The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-13
SKELETON USED
BY PROSECUTION
GruesOme Exhibit in the Trial
of Nan Patterson.
DR.. o'HANLON's TESTIMONY
MANY SENSATIONAL STORIES
CURRENT.


New York. Dec PA headless hu-
man skeleton and dorsai vertebrae ribs
played an important part in the trial of
Nan Patterson for the murder of Gaze
sar Young today. The gruesome ex-
hibits were made use of in the examin-
alton OF DR.. Philip O'Hanlon, the cor
cner's physician. who performed the
autopsy on Young's body. Miss Patter-
sons counsel protested at the use of
the skeleton, asserting that IL did not
compare correctly with the structure
of the dead mans booS, bat his OBJ
jections were overruled.
The skeleton was used to decide the
course of the bullet after it entered
Young's body. The prosecution con-
tended that IL had gone straight to the
spine, which the state lawyers believed
proved that Young did not kill himself
Assuming that Young, with the pistol
I'm his right hand, had crossed it over
his chest and shot into his left side,
the prosecution commended that the bull
let would have Travelled to the left. The
fact that it few straight inward to the
spine was advanced as proving that the
wound was not self-inficted.
Took a Straight Course.
Dr. O'Hanlon was positive that the
bullet had taken a straight course to
the right.
Lawyer Levy, for the defense, tried
to gain an admission that the muscu-
lar covering Of the ribs at the point of
entrance of the bullet may have de-
Elected its course, but DR.. O'Hanlon de-
Clared that there had been no detection
until the bullet struck the spine.
I
if he had not at first declared the case
10 be a suicide, the prosecution object
ed and the objection was sustained.
DIR. O'Hanlon testified that he had
found powder marks on Young's fin
gers. His testimony as to the course
Of the bullet was coTrobOrated by Dr.
higgins of the Hudson street hospital
William Stemm testified that the driv-
er of the cab lifted the trap and looked
in after the shot was fired.
Justice Davis said from the bench
that a gross impropriety had been COM
mitted by a newspaper in publishing
what purported to be the views of the
wives Of the jurors concerning the case
He cautioned the jurors not to discuss
the testimony even in their own fami-
lies.
Sensational Stories.
Stories of a sensational turn were
current today when the trial of the case
of Nan Patterson. charged with the
murder of Caesar Young, was resumed
in the supreme court.
According to the story blank sub
poenas have been obtained and it is
said that even a blank petition for a
writ of habeas corpus has been filled
in. should narrest make it's immediate
use advisable.
This startling turn in the case was
occasioned by the intimation of the
state that a person who advised and
engineered the escape Of J. Morgan
Smith, the actress brother-in-law. and
his wife would be prosecuted on a
charge of conspiring TO defeat the ends
OF justice.
Ii is stated that the state viii take
at least two more days TO submit its
evidence. The intentions Of the defense
have been obscure. That a defense will
be offered is now considered certain,
however. in view of the fact that a
number of witnesses, including three
who claim to have witnessed Young
shoot himself, have been subpoenaed.
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