The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-10
MRS. PATTERSON
WILL NOT APPEAR
Has Nothing TO Explain to the
Grand Jury.
STILL TRACING The PISTOL
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN TIE
YOUNG CASE.

New York June 9-At the request Of
some of the grand jurors. Assistant
District Attorney Rand this afternoon
wrote To counsel for AIRS Patterson.
asking that she be permitted TO testify
before the grand jury and explain her
case. Her counsel after a conference
as 20 the ACCESSIBILITY Of granting the
request, replied that they would not
allow their client 10 so before the
grand jury. Their letter says:
while We fully appreciate the very
just spirit which prompts our worthy
grand jury TO extend this privilege to
Mrs. Patterson, she is constrained TO
defer to our judgment not TO avail
thereof for the present.
From our conscientious understand
ing of the facts attending the unfor-
tunate death of Mr. Young, we are
thoroughly convinced that 80 indict-
H.ent would be returned by this or any
other grand jury If the evidence of eye
witnesses and others, whose statements
the district attorney has already taken,
is submitted to that body.
Has Nothing to Explain
Under. these conditions we can con-
ceivesof nothing which Mrs. Patterson
can or should be called upon TO eX-
plain"
many letters from people who say they
were witnesses to the shooting, and
that his firm would see the writer Of
each letter. Mr. Levy added that Hem
~ A. Katz, who said he saw the af-
fair, would be at his office tomorrow.
Mr.. Katz is d travelling salesman, and
since the shooting has been out of the
city
Judge Newburger, in the court of
general sessions, has issued a body att
tachment for j. Morgan Smith. brother
in-laW Of Mrs. Patterson. This is prac-
I tiCally the same as a warrant. The
attachment was issued on an affidavit
of Police Captain Sweeney, who swore
that a subpoena was issued for Smith
for today, but that he failed 10 appear.
Widow Consults Attorney.
In his Investigation OF the mysterious
death of Caesar Young, the bOokmaker
and turf man who was fatally shot
while riding i'm cab with Mrs. Nan
Patterson, Assistant District Attorney
Rand today had a long consultation
with the widow of the dead man. Mrs
Young. who has been staying at New
E Rochelle since her husbands death
went 10 the district attorneys office
I today accompanied by a woman friend
/ and John j. Millin, who was Young
! business partner.
After leaving the district attorney
Office the party. which had been Joined
I By DR.. higgins, house physician at the
! Hudson street hospital. who had at
/ tended Young in the last few moments
[ OF life after the shooting. went to the
/ grand jury room. It was said by the
/ police that they have positive evidence
! tPat the revolver with which Young
/ was killed was bought from pawn
/ broker on Friday last, the day before
/ the tragedy, by q man who was ac-
/ companied by a woman. il is under,
stood that the pawn broker has seer
/ Mrs. Patterson and has not identified
/ her as the woman who was with the
purchaser of the revolver
Important Witnesses.
The pawnbroker who sold the re-
I VOlver with which Young was killed
when shown a picture of Young de
I clared positively that it was a likeness
/ of the man who bought the revolver
/ He then described tne purchaser
/ whose appearance as he remembered
( it, was strikingly similar 10 that of j
Morgan Smith.
Another witness who has been kept
+ I'm the background iS that Thomas
/ Meagher. q driver who says that he
saw what took place in the cab Just
/ before the shot was fired.
/ He says that Nan Patterson, sitting
on the left of Young, was turned hall
around i'm the cab, her left arm thrown
around Young's neck, and she was
. leaning forward as though about tt
press her lips 10 his, The position
would make il possible to have brought
/ a revolver up with her right hand anc
/ into place so as to deliver bulle
/ which would cause such a wound as