Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-26
HURTS nan.
Dr.. 0'HanIon Changes
Opinion as to Suicide.
Says Jury Must Decide Who
Killed Caesar Young.
Other Testimony Much as in the Pre-
vious Patterson Trials.

New York. April 25.--Perhaps the
most sensational development in the
testimony Of today, in the trial Of Nan
Patterson. charged with the murder OF
caesar Young, came when Coroner 5
Physician OHanion took the witness
stand for the prosecution and said in
roply to questions that he had changer
his opinion that Young committed sui
eide.
DR.. OHanlon performed the autopsy
on Younp's body. in his testimony. to-
day. he said:
NV present opinion is not the opir-
ion I formerly expressed to coroner
Brown
The counsel for the defence. Lawyer
Levq asked:
Did you report this case 10 CORONER
Brown as one OF suicide?
When Dr. O'Hanon replied IN the az
frmative. Mr.. Levy asked:
DO YOU now say that in your best
Judgment. it Is case OF suicide!
NO. / won't say that.
Didn't you say so once?' was ask
ed.
Il did, but I think now it is a case for
the Jury to decide. 1 thought at the
time that I detected powder marks on
the hands Of Caesar Young"
Assistant District Attorney Rand
then produced the official report of DR..
O'Hanlon. which did not define the case
as one of suicide and the doctor said
he simply expressed the suicide opn-
ion in conversation with Coroner
Brown.
Mr.. Rand asked the witness if he
still held the opinion that he expressed
to Coroner Brown and DR.. . Hanlon
replied:
Il will only say this: My opinion now
is not what it was when l talked to
Coroner Brown"
This incident came at the close OF
the days proceedings in the trial.
At today's hearing the revolver with
which Young was killed was produced
and identified by police witnesses.
Police Captain Sweeney told OF a
conversation he had with Miss Patter-
son soon after her arrest in which she
had put her hand in Young's pocket
after the shot had been fired. had
looked at the revolver and then
dropped it back in the pocket.
The scenes on West Broadway where
the shooting took place. were gone
over by witnesses and the cab driver
who was on the box when Young was
shot was on the stand. but the tesu-
mony did not differ materially from
that at the previous trial.
New York. April 25.-Nan Patterson
Full r,acnyp"p1 from hpl
,ndisposition Of yesterday. when she ap-
pcared in court. today. for the contmu'
ance of her trial on the Charge of hay
ing murdered Caesar Young. she seem
cd to be in excellent spirits when she
entered the court room and took sea
ut the counsel table. The plain bilcl
suit which she had worn during TINS
and previous trials had been dlscafd"t
and in its place she wore black ant
white checked dress AMI round lac'
hat with white lining.
The revolver. with which it is alieSef
that Young was killed and which. 1T |:
believer. will figure prominently in ms
prosecutions case again MADE It's aP
pearance when the trial was resumed
TO-DAY 1t had been identified by seNera
witnesses. yesterday. DIS the weapon
found in Young's pocket soon after th'
tragcdy and today the line of identifi
cation WIS followed down t" the TIM
il was brought into court. 1t Is upo'
it's ability to establish the fact that j
Morgan Smith. Miss Pat;crson's broth
cr-in-law, purchased this weapon tn
day before Young WAS killed that tn
vrosct ution bases its strongest hope o
conviction. Mr.. Rand, the rrosecutin;
attorney in his opening address. yester
,ay. declared without reservation tina
he would prove that Smith purchase
the revolver from LYMAN Stern.
awnbrok.r Abraham Levy, counSe
for the prisoner. however. declared a:
pOsitivrly. today. that he is prepared
20 show that Smith was many miles
away from the pawnshop at the hou
the prosecution claims the gun was pur
chased.
After the police officers had identi
fed the revolver. today. Police Cap
tain Dennis Sweeney told of a talk h
had with Miss Patterson soon after he
arrest. She first told him she had no
seen the revolver but later said she ha'
nut her hand in YOung's pocket an
looked at the weapon and then droppe
1t back in the pocket.
Capt Sweeney said Miss Patterso
told him that when she heard IN
muf'lcd shot she was looking out o
the cab window.
Did she speak freely to you abou
the case" asked District Attorney Gar
van.
she did"
The scenes in West Broadway i'm
mcdiatcly following the shooting q
Young at the drug store where the ca
was driven few minutes later. and i
the hospital where Yoms's body final
WIS taken. were describe by witnesse
who had testified at previous trials
Their stories did not differ MATERIAL
from those previously related. Williaf
Stcmm, Jr.. truckmal who claims t
have been the first person to approac
the cab after the shooting. described tn
position of Young and Miss Patterso
when he climbed upon the step of tn
cab and described infinitely the event
which followed up to the time Young
body was taken to the operating rooI
in the hospital. When he first went I
u