The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-31
OILY DETECTIVE
BIDES HIS TIME
Gets Missing Witnesses In Nan
Patterson Case, Who j
Are Indicted

CINCINNATI. O.. March 500. Nor
gan Smith and wife We're arrested in
this city today on a telegraphic request
OF District Attorney Jerome of New
hork city, accused of conspiracy to
commit murder. Nan Patterson, the
actress, who has been held in jail for
the murder of Caesar Young on May
t, 1904. is charged with conspiracy in
the same connection, new indictments
10 TINS effect having been found in
New York today Smith and his wife
leIt New York a few months after the
murder and before the beginning of the
ihlstrlai and for long time the au-
'noil'les and police were unable to To-
cate them. Smiths testimony and his
iuentlty being considered almost vital
81 the case against Miss Patterson.
t"o.;l weeks ago a New York de-
e seoeINe met Smith in Montreal and
rom mat time until the arrests here
To-Day this officer has awaited for q
favorable time for making the ernest
he followed the couple part of the time
as a travelling companion. over half +ba
continent. having made friends with
smith, who knew him to be detect
I've. but thought the officer was after
some other person.
Gee many own
Detroit, Cleveland and Canadian
cues were visited. Finally Smith went
to Nashville and Louisville in the hone
of securing a position with some of the
Dookmakers in those cities, leaving his
VIE in Cleveland He was unsuccess-
1ul and came to Cincinnati where his
wife met him Wednesday. Mrs. Smith
said she had relatives in Covington.
NY, and she went with her husband
yesterday to call on those people. who,
however, refused to see the visitors and
afterwards denied that there was any
relationship between them. Returning
10 tniS city Smith registered at a hotel
as II. f. Banning and wife. The de-
tectiye had kept in communication with
New York and had deferred the arrest
untll II was possible to arrest both.
Smith and wife were taken to police
headquarters, where they made no at
tempt to deny or conceal their identity.
although both denied any guilt in con-
nectlon with the case. Both declared
that they would return to New York
without requisition and that they had
expected to do so, although they had
not anticipated going under arrest.
Indicted in New York
! NEW YORK, March 30.-The grand
jury In this city today handed down
indictments against ]. Morgan Smith,
IolLd oIfillE, MS vile, and Nan Patter-
son. charging them Jointly with con-
spiracy. The indictments are based
upon a letter alleged to have been
written by Julia Smith to Caesar
Young in which it is alleged were
threat and a demand for money for
the Patterson girl.
This action of the grand jury fol-
lowed hearing at the criminal courts
building at which several witnesses.
including the widow of Young and
Mrs. Young's brother in-law. William
Luce, were examined by Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Rand. The arrest of
Smith and his wife at Cincinnati, ac-
cording to the local authorities. will
have an important bearing upon the
new trial of the Patterson girl set for
April 10. At a previous trial an at
tempt was made to prove that the re-
volver with which Young was shot
was purchased by Smith and a woman
the day before the tragedy occurred.
In addition to the conspiracy charge,
Smith is also under Indictment for con-
tempt Of court in failing to respond
to subpoena in the preliminary hear
ing before the grand jury.