The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-22
CASE
NOW FAIRLY ON
Evidence Will Be Sensational
In the Extreme.
STATEMENT BY PROSECUTIONS
EVIDENCE IS CONCLUSIVE
AGAINST DEFENDANT.

Anew YORK. Nov. 21.-An element Of
uncertainty growing out of reports
of possible changes in the make
up of the jury was the principal fea-.
ture of the opening of the second week
of the trial OF Nan Patterson. Three
days of hard work last week resulted
in filing the jury box, but at the last
moment Foreman Hendricks asked 10
be excused from service because Of the
severe illness Of a member of his fam
lily.
When the trial was resumed today,
Justice Davis declined to excuse Fore
man Hendricks, and Assistant District
Attorney Rand at once began TO outline
the case of the prosecution.
Two Skeletons in Court.
During the trial two skeletons. one of
| man and another of a woman, will
be brought into the court room to be
used in demonstrating the theories of
| the attorneys. One of the skeletons
will be used by the prosecution and the
other by the defense.
There will be no wearying testimony
of handwriting experts at the trial.
/ though there will be long periods dur
ing which evidence will be introduced
TO show the particular course of a bull
let at close range. a blackboard, dia-
grams and the human skeletons viii be
used in this connection. Whether Miss
Patterson viii so on the stand TO tesu-
/ fy in her own behalf has not been de-
cided.
Former Husband Will Appear.
Lawyer Daniel O'Reilly, one of the
attorneys for the defense, announced
today that Miss Patterson's former
husband. Louis Martin, from whom she
was divorced several years ago, would
appear during the trial. Martin is d
hotel clerk and resides in Washington.
Hiram Stern, a pawnbrOker, who
has been spoken of as one of the prin-
cipal witnesses for the prosecution, is
seriously i'll. He is the man who APP
peared before the grand jury and posi-
lively identified the revolver with
which Young WAS shot as one which
had been sold by him the day before
the tragedy occurred.
The dull routine which always marks
the preliminary stage of a trial in
capital case has been intersperseG with
several incidents closely bordering on
! the sensational. and it was expected
I that big crowds Of spectators would
clamOr for admittance 10 the court
room when the trial was fairly under
way.
PROSECUTION Ease OuIllneQ.
MT. Rand warned the jurors that in
considering the evidence submitted in
! this case they must not allow them
| selves TO be influenced one way or the
other by the fact that the defendant Is
! woman. The laws were made for
men and women alike. He said that
the only question before the jury was
| to determine whether the defendant
was guilty of murder as charged. II
was admitted. he said, that either
Young killed himself or was killed by
, the prisoner at the bar. The prosecu-
/ ton was prepared to show not only
| that Miss Patterson fired the fatal shot
| but that the act was one of delibera-
| ton and generalization. They would
show that the crime was planned for at
least thirteen hours. and that ii was
I conceived the day before the tragedy
/ when the pistol was bought. All this
would be proven by circumstantial evil
dence. and the chain of circumstances
| presented by the prosecution would be
/ so strong that even if the defense
should put a thousand men on the
stand and each of them should say he
saw the man fire the shot the jury
would not believe one of them. Con-
tinuing, Mr.. Rand said:
Description of Young.
! In this case We viii take you to the
| scene and introduce you to persons who
| visit the race track and all-night ten
derlOin cafes and patronize the roving
cabmen. Young came TO this country
| fourteen years ago from England. and
from that time ne was always on the
so from race track TO race track, al
ways making money.
He possessed traits that a man ought
not TO be proud of. but he had other
traits that will recommend him to YOU
He was a fair gambler. who gave hon
est odds and never WEIGHED. He was a
man OF prepossessing appearance, with
frank face and pleasing eye.
HE was singularly susceptible to the
charms of woman and it was easy fol-
a woman TO work her way into his af-
fections After meeting the woman
who then called herself Nan Randolph
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