Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-07
SEARCHING FOR SMITH
WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH
NAN PATTERSON CASE.
Inquiry Develops That He is Not at
Patterson Apartments in
Washington.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW YORK CITY, July Tt is under
stood j. Morgan Smith, wanted in the
Nan Patterson case, has returned TO
Washington, and that Assistant District
Attorney Rand has sent one of his men to
the capital to apprehend the much-de-
sired witness. No information could be
obtained from the district attorneys Of
flee. If one of the detectives has gone to
Washington it is evidently for the pur-
pose of causing the summary arrest of
Smith as an accessory before the tact
Pawnbroker Stern, who sold the revolver
with which Young met his death, is in the
city and says he does not contemplate an
other trip to Washington.
The above dispatch would indicate that
the law officers of New York had shadow
ed Smith to Washington, but inquiry at
the home of his mother-in-law met with
the response that Smith was not there
and was not expected.
There is little reason to doubt the truth
of this statement. Several weeks ago The
Star, through it's New York correspond
ent, located Smith at the Franklin, and
later one of the reporters accompanied
Detective Price of New York to the Pat
terson home in this city, the officer s
purpose being to apprehend Smith. AS
stated exclusively at the time in The STAR
the detective was accompanied by Pawn
broker Stern, and the object of their visit
was solely for the purpose of having the
pawnbrOker get glimpse of Smith, that
he might determine If he was the one to
whom the pistol had been sold the day
preceding the homicide. 1t is evident
from the attending circumstances in the
case that the district attorneys office in
its hunt for Smith is only DESTROYS of as
sociating him with the purchase Of the
revolver. From a description given of
Smith by the pawnbroker the latter is
evidently satisfied it was he who made
the purchase of the pistol but he has
thus far refrained from making any posi-
tive statement until he can see Smith in
person. When taken to the morgue short
~ after the shooting he did not identify
Nan Patterson the one who accom-
panied the man when the pistol was sold,
but would not state positively that 1t was
not the same woman.
Smith to Appear at Proper Time.
The attorneys for Nan Patterson have
agreed to produce Smith at the proper
time When that time will arrive no one
knows save Messrs. Levy & Unger 1t
would materially strengthen the govern
ments case, it is said, for the district at
torney to force Smiths return. This Is ex-
actly what the defense does not propose
Shall be done, and Smith is kept In hiding
until the propitiOus moment arrives when
| he will surrender himself to the district at
torney.
1t was thought some weeks ago that the
| case would never come to trial-that Nan
Patterson would be given an opportunity
to appear before the district attorney and
give her version Of the affair Such a pro-
| ceeding Nan Pattersons friends believe
would result in the immediate discharge of
the accused. for her friends. especially those
who know the story of the homicide do
not for moment believe in her guilt
Many people familiar with the case criti-
else the lawyers for the defense in not per-
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| jury and tell her story. Some insist that
the lawyers are holding off, that they may
win victory before jury. However it
may be, the governments case thus far Is
| only one of circumstance, and the support
| Ing evidence Is weak. With the identifi-
cation of Smith by Pownbroker Stern as
| the man who purchased the revolver the
case against Nan Patterson will be ma
terially strengthened
| AS stated some time ago in The Star,
| there Is no prospect of a trial before fall,
| and there is every reason to believe the de-
| tense will insist upon the theory of sui
eide.