The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-07
THE YOUNG MYSTERY
Inquest Into Sensational Death
Of BOOkmaker Begun.
NAN RANDOLPH IN COURT

Alleged Fact That Young Actress and
Dead Man Had ouarrslsd to Be usea
Against Her-Doetors Dlscrsdit Sui
eide Theory.
New York. June THE inquest into
the death Of Prank E. Young, known
to race horse men as Caesar Young
who was shot and killed ID hanson
cab Saturday while on IFS way to sail
for Europe with his wife. has been be
gun before Coroner Brown and a jury
Nan Patterson Or Randolph, the ac
tress, who was in the cab with Young
when he was shot and who is under
arrest was n court having entirely re
covered from the hysterla which fol
lowed her arrest.
It now transpires that she and Young
had quarreled the night before the
shooting.
They quarreled ia Flannery's cafe. III
the corner Of One Hundred aud Twenty.
fifth street and St Nicholas avenue,
and they quarreled again on the side.
walk at the corner of One Hundred ana
Twenty fifth street and Eighth avenue.
In the presence OF Yonngs brother-in-
law, William Lnse aud 10 the presence
Of several cabmen the woman became
hair hysterIcal and attempted to slap
Young in the face He then refused To
remain longer with her. put her into
a cab driven hy John Crowley, and all.
rected that she be taken to her apart
ment in the St Paul hotel, at the cor.
ner Of Sixtieth street and Columbus
avenue Young paid Crowley Then
be and Mr. Luse cot into a cab driven
by Albert Snyder and were taken I'd
the home Of Mr.. Luse, in West One
Hundred and Fortieth street. Both cab
drivers are said 10 have heard tile Pat
terson woman threaten Young if he de
serted her
Woman Threatens Scene.
Young told tile woman that they
would have to part. lie attempted to
reconcile her she threatened to be
at the pier the next morning and make
trouble Il he attempted 10 saii for Iii.
rope with his wife. lie laughed at her
and finally promised to see her again
If SHE ii turn would promise not To-
make Il sceue Oh the pier They sep
arafea al i O'Clock saturday morning
to meet again at 8 o'clock less than an
hour before Young was shot and killed
Careful study of the wound iii
Young body seems to Indicate that tt
would have been nearly Impossible for
him TO have shot himself. Dr. 1.ederle.
wha s making chemical examination
% tile tlesl taken from the ends 81 the
fingers of Young's right hand, has not
yet completed bis work. but lie hi
proceeded far enough to warrant him
III assuring flle district attorney that ii
is unlikely powder marks viii be found
About the revolver from which was
fired tile Shot which caused the death
Of Young the entire case may center
Six detectives haye been working Ia
discover the ownership Of the revolver,
and also to learn from whom it WAS
purchased Friends OF Young assert
TINT he never had u revolver Of any
sort.
Assistant District Attorney Francis
+. Caravan, who has been out of the
city, has taken charge Of the case
A New Witness.
Tie dead nuns friends and relatives
place much reliance iii clearing up tile
mystery On d new witness, WHO they
say viii throw a great deal Of light on
the case and who is said to have over.
heard Mrs Patterson threatening TO
Kill Young II he should desert her
Mrs Young, the wife Of the dead
man, was not present at the inquest
She is at the home Of her brothef-in-
law. Bernard s Mexican, in New no
lhelle ana Is ID d highly nervous eondi-
ton
Friends ef Nan Patterson assert
strongly that she never could have
killed Young
Nan Randolph Patterson Is the great
granddaughter Of John Randolph OF
Roanoke one ol her uncles is the
cashier of tie Fourth National bank 81
this city, and another was formerly Il
United States senator from New
Hampshire. She was splendidly edu.
Gated ii Washington, where she lived
until shc came 10 New York 4 few
years ago
Her father Charles II Patterson, has
arrived here from Washington
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