The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-02
WITNESS COMES
FORWARD TO SAVE
Aged Man Saw Caesar Young
Shoot Himself in Hanson.
CONSCIENCE TROUBLED HIM
NAN PATTERSON MAY BE IN
NoCENT AFTER ALL.

Al EW YORK. Nov. LIN defense of
~ Nan Patterson, the actress now in
Tombs prison charged with having
killed Caesar Young, the wealthy book
maker. in a hanson cab in West
Broadway. this city, on June 4 last.
Milton ". Hazelton: prominent bust
ness man of Oneonta. Otsego county.
y. Y, today appeared at District At
torney JerOme's office and declared in
an affidavit that he saw Young fire the
fatal shot. Hazelton said that another
man was with him at the time Of the
shooting. He does not know the iden-
tity OF this witness, however. as he
was a chance acquaintance, attracted
by a Masonic emblem on his watch
chain. He declared that his conscience
has been troubling him so that he fin
ally had TO come forward and tell the
story.
Stranger With Him.
HaZelton told Assistant District At
torneg Rand that he is IS years old and
lives in OneOnta. For a few weeks
previous to the affair of June 4 Hazel
ton says he was staying with the fam
fly Of Rev. d. w Crouch. whose wife is
his cousin. at their home in Brooklyn.
He SAYS that he came to this CITY to
see Joseph II. HOadley. president of the
International Air Power colnpany. with
whose father he had been associated
years before in California: that on the
day TO which he refers, he cannot re-
member the date, he came from Brook
lyn looking FOR a boiler shop which he
Thought was somewhere on the lower
west side. Up the street" continued
Hazelton, II met a man from the
west who was attracted by the Masonic
emblem OF my watch chain He spoke
to me and we walked along together.
At first ] thought that he was a bunco
steerer.' and was suspicious of him be-
cause ] thought that he wanted to get
TO me. But he showed me that he was
a Mason in good standing and we went
along up the street tcyeher.
Witnessed the Shooting.
Il saw the hanson cab coming to
ward me. In this were a man and a
woman sitting partly facing each other
When I first saw them they were about
100 feet away. Their four hands were
raised. From their excited faces and
positions ] saw that they were in q
commotion of some kind. My compan-
ion saw them at the same time and
said to me: Look there, Just then I
saw the young woman draw her hands
toward her lap and minute afterward
I saw the revolver in his hand and
saw and heard il go Off / saw him
fall forward into the lap of the wo-
man.
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 10 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 Blocker
street and West Broadway. where the
shooting occurred. but was unable to
identify the locality.
Hazeiton 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 the name.
After reading of Nan Patterson's ar
rest he said. he came here and tried to
visit her in the Tombs, but was I'M
successful. He then determined to tell
his story in court when Miss Patterson
was placed on trial.
Before leaving the district attorneys
office Hazelton was subpoenaed TO ap-
pear there again next Friday.