New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-02
SAYS HE SAW YOUNG FIRE.
Octogenaridn Witness for Nan
Patterson So Declares.

In defence Of Miss Nan" Patterson an actress
locked up in the Tombs charged with killing
Cesar" Young, bookmaker, in a hanson cab IN
West Broadway June J. Milton Y. Hazelton
Of Oneonta otsego County, this State. who is al
most an octogensran. went to the District Attor-
aiey's Office yesterday and declared in an affidavit
70 Assistant District Attorney Rand that he hao
seen Young fire the fatal shot.
with Hazelton at the time CT the
shooting. The man chance acquaintance.
attracted by Masonic emblem on his watch chain
but Hazelton remembers little about this man eK-
cept that he from the Far West
Hazelton asserts that he owns the Hazel block
IN Oneonta, gaiued at e21oOo; that in 1884 he or
ganized boiler company. he says to exploit pat
az his and that he disposed OF his share in the
business OF this boiler company Cor $4,000
For a few weeks previous to the AFFAIR of June
Hazelton was staying with the family Of the Rev
d W Couch whose wife is his cousin. at their
Brooklyn home No. rs Bushwck-ave. He says
that he came TO this city see Joseph II. Hoadley'
president OF the International Air Power Company
with whose father he had been associated years be-
fore in California. He says that on the day to
which he refers he came from Brooklyn looking
for boiler shop. He thinks that he had breakfast
at Smith & McNeIrs. in Greenwich-st. and then
walked uptown, looking for the boiler shop Hazel
ton ADDS:
Up the street hanson cab coming toward war
In this Were man and woman, si ,bat
partly facing each other When hrsI "a" Tett
they were about one hundred feet away, f theII
four hands raised. From their excited faces
OF some kind Ny companion saw theIi at r .aIe
same Tina and said 10 me, Look there Just
then I the young woman drop her hands tow
ard her lap. and minute afterward saw the
saw him fan forward into the lap Of the woman.
The hanson DID not stop, but drove oy US, II De-
ing TO when the shooting occurred. -
AS IL had passed, companion SAID:
The authorities viii have US locked up as VII
nessez / don't want be locked up, as l have
business in the West attend TO. So let's don say
anything about it ! had no desire 10 say any
thing about l had read much about people
being locked up witnesses.
didn't tell any when got home But
this girl and finally. about two or three weeks
sfterward went to DR.. Case. of Oneonta, and told
him all saw. He advised me TO let II be known.
In September. he says, he came to this city and
attempted Miss Patterson in the Tombs. Ad-
mittance. refused him because he did not have
= pass and he was advised to go the District
10 the woman's attorneys. He says he did SO,
and was told that what he had seen made him a
valuable witness. He finally went home on Octc-
Der 6. not thinking he received with enough
consideration. Subsequently, he wrote letter ad-
dressing II TO Nan Patterson's Father, New
York He heard nothing from this letter, but says
that he understands it reached its destination.
Hazeton received a subpoena TO appear again
Friday at the District Attorneys office He is
der escort TO Bleecker-st. and West Broadway
where the shooting took place but was unable
10 identify that districu the place where he saw
hanson. and a woman, and a man shoot
himself