Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-12-23
MOST SENSATIONAL CRIME.
Nan Patterson Case Has Attracted Ma
tional Interest.

New York, Dec. 23.-The crime with
which Nan Patterson. the former show
girl, was charged was one of the most
sensational in New York criminal an.
mails. Its peculiar circumstances. the
prominence of Caesar Young in sport
ing circles and the glamor thrown
around the central figure in the case
because of her membership in one OF
the famous "FlorodOra" .sextettes, all
tended to lend it an interest hardly
rivaled in recent years. From that
world vaguely defined as sporting"
the interest in 1.-The murder in the
hanson cab spread through all circles
and the proceedings of the trial have
been read from coast to coast and
have held q place on the first page Of
the metropolitan press.
With Miss Patterson sitting beside
him in q cab Caesar Young was on
his way to steamship pier, where his
wife was waiting for him, to sail with
her for Europe. The trip avowedly
was planned to break his relations
with the girl. It was early in the
morning and few pedestrians were
abroad on the streets through which
the cab was hurrying to the dock.
There was q pistol shot and Young fell
forward, his head in the girls lap,
dead, with q bullet in his chest. Just
what transpired in the glass enclosed
vehicle probably will never be known.
The cabman testified he heard re-
port. He knew nothing more. For
some days an absolute silence pre-
vailed. Then q food Of alleged wit
nesses turned up. Their stories, how.
ever, could not stand investigation
and one after another the witnesses
were cast aside as sensation seekers.
Then an old man, Martin Hazleton Of
Onenota, came forward. His probity
was unquestioned. His standing in his
home town was Of the best and he
told what he had seen on that June
morning.
Testimony Could Not Be Shaken.
He saw the man and woman, their
hands clasped and held face high,
then q flash, q pun of smoke, and the
report of revolver broke the stiffness
Of the morning. He was the most
important witness placed ON the stand
and the efforts Of the prosecution to
shake his brief but vital testimony
went for naught. Then the defendant
herself went to the witness chair and
told the whole story of her relations
with Young. It was q cruel ordeal,
but she told it all In q Straightforward
manner, from the day she met the man
who was to turn her life In tragedy's
path to the fatal moment in the cab.
She said her companion shot himself.
He held both her wrists with one hand,
"a she struggled to free, herself she
heard q revolver's report and Young
fall into her Ian dead - y ssEs& =. Il: w
i55 This, in brief, is the story Of q case
that has been three times nine days
talk in New York. There were many
sensational side lines to it, none of
which were brought out at the trial.
/ One of the strangest of these is the
missing eyewitness. Mr.. HazletOn
said that another man stood beside
him and saw the tragedy. He was q
casual street acquaintance who gave
him . Masonic greeting and whose
name he did not know. He had intro.
duced himself az "a brother from the
Rocky mountains" The unknown has
4 bAens searched for far and wide by
both the prosecution and the defense.
The story Of his presence has been
published In every newspaper In the
country. but he did not come forward.
even though q human life might have
i depended upon his word. There were
r other lines Of Investigation, heralded
1 by the defense or the commonwealth
y "a vital. that played no part In the
n trial. and no case IN years, surround.
3 q g II was st first with 20 much
\ seeming mystery, has been 10 barren
q the dramatic and unexpected II the
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