The Washington times., 1904-11-21

shave and a new hat. We can show
that when Young left the house he did
not have a revolver.
Young met Miss Patterson and they
tceE a cab 10 a hat store in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. where Young bought a
hat. They then drove down town and
at Washington and Bleecker Streets
they went into saloon and got dTtnG.
After the cab passed Canal Street no
one saw what took place. A shot rang
out and Miss Patterson opened the cab
window above and told the driver 10
drive 10 a drug store.
At the drug store the clerk told Miss
Patterson 10 drive to the Hudson Street
Hospital. A crowd had collected and
Policeman Junior stepped on the cab
stop and asked the defendant what was
the matter and she replied that the man
had shot himself
Junior asked her where the revolver
was and she said she did not know
Junior found il in the mans right hand
coat pocket
Young was taken 20 the hospital where
ne was pronounced dead. Miss Patter-
son was Aetained as a witness and the
police entered the case as one of suicide
That afternoon at the autopsy IL de-
VelopeG thar Young was shot trans
Versely across the body and the police
then came 10 the conclusion that muir
der had been committed.
SAAAAA " as OClaAACQs
Il shall tell you why J. Morgan Smith
viii not testify here. He was subpoen-
aed 10 appear before the grand jury on
june 3. but on the day before Il be-
came known that the pawnbroker had
been found whom the revolver had
been purchased
THAT night Smith and wife disap-
peased and the peoples prosecutors
have macs every effort 10 bring them
into court and have failed
We viii produce every witnaess we
can get who can throw any light on
this case. There viii be some Witnesses
VINO, II VIII be apparent 10 YOU are not
telling all they know. the cab driver
Mlchaels, and the pawnbrOker will tell
their stories. and IL is for you to deter.
mine IT they are telling all the truth
II We show that Young was killed by
weapon he did not purchase BY a
wound he could not have inflicted. then
there Is no conclusion left but that this
WOmans hands are red with the blood
OF her lover.
Prosecutor Rand concluded at 12:40.
ana recess was taken until O'Clock
Want the Letters.
II was learned that Mr.. Rand wants
the defense to deliver 10 the prosecution
the letters written by Young to the ac-
tress. Hha.a
These letters were removed from her
rooms uptown directly after her arrest
LAWYER Levy. who has th9m, VIII insis.
that the district attorney. on his part
shall be compelled 10 deliver in exchange
10 the defense whatever letters written
By Nan Patterson 20 Young he now
has.
MIR. Rand also wants the clothing
worn by Nan Patterson at the time she
rode in the hanson cab with Young.
Shortly after Nan Patterson was taken
to the coroner's office from the Hudson
Stree Hospital and while Coroner
Bro Was iuterr0gatmg her one Of her
coun rushed uptown and secured new
clotM tor Miss Patterson The.
clOthL she wore at the time OF the
shootin was taken away BY the same
person.
The prosecution contends thar tbeza
clothes should be produced in court in
order 10 establish the fact whether or
not there were powder marks on them
Threats of Death.
II has been said that the district at
torney is in possession OF letters written
by Nan Patterson 10 Young in which
the actress threatened the life of the
bookmaksr.
Shortly after the arrest Of Nan Pat
terson II was reported that such letters
had been found and that Young had
turned them over 70 his brother-in-Iaw
Or. Mexican. No official denial was
ever made that such letters were really
in existence.
Miss Patterson spent a quie; Sunday
in her cell al the Tombs. Her only
visitor was her father, who tried To
cheer her as best he knew. He told his
daughter that her mother was moi
dangerously H.
The skeleton secured BY the district
attorney has been put IN position. Ii
viii be used by Mr.. Rand's experts 10
show the jury how the bullet which
killed Young was fired
The first witnesses will be photogra-
piers and draughtsmen. The photog-
raphers are the ones who took Nan
Fatterson.s picture Immediately after
her arrest
The First Witness.
The draughtsmen will tell how they
measured the cab IN which Nan Patter-
son and Young rode that morning.
Mr.. Levy says that he VIII insist that
the cab be brought into court. He in
tends TO put Miss Patterson into the
cab so that the jurors may DO able 10
judge Tor themselves whether Il was
possible Tor Miss Patterson TO have
killed Young. The cab is an unusu.
ally narrow one
Mr.. Levy says he has not decided
Miss Patterson would be put
on the witness stand. He said. IF
the pTAs ecution should fail TO make out
a strong case against our client. then /
don't see why we should be asked 10
put IN any defense NJ all But If the
prosecution should put in a very strong
i cannot see where they