The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-04-29
Smiths Pawned Gems at
Stern's on June 3.
DAY PISTOL WAS BOUGHT
Nan Patterson's Sister Takes Refuge in
Statuary Rights Prosecution
Rests Case and Defense viii
Be Put in.

New York, April 90 The sensation
of the day in the Nan Patterson trial
yesterday came at the afternoon session
when Assistant District Attorney Rand
produced pawnticket issued By Hy-
man Stern, the pawnbroker, who sold
the pistol with which Caesar Young was
shot.
The ticket which was found in the
Smiths trunk, called for bracelet and
two rings that were pledged on June 3,
the day stern sold the pistol.
Mr.. Rand asked Mrs. Julia Smith,
who was on the stand, if the jewelry
was her property and she replied that
it was.
When asked who pawned it she an
swered:
"AIy husband pawned them, but I
don't know where
The state yesterday closed its case
against Mana Patterson and the events
preceding this were SO dramatic, and
had such an effect on the jury, that
counsel for Nan Patterson, after max
ing formal motions for the discharge
Of Nan, announced that they would put
in defense.
Evidence the most damaging to the
defence was brought out at yesterdays
session during Assistant District Attor-
ney Rand's cross examination Of Julia
Smith, the defendants sister. The pros
ecution scored point after point, while
the girls lawyers grew more and more
insistent in their objections, betraying
in their attitudes, in their gestures, in
the tones Of their voices, to what extent
they We're being taken by surprise;
while the witness displayed her increas-
ing nervousness pitifully, and while Nan
Patterson, by odd twitching movements
of her shoulders, the shaking of her
hat and the perpetual pouting Of her
overthiclS lips, showed that she realized
to the full extent what her sisters tes-
timony meant to her case.
Rand produced letter written by
Mrs. Smith while in Toronto to one of
her sisters last March, containing a ref
erence to IS" Rand had developed that
the Smiths knew that Stern, the pawn
broker, from whom the pistol with
which Young was killed, was bought
was in Toronto. 1t was his purpose
to show that the Smiths were fleeing
from Stern. The letter was not adj
mitted in evidence, but it showed Rand's
purpose, for the witness refused to say
to whom the IS referred, ON the
ground that it might tend to degrade
and ineriminate her, and repeated her
refusal after Rand had offered TO dis.
miss the conspiracy indictment against
her il she would answer his questions.
She refused the offer after consulting
with her lawyer, muttering that she
must stick to her sister.
The men and women in the court
room seemed to lose consciousness of
their surroundings, SO curious were they
when they understood the Importance
of what was going on. They leaned
forward until they were half off their
chairs, and remained in strained atti-
tude, with their hands to their ears,
for the greater part of the session,
one whispering to another continually:
what was thaty What did she say?"
But it was of much more interest
to watch Nan Patterson as it slowly
daWned upon her that her own sister,
with whom she had been during those
last days before Young's death, was be-
ing used by the prosecution to damage
her case.
As one answer after another followed,
she kept turning to her counsel, ex
citedly whispering, as though he could
stem the tide which seemed to be setting
SO strongly against her. But she did
not seem frightened; anger appeared to
be the emotion in ascendant, declaring
its presence by the flush which came
to her sickly white face and in the
flash in her eyes when she looked stead
lily at her sister.
When the session ended Nan Patter-
son left the room apparently strong
enough, but her expression was not
pleasant to see.
Her sister, on the other hand, broke
down after she had left the stand and
sank into chair, trembling and ex
hausted by her ordeal 1t was to her
that her father went, for it was clear
that sympathy was her due even more
than her sisters after her morning or
deal.