The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-09
WITH ARM ABOUT
HER NECK HEF|RED
Witness Tells of Struggle
and Suicide in Cab.
ANOTHER SAW 1T ALSO
As Young Fell Bleeding in the Car
riage, This Stranger Leaped to
the Step and Appeared to be
Talking to the
Woman.
(By the Associated Press. }

New York, June 7.--JuStice Clark,
of the Supreme court, today denied
the writ of habeas corpus for the re-
lease of Mrs. Nan Patterson, who is
held in connection with the mys-
terious shooting of Caesar Young, the
well known bookmaker and turfman.
Mrs. Patterson was remanded to the
Tombs prison, where she has been
confined since Young was shot to
death in a cab while he was driving
to steamship pier in company With
the Young woman to sail for Europe
with his wife.
Nominally she is held as a witness
under $4,000 bail, but District Attor-
ney Jerome has intended that in case
OF her release, either by bail or by any
other means, she will be Immediately
re-arrested.
The case took a new turn today
when Algernon G. Myer, of 253 Il.
Second street, Jacksonville, Fla, pub
licly announced that he was a witness
to the killing of Young and stated that
Young himself held the revolver
which fired the fatal shot. His first
story was told to the representative
of newspaper, but later in the day
Meyer went to the district attorneys
office and was subjected to an ex-
was taken in full by an official ste
nographer.
Seemed an Accident.
According to Meyer the shooting Of
Young appeared to be accidental. Mrs.
Patterson was struggling with Young,
who had the revolver in his right
hand and his right arm was around
her neck. To Meyer it appeared as
though Mrs. Patterson was trying to
push Young away from her or per-
haps, to take the revolver away from
him. According to the policeman
who first reached the cab Mrs. Patter-
son sat at the left of Young.
Meyer says there was another wit
ness to the tragedy. This was a man
about five feet eight inches tall, at
tired in a dark suit and wearing a
straw hat. He had a small black
moustache. This man, who was di-
rectly opposite the cab when the pis-
tol was fired, according to the story
told by Meyer, jumped upon the step
of the cab and rode there a short
distance. Meyer says he thinks the
man talked to the woman in the
cab
According to the story told by
Meyer he was walking up West Broad
way Saturday morning when his at
tention was attracted to handsome
cab coming Gown the street. AS he
looked the occupants-a man and
woman-began to scuffle. AS the cab
approached me- continued Meyer, II
saw that the man had a gun in his
right hand. His right arm was around
her neck and the hand was about ON
a level with her head. At first L
thought he was trying to put the pis-
tol to her head. Right in front OF
me the tall man with the black NOUS
tache was walking and / saw him
stop and look at the scene of the
cab
The Revolver Cracked.
"I could see the CLINT of the pistol
barrel and all at once l heard the
report and saw q little smoke float
up. The driver did not stop his cab.
The hand with the gun in it, dropped
down the girls back and she lodged
away. Then the man in the cab fell
over This was just before the cab
passed me and just as the man ahead
of me had run out and jumped up
on the step.
81 turned and watched the cab go
down the street. Then l saw it stop
and saw a crowd begin to gather. /
did not want to get mixed up in the
case and kept away from the crowd.
/ had a reason for not wanting to be
mixed up in the affair, but when /
bought the newspapers Saturday af-
ternoon and saw that the case looked
bad for the woman 1 determined to
speak if it became necessary.
Il had never heard the name of
Caesar Young nor the name of Nan
Patterson bofOra -