The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-17
NAN PATTERSON
BOBS UP AGAIN
Figures in a Tenderloin Whirl and Then
Leaves the city--A Western
Brokers Friend.

New York, August IL Rather than
face the angry sister-inrlaw OF a mar
ried man who had paid her some att
tenfion, Nan" Patterson has lett the
city. The chorus girl. who was twice
tried for the killing of Caesar Young,
lett her apartments in the Cambridge
Court hotel, Fortv-ninth street, Iues-
day evening and was supposed yesterday
to be in Washington. The man IN the
case, G. Ralph Ash, well.to-do lumber
broker Of Duluth, Mimi, IS staying az
the Hotel Aston.
The person who interfered and caused
Nam to leave the city is Mrs. n y.
Handy. sister -in-law Of Ash. She lives
in the Holyoke apartments IN West
End avenue.
Mrs. Handy says that ii tile month
Ash went about with Nan" Patterson
he threw away small fortune on the
former chorus girl and her friends.
The sister-in-law says the couple met
for the arst time at Brighton Beach,
where the Girl was in the surf, and
there she was introduced to Ash BY
Abe Attel, a prize fighter, as Helen
! Needham, an actress Three days after
4 this the young woman asked Ash i he
really liked her, and, assured By HIM
that he did, Mrs. Handy says. the girl
then inquired if he would still like heI
4 If he knew she was some one else, and
when he said Yes she told him that
she was Nan Patterson.
| Ash, after this time, was with the
woman at the race track, IN Considine
and other resorts, meeting her stage
acquaintances and prize fighter friends
and. according to Mrs. Handy, was pay,
ing the bills Of some of her friends ans
WAS involved in Nam Patterson's bet
ting transactions.
a week ago Mrs. Handy learned tht
story and demonstrated with Ash III
promised to give up the girl, but die
not. Later. he pleaded that she hat
!, prettv blue eyes. and was reminded thai
lis wife and two children in Dnluti
an had blue ees. His sister.in-lav
/. finally threatened to write to an oiiieia
of tha Duluth bank where Ash had ~
account ana interest him ii Ash die
! not give up the girl. Then news cam'
[ t. Mrs. Handy that caused her to SEM
word to NAN Patterson that some
thing serious would happen to her il sh
did not cease accepting the attention
Of Ash, Upon receiving the inessag
the Patterson woman packed her trunk
and took the Congressional Limited 10
! Washington.
Ash. who is about 80 years old, an
appears to be level-headed bushes
| man. denied in the presence OF his sister
! in-law that he had squandered larg
, sums on NAN" Patterson. He said h
had been in her company at yarlou
times at Considine's, and that he ha
also been in company With a youn
7 woman who looked like her aud wh
g had been engaged to impersonate II
/ Patterson woman ON the stage.
t kilograms from Duluth say MIR. AS
! IS wealthy, and has beautiful home
s that CITY, where be is prominent as
= broker. He recently got q letter I
s credit for $4,000 to 90 abroad, b
! postponed the trip. This was since i
Z meeting with the Patterson girl.
e ]. Morgan Smith and Julia smit
Il the brother-inlaw and the sister
n ''Nann Patterson, were seen 1T tHe
II apartments yesterday. Mrs. Smith Y
] not vet Up. Mercy Morgan called
: her through the bedroom door. Here
story connecting Ralph and Na
y They seem to be trying 70 make
Y scandal out Of it.
y aPrepogterousm Julia replied, irr1t
e. blv. "Why. Nan doesn't care any mo
70 for Ralph than yellow dog