The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-03
To THE TWELVE
THIS MORNING
Rand Completed His Ar
gument Yesterday.
1T WAS SCATHING
He's Fine Orator, Says the Chorus
Girl, But the Jury Will Not Hang
a Girl On 0ratory. Rand
Talked Out the
Day.
AND 1T WAS SCATHING
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, May 2.-The fate of
Nan Patterson, in her third trial for
the murder of Caesar" Young, will
be in the hands of the jury early
tomorrow. Assistant District Attor-
ney Rand completed the closing ar
gument for the prosecution shortly
before five O'Clock this afternoon and
the court adjourned for the day. Re-
corder Goff announced that he would
charge the jury upon the opening
of court tomorrow. 1t is not believed
that his instructions will be lengthy
and probably before the noon hour
the jury Will have retired to con-
slider a verdict.
AT the close of the argument to-
day, Prosecutor Rand had arraigned
her in the most scathing terms, had
asserted that her silence in this trial
was a confession of her guilt, had
declared that her sister had lied on
the stand and that her counsel had
based his plea for her life on a foun-
dation of fabrications. Nan Patter-
son said she still felt confident the
jury would bring in an early YER
diet of acquittal.
Mr. Rand is a fine orator" she
declared, but I know those twelve
men will not hang girl on oratory.
Rand Begins His Speech.
Mr.. Rand consumed practically the
entire day. He devoted a large part
of his speech 10 a defense of him
self and his methods in the present
trial He declared the charges made
against him by Abraham Levy, attor
ney for the defendant, were unjust
and misleading. He denied that he
had been guilty of suppressing evi-
dence that might have helped the
Patterson girl.
Mr.. Rand reviewing the evidence in
the case, declared that it had been
proven by the prosecution that Young
mevey owned a revolver and that
even if he had one it would have
been a physical impossibility for him
to have inflicted upon himself such
a wound as caused his death. He
called the attention of the jury to
the preparations made by Young for
his European trip and told them that
alone proved beyond question that
the bookmaker had no intention of
taking his life. The contention of
the defense that it was Young who
opposed breaking the relations be-
tween him and Miss Patterson he
claimed, was proven untenable by
the evidence which, he said, showed
that Young had kept away from her
during the whole month just preced-
ing his death.
His View of the Tragedy.
After describing the meeting be-
tween Young and Miss Patterson on
a railway train when both were
bound for the West and something
of their lives in the months which
c.1I L, fnT, 11Ooo III
to May /, 1904. On that day Leslie
Coggins dned with the j. Morgan
Smiths and told them that Young,
who then was in New York had de-
cided finally to break off his rela-
tions with Nan Patterson. after
what Coggins told the Smiths" the
prosecutor continued. "this defend
ant unannounced, came on the next
day from Washington. She was
frantic and hysterical. Young did
not know that Nan was in New York
on that day. He had written to her
believing she was in Washington.
Are his letters those of a man madiy
in love? A man who is supposed to
have killed himself rather than
be separated for a short
period from her. They indi-
cate his feelings which We're that she
should he bother him. Can you for
get lIle IIlI6dI Nail IIIttOl6 Tie ilS III
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 the threat until
Young lost his temper and slapping
her, put her in a cab. Had not j.
Morgan Smith told her q few hours
before that shed have to do it but
that blow and curse settled her de-
t"rmination. Don't you know that
when Caesar Young went to bed that
night he was marked for slaughter.
Purchase of the Revolver.
81 said that j. Morgan Smith
bought this revolver and I propose to
prove it. Stern, an honest man, ac-
cording to Levy, sold that revolver on
June 3. SO why was it necessary to
corroborate an honest mans testimony
by his books? Did not Stern tell you
that the buyer of the pistol was tall
red-haired man. That description fits
Smith, and Stern did not say Smith
and his wife were not the purchasers
of the weapon. His evidence was
simply of a negative character. The
purchase of the revilver by j. Morgan
Smith is proven by the silence of his
wife on the witness stand when she
took refuge behind the conspiracy in
dictment that is, she answered she
would be conVicting her sister Nam
If Smith did not buy that revolver
could the entire police of the city with
drawn clubs have kept him off the
stand to say so?
"Apd now as to the meaning of the