The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
EXPECTS TO PROVE
YOUNG A SUICIDE
Nan Patterson's Attorney Says
He Has Eye Witness to
Cab Tragedy.

ward a witness who would tell con
vincing story of having actually seen
the shooting, no matter how strong the
evidence of the people to the effect
the cab when the fatal Shot was fred.
This witness was passenger on
streetcar passing across West Broad
way, short distance from the scene
of the tragedy, he said, and in his mar
rative he will swear that, from where
he stood, tho his GLANCE was but mo-
mentary, he saw Nan Patterson s COM
panion in the cab grasping revolver
in his hand and struggling with the
young woman, who was endeavorlng to
wrest it from him. ~ X"
Adjourn to Monday.
At the close of today's proceedings
next Monday, as it is the custom of the
court not to reconvene on Friday af-
ter holiday.
Before the opening Of today's pro-
| ceedings, Mr.. Rand announced that
none Of the most important witnesses
that the greater part of today would be
| taken up with the expert testimony OF
physicians and other witnesses by
| whom it will be attempted to- prove
that Young could not have shot him
self,
While vitality important to the prose-
cution's case, this testimony, will not
| will be found in the narratives Of Mrs.
Young, John Millin, the bookmaker g
| former partner, and a dozen other wit
| nesseS.
Unnerved by Skeleton.
| When the CHASTITY figure Of a ,skele:,
ton was carried into the criminal
branch Of the supreme court late yes
terday afternoon and placed almost di-
rectly i'll front of Miss Patterson, she
| shrank back in her seat with a shud-
der Of horror and nervously gripped
hec fathers shoulder.
| A few moments before, she had been
visibly affected when pieces Of skin
taken from the fingers of the dead
bookmaker and pasted on. thin slabs
Of glass had been held up before her.
For brief interval she was apparently
on the verge OF collapse and called for
a glass of water.
Then her amazing reserve OF nerve
force came to her aid and she slowly
recovered her composure. When court
adjourned for the day, with Coroner's
Ihysaclan o,Hanion a7 on the sta;nd, sne
her eyes fixed on the witness.
DR.. o 'Hanlon testified that he made
postmOrtem examination on the after
noon of the shooting.
Course of Fatal Bullet.
shoulder about three inches from the
was was the tn on only Wound. It's Course was
slightly downward, I found on probing,
and toward the center Of the body: The
bullet was in tho posterior portion of
The bullet had passed thru the lower
portion Of the lung, was detected and
continued its course upward to where it
finally lodged. Death was caused by
an internal hl h7emorrhage caused by per-
At this moment Mr.. Garvan was sent
out for a: skeleton: The g1ruesome,
dummy witness, which was without a
head, was carried in and DR.. O'Hanlon
pointed out on it the course Of the bull
let that killed Caesar Young.
Believed It Suicide.
Mr.. Levy, in his cross-examination,
led DR.. O 'Hanlon back over the ground
covered in his direct testimony yester-
day. The witnessed described in detail
the autopsy which he performed on
Young's body.
of homicide, would you have made a
more careful examination? asked Mr..
Levy. SO.
of homicide
"Did you regard it as case of sui
"I did," the witness replied.
DR.. O'Hanlon said that, while per,
/ forming the autopsy he found three
black marks on the second finger of
Young s right hand and the stripped
off pieces Of skin which were turned
/ over to the district attorney.
The witness was not permitted tc
III H. l1,<.. L L
black marks were made by gunpowder
/ Another question as to whether he
i found any indication of gunpowde1
when he examined Nan Patterson +
\ hands soon after the shooting also met
! with an objection from the prosecu
At the conclusion Of DR.. O'Hanlon Is
examination, that part of his testimo
ny in which he said that he consid
cred the case to be one of suicide ano
not homicide when he performed the
autopsy, was stricken from the RECORD
on motion Of Mr.. Rand. Counsel fol
ing of Justice Davis on this point.
Shield Her From Women.
When the trial was resumed counse
for Miss Patterson announced that ar
earnest appeal had been made to the
justice pIeSluluS 10 IOTD1u Gno GuTOuS
ing of the tribunal by curious women
The prisoner has begged her counsel tt
make vigorous effort to save her from
running the gauntlet Of the curious eyes
of the several score women who have
managed to pass the portals Of the
court during the last few days.
Veteran court officers recalling the
crowds that swarmed to the crimina
court building during the Molineaux
Kennedy and Buchanan trials, insisted
today that the numbers that laid siege
today surpassed in size and frantic Gag
erness, any gathering of the kind with
in range Of their memory.
Surging Mob at Door.
Not only was there a surging mol
about the doors of the court room, bu
out on Franklin street almost beneath
the Bridge of Signs, several hundred
men and women collected to see Mis-
Patterson pass thru the gloomy sus
J pended corridor.
They could not catch more than
momentary glimpse of her dark figur
as it flashed by the dust-clouded win
0. dows, but even this seemed to satisf
them.
- IT. is admitted that the revolver 1,a