The San Francisco call., 1904-11-02
HE SAW YOUNG
KILL HIMSELF
Prominent Business Man of
New York State Speaks in
Defense of Nan Patterson
TELLS OF THE TRAGEDY
NJ. w. Hazelton Asserts That
the California Bookmaker
Fired the Fatal Shot

NEW YORK, Nov. LIN defense of
Nan Patterson, the actress now in the
Tombs Prison, charged with having
killed Caesar Young, the wealthy book
maker, in a hanson cab on West
Broadway in this city, on June last.
Milton w. Hazelton, a prominent bust
ness man of Oneonta, N. Y, to-day ap-
peared at District Attorney Jerome's
office and declared in an affidavit that
he saw Young fire the fatal shot. Ha-
zelton said that another man was with
him at the time of the shooting. He
does not know the identity of this wit
ness, however, as he was a chance ac-
quaintance, attracted by a Masonic
emblem on his watch chain. He de-
clared that his conscience has been
troubling him so that he finally had TO
come forward and tell the story.
Hazelton told Assistant District At
torney Rand that h is rs years old
and lives in Oneonta. For few weeks
previous to the affair of June Hazel
ton says ne was staying with the fam
lily of Rev. D. W. Crouch, whose wife
is his. cousin, at their home in Brook
lyn. He says that he came to this
city to see Joseph H. Hoadley, presi-
dent of the international Air Power
Company, with whose father he had
been associated years before. in Cali
fornia; that on the day to which he re-
fers, he cannot remember the date, he
came from Brooklyn looking for a
boiler shop, which he thought was
somewhere on the lower West Side.
HaZelton continued:
Up the street l met man from the West,
who was attracted by the Masonic emblem
on my watchchain He spoke to me and we
walked along together. At first i thought that
/ krrra1 and vrnG iat tnyC
Of him, because / thought he wanted to get
to me. But he showed me that he was a
Masen in good standing and we went along
1 saw a hanson cab coming toward me. In
this were a man and woman. sitting par
TALLY facing each other When l first saw
them they were about enc hundred feet away.
Their -four hands were raised. From their
excited faces and positions / saw that they
were IN commotion of some kind. Ny COM
panion saw them at the same time and said
young woman draw her hands toward her lap
and a minute afterward / saw the revolver
in his hand and and heard it go off. 1
saw him fall forward into the lap OF the
woman. The hanson did not stop. but drove
by US. it being near TO US when the shooting
occurred.
Hazelton says that as he and the man
he was with did not wish to be de-
tanned as witnesses they agreed to say
nothing about what they had seen.
After making his statement Hazelton
was taken under escort to Bleecker
street and West Broadway. where the
shooting occurred, but was unable to
identify the locality.
Hazelton further said that when the
stranger he was with introduced him.
self he gave his name. but not his, card
and that he had forgotten his name.
After reading of Nan Patterson's ar
rest, he said. he came here and tried to
visit her in the Tombs. but was un-
. successful. He then determined to tell
his story in court when Miss Patter-
son was placed on trial. Before 'leav-
ing the District Attorneys office Hazel
ton was subDenaed to appear there
again next Friday.