Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-10
DECLINES TO ANSWER
MISS NAM PATTERSON REFUSES
TO REPLY TO QUESTIONS.
Witness Disappears - Pawnbroker
Fails 20 Identify Prisoner-Police
Seek Mysterious Man.

A dispatch from New York last night
says: Armed with body attachment issued
by Judge Newburger of the court of general
sessions. detectives were securing the city
last night In an effort to trace J. Morgan
Smith. brother-in-law of Nan Patterson,
against whom District Attorney Jerome had
asked the grand jury to return an indlct-
ment charging to her account the shooting
of Caesar Young, bookmaker and turfman
in hanson cab last Saturday morning.
The body attachment sworn out by
Capt. Sweeney of the Leonard street sta
ton after Smith had failed to obey sub
poena calling for his attendance as wit
ness before the grand jury. His testimony
was wanted chiefly in connection with the
efforts of the district attorneys office to
establish the ownership of the pistol with
which Young was shot. On Tuesday he
was questioned by Assistant District At
torney Caravan regarding this feature of the
tragic hanson cab mystery. He then de-
Clined to answer on the ground that 1t
would tend to incrimnate him.
At the st. Paul Hotel, at Goth street and
Broadway. 1t was said that the Smiths had
left in carriage late Wednesday night
with some hand baggage. and that they had
not told anybody where they were going.
Abraham Levy, one of the lawyers for the
Patterson girl, sid last night that he had
no knowledge of their whereabouts, and
that he was not interested in the subject.
stern, the faWnDr0ker.
When the grand jury took up the case the
mysterious witness, whose name the district
attorney and police have refused to divulge,
appeared with Detective Sergeant Samuel
Price 1t was learned that he was Hyman
Stern, pawnbroker of SO 9th avenue, near
the corner of 31st street.
The pawnbroker. ii is known, positively
identified the revolver by its number. 1850,
as a weapon which he sold on Friday, the
he hA OH inc IN
woman who called at his shop. When he
called at the district attorneys office on
Wednesday and was taken to the Tombs
and later into the cotoners court he failed
10 identify Miss Patterson as the woman.
Before 1t adjourned the grand jury did
something that Is most uncommon in grand
jury procedure The foreman asked Act
ing District Attorney Rand if it could be
arranged TO have Miss Patterson on hand
today to give her version of the shooting
of Young.
promptly declined the invitation.
Mrs. Young arrived at the criminal courts
building shortly before 10 o'clock with Mr..
and Mrs Barnard 5. Mckeon. her sister
and brother-in-law, at whose house in New
Rochelle she has been staying since the
tragedy. After conference with District
Attorney Jerome and Mr.. Rand, she was
taken to the grand jury room. where, ow-
ing to her extremely nervous condition, she
was attended by Mrs. Mckeon.
1t was learned that the district attorneys
office obtained statements from Mr.. Young
and Mr.. Luce to the effect that the Patter-
son girl had threatened to kill Young be-
cause he was going to leave her several
weeks age. when he was living with Mr..
and Mrs. Smith at an uptown hotel for
week
Seek Mysterious Witness.
The police have not yet succeeded in find
ing the mysterious witness who is said to
have jumped on the platform of the ham
som cab and to have spoken to Miss Pat
hot
fired member of the grand jury was so
anxious to hear from this witness that he
asked the district attorney to send out
public call for him through the newspa-
pers. Mr.. Jerome thereupon gave out the
following statement:
Officer Junior of the eighth precinct had
his attention directed to the cab in which
Young and Miss Patterson were riding by
a citizen whose name the officer does not
know The district attorney would be glad
to have this citizen call at his office to
state what he knows of the shooting.
Up to a late hour last night the state
ment had brought no result Policeman
Junior described the citizen as young
man with smooth face, dressed in black
and wearing a straw hat, who seemed most
anxious to assist him in every way; but
the officer could not stop to get his name
or address because of the pressing fmpor-
lance of carrying the dying man to the
hospital.
Levy & Unger heard from more witnesses
Yesterday who say they were eye-Wlt-
neSSeS or the smoothing, ana whose stoIieS
bear out in part the one told by Algernon
c. Meyer of Jacksonville. who said he saw
Young kill himself. Meyer has been sub
poenaed for the inquest, and as he has
seemed somewhat reluctant to go on the
stand and tell his story his movements are
being watched by detectives to make sure
he will he on hand. Otto Mayer. who lives
al the Mills Hotel. wrote Mr.. Levy yester-
day that he passing up West Broad
way on Saturday morning and saw Young
and his companion in the cab Mayer de-
clared that he Young draw revolver
and shoot himself, despite the efforts OF
the woman to prevent him. He explained
that ne had remained silent because he
feared notoriety.
Saw Young Embraced in Cab.
The lawyers also heard from William
Haskins, a driver of 40 West nth street,
who said that on Saturday morning he
went to Leggetts grocery house, at West
Broadway and Franklin street, to apply for
work and that he was standing at the cor
ner of White street and West Broadway
when the cab with the Patterson woman
and Young came along. Haskins did not
assert that he heard the shot, but he said
that when the cab passed the point where
he was standing the woman was embrac-
ing her companion, stro<fng his hair and
speaking to him in endearing terms.
We are getting a number of letters
said Mr.. Levy last night This one from
Haskins seems clrcumstantal enough to
invite our confidence and party confirms
the statement made by Meyer. l shall see
Haskins tomorrow and far possible
well make II point to see the writer OF
every letter that seems plausible to us
Mr. Levy said that Henry A. Katz, also
an eyewitness, and of whom he heard
through a lawyer friend, would be at his
Office today. Mr.. katz lives on 124th street
near Mount Morris Park. He is travelling
salesman and has been out of town since