The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
NAN PATTERSON
CASTS EYES DOWN
Could Not Meet Gaze of Caesar
Young's Wife
MRS. YOUNG ON THE STAND
Effort Is Made to shoa That the Show
Girl Had Another Friend Who
Was Very Dear to
Her.
MRS. YOUNG ON THE STAN

no features as sensational as yesterday
the trial of Nan Patterson. chsi ged with
the shooting of Caesar Young, was fully
as interesting to.ay in the many points
| brought out. Mrs Margaret Young, widow
of Caesar Young. was on the stand, and
as she testified her eyes were filled with
tears. Nan Patterson dropped her eyes
when she saw the widow, and did not
raise them again until recess.
! ] d. Millen, Young's partner, was an
other witness, and told of the relations
between Young and Miss Patterson. The
prosecution endeavored to introduce in
evidence letter purporting to show that
Miss Patterson had other admirers at the
| time she professed 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 conspiracy charges against
the Smiths was based on the letter.
Tells of California Visit.
Mrs. J. Morgan Smith was recalled and
told of her visit to California in the
spring of 1898, where she saw her sister
and Young together. \ year later when
Mrs. Smith saw Miss Patterson in New
York she found her In a highly nervous
condition. She was hysterical and cry
ing, appeared to be laboring under a ner-
| vous strain and almost frantic"
Under examination Mrs. Smith told Of
Miss Pattersons expectation of marrying
Young, that Miss Patterson secured di-
vorce with such a purpose in mind. and
that the arrangement with Young was
| postponed because of influence brought to
bear on Young by his wife and partner.
Mrs Smith, answering questions, sail
her sisters name is now Ann Eliza Ran
dolph. After Young's death. Mrs Smith
said she gave the law firm of Levy *
! Unger about one hundred letters Young
had written to her sister. On May l, 1904,
Leslie Coggins, friend of Young, dined
with Mrs Smith at her house, and told
Mrs. Smith that Young was coming to
New York.
Coggins said Young was not going to
marry Miss Patterson. When Mrs. Smith
told this to her sister she became fran
| tic and perturbed." Mrs. Smith contin-
ued:
"she said that Caesar could not fool her
| that way 1t was impossible for him to do
such thing"
Acknowledges Writing Letter.
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
Nan"
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?'
II was. She told me she had been with
Young and that she was going away
| She was perfectly normal.
mot sobbing or crying?"
NO She was quite tranquil
| At the conclusion of the prosecution 6
examination of Mrs Smith she was taken
| back to the Tombs Court then adjourned
| for the day.
Accompanied Husband to Track.
| Mrs. Young said she was married in
| 1898 and made her home in California. 1t
was her custom to accompany her hus-
| band to the race track and conduct BUSH
ness for him. She saw Nan Patterson
| at the tracks several times in 1908 and
1904. and at that time knew of the rela-
| lions between the young woman and her
| husband When she first learned that
Young and Miss Patterson were intimate
her marriage relations with her husband
| were discontinued and there was no
reconciliation until after May 26 of last
year. when they went to live at Sleeps
head Bay. Her husband was in happy
frame of mind at that time, she said
spoke of his plans for the future, and al
ter they had talked over the proposed
European trip he engaged passage on the
steamer Germanic. She accompanied him
| from Sheepshead Bay to the Luce home.
on June 3. and that evening they had
party at which her four sisters were
present.
Just before midnigl Young escorted
| some of the ladies to the cars, and then
he and Luce went out and did not return
until about 8 p m. Before Young arose
| that morning she needed some money to
pay an express man and searched his
pockets. She was positive that he did not
| have a revolver
| Mrs. Young identified a letter written
by Julia Smith to Young while they were
living at the Hotel Wolcott In this city
! last May She said that on the morning
| of June her husband left the Luce home
about 7 o'clock, saying that he was going
to get shaved and buy new hat, and
| that he would meet her at the steamship
pier at o'clock. He told her he needed
new hat because he might be met by
| somebody when they arrived in Europe.
| Mr. Rand offered the intercepted letter
| from Julia Smith to Young as evidence,
| and a long argument between counsel fol-
| lowed.