The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22
HAS NO FEAR.
Nan Patterson Expresses Con-
fidence In Her Acquittal.
Story of the "Murder In a Han
som Cab" Reviewed.
GOES TO THE JURY
That Body Retired at 1925 for
DeliberatiOn.
Took the Pistol Which Did the
Killing With Them.

| New York, Dec. 22.-EVen with the
verdict of the jury yet to come, Nan
Patterson felt today that the hardest
part of her ordeal was past. To the
verdict, she said, she has all the time
looked forward only with pleasure
On that point she has had no fear. 1t
was the long wait with disheartening
Interruptions and delays and nerve
racking strain of the long trial that in
spired her with dread. The mercileSs
arraignment of Prosecutor Rand,
/ which she knew would come before
the end she had feared, would be the
/ hardest to bear. Today. with all that
behind her. she said that she felt fair
! ly at ease and waited without fear the
word of the jury which she knew
would set her free.
81 have passed through so much, y
she said. that 1 feel that 1 can face
another day without f1inching. The
| judge, know. will not be cruel to me
and the tones of his voice will never
rise to the harsh pitch of accusation.
His charge, as 1 understand it, will be
as much for me as against me, and
when he has finished it will only re-
main for the twelve grim faced men
in the box to determine whether am
guilty or innocent feel that they
will give me my freedom.
! Even with the terrible words of Mr..
/ Rand ringing in my ears l can not be-
/ l1eVe that Ihey cOulQ set InS1r Wills
against me and send me condemned to
death to one of those little cells with
/ the iron door that 1 read of in Mol1-
neaux'S book. Black asI have been paint
ed / can not think that they will take
my life for a crime I never commit
/ ted.'
Review of the Case.
The crime with which Nan Patterson,
the former show girl. was charged in a
trial to end today was one of the most
I in criminal
nails. It's peculiar circumstances, the
prominence of Caesar Young in sporting
circles, and the glamor thrown around
the central figure in the case because OF
her membership in one of the famous
''F1orodora seXtette, " all tended to lend ii
an interest hardly rivalled in recent
ined as sporting" the interest in 1.-The
murder in the hanson cab" spread
through all circles and the proceedings
of the trial have been read from coast
/ to coast and have held place on the
first page of the metropolitan press
| With Miss Patterson sitting beside
him IN a cab, Caesar Young was on
| his way to a steamship pier, where his
Europe. The trip avowedly was
/ planned to break his relations with
| the girl. 1t was early in the morning
and but a few pedestrians We're
abroad on the street through which
the cab was hurrying to the dock
! There was a pistol shot and Young
fell forward, his head in the girls lap,
dead with a bullet in his chest Just
\ what transpired in the glass enclosed
vehicle probably will never be known.
The cabman testified he heard re-
| port.
He knew nothing more. For some
days an absolute silence prevailed.
Then a food of alleged eye witnesses
! turned up. Their stories, however,
| could not stand investigation. One
after another the witnesses were cast
/ a n
| old man. Martin Hazleton, of Oneonta,
came forward.
His probity was unquestioned. His
standing in his home town was of the
best and he told what he had seen on
that June morning. He saw the man
and woman, their hands clasDed and
held face high, then a flash, Duff of
smoke and the report of revolver
broke the stiffness of the morning. He
was the most important witness placed
on the stand and the efforts of the
prosecution to shake his brief but vital
testimony went for naught- Then, the
defendant herself went to the witness
chair and told the whole story of her
relations with Young. 1t was a cruel
ordeal, but she told it all in a straight
forward manner from the day she met
tragedy's path. to the fatal moment
in the cab. She said her companion
shot himself.
Packed Up Her Things.
Before leaving her cell today Miss
Patterson packed up all her belong
ings including the many little knick-
knacks which had accumulated dur
ing her long occupancy.
Grips and suit cases locked and
ready for removal stood by the door as
she started on what she believed would
be her last journey across the Bridge
of Signs.
ST know I will be free before night .
she said. Ct wanted every single thing
to be packed and ready. 1 don't want
to have to come back here for a
thing
Soon after the prisoner was brought
into court Judge Davis began his
charge to the jury.
Justice Davis informed the jury
that it was not his duty to interpret
the evidence which had been present
ed before him. He would instruct
them only as to the rule of the law to
the end that they might arrive at a
careful and just conclusion. Any
opinion they might have formed either
before or during the trial should not
be allowed to weigh unless it was
based entirely upon the evidence.
prisoner should be entirely dismissed.
Referring to the alleged failure of the
prosecution to show that Miss Patter-
son had any motive which might lead
| her to kill Young, Justice Davis in
! structed the jury that while it is not
| to prove a motive, 1t is important in
connection with the other facts.
"In circumstantial evidence" said
he 1.-The question of motive often be-
comes important; but it must not be a
motive that is imagined; it must be
proved"
Justice Davis defined the various de-
grees of murder and told the jury that
| although the defense claimed the pris-
oner either was guilty of murder in the
| first degree or was innocent, it was for