The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-23
TOO MUCH FOR Her
Nan Patterson Nearly Faints at
Sight Of Skeleton.
Was Used in Trial to Show
Course of Bullet.
LEVY is CONFIDENT.
Says He viii Batter Through
Barriers of Prosecution.
The Case Will Be Adjourned
Till Monday.

of Nan Patterson was resumed today
her attorney, Abraham Levy, declared
that although the prosecution has
erected several strong barriers through
which the defense will have to batter
its way to secure the acquittaI of Miss
Patterson, he had no fear that they
| would not succeed. He asserted that
he would bring forward witness who
would tell convincing story of having
actually seen the shooting, no matter
how strong the evidence of the people
to the effect that no one was within
range OF vision of the cab when the
fatal shot was fired.
This witness was passenger on a
street car, passing across West Broad
way, a short distance from the scene of
| the tragedy, he said, and in mis- narra
! tive he will swear from where he stood,
though his glance was but momentary,
he saw Nan Patterson's companion in
the cab grasping a revolver in his hand
and struggling with the young woman,
who was endeavoring to wrest it from
| him.
At the close of today's proceedings
an adjournment will be taken until
next Monday as 1t is the custom of the
court not to reconVene on Friday af
ter a holiday.
/ Before the opening of today's pro-
| cSSulIlS MI. 1Idn0 announced IndI none
of the most important witnesses would
| be called before Monday and that the
greater part of today would be taken
up with the expert testimony of ply
sicians and other witnesses by whom
| it will be attempted to prove that
Young could not have shot himself.
| While vitality important to the prose-
cution's case this testimony will not
have the human interest motive that
will be found in the narratives of Mrs.
Young, John Millin, the bookmaker's
former partner, and dozen witnesses.
Frederick Wollens, a barkeeper,
testified late Tuesday afternoon re-
garding the visit of Young and Miss
! Patterson to the place where he was
| employed.
Otto William Tennis, druggist on
| West Broadway, said that on the
morning of June a hanson cab
stopped at his door, and. after going
out to the cab, he pointed the way to
! the hospital, telling the driver he was
l not a doctor.
William Stemm,jr., the young man
who directed Michael the cab driver.
to the hospital, proved to be the star
witness of the day. He was standing
York street and heard the revolver
shot just after the cab had passed
| him. He was startled and looked up
| the street quickly trying to locate the
There was no one on the opposite side
of the street and he concluded that
| the shot must have been. fired in the
| cab, which was about twelve feet
away and moving rather slowly. AS
the cab swung around to the drug
store he followed and saw the driver
talking with the druggist. In the cab
he saw a man and a woman, the man
lying with his head in the woman's
lap. THE driver seemed to be all
tangled up said Stemm, land rode
on the step of the cab to the hospital.
When we reached the hospital I help
Cd n fn n
and then helped the woman to alight.
She was frightened and pale, and look
ed as if she wanted to cry, but could
not
In reply to questions by Mr.. Levy,
the witness said that about eight or
nine minutes elapsed from the time
he heard the shot until the cab
reached the drug store. Traffic both
sooner. Mr.. Levy had one of the
jurors hold a watch while the witness
estimated one minute of time, mark
ing the beginning and ending by clap
ping his hands. The jurors watch
showed that only six, seconds elapsed
between the two handclaps Stemm
said there were several men around
the cab as it stood near the drug
store but he could not recall seeing
a red-haired young man referred to
by Mr.. Levy. He first told of his con-
nection with the tragedy the follow
ing Saturday. He had heard that the
police were looking for him for
witness and voluntarily surrendered
himself.
The human skeletons which fire.
quently have been mentioned in con-
nection with the case made the first
appearance in the court room when
Coroner's Physician Philip O'Hanlon
was called to the stand. DR. O'Hanlon
testified that he had performed the
autopsy on Young's body and said that
death was caused by hemorrhage of
the left lung, resulting from a shot
wound. The bullet had entered the
left shoulder and passed downward
toward the center of the body, lodging
in the muscles of the back. A probe
was inserted in the skeleton to show
the course taken by the bu1fet and
both the skeleton and bullet which
the witness identified as the one taken
from Young's body were marked as
ing exhibited Miss Patterson turned
deathly white and called for a glass of
water. 1t was feared that she was go
ing to faint, but she soon gained con-
troll of herself.
The skeleton which was brought into
the case yesterday for the use of Cor
oner's Physician OHanlon in describ-
ing the course of the bullet which
caused Young's death was again
brought into the court room, when the
exhibit was suspended near the witness
stand when ME-. Levy, for the defense
continued the cross examination of the
coroner's physician interrupted by the
adjournment of court yesterday after
noon.
Mr.. Levy in his cross examination
led DR.. O'Hanlon back over the ground
covered in his direct testimony yester-
day. The witness described in detail
the autopsy which he performed on
Young's body.
"If you had regarded the case as one
of homicide would you have made