Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-22
BEFORE THE VERDICT
Counsel In Nan Patterson
 Trial Close Their Case.
RAND SCOBRGBD ACCUSED GIRL.
District Attorney Characterised Esras- oner as .sTh1s stony Hearted, Cool BEaaked Avenger, This Actress.0
 Charge to Jury This Morning.

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 NEW YORK, Dec. 2 At the trial of Man Patterson for the murder of Caesar Young, q bookmaker, adjourn ment was takensin the case shortly be- fore 6 o'clock last night at the con. elusion of the summing up for the prosecution by Assistant District At torney Rand On the opening of court this morning Judge Davis charged the jury, who wi probably return aver dict today .
 After Mir Rand's speech MT. Levy said:
 That was the most wonderful ad- vocacy of any cause. the most masters aful speech, that8I have ever heard in. criminal case in an experience in the courts of twenty four years
 "In spite of that am confident that Miss Patterson will be. acquitted \ 2 At the opening of the trial MT. Un- ger of the defendants counsel moved that the defendant be discharged un- der section 14O. of the code, which pros Yides that Ha jrstice may take thecase from the jury if he believes that the prosecution has not tablished "a case.
 This motion was promptly denied by. Justfce Davis and hen IT.. Levy open ed his concluding address to the jury, in which he set out to prove by deduc- ton that Nan Pattersona did not msIr- der Caesar Young, but that the book maker shot and killed himselfA
 He made q strong speech, at the end. of which Nan Patterson embraced her father and wept. ssf
 The whole afternoon was taken up by MT. Rand in his final speech to the jury. Rarely have judge and jury lis- tened to more impassfoned, more ve- Ihement, arraignment of "a defendant. With all-the power of his forceful elo- quence the prosecutor, his face stern, his eyes implacable, scourged the girl accused of the murder of, the book maker, Young. With pitiless detail he held up her character for the jury to behold and asked if woman like her could have any other love than that of the "beast for the beast''
 l With burning phrases Mr. Rand went over the evidence offered by. the de- fense, Some Of it he characterized as merely futile and vague,fsome oft he UEAnQGu as IAlS&. sszs tfa# s #a
 Smith and his wife, the bfother-in- law and sister of the defendant MT. Rand held up to execration He de nounced their flight and hinted that they had lived on '.the shame of this woman
 'This stony hearted, cool masked ayenger'' and this actress, whose con- ceit makes her glad to go on the stand and tell her story were some of the terms the prosecutor used in speaking Of the chorus girl.
 Perhaps the most impressive part of his speech was where he tried to con- vince the jury that Young could not possibly have shot himself Holding the fatal weapon in his hand, MT Rand used it to show that in no position could it have been held by the dead man to infiict the wound that killed him.
 ''Take it. said he to the jury, and if you can hold il so as. to infiiet that wound let the girl go free"
 The courtroom was crowded, and the most intense interest was betrayed in the strong and bitter speech with which the prosecution closed. |