The semi-weekly messenger., 1905-05-02

Witness
New York, April 27.-While there
was no feature as sensational as yes
terday, the trial of Nan Patterson
charged with the shooting OF Caesar
Young, was fully as interesting today
in many points brought out Mrs. Mar
garet 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. Josepn
Millin, Young's partner, was another
witness and told of the relations be-
tween Young and Nan Patterson.
The prosecution endeavored to in
troduce in evidence a letter purportinS
to show that Miss Patterson had other
= admirers at the time she professed to
be deYOted to Young. This letter,
howakT, was not admitted as evidence.
The letter that Mrs. J. Morgan Smith,
sister of the defendant, wrote to "Cae-
sar'' Young, in which she said Miss
Patterson was frantic and which was
admitted at the previous trial, was
also ruled out The conspiracy charge
against the Smiths was based on the
letter.
Mrs. Young testified that her hus-
band never had owned a revolver, but
-. ,l,a IL Il
it away with a box of cartridges in
her baggage when she was preparing
= ISo 10 Europe, just before her hus-
banN was killed. The revolver was
loaded when she put it in the suit case
a year ago, and the cartridges still re-
main in the chambers. She identified
the weapon, which was produced by
Mr.. Rand. The only time the weapon
ever was discharged to her knowledge,
she said, was when she fired several
shots at burglar.
When this revolver was found in
Young's baggage soon after the end of
the last trial, the counsel for the de-
Tense claimed that it proved conclu-
sively that witnesses had testified to
what was not true, when they said
that Young never had owned revol-
yer.
Mrs. IA Morgan Smith was recalled
and told of her visit to California in
the spring of 1903 where She saw her
sister and Young together. A year
later when Mrs. Smith saw Miss Pat
tersOn in New York she found her in
a yer ynervOus condition. She was
hysterical and crying, appeared to be
labOring under a nervous strain, and
''almOSt frantic
Under examination Mrs. Smith told of
Miss Patterson's expectation of marry
ing Young, that Miss Patterson secured
divorce with such purpose in mind,
and that the arrangement with Young
was postponed because of influence
brou it to bear on Young by his wife
and partner. Mrs. Smith, answering
questions, said her sisters name is now
Ann Eliza Randolph. After 1Oung's
death. Mrs. Smith said, she gave the
law firm of Levy and Unger about one
hundred letters Yeung had written to
her sister. On May 1. 1904, Leslie
Coggins. a friend of Young, dined with
Mrs. Smith at her home and told Mrs.
Smith that Young was coming to New
York. Coggins said Young was not go
ing to marry Miss Patterson. When
Mrs. Smith told this to her sister she
became frantic and perturbed." Mrs.
Smith continued:
''She said that Caesar could not fool
her that way. 1t was impossible for
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
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 A.
Il was. She told me she had been
with Young and that he was going
away She was perfectly normal"
Not sobbing or crying?
mo. She was quite tranquil"
At the conclusion of the prosecutiOn's
examination of Mrs. Smith she was
8 tSkep back to the tombs. Court theI
ad&rned, for the day.
UBks the prosecution has some
strikhe bit of evidence discovered
since the last trial, and which has beer
zealOusly concealed thus far, Nan Pat
terson's fate pOrbably will be entrust
ed to the jury ON the case as presented
by her accusers. After yesterdays
session, when Pawnbroker Hymar
s. Stern failed to identify either j. Nor
gan Smith, Mrs. Smith or Miss Patter.