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NAN PATTERSON N|STR|AL
After Thirteen Hours CT DeIiberation
Jury is Discharged.
THlRDTRIAL OF ACCUSED ACTRESS

~Battle-"Nsn" Faints Upon Hearing
tho News and is Carried Back to the
Tombs-Review of the Case-Recorder
Golf Presided at Last Hearing.
New York City.-The jury which has
been trying Nan Patterson, the "Floro-
dora" girl accused of the murder Of
Caesar Young, a b~ooknlaker, on June
4 last, reported a final disagreement
at 2.3O o'clock in the morning. The
jury was then discharged.
Nan Patterson was brought into court
at 40 o'clock.
The jury then reported that they
were unable to agree, but after q long
talk between the Recorder and the
foreman, in which the Recorder laid
stress upon the great expense to which
the county had been in the three trials,
the jury was sent back again, and Nan
Patterson, who had been hastily sum-
moned and was now almost in q faint
ing condition, was led back to her cell.
When the jury came in at $50 after
celebrating thirteen hours the court
officers called, Hats off"
Everybody was on tiGtoe. Assistant
District Attorney Rand came in with
his associate, Mr.. Garvan, and Attor-
ney O'Reilly took his seat beside the
vacant chair which was awaiting Nan
Patterson.
The Recorder asked the foreman if
the jury had been able, to agree.
I'VE have not" lie replied. 81 am
convinced that there is no hope Of an
agreement"
When the Recorder assembled the
bench the defendant had not yet ar
rived and he called upon the court Of
fcer to explain her absence.
'"She is ill.," the man said.
"IS the Sheriff in court?" asked the
Recorder.
He is not. I went myself for Nan
Patterson and was then informed that
she was ill.," spoke up another court
officer.
The Recorder then ordered a court
officer to go to the Tombs and bring
the defendant into court if she was
able to come. In q little while the Dep
uty Warden returned and said. that the
TombS matron was dressing the priS-
oner.
At last Nan Patterson came in, after
fully ten minutes. She was On the
verge of collapse, and could hardly
drag one foot after the other. An at
tendant on each side fairly lifted her
into her place.
Recorder Golf then whispered some
thing in the ear of Clerk Brophy. who
then announced that if there vas any
demonstration at any announcement
that might be made the disturber would
be Immediately arraigned on a charge
of contempt Of court
Recorder Golf then read q communi-
cation from the jury. The miSsive
said:
After careful consideration Of all
the evidence in the case we have
reached the point where we believe
there is no likelihood that we shall
agree"
The Recorder then asked the foreman
if he thought there was any possibility
that they could be able to reach a yer"
dict after further elaboration.
II hardly think So" answered the
foreman.
The jury retired, and in about fifteen
minutes Sent word to Recorder Golf
that it desired to report again. Again
Nan Patterson was sent for and
brought into the courtroom. She was
still in a weakened condition and had
to be supported to q chair.
The Recorder seemed displeased at
the result and asked that the question
be put to each juror separately. Each
juror gave the same reply, There is no
hope of an agreement"
Have you anything to say" the
Recorder asked Mr.. Rand.
Nothing"
The same question was put to III
sci for the defendant, and then the jury
was discharged.
AS the jury started out Nan Patter-
son fell from her chair in a faint. Her
counsel and the guards picked her up
and bore her back to the Tombs, to
which the Recorder had remanded her.
Review of the Case.
"Nan" Randolph Patterson was &C
cused of shooting her lover, Caesar
Young q race track bookmaker, while
riding in a cab in New York City on
the way to an ocean steamer on which
Young was to sail for Europe with his
wife on the morning of June 4, 1904.
No actual witnesses of the shooting
appeared and the indictment and pros