Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-02
THE PATTERSON TRIAL
Attorney Rand Presented
Case of the State.
VERY FEW SPECTATORS
VERY FEW SPECTATORS
COURTS ORDER OF EXCLUSION
RIGIDLY ENFORCED.
Mr.. Rand's Remarks Prefaced by Per
sonal Allusions-Declared He
Was Not an Issue.

NEW YORK, May 2.-Moved by the
scene of yesterday, when it became neces-
sary for court officer to request several
women to leave the court room, Recorder
GoH today directed that only those having
direct interest in the case be permitted
to be present during the closing hours Of
the trial of Nan Patterson. To carry out
the recorders order, the force Of officers
on duty in the criminal court building was
greatly increased.
Prospective spectators began to gather
around the building early in the day.
Among them were many women, some of
whom had followed the trial from the
time the first witness was put on the stand
Today, however. they were not permitted
even to approach the outer door to the
court room. Only those able to prove their
right to enter or who had friends among
the court officials or attorneys were sue
cessful in getting into the court room
Every seat was taken, however, when the
proceedings were resumed.
AS soon as the prisoner had been brought
In Recorder Golf ordered that the doors of
the court room be locked and that no one
be permitted to enter or leave before the
recess for luncheon.
In beginning his closing argument for the
state, Assistant District Attorney Rand
said:
Mr.. Rand's Argument.
This trial has been hard experience for
you, but venture to say it is one that you
will not look back to regret. / would be
ungrateful, too if / did not also make my
acknowledgment to the learned court, and
it would be ungenerous of me, roundly as I
was abused yesterday to your faces, if I
took offense at what counsel on the other
side, in the exigencies of lost and rotten
cause, was compelled to say. He accused
me of every crime on the calendar, and put
me on trial at this bar for high crimes
committed as a public officer. He told you
that I thirsted for blood and had bounded
Mrs. Smith. You observed my examination
of Mrs. Smith. Did | ask her an impolite
question? Did l not treat her throughout
as lady?
Il would not make myself an issue here
if / had not been injected an issue in
the case by the defendants counsel 1t is
not an issue at all. / might be all that
Levy said in the cnagrin of a lost cause,
and it would not affect this question. I
want and must have your confidence. If
could sway the judgment of men and paint
the fair face of truth with sweet cos
metic, you would not listen to a word from
me. If could do these things there would
be but one place for me- and that would be
at this woman's side, fit object Of con-
tempt"
accused me of suppressing evidence and
other things, but are those charges true? 1
wonder if you are such men as to be sway
ed from your duty by such shabby, out
worn device as trying to attack the prose-
cutor? Levy did not make a point yester-
day that was not based on lie. He told
you that Young wanted not a severance, but
a continuance of the disgraceful alliance.
Assuming that his logic is sound regarding
the Coggins letter, where are the facts?
Now with regard to Mrs. Smiths testi-
mony and my bounding her. Mr.. Levy
said l tried to make you believe that these
pawn tickets bore date of June 3. 1 did
not say that the tickets represented arti-
cles pawned on June 3, because / knew
they were dated October l did ask Mrs.
Smith if they were renewal tickets for ar
ticles pawned on June 3, and her answer
was lie.
Mrs. Smith Charged With Lying.
"She also lied when she said she could
not remember when the bracelets given
her by her mother were pawned in Stern's
by her husband ]. Morgan Smith. / knew
that if / put Levy in a position he would
help me get the pawn tickets in evidence. In
a moment of forgetfuness he did the trick.
In a moment of forgetfulness he put before
you gentlemen piece of truth.
Then he says 1 have concealed material
evidence. That would be a wrong thing
for me to do in a murder case, when a
woman's life was at stake. l wonder If.
when he was making that charge Of con-
cealing evidence, his thoughts were wan
dering along the Canadian border to To-
ronto."
"And l wonder if, when he was charging
unfair methods, he was thinking of the
artifices which kept j. Morgan Smith and
his wife away from the first trial?
"s,ince when has Levy the right to tell
me to be a gentleman? He swore to me to
bring the blush to Mrs. Young's honest
face to answer his questions. Have l tried
to drag this defendant through the mire
and covering her with stencil, asked you
to convict? Have / not treated her with
the utmost consideration? But Levy well
knew that he had to win but one juror to
his side, while l must convince you all.