Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-24
SUICIDE OR MURDER?.
Progress Of Nan Patterson
Trial in New York.
THREATENED BY SMITH
cABMAN's TESTIMONY CAUSED
THE DEFENSE TO VINCE.
Witness Declared Young Struck ana
Cursed Prisoner-Court Adjourned
Until Saturday Morning.
THREATENED BY SMITH

John Crowley, a cabman, was the Hse
witness at the afternoon session OF nan
Patterson's trial in New York, after Inc
Stars report closed. He said he had seen
Young strike Man" Patterson early III
the morning of the shooting
Joseph Hewitt. a newsboy, with slano
at the Pabst Circle, said that he mad seen
Nan Patterson and J. Morgan Smith, whom
he identified from a photograph, ABOUT
$50 o'clock on the night preceding the
shooting. The two were auarreling. They
called cab Smith, he said pushed the
girl into a cab, striking her in the race.
you must do it," he said.
II won't" she replied
This evidence was admitted despite the
strenuous objection of Mr.. Levy, who de-
clared it to be irrelevant and incompetent,
and reserved an exception when justice
Davis overruled his contention.
Police Capt Sweeney. recalled. testihed
that he had served ]. Morgan Smith with
a grand jury subpoena on June y. me
subpoena was filed as evidence. Mr.. Rand
then read warrant which had been issued
for Smith, calling for his arrest for con-
tempt of court in failing to obey the SUB
poena. The warrant was marked Tor lden-
LITIGATION.
Neil A. Flannery. proprietor of cafe at
125th street and Sth avenue, where Young,
Luce and Nan Patterson were drinking the
night before Young's death, identified Nan
Patterson as the woman of the party. Elan
nery'S evidence closed the case Tor the
day.
Defendants Manners in Court.
Nan Patterson bears up well under the
daily ordeal to which she Is subjected. The
strain has made her features a little sharp
err and there Is less of the babyish softness
to her face than when the trial began. But
she shows no more agitation, reveals no
more feeling and takes her daily lombard
ment of stares with no more emotion than
one of the happier women who Is the target
for envious eyes as she sits in her box at
the horse show.
If the girl has any nerves or any magma
ton at all under that wooden exterior. she
must want to shrek out hundred times
a day, but there she sits, men and women
devouring her with their eyes hour after
hour. watching every culver of an eyelash,
searching her face at the range of a single
yard, and she shows absolutely no sign of
consciousness that she either knows or
cares that she is under the microscope.
Her lawyers profess themselves well
pleased at the progress of the case. but the
prosecution is. as well pleased. So far Mr..
Rand has not failed in single one of the
matters he announced his intention and
ability 20 prove. Of~course, the chances
seem always against the conviction Of
young and pretty woman, except by the
most positive evidence, but certainly the
case against Nan Patterson begins to look
very grave.
If Rand continues to the end of the chain
he has been weaving the natural end will
be conviction. The case he laid out
complete, and so far he has met no check
in carrying out all his promises.
Smith Incident a Weak Point.
In the matter of Smiths connection 1t
does not follow because he was heard de-
handing that she do something she was re-
to 6n ba hat
assault on Caesar Young but if 1t is proved
that he bought the pistol the circumstance
of his fleeing from subpoena Is bound to
tell against the girl
In his opening statement on Monday Mr..
Rand declared his intention of laying bare
the life of the Tenderloin for the tury's ben
eft. He did this yesterday in bringing out
the evidence of Smiths mysterious CONVEX
sation and the parting Of Nan Patterson
and Caesar Young In Harlem at o'clock
on the morning of the killing. reafs.
cabman painted that picture for the
jury. Told how he was whistled across the
street at 125th street to where two men
and woman were standing an a after what what
among the resorts. The woman he iden-
tilted as Nan Patterson. The men were
Young and his brother-in-law, Luce. The
bookmaker was drunk. according to the
nighthawk: the brother-in-law almost in
the same condition.
The woman was crying and Young
ordered her into the hanson. with curses
and threats, telling her he would knock her
head off if she did not go. slapping her face
and profane1y and brutally giving direc-
lions about her destination. The cabman
described the covering fright of the woman,
told of her sobbing all the way to her
hotel. sixty blocks from where she had
been put into the cab.
Testimony Made Girls Father Shrink.
This picture hardly jibed with the por-
of 20 dr. for ba i,,r
by the prosecutor-the open-handed. chival-
rous. kind hearted bookmaker with the high
sense of honor he presented as a contrast
to the cold blooded, predatory woman who
had fastened herself upon him. However,
that was the story the cabman told it.
1t a direful tale for the old father OF
the girl, sitting in court with his arm about
her, to listen to.
Nan Patterson herself did not mind it ap-
parently. The chivalry of the Tenderlon is
not dainty. A slap in the face by a drunk
en- foul mouthed man is such a common
place that it is likely the girl wondered
why it should have been thought worthy Of
the telling in court, but the fathers bent
shoulders seemed to shrink as from phys
ical blow when the gr1nning cab driver told
of Caesar Young striking this mans daugh-
ter in the face and dismissing her with an
oath to the drivers hands.
Crowley the cabman, had not heard what
the row was about He was not interested
beyond the two dollars he received from
Young as the fare for driving the girl home.
He analysed the degree of drunkenness
which he said the two men had attained for
the lawyers, said the woman was not under
the influence of liquor at all, but had no
moral reflections to volunteer over the Incl
dent which terminated for him when he
deposited the crying woman at the hotel.
There was another altman who had not
heard as much, and had not seen the blow
to fill In the dim corners Of the squallid
Eicture.
Says Smith Struck the Girl.
The testimony about j. Morgan Smiths
quarrel with the woman was given by Jo-
seph Hewitt. lame newsboy, known, he
said, to his fellows as Hop because of his
lameness, who was laying for another
boy who owed. him money for newspapers,
and who was shooting craps outside of
Pabst's cafe in 59th street.
This was about $50 O'Clock ON the night
preceding the morning the cabman had de-
scribed. While he was waiting Nan Pat
terson and a man came out of the 18th
street entrance of the cafe. He knew the
Patterson girl from having often sold her
papers from his stand, and he identified
the pictures of ]. Morgan Smith as those of
the man who was with her.
He heard the man say, You've got to do
It," and he heard the woman say, Il won't
do it, and then, in the language of Hop
nt,fc and it's I,or av,1