New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-13
DRIVER LOOKED INTO CAB.
Witness at Patterson Trial Refutes
Testimony of Cabman.

Two new points were made in the testimony in
the trial yesterday before Justice Davis Of Miss
Nan" Patterson. The first witness William
Stemm. IT.. truckman who says he was in West
Broadway and heard the shot fired. testified that
Immediately after he the smoke issue from the
front OF the cab he saw Michaes, the cabman,
raise the lid in the roof and look in In his previ
Gus testimony Stemm said nothing about this. and
each time Michaels has been the stand he has
declared that his curiosity was not aroused enough
by the revolver shot to him TO look In the
cab. and that he knew nothing Of what had
CURED.
On Friday Patroman Junior testified that he
did not see Stemm ride to the hospital on the step
Of the cab, as Stemm asserts that he did.
Dr O'Hanlon, testfying concerning the black
marks on the pieces Of Young's skin shown as evil
dence. declared that they powder stains and
then somewhat hastily modified his statement by
saying that microscopic examination of similar
marks on the fingers of Captain Sweeney showed
the two to be apparently identical.
Stemm. in response to questions OF the prosecu-
ton retold his story of the first trial He heard
q nUfIed revolver shot from the hanson cab, and
then the smoke issuing from the front OF the
cab. When the cab drew up to the drug he
looked in and Young lying face downward
across Miss Pattersons lap. his hand hanging
down in front of him
What did the driver do after the shot was
fred?' asked Mr. Rand.
He loked at the truck the roof and then
looked down into the cab" answered Stemm. He
st. Then the cab turned around and headed
uptown again, and afterward stopped at the drug
store" stemm said that he called Patrolman
Junior to the cab at Frankln-st., and rode to the
hospital on the step Of the cab. On cross
examination he said that Miss Patterson had tears
in her eyes when in front of the drug store.
When John Crowley, the uighthaWk cabman.
who the first trial testified that he saw Young
strike Miss Patterson late on the night OF june
in One-hundred-and-tw ty-hfth-st. called to
the stand he showed pair Of dscolored eyes and
his speech was indstinct. Mr. Rand asked to have
the witness excused. In reply to a question II he
baI hl.-p drinking Crowley
Nav. ] got this eye last night, talking with a
customer
Coroner O'HanIon then described the course OF
the bullet his testimony being the same as at the
last trial He said he had examined the defendant
hands but found nothing to indicate that there had
/ been powder them
Justice Davis severely criticised evening paper
for publishing purported to be the opinions OF
! the wives of the jurors concerning the case and
| accreditng them with expressing themselves as
! being for the acquital Of the prisoner The Jurors
then rose after the other and said that their
wives had been visited by reporters seeking such
! interviews. which had been refused, without eX-
ception Justice Davis then said he was satisfied
! that the integrity Of the jury had been maintained
After recess DR.. Q'Hanlon was recalled Tor cross
| examination. On Mr.. Rands objection, he was not
allowed give his opinion to the jury whether the
! wound was self-in1icted. The trial will be re-
| sumed this morning.