan
Randolph Patterson, aged %, and said
| she was married in 1898 TO Leon Games
| Martin, from whom she has since been
divorced.
She said she first met Young in the
summer of 1903 while she was on the
way to California, as a member of a
theatrical company and that their
friendship soon ripened into love. She
told in detail Of her many meetings
with Young in various parts of the
country and of trips she took with him.
Coming down to tune 3rd she was
asked about what she had heard that
day about Young's intention to go
abroad. She replied:
HE called me up on the telephone:
| asked me why l did not come over to
the races. I asked him why he couldn't
| come to see me and he said he couldn't
| He was Strengthening out his business
affairs. / went to the Gravesend track
and remained there until after the
sixth race"
J. Morgan Smith was with her. She
said she got to New York at 6:15 O'Clock
and went to where her sister. was living.
This testimony was important. be-
cause it was alleged by the prosecution
that it was at about the same hour at
which the sixth race was run that the
revolver with which Young was shot
was sold by Pawnbroker Stern. The
prosecution sought to show that the re-
volver was purchased by j. Morgan
Smith.
did you or did you not shoot Caesar
day."
Never"
Were you ever present on that day
or any other, when a pistol Of any char
acter was purchased by Mr.. Smith,"
Never"
Did you ever see Lyman Stern, the
pawnbroker before he appeared on the
witness stand?
No"
Were you in Pabst's restaurant that
night?"
Il was not
that night?"
Il was not"
You heard Joseph Hewitt testify
thai you can't out of that
with a man; that a cab stood by; that
he said you must that you said i
won't and that he struck you IN the
face. Is that true?"
1T IS not
She old of her meeting that night
with Young, and denied the testimony
of William Luce. She said that she
neither quarreled with Young, nor
cried, and hat Young did not strike
her. :
Did YOU say you would prevent him
from taking passage on the boat?' she
was asked.
NO" she answered.
When they left the saloon they walk
ed over to 125th street and Eighth ave-
nue., wher Luce nailed a cab. She con-
tinued:
Il wanted Yourg to go home with
me and then drive back, but i wanted
him TO leave Mr.. Luce behind. AS l
walked back he caught my arm and as
he helped me to the cab he playfuliy
put his hand up to my face. That IS a
way he had of petting me. He never
struck me-"
Miss Patterson said that next morn
ing she was awakened by Mrs. Smith,
who said Young a phoned her to
meet him at PabSt's in Columbus Cir
Gle.
She look her handbag containing a
handkerchief and calling cards and
started. Young was angry, she said,
because she was 50 long in arriving at
Pabst's. She also said he felt the ee-
fects of what he had been drinking. At
ter taking a drink they started down
town in a cab. h denied that she
knew they were on the wav to the
steamship pier. Young stopped at a
hat store and then went into a saloon
where they had two drinks of whiskey.
Mr.. Levy showed the witness a postal
card which Young had given her con-
tanning her name and address.
You saw him write this card?"
Yes"
He gave it to your"
Yes. he said, take this. it is some
thing you may need"
I'VE then got in the cab and started
down. We talked about his going away
and he kept uestioning me about my
going away, too. I told him to go away
and leave me for awhile. He said ]
could come after him, when things
should have quoted down.. He said
that he might not come for a long
while and said also that he might never
see me again. He was getting more ex-
cited and put his hands round me. He
grabbed roughly and kind of pushed me
over toward the side of the cab. All of