New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-03
LIES, ALL LIES, RAND SAYS
HIS 4NSWER TO LEY I.
Prosecutions Plea in Closing Mss
PatterSon's Trial.


From Il a. m TO p. n. yesterday Assistant
District Attorney Rand presented his case
against Miss Nan Patterson to the jury An
hours recess at l o'clock ordered by RECORDER
Coff was the sole break in the long speech Inc
greater part OF the morning session was taken
IN b,- Mr. Rand in an attack on the defence and
an oratorical explanation Of his own cohdueI
through the trial Miss Patterson nearly col
lapsed at the close Of the morning session. but
recovered her spirits during recess. When court
adjourned at ; o'clock she seemed TO be conf
dent of acouittaL The case goes to the jury to-
day.
The greatest crowd which has yet appeared
at the trial was present more than an hour be-
fore the court was opened. Few of the general
rubIic had any chance Of gaining admittaHce,
and by 10 O'Clock the room filed with friends
Of the members Of the District Attorneys stan
Nnch anger was caused when some or these
favored ones were forced TO leave the room 10
make place for persons with a greater pun.
RAcorder Golf. in his efforts to enter the room.
nearly had his gown stripped from his shoul-
ders by women fighting to gain entrance This
angered him and when he took his seat he or
dered the doors closed during the session. Hun
dreds Of women were excluded. but persisted IN
blocking the corridors. until the police reserves
thrust them out into the street
When Nj. Rand began his address he said 1t
vr7o,ld be urgenerous of him, roughly as he had
beeu abused, II he took offence at what the
counsel on the other side said in the exigencies
Of q lost and rotten cause" Then he attacked
Miss Patterson's chief counsel saying
Mr.. Levy has accused me Of suppressing evil
deuce If Bob" Turner has a story about
Young leaving a revolver behind him that night
he does not dare 10 come here and tell It. mat
IS one OF the things which Dir. Levy has lnJected
lz,-,fg Sc NOT
evidence. Mr.. Levy did not make point yes
rerdav that was not based on a lie. Mr. Levy
said tried TO make you believe that these pawn N
tickets bore the date OF June .. dId not 01y
that the tickets represented articles pa"ned on
June g. because l knew they were dated OcUo-
Der I did ask Mrs. Smith If they were TeILe"d d
tickets for articles pawned on June B. and ner
answer was a lie. She also lied when she salu
she could not remember when the pT 5tet
given her by her mother were pawned N oIeI5l >
bv her husband, J. Morgan Smith Wohdes
how Levy knew these pawn tickets Were oale9
in October did not show them TO nm Ar
was careful TO keep them in my poche5; NJ NJ
Levy in a moment Of forgetfuLness' ula IS
trick. In moment of forGetfulnes5 ne put Oe-
fore you gentlemen a piece OF truth
Mr.. Rand later plunged into statement
about the $4,000 which he had said Miss Pat
terson had received from Young. He admitted
he had not proved it. Then. after some coTnpli-
1nents 20 the jury and explanation OF their
responsibilities he suddenly switched to the
purchase of the revolver which killed Young.
Pursuing his topic. he maintained that he re
voIver had been purchased on June by Smith,
and he declared that Storms testimony that
Smith was not the purchaser was simply mega
tive He insisted that it had been clearly
shown Young had not carried q revolver.
Then, with the aid of the revolver and a
skeleton. Mr. Rand illustrated the States con-
tention that Youngs wound could not have been
self-inaicted, because Of the direction of the
h- Iet and the safety clutch in the butt Of the
revolver He said il would have been impos-
eibIe for Young to have placed the revolver in
his pocket after he had been shot and he cast
ridicule on Mr.. Levys theory that the weapon
might have been inverted and fired by the pres
sure Of the thumb the trigger
Bir. Rand rehearsed carefully the different
points which showed. he said. that Young
never had contemplated suicide-his purchase
OF a new hat to wear when he met his friends
at the pier. his haste TO reach the steamer and
his letters 20 his friends at the track and in
England, telling Of his plans and leaving di-
rections concerning his affairs.
After recess Mr.. Rand again took up the pur-
chase Of the revolver. be saiG:
The purchase of the revolver by J. Morgan
Smith is proven by his silence. If he didn't buy
that revolver, could the entire police Of the CITY
with drawn clubs have kept him off the stand
10 say so? Come, come, Morgan. and tell U.S. be-
cause your wife has been called and she would
with crime Come, come, Morgan, and be a man
at this trying moment But you won't come and
your silence proves you bought this gun, with
which the murder was done.
Later. in his most emphatic manner the prose-
cutor suddenly detained:
What were the reflections passing through this
defendants mind beside him she rode in a
CAB downtown? In her drugged, racked brain
ola she not hear the words; Nan you've
lost 'Csesars' going back 10 his real love to
his only love, to his wife; TO the woman that
saved his money and adorned his home; back to
the woman he has cherished" Then the murder
IN her heart famed into action, and she shot
and killed A little crack, a pun of smoke and
& dead man lay PROSTATE on this woman's Ian.
And the wages Of sin were paid.
Her only statement has been that this man so
loved her that rather than be separated from
her for a short time he shot himself A silly
story wish that she had not been nailed in a
lie which they did not dare attempt to support
This woman - not alone on trial but this COM
rnunity represented by you. Gentlemen take
counsel not Of your wishes, but Of your solemn
duty, and be not misled by the defence. whose
silence is a confession OF guilt
On reaching the Tombs prison Miss Patterson
looked radiant she said: I still feel more
confident than ever Of ecQuittal. Mr. Rand may
be, and probably is. q great orator but I do not
believe that any twelve men are going to hang a
girl on oratory,"