The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-18
NAN THE ACTRESS
A Fight For Life With Gle
opatra's Weapons.
But Among the Jury She Meets the
Cold Eyes Of 0ctavius 0ftener
Than the Smile OF
Marc Antony.
By FRED b. WARREN.

New York. Dec 16.-For three
veeks | have sat in \ court room De-
he a pretty girl: girl with small
,Iy chiseIed features, pretty waYy
vn hair, dimmutive teeth and del-
ears and hands. This is Nan
rson now on trial for the murder
turfman Caesar Young.
parents of Nan Patterson live in
ngton where there social posi-
undlsputed-not that they are
of the gay life of the national
4; for they are not; but they are
of good blood and refinement.
the age of sixteen the young
decided to go on the stage. Hen
nts objected The daughter over
"a their objections ana went into
glare Of the calcium. Here she
She chose companions whom she
onld have exercised the most care
avoid. She formed what amounted
q more than friendship for race
track gambler named Caesar Young
and succeeded in alternating his affec-
tons from a wife who was not only
true TO him durin~ his life time but
faithful to his memory-forgiving MN
for forgetting her as he did.
Gambler though he was. there seems
to have beer a, good streak in Young
and he saw the horrible mistake that
he had made He planned to break
him and 90 to Europe with his wife
To avoid the pretty actress. On the
morning of June 4, 1904. Young took
a ride with Nan Patterson in a closed
cab with the intention Of formally end
ing their unlawful relations. They
drove around the town for somethlng
over an hour and then a shot was
fired i'm The cab by either Young or the
woman and as the result of wound
Young died.
Nan Patterson was arrested for the
murder of the gambler. She was m
prisoned and has been in cell IN
the Tombs prison since the death OF
Young with the exception OF the tlnle
spent in the court room during ner
first and second trials-the second now
in progress.
Where there are a dozen witnesses
tD testify against the woman there IS
only one old man-sixty-four years or
age--who has yet vouchsafed the IN
Formation that he could give any evil
dence to assist the prisoner. Milton
w Young, Of Oneonta n. Y, old and
infirm, who admits, of his own volitfon,
that his eyesight is defective. says that
he saw Caesar. Young shoot himself
while in the cab with the woman and
that he is positive that the actress trie i
To prevent him from taking his own
life So much for the evidence. at the
present time.
The. Woman and the Twelve.
In the face of the pale young chorus
girl. sitting barely ten feet from my
desk. there is little sign of imaginative
or reflective temperament. Her full
white throat, her pouting lipe, droop-
I'd downward at the corners and the
short heavy nostriiled nose suggest
sensual pleasure-loving nature. Her
cold grey eyes indicate that she has
calculating mind.
Her face is without a trace of the
physical characteristics that reveal de-
termination, courage or brutality 1t
is q somewhat selfish, morbid looking
face too weak for heroiSm, too shallow
for passion.
While Nan Patterson sits nearby one
can see in her face the half-conscioGs
couueIry winch she developed TO the
full when she lived in the glare of the
calcium and moved nightly in sea of
sound and color.
Denoting her love of admiration
her hat tits jauntily on her
Savy hair; her veil with its satin
banded edges hangs daintily above the
Drison-pale face, the soft hair nassed
cross the broad smooth brow. Nan
Patterson wins admire ton from jaun-
iced, morbid minds in the court room
ven amid the awe-compelling Sur
oundings.
Nan Patterson fully realizes that
er destiny is i'm the hands of twelve
men and her weapons are her youth
and peculiar type of beauty, which
she has in spite of the sordid express
ion which | have attributed to her.
Tut Nan Patterson s trial jury are men
whom she is not accustomed. Their
YES are different from those led by
ne men whom she has known. Her
tends have been the kind that beat
ieir wives or pampered them, she has
we'd among men of gross lives. Thus
he does not understand her jurors.
no sit coldly silently and attentiyely
I'd listen to the evidence whether It
vors her living or calls for her death.
These men are not of her world.
There is something in the Sight of
this sir-worn girl of twenty two birth
days 10 excite human sympathies.