Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-25
NAN PAT TERSON TRIAL
Revolver Made It's Appear
ance Again Today.
BEARING ON THE CASE
PROSECUTION HOPES TO ESTAB-
LIsH PURCHASE BY SMITH.
Identified by Witnesses-Stories Told
at'Previous Hearings Did Not
Differ Materially.
ON THE CASE

NEW YORK, April 25.-Nan Patterson
apparently had fully recovered from her in
disposition of yesterday when she appeared
in court today for the continuance of her
trial on the charge that she murdered
Caesar Young. There was trace of color
in her cheeks and she seemed to be in eX-
cellent spirits when she entered the court
room and took a seat at the counsel ia Bile.
The plain black suit which she had worn
during this and previous trials had been
discarded. and in its place she wore
black and white checked dress and round
lace hat with white lining.
The revolver with which it is alleged
Young was killed and which, it is believed,
will figure prominently in the p~osecutons s
case again made its appearance as soon as
the trial was resumed today. 1t had been
identified by several witnesses yesterday
as the weapon found in Young's pocket
soon after the tragedy, and today the line
of identification was followed down to the
time it brought into court.
1t is upon it's ability to establish the fact
that ]. Morgan Smith. Miss Pattersons S
day before Young was killed that the prose-
cution bases its strongest hope of convic
ton.
his opening address yesterday declared
without reservation that he would prove
that Smith purchased the revolver from
Hyman Stern, a pawnbroker. Abraham
Levy, counsel for the prisoner, however,
declared positively today that he is pre-
pared to show that it would have been Il
physical impossibility for Smith to have
done so; that he was many miles away
from the Stern pawnshop at the hour the
prosecution claims the gun was purchased
Identified the Revolver
After the police officers had identified the
revolver today Police Captain Dennis Swee-
ney told of conversation he had with
Miss Patterson soon after her arrest She
first told him that she had not seen the
revolver, but later said that she had put
her hand in Young's pocket and looked at
the weapon and then dropped it back in
the pocket.
Capt. Sweeney said Miss Patterson told
him that when she heard the muffied shot
she was looking out of the cab window.
Did she speak freely TO you about the
case?" asked Assistant District Attorney
Garvan.
She did.
The scenes in West Broadway immedi-
the drug store where the cab was driven
a few minutes later, and at the hospital
where Youngs body finally was taken were
described by witnesses who had testified at
previous trials.
The stories told by them today did not
differ in any material point from those pre-
viously related. William Stemm, jr., a
truckman, who claims to have been the first
person to approach the cab after the shot
fired, described the position of Young
and Miss Patterson when he climbed upon
the step of the cab and told m1nutely the
events which followed up to the time
Youngs body was taken to the operating
room in the hospital. When he first went
to the cab, he said, the flaps were open and
he saw a man and woman. The man was
sitting to the right of the woman, who
had his head in her lap. The woman's face
pale and she looked frightened and as
if she wanted TO cry. She was not crying,
however. While the body was lying in the
operating ROOM he said Miss Patterson
came in and threw herself down beside it
and he heard her say: oh, speak to me
Frank, and tell me why you have done
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