Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-02
Milton W. HazIetOn Says that lie
Saw Caesar Young Shoot
Himself
WHY HE COMES FORWARD NOW.
His Conscience SmOtc Ilim-Iels the
Story Of His Arrival 10 New York
And Of Meeting a Stranger.

Sew York. Nov LIN defense of
Nan Patterson. the actress now I'm the
Tombs prison charged with having
killed Caesar Young. the wealthy book
maker uu hanson cab ln West Broad
way, this city, on June last. Milton W.
lla2o,tou, prominent business man
Of Oneouta. Oswego county ~ Y, to-
any appeared ut DIST Atty Jeromes
ONCE and declared I'm am affidavit that
he saw Young Are the fatal shot,
Hazelton said that another man was
with him al The time Of the shooting
lie does not know the identity Of this
witness, however as he was chance
acquaintance, attracted boy "a Masonic
emblem on his watch chain He de-
c,arcd that his conscience has been
Troubling him so that he finally had to
come forward and tell the story.
Hazelton told the assistant district
attorney that he IL rs years old and
lives iu Oueonta For few weeks pre-
yIous to The affair Of June 4, Hazelton
slys he was staying with the family OF
Rev d. w. Crouch whose wife Is his
cousin. al their home IN Brooklyn
He says that he came TO this city TO
see Joseph u. Hoadley president OF the
International Air Power company, with
whose father ne had been associated
years before IN California. that on the
day 10 which he refers he cannot re-
member the date he came from Brook
Ign looking for "a boiler shop, which he
thought was somewhere ON the lower
west side.
up the street" continued Hazelton,
~ met a man from the west who was
attracted By the Masonic emblem on
my watch chain. lie spoke to me and
we walked along together At first !
thought that he was a bunCO steerer
and was suspicious OF him because /
thought that he wanted TO get 20 me.
But he showed me that ne was a Mason
On good standing and we went along up
the street together.
II saw harsom cab coming toward
me. In this were q man and woman
sitting partly facing each other. When
/ first saw them they were about 100
feet away Their four hands were
raised From their excited faces and
positions J saw that they were in u
commotioh Of some kind, My COM
panlon saw them at the same time and
said to me; Look there.
Just then ] saw the young woman
draw her hands toward her lap and a
minute afterWard ] saw the revolver I'm
his hand and saw and heard il go off, |
saw him fan forward into the lap OF
the woman. The hanson did not stop,
but drove by us, Il being near to us
when the shooting occurred.
Hazelton says that MS he and the man
he was with d.d not wish TO be detained
as witnesses they agreed to say MOTH
ing 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 Hazelton further |
said that when the stranger he was |
with introduced himself 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, lac came here and tried 10 |
visit her IN the Iombs, but was unsuc- |
ccssful He then determined TO tell his |
story In court when Miss Patterson was |
placed on trial. Before leaving the dis
trict attorneys Office llazelton was sub
poenaed TO appear there again next FRI
day