Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-04-28
NAN PATTERSON
WILL NOT TESTIFY
Unless Prosecution Gets Some
New Evidence.
WILL RELY ON STATES WITNESS
Pawnkroker Does Not Identify Either
Actress or Sister or Morgan Smith
as the One Who Purchased Pistol
With Which Young Was Slain.

with Which Young Was Slain.
New York, April 27.-Unless the
prosecution has some striking bit of
evidence discovered since the last trial
and which has been rzealously conceal
ed thus far, Nan Patterson's fate prob
ably will be entrusted to the jury on
the case as presented by her accusers.
After yesterdays session, when
Pawnbroker Hyman Stern failed to
identify either j. Morgan Smith, Mrs.
Smith or Miss Patterson, as persons
who were present in his store when
the revolver, which killed Caesar
Young was purchased, Abraham Levy,
Miss Patterson's counsel, said he was
confident that the states case had
fallen fiat.
Man Patterson needs no Defense ?
said Mr. Levy, after a conference with
his associate counsel The defendant
will go to the jury on the case as made
out by the state when assistant Dis
trict Attorney Rand closes the testi.
mony.
Mr.. Levy added that Miss Patterson
was not in favor of this program
that she wanted to go on the stand
again, tell the jury her own story and
herself try to convice them of her in.
nocence. She will not be permitted
to influence the conduct of the case
this time, as in the previous trial, how.
ever.
If the prosecutor follows the course
of the previous trial, as has been TAX.
en- up to this point, the only important
witnesses remaining to be examined
are Mrs. Young, the widow of the dead
bOokmaker, and John Millen, l-@s rae
ing partner.
1t is probable, however, that the
letters seized when the Smiths were
arrested at Cincinnati which did not
appear at the las trial, will be put in
evidence. What these letter contain
is not yet made public. These let
ters are expected to throw some light
on the reason for the Smiths hurried
departure from this city and the al
legged determined efforts to evade
agents Of the district attorney who
were searching for them.
An interesting thing developed was
the statement given out by Mrs. Fan
ME Shapiros in which she claims to
have been within yard of the cab
whe nthe shot was fired and she ex-
pressed her willingness to go on the
stand and swear that Young held the
weapon which caused his death
Mrs. Margaret Young the widow of
the dead bookmaker, went on the
stand this afternoon She testified
that her husband never had owned a
revolver but that she had one and
that she packed it away With a box
of cartridges in her baggage when
she was preparing to go to Europe
just before her husband was killed
The revolver was loaded when she put
it in the suit case year ago, and the
cartridges still remain in the cham
bers. She identified the weapon which
was produced by Mr. Rand The only
time the weapon was discharged to
her knowledge, she said, was when she
fired several shots at a burglar
When this revolver was found in
Young's baggage soon after the end OF
the last trial, the council for the de,
fense claimed that it proved conclu,
sively that witnesses had testified to
what was not true when they said
that Young never had owned revol-
yer.