Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-23

vance are among the most interesting de-
| velopments of this remarkable trial.
Even In his opening statement Monday
| Prosecutor Rand hippantly referred to the
many weak-minded' people who had come
to him and pretended to have seen the
shooting In order to connect themselves
with a case that was engrossfng public at
| tention, and with a largeness that was most
| effective. informed the jury that he had no
doubt the defense had had n similar ex-
perience.
The defense is perfectly aware Of the
purpose. and combats 1t in Its own way.
Whenever Mr.. Rand makes a witness say
that nobody other than those known to
him jumped on the cab or came up to 1t,
Mr.. Levy. the chief of the girls counsel,
pins them down to a declaration that they
could not tell just what people might have
been in the vicinity. etc.
So they battle for the liberty of the girl
with the pretty profile and the dull. mean
ingless, full face. 1t is a game and every
move has it's counter-move, and the game
| is played by masters.
Widow to Face Prisoner.
Within a day or two-possibly today-the
widow of the slain man will be brought
into court to tell of her efforts to break OF
the intimacy between her husband and this
girl. and when the wife and the prisoner
confront each other there will be scene
that for thrill and human interest is never
seen-outside the criminal courts.
1t is anticipated that the wife will tell
that her husband sought Nan Patterson
after 1t had been all settled that their
squalid Tenderloin romance was over, and
on the very day he and his wife were to
sail for Europe, and so put the sea between
the bOokmaker and the chorus girl-not
with any sentimental idea. but to get from
her the letters he had written and so
eliminate the title deeds Of her hold upon
him.
Yesterdays play in the game Of life and
death was for small points; constant
| orrin Fov trfA HING 1vq n "a
as they are in themselves, in the aggregate
mean that Nan Patterson shall go free or
that she shall expiate the crime of murder.
The prosecution brought out one contra
diction on the part of the girl. To one po-
liceman she said she had not seen the pistol
with which Caesar Young was shot: TO
another declared she had found the
weapon in sbis pocket. whence the police
took it after his death.
Problem for the Jury.
Aside from the issue of circumstance. the
psychological interest grows as the jury
gets glimpses of the moral mystery: Is 1t
more likely that the pretty young prisoner
killed her paramour to cheat his wife or
that the world-hardened gambler was i'm
PEELED to death by mingled emotions Of love
and pity?
Against the suicide theory is the fact
that Caesar Young had continued his prep
arations for the voyage to Europe with his
wife after the time the revolver was bought
by some one else. Why was the revolver
bought? What plan was in view when 1t
was bought? These questions are in plain
sight, but they have not yet been answered.
A study Of the young prisoner throws lit
tie light on the riddle. She is just twenty
two years old, slight. plump. has singu-
larly cold, gray eye. full small, dropping
mouth and short nose. thick and rounded
at the end. Her teeth are very small and
her brown hair fine. Her ears are small
and delicate The chin Is narrow and in
clined to suuareness. But although her
eye is so grave, giving her at times O.
strange expression of maturity, there are
no signs of brutality or courage In her per-
sonality. There are no lines of passion in
the face 1t Is the countenance of weak,
dependent and selfish nature.
Prosecution Declares Plot.
The theory of the prosecution supposes
a plot. deliberate and premeditated, in
which this delicate creature, already d.
vorced wife, and drawn from her home by
the gaudy triumphs of a chorus girls life.
was the heroic figure, nerved to the final
act of vengeance partly by jealousy and
partly by fear Of losing the generous In
come she had drawn from Caesar Young
Even in the court room yesterday she
showed a certain conscious frivolity In
the care with which she arranged the folds
OF her dress and set the black veil prettlly
about the rim of her wide hat. At times
she scanned the faces of the jury, but not
one of the twelve would look at her. Mr..
Rand, the tall young district attorney. had
warned them against the sympathy moving
influence of youth and beauty and sex IN
a case involving life and death, and 1t was
plain to see that they were impressed by
the SUGGESTION