The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20
NAN PATTERSON TELLS
 STORY OF YOUNG'S DEATH


 asked what she knew that day of Young's intention to go abroad. She replied: | He called me up on the telephone. | asked me why I did not come over to the races. I asked him why he could lnot come to see me and he said he could not. He was straightening out his business affairs.
 T went to the Gravesend track and remained there until after the sixth race" She said s..e got to New York at 6:15 o'clock and went to where chr sister was living.
 Did you visit a pawnshOp on that day%
 Never"
 Were you present on that day or any other when a pistol of any character | was purchased by MT. Smith?" Never" "
 Did you ever see Hyman Stern, the pawn broker. before he appeared on the witness stand?"
 Were you in Pabsts restaurant that night?"
 q was not"
 Were you anywhere near that place on that night?'
 T was not"
 You heard Joseph Hewitt testify | that you came out of that restaurant with a man; that cab stood by; that he said. You must:' that you said. | won't and that he struck you in the face? Is that true." Tt is not"
 She told of her meeting that night | with Young, and denied the testimony | of William Luce. She said that she neither quarreled with Young nor cried and that Young did not strike her. Did you say you would prevent him from taking passage on the boat?" she was asked.
 "No," she answered. When they left the saloon they walk | ed over to 125th Street, and Eighth | Avenue, where Luce hailed a cab. She l continued: T wanted Young to go | home with me and then drive back. but | I wanted him to leave MT. Luce behind. I As I walked back he caught my arm, and as he helped me to the cab he I playfully put his hand to my face. That | was a way he had of betting me. He | never struck me-" Miss Patterson said that next morn ing she was awakened by Mrs. Smith. who said Young had telegraphed her to , meet him at Pabst's fin Columbus Cir cle. She took her hand bag contain ing a handkerchief and calling cards and started. Young was angry. she | said, because she was so long in ar irving at Pabst's. She also said she i felt the effects of what she had been drinking. After taking a drink they started down town in a cab. She de- nied that she knew they were on the way to the steamship pier. Young stopped at a store. and then went into l a saloon. where they had two drinks of wfiskey.
 i Mir. Levy showed the witness a postal card which Young had given her con i taining her name and address You saw him write this cardT' Yes"
 He gave it to your" Yes; he said Take this. It is something that you may need A Flnsh-the End.
 He then got in the cab and we start | ed down town. We talked about his | going away. and he kept questioning me about my going away. too. told him to go away and leave me for q while. He said could come over af fer him when things had quieted down. ] He said that he might not see me for a long time. while I said also that he might never see me again. He was get | ting more and more excited and. put ting his arm around me. he grabbed me roughly and kind of pushed me over towards the side of the cab All of a sudden I heard a report. There was A | iash-the end."
 Did you see the pistol in Young's hand?" asked Mir. Levy. "No.'
 What happened after the report?"
 He fell over In my lap. He raised half way up and fell down again. It seemed ages before any one came"
 She then denied that she shot Young or that she ever owned revolver This ended the direct examination and court adjourned until tomorrow when MT. Rand will begin the cross-exami- nation
 Having waived the privilege of making an opening address. Mir. Levy called as his first witness Ida F. Town send. She said that on June 3, last. she was employed as a telephone op- orator at the St. Paul Hotel. where the defendant and Smith resided. The witness recognized the defendant and said that Nan" Patterson occupied an apartment at the hotel.
 On the evening of June Miss Pat terson came to the desk and told her Young called for her to tell them she had gone out to dinner. Later in inc evening Young called up and gave her message which was delivered to Miss Patterson.
 Edward s. Grossman. a clerk in an Eighth Avenue confectionery store. said that Young used the telephone In the store shortly after o'clock on the morning of June 4. According to the witness when Young got his connec- tion through the central office he said: Good morning. How do you feel this morning. Hurry up and get dressed and meet mo
 The first alleged eyewitness Of the tragedy in the cab called by the de- fense was Milton W. Hazleton an in- ventor of Oneonts. N. '. MT. HazIeton said he was visiting in New York early last June and was on west Broadway on the morning of June 4. He was walking slowly along when he saw q handson cab approaching. There were two hersons in the cab. one a woman whom he identified as the defendant and the other a man. As the cab neared him he saw the flash of a revol- yer.
 Did the man have the revolver in his hand at the time of the report and flash? asked MT. Levy
 He did" replied the witness. He had both hands raised above his left shoulder. AS the shot rang out the mans head fell into the woman's Ian and she placed her hands on the ton of his head"