Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-05-03
That is Nan Patterson's Com.
ment Oh Prosecutor Rand's
Seating Arrangement.
SPOKE NEARLY ENTIRE DAY
Went ln.o Minute Defense of Himself
ana His Methods as Exempllfied in
The Present case--shOw Girls Fate
VIII Be Placed in Hands of Jury
Tocay.
NRy Associated Press,

tBy Associated Prcss.l
| NEW YORK May 2.-Thc fate oil
Nan Patterson. in her third trial fol
the murder of Caesar Young. viii b,
in The liands Of the jury early tomor
row.
Assistant District Attorney Rand
completed the closing argument for the
persecution shortly before $ o'clncl,
this afternoon. and the court adjourn
ed for the day.
Recorder G0n announced that he
would charge The jury upon The orcn
irg of court tomorrow. 1t Is not be
iic2o! that his instructions will be
lengthy and probably before the noon
hour the :ury will have retired to
consider verdict
A Scathing Arrangement.
| At the close of the argument TO-
day. Prosecutor Rand had arraigned
The prisoner in the most scathine
terms, had asserted that her silence
In this trial was a confession of her
guilt. hal declared that her sister had
lied on Tic stand and her counsel had
oasel his plea for her life on foun
:la!icn of fabrications. Still Nan Pat
F -: NJ, she felt confident the iur,
would bring an early verdict nj &c
aui.tal.
"Elr. Rand is fine orator." she de
clartd. "hut ! know those twelve men
will not hang n girl on oratory."
Mr.. Rand consumed practically The
entire day lie devoted n large part
of his speech 10 defense OF himself
aDl his methods in the present trial.
Unjust Charges. Says Rand.
lie declared the charges made
against him by Abraham Levy, attor.
ncy FOR the defendant were unjust
6ni misleading. He denied that lie
had been guilty of suppress sing cvi.
dcnce that might have helped the Pat.
iersom girl.
MIR. Ranl. review ing the evidence.
declared that it had been proven by
the prosecution that Young never
owned Il revolver ami that even If re
had owned ono. it would have been a
physical impcssibility for him to have
inflicted upon himself such wound rs
caused his death. He called the at.
tention IF the jury to the preparations
Tc!e by Young for his European trim
and told item that alone proved be.
yond question that the boolsmalser had
no Intentions of taking his life
Young's Relations With Nan.
The contention of the defense that
il was Young who opposed the, rcla.
lions between him and Miss Patter.
so:., he claimed. was proven untcuablc
i,y tie evidence. which, lie said show
ed that Young had kept away from
her during the whole month Just pre-
coding his death. =
After describing the meeting be-
tween Young and Miss Patterson Gil a
railway train, wien both were bouu,!
for The west and something of their
lives in the months which followed.
the prosecutor came down 10 May l
1904 On that day Leslie Coggins
Gtncd with the j. Morgan Smiths and
told them that Young. who then was in
New York. had decided finally to breal,
on his relations with Nan Patterson.
After what Coggins told the Smiths,
the prosecutor continued, this defend
ant. unannounced, came 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
vas in Washington.
Young's Letters to Man.
"Arc his letters that of a man who
IS madly in love? A man who is sun.
posed to have killed himself rather
than be separated for short period
from her? They indicate his feelings
which were that she should not bother
hin. Can you forget the threat Nan
male the night before the tragedy?
She told Young that she knew tho
name of the boat and said: You'll
never sail on That boat. bccause I'll
llo tboya RI ctO,- uO,, Che I,o,,t IN