The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-03
Women Prisoners Cry Out to
Miserable Woman.
BEFORE GOING TO COURT
Recorder Goff Delivered Charge to Jury
in the Notorious Case Of Actress
Charged With Numbering
Caesar Young.

New York, May 3.Nan Patterson
spent lad night in the Tombs and this
morning she showed the effects of the
terrible strain she was under. She is
still firm in the belief that she will be
acquitted. just before she was led away
this morning the women prisoners
pressed around her and wished her
Good luck.s
When she was brought into court Re-
corder Goff began his charge to the jury.
He said there was nothing exceptional
| in the case which should cause any juror
TO become excited.
You must discharge your duty and
YOU must not consider how your action
may be taken by Others he said.
Recorder Goff explained the different
degrees Of murder and manslaughter and
| said that the jury was there to deter
mine whether the defendant killed
Young. They were not to determine
whether Young killed himself.
The case went to the jury at two
minutes past one this afternoon.
At the close of the argument yester-
1 udAs dlltt 4 I101tCutOl IAtiHh AtAN
ed her in the most scathing terms, had
asserted that her silence in this trial
was confession of her guilt. had de-
| clared that her sister had lied on the
stand and that her counsel had based
| his plea for her life on a foundation of
! fabrieations, Nan Patterson said she
still felt confident that the jury would
bring in an early verdict of acquittal.
"Nlr. Rand is fine orator" she de-
clared "hut ! know those IL men will
not hang a girl on oratory.a
Rand reviewed the evidence He de-
clared it had been proven that Young
never owned a revolver and even If he
had one it would have been q physical
impossibility for him to have inflicted
upon himself such wound as caused
| his death. He called attention to the
preparations made by Young for Eu
roIean trip and said that alone proved
| beyond a question the bookmaker had
no intention of taking his life. The con-
| tention of the defense that it was Young
| who opposed breaking the relations be-
| tween him and Miss Patterson be
claimed was proven untenable by evil
denee which, he said, showed Young had
kept away from her during the whole
month just preceding his death.
| Mr.. Rand said:
4 don't believe the story that Young
| told Nan he was going to get divorce
/ from his wife because it is new. /
never heard of it before, although this
defendant has twice been put on trial.
| never said that on his receipt Of the
| letter May 3, he Young, was marked
| for slaughter. / did say that on the
night of June 3 he was a marked man.
Can you forget the threat Nan made the
| night before the tragedy? She told
| Young that she knew the name of the
| boat and said: You'll never sail on
that boat, because I'll be there to stop
YOU She kept on repeating that threat
until Young lost his temper and, slap
ping her, put her in a cab. Had not
| J. Morgan Smith told her few hours
before that shed have to do itY But
| that blow and curse settled her deter
mination. Don't you know that when
Caesar Young went to bed that night
he was marked for slanghter2
| In closing Rand said:
| 'And now as to the morning of the
| tragedy. Young has been described as
being in a happy mood and what We're
| the reflections passing through this de-
| fendant's mind as beside him she rode
| in cab down town. In her drug-racked
| brain did she not hear the words, Nan,
| you've lost Your lost Caesars going
| back To his real love, to his only love,
/ to his wife, to the woman that saved
| his money and adorned his home. Back
| to the woman he has cherished Then
the murder in her heart famed into ac-
| tion and she shot and killed. A little
crack, puff of smoke and dead man
| lay prostrate on this woman's lap. And
the wages of sin were paid
"This woman through all this rehear-
| sal of her degradation and portrayal of
vice and crime in which the name of
Young has been mentioned at least one
hundred times day, has not moved an
eye lash with emotion. She is capable
Of composure enough to pretend that
what she says is true This woman
who was false to her husband, false to
her lover, and false to her oath; how
can any one have effrontery to ask
you to believe her tale?
sHer only statement has been that
this man so loved her that rather than
be separated from her for short time
he shot himself. "A silly story. 7 wish
that she had not been nailed in lie
which they did not dare attempt to sup
port.
Gentlemen, take COUNSEL not Of your
wishes but of your solemn duty, and be
not misled by the defense whose silence
is confession of guilt Be loyal to
the truth, the same yesterday, today,
tomorrow eternal as the kingdom Of