Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-22
YOUNC'S END
District Attorney Rand Scores
Nan Patterson's Life.
"BOOKMAKER WAS NOT A SUICIDE
Prisoner Visibly Affected When
Prosecutor Spoke of Young as Man
of Honor, Generous and
Open Handed.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-With her
every emotion depicted on her CULVER
ing features, the flush of shame giving
place to the pallor of fear and the look
of scorn being supplanted by Il dis
dainful curl of the lips, Nan Patterson
heard Assistant District Attorney Rand
accuse her of numbering Caesar Young,
the man she had loved, and outline
every detail of two years of her life at
the opening of her case before Judge
Vernon NJ. Davis in the criminal court.
For more than two hours Mr.. Rand
outlined the case to the jury, touching
on the womaIfs life and her mode of
living with delicacy and without any
tinge of ~coarseness, but eve for a
moment letting the fact that he believ-
ed her guilty of murder escape him or
the twelve men who listened with
strained intensity to his every word.
Only once did Nan Patterson's feel
ings overcome her. That was when
Mr.. Rand in describing Caesar Young's
life called him a man with the highest
sense of honor, generous and open
llullutu. nCu llC SOuHS uNtlCSo NlOp-
ped the heavy veil which she had lifted
from her face after entering the court
room, and a little convulsive shudder
that swept through her form showed to
all the emotions which were besetting
her.
with all his fairness and kindness
of heart" Mr.. Rand continued, "Cae-
sar Young fell where many a good man
has fallen
1t was then that a red flush mantled
Nan Patterson's brow, and her eyes
dropped for a moment.
Mr.. Rand, in the opinion of all pres
ent in the courtroom, delivered a mas
terly address which left not the minute
est detail undone. He stated emphatic
ally that he would prove Caesar Young
had no motive for committing suicide,
while he averred he would produce
facts to prove that Nan Patterson de-
sired the life of the man who had be-
friended her.
He acknowledged that he had moth
ing but circumstantial evidence to
work upon.
Mr.. Rand's most impressive remark
wars when he said: I'VE have undis-
putable. proof that Caesar Young did
not kill himself. When the autopsy on
his body was performed the physicians
were surprised to find that the bullet
had gone transyersely across his body
from left to right and had lodged in his
shoulder. Caesar Young sat on the
right side of the cab when the shot
was fired, and his body fell to the left
and across the woman's knees"
J.. Morgan Smith, the brother-in-law
of Nan Patterson, was directly ac-
cused by Mr.. Rand of having bought
the revolver which fired the shot that
killed Caesar Young.
Mr.. Rand's description of the life
which Caesar Young and Nan Patter-
son led together sounded like a ro-
nance from some tale of fiction. "This
is Il tale of death and passion" was
his apt description of all that had
TRANSFERRED. He told how Caesar Young
had met the defendant on Il train while
on the way to California; how the wo-
man had followed him from race track
to race track. 'eXhibiting the same
traits said Mr.. Rand, 'as Mary's lit
tie lamb"
He told of Caesar Young's efforts to
get rid of the woman and of her per-
sistency in following him wherever he
went. Finally Mr.. Rand said, Caesar
Young determined to leave the woman
at all costs and prepared for a trip to
Europe with his wife, where he would
be free from Nan Patterson's atten-
tons.
Thirteen hours before the shooting
occurred" then said Mr.. Rand, 1.-THE
murder was planned. 1t was done with
elaboration and with generalization
and therefore constituted an act of
murder in the first degree.
Young never carried a revolver in
his life. When he left the house of
his friend in West One Hundred andi
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