The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-25

usual features were presented III INC
Supreme court today in the trial OF
Nan Patterson for the alleged murper
of Caesar Young. Frederick ID. MI
ehaels. the cab man, described the CAP
in which young met his death. He SAID
that he heard the sound of pistol shot
and that Miss Patterson opened the
tran q moment later and told him to
drive to a drug store, but that ne dlo
not look into the cab. He then tolu
what occurred up TO the time when ne
reached the hospital where Youngs
body was taken.
During the day a skeleton and two
pieces of skin from Youngs second
finger were produced in court by the
prosecution. The skeleton was shown
in order that the course of the bullet
that killed Young might be traced. The
state, it is understood, expects to use
the pieces of skin in refuting the suicide
theory.
caused a sensation in the court room
and for a time Miss Patterson seemed
on the verge of collapse. The court
room was crowded when the trial was
resumed and the corridors Of the build
ing were thronged.
several persons were put on the wilt
ness stand to testify regarding incl
dents that followed the arrest of Miss
Patterson, and Police Captain Sweeney
identified the revolver which ne said
was found in Young's pocket after the
shooting.
William Stemm. Jr., the young man
who directed Michael, the Gao driver, 10
the hospital. proved to be the star VII
ness of the day. He was standing on
the corner of West broadway and YORK
street and heard the revolver shot 3ust
after the cab had passed him. He was
startled and cooked up the street quick
ly to locate the spot from which the
shot was fired. There was no one from
the opposite side of the street, and ne
concluded that the shot must have oeen
fired in the cab which was about tweIVe
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 CAP
he saw a man and a woman, the man
living with his head in the woman'S lap.
The driver seemed to be all tangled
up." said Stemm, land 1 rode on the
step of the cab to the hospital. When
We reached the hospital / helped po-
liceman to carry the man in and then
n RI
frightened and pale and looked 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 ways prevented the
cab getting there sooner.
Mr.. Levy had one of the jurors hold
= watch while the witness estimated
one minute of time. making the begin
ming and ending by clapping his hands.
The jurors watch showed that only six
seconds elapsed between the two hand
claps.
Stemm said there We're several men
around the cab as it stood near the
drug store, but he could not recall see
ing a red haired young man, referred
TO by Mr.. Levy. He first told of ass
connection with the tragedy the follow
ing Saturday. He had heard that the
police were looking for him as wit
ness and voluntarily surrendered HIM
self
The human skeletons which frequent
~ have been mentioned in connection
with the case made their first appear
auca in the court room when Coroner
Physician Phillip f. O'Hanlon was call
ed to the stand. DIR. O'Hanlon testi-
fed that he performed the autopsy IN
Young's body. and said that death was
caused by henorrhage OF the left lung
resulting from a shot wound. The bull
let had entered the left shoulder and
passed downward toward the centre OF
the body, lodging in the muscles Of the
back. A probe was inserted in the
skeleton to show thea course taken by