Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-24
coroner's Physician First Thought II
Was Case Of Suicide.

and said IL WdS p"-
pawnshop on the afternoon % '''ir' 49,
nv a man who was accompanied oy
woman. Hylnan Stern, VINO spid tht
revolver was too III to appear LII court
Police cant. Sweeney was recallei
90 ,.ctifv that he bad summoned j.
Morgan Smith to appear
rh. crnss-eXarninati on Of COrOners
physician O'IIanlon was continued
The witness described In detail the au-
tonsy which he had performed or
Youne's body and admittcd that at the
time he thought the case one OF SUI
eide. This admission. however. was
stricken from the record he was not
peruitted to say whether the bia'h
marks on the bits of skin which ne
stripped from Young's hnger We're
made by gunpowder, nor Whether ne
found powder marks when ne examiner
Miss Patterson's hands soon after the
shooting.
Now York. Nov 23.-Whdn the trial
Of Nan Patterson for the murder Oh
Caesar Young was .resumed III the SUI
preme court, Wednesday. her attorney
Abraham Levy, declared that although
the prosecution has erected SeVerai
strong barriers through which the de-
fence will have to batter its way to Sc
cure the acuuittal of Miss Patterson,
he had no fear that they would not
succeed. He asserted that he would
bring forward a witness who would tell
a convincing story of his actually see
ing the shooting. no matter how strong
the evidence of the people to the effect
nj r.l g
ion of the cab when the fatal shot Was
fired
This witness was a passenger on a
street car passing across West BroH l.
way. a short distance from the scene
Of the tragedy, he said, and in his mar
rative he will swear from where he
stood though his glance was but mo-
mentary, he saw Nan Patterson'S COM
panion in the cab graSping a revolver
I'm his hand and struggling with the
young woman, who was endeavorinG To
wrest it from him
At the close of Wednesdays pro-
ceedinEs an adjournment will he taken
until next Monday. as it is the custom
Of the court not to recOnvrne on Fri
day after a holiday.
Before the opening of the proceed
inEs Mr. Rand announced that none of
the most important witnesses would
be called before Monday and that the
greater part of the day would be taken
up with the expert testimony of ply
sicans and other witnesses by whom il
Will be attempted to prove that Young
could not have shot himself While
vitality important to the prosecution
case this testimony will not have the
human interest that will be found In
the narratives of Mrs. Young, the
bookmaker's former partner, and a
dozen other witnesses
The skeleton which was brought into
the case, yesterday. f,r the use of
Coroner's Physician Hanlon, in de-
scribng The cnurs" If the bullet which
caused Young's death. was aca;,,
brought INTO the courtroom when tn
trial was resumed. today. The ghastlv
exhibit was suspended rear the wit
ness stand when Mr.. Levy for the de-
fence. continued thc>cross-e examination
of the coroner's physician which was
interrupted by the adjournment of
court yesterday afternoon.
John Crowley. cabman said he was
hailed by two men and 1 woman. about
O'Clock on the morning of June 4
while his cab was standing at the CO..
ner of Eighth avenue and l25tn street
me woman was the accused in thi
case and ore of the men was Caesar
Young. Young had abused Miss Patter.
son. the witness said. ana she was cry.
ing. Young ordered him to drive tn,
woman to her home and he did so
On the way downtown, he watched tn,
occupants Of the cab. through the ira,
in the top of the hanson and she con
tinued crying all the way down to els
street. where she left III. cab. Crowle,
said that Young and the man him wer.
intoxicated, but that Miss Patterson
was not.
Albert Schneider another cahman
witnessed the scene. when Miss Patter
son was put in Crowley's cab and h,
corrohorated the testimony of the pre-
vious witness. After Crowley drov,
away, he said. Young and his compan
ion called him and We're driven to ;
house on West 10th street He noticed
that both men were Under the infu
ence of liquor.
The scene between Nan Patterson an,
her brother-in-law. J. Morgan Smith
which was referred TO a length by Mr.
Rand in his opening argument. was de
scribed by Joseph Hewitt. a newsbov
Hewitt said he was standing in from
of cafe at 5Sth street and Eighth ave
nue. about O'Clock on the night o
June 8. when Smith and Miss Patter
son came out and got into a cab. The,
were auarrelling and as they got int,
the cab Smith struck Miss Patterso,
in the face.
What did the man say?" Asked Mr.
Levy.
He said: You'll have to do it,
answered the newsboy.
And what did she say?"
81 WON'T and then he struck he,
and pushed her into the cab
Hewitt said he remembered the inc;