Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-15
NAN PATTERSON TRIAL
FACED WIDOW - CALL
ED TO IDENTIFY LETTER.

After The Stars report closed Mrs
| Young widow of Caesar Young, was wit
ness yesterday afternoon in New York at
| the trial of Nan Patterson, charged witt
Young's murder Although she was ON the
stand only long enough to identify letter
to which another witness had referred Mrs
Young's presence there developed one of the
| most intense situations of the trial. AS the
| wife of the dead man took the stand Miss
! Patterson became deathly pale, but watch
| ed intently every movement of the witness
! during her brief examination.
The letter which Mrs. Young identified
| had been produced by Bernard l.. Mexican
| one of Young's brothers-in-law, who testi-
| fled that Young had mentioned it in a con-
versatiOn with Miss Patterson early IN
| May, and that Miss Patterson had said the
| letter was written by her sister, Mrs. }.
Morgan Smith. The letter has not yet peel
! read in evidence.
| Another of Youngs brothers-in-law, VIII
| lam Luce, told of what occurred between
| Young and Miss Patterson at their meeting
| in a saloon the night before Young was
| killed and John Crowley, a cab driver, re-
| peated his story of having seen Young slap
| the prisoners face during quarrel ON the
| street that same night.
Said Young Could Not Hide From Her.
| William Luce, brother-in-law of Caesar
| Young, said that on the night preceding the
| death of Young, Luce and Young met Nan
| Patterson in saloon, and that Young ana
| the woman quarreled there. Luce hearo
| Young tell her he would get her cottage.
| Said Luce: Young told her that he was
going away and she replied that he was
not going. He told her that she did not
know the name of the boat he was leaving
on. She replied that she did know the name
of the boat She answered that she would
not give him the satisfaction of telling MN
the name of the boat. She also salo: Don
get I'D early and go aboard the boat, be-
cause you cannot hide from me, even IL
YOU get into the hold. You won't go
away" a,
Young was excited, and the woman was
crying After the talk, Young put Nan
Patterson in a cab and sent her off alone
Luce said he neither struck or kissed heI.
Luce said that Young was all right when
he got home at $3.50 am, and when ne
left the house four hours later ne was per.
fectly sober. HE was in good spirits,
said Luce, land told me he was going out
to get a shave and new hat. He told me
he would meet me at the boat at y o CLOCK.
That was the last time l saw him alive.
The witness said he was present at the
meeting between Young and Miss Patter-
son in Harlem the night before the trag-
edy, at Young's urgent request. lie toid
me to be there at / o'clock at the part
ing said the witness, las he was AFRAID
she would shoot him, as she had threat
ened to do"
And you knew that Young was with her
from 11:30 pm. to 1 am. 2 asked Mr..
Levy.
Il did," replied Luce.
Did he not say that he wanted you
there to square things with his wife,"
No"
He did not tell you that he had made
the appointment with Miss Patterson at the
race track that day.?
He did
hot no OF
the track until after the fifth race had
been rum?
He did not?'
Mrs. Young on the Witness Stand.
Mrs. Young was called during the exam
nation of Bernard l.. Mexican, one Of
Young's brothers-in-law who had met Miss
Patterson in Young's company. He met
them early in May in a resort in the circle
at Sth avenue and 59th street. Young told
Miss Patterson that he had arranged for
sending her on trip to Europe, saying:
You know you have promised to go away
whenever l wanted you to co.
Yes. I know l promised you that said
Miss Patterson, according to the witness,
but my condition Is such that l cannot
go away now
Then Young told her that she had put her
foot in it by sending letter to the Hotel
Imperial which Mrs. Young had discov-
cred.
Mexican thea produced letter, which he
said was the one referred to by Young, but
it was held up by Mr.. Levys objection. 1t
was at this point that Mrs. Young was
called to identify the letter. Mrs Young
identified the letter, and said that she
wrote the few words in addition to the ad-
dress that appeared on the envelope. Nc
Kean, when recalled to the stand, said
Miss Patterson told him that Julia (mean-
ing her sister, Mrs. ]. Morgan SMITH had
written the letter.
Nearly all the conversation that day had
to do with Miss Patterson's going away.
Young told her that unless she left New
York he would have to go. He promised
to pay all her expenses, and Mexican him
self secured tickets for her to go to Europe.
When he took the tickets to Miss Patter-
son she protested against being sent away,
saying that she loved Young better than
his wife did and that she should not be
forced to leave him.