The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-28
HIS WIFE FACES
HIS SWEETHEART
Small Wonder That the
Latter's Eyes Fall.
MRS. YOUNG'S STORY
Miss Patterson's Sister Follows the
Wife to the Stand, Proving Good
Witness For the Defense. Nan
Not 10 Be Allowed to
Speak.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.9
New York, April 27.-While there
was no feature as sensational as yes
charged with the shooting of Caesar
Young was fully as interesting today
in many points brought out. Mrs.
Margaret Young. widow of Caesar
Young, was on the stand, and as she
testified her eyes would fill with tears.
Nan Patterson dropped her eyes when
she saw the widow and did not raise
them again until the close. Joseph
Millin, Young's partner, was another
witness and told of the relations be-
tween Young and Nan Patterson.
The prosecution endeavored to in
tioduce in evidence a letter purport-
ing to show that Miss Patterson had
other admirers at the time she pro-
fessed to be devoted to Young. This
letter, however, was not admitted as
evidence The letter that Mrs. j. Nor
gan Smith, sister of the defendant,
wrote to Caesar" Young in which she
said Miss Patterson was frantic and
which was admitted at the previous
trial was also ruled out. The con-
spiracy charge against the Smiths was
based on the letter. Mrs. Young teS-
titled that her husband never had
owned a revolver but that she had
one and that she packed it away with
box of cartridges in her baggage
when she was preparing to go to Eu-
rope just before her husband was
killed. The revolver was loaded when
She put it in the suit case a year ago,
and the cartridges still remain in the
chambers. She identified the weapon
which was produced by Mr.. Rand
l., 4 H.
discharged to her knowledge, she said
was when she fired several shots at d
burglar.
When this revolver was found in
oYung's baggage soon after the enc
of the last trial, the counsel for the
defence claimed that it proved con-
clusively that witnesses had testified
To what was not true when they said
that Young never had owned a revol-
YER.
Mrs. Smith Recalled.
Mrs. j. Morgan Smith was recalled
and told of her visit to California il
the spring of 1903, where she saw
her sister and Young together. 4
year later when Mrs. Smith saw Mis-:
Patterson in New York, she found hel
in a very nervous condition. She wa:
hysterical and crying, appeared to be
laboring under 81 nervous strain anc
almost frantic"
Under examination Mrs. Smith tolC
of Miss Pattersons expectation of II
rying oung, that Miss Patterson Sc
cured a divorce with such purpose
in mind and that the arrangement
with Young was postponed because o
influence brought to bear ON Youns
by his wife and partner. Mrs. Smitl
answering questions said her sister:
name is now Ann Eliza Randolph
After Ycungis death, Mrs. Smith sair
she gave the law firm of Levy & Tn
ger about one hundred letters Youns
had written to her sister. On May
1, 1904, Leslie Coggins, a friend o1
Young, dined with Mrs. Smith at hel
house and told Mrs. Smith that Young
was coming to New York. Cogsin:
Miss Patterson. When Mrs. Smith tolf
this to her sister she became frantic
anG perturbed." Mrs. Smith contin-
ued:
''She said that Caesar could not foo
her that way. 1t was impossible fol
him to do such thing"
Mrs. Smith acknowledged writing
the letter intercepted by Mrs. Young
The relations of Coggins with Miss
Patterson were brought out when Mrs
Smith said:
He told me he wanted to marry
Man.
Coming down to the day Young was
shot the prosecution asked
Were you awake when your sister
came home early on the morning OF
June 4 ?"
'I was. She told me she had been
with Young and that he was going
away. She was perfectly normal
mot sobbing or crying?"
"No; she was quite tranquil
At the conclusion of the prosecu-
tion's examination of Mrs. Smith she
was taken back to the Tombs. Court
then adjourned for the day.
The Probabilities.
Unless the prosecution has some
striking bit of evidence discovered
since the last trial and which has been
zealously concealed thus far, Nan Pat
terson's fate probably will be en-
trusted to the jury on the case as pre-
sented by her accuSerS. After yester-
davis session, when Pawn Broker Hy-
man Stern failed to identify either j.
Morgan smith, Mrs. Smith or Miss
Patterson as persons who were pres
ont in his store when the revolver.
which killed Caesar Young was puf-
chased. Abraham Levy, Miss Pattef-
CONS counsel, said he was CONVINCED
that the States case had fallen nat.
"Nan Patterson needs no defense.
said Mr.. Levy after a conference WITH
his associate counsel. THE de1endant
will go to the iur-- on the case as
made out by the State when Assistan'
District Attorney Rand closes the test
imony-" ,,. Do++oreon
rNfrRsD M.