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Show Will Not Allow Clientjo Testify Counsel for Mrs. Patterson Refuse to Permit Her. to Go Before Jury. NEW. YORK. June 0. At the request re-quest of some of the grand jurors, Assistant DiHtrict Attorney Rand this afternoon wrote to counsel for Mrs. Patternm asking that she be permitted to testify before the grand jury and explain her case. Her counsel, coun-sel, after a conference as to the advisability ad-visability of -granting the request, replied re-plied that they will not allow their client to go before the grand Jury. Their letter says: "While we fully appreciate the very just spirit 'which prompts our worthy grand Jury, to extend this privilege to Mrs. Patterson, she Is constrained to defer to our judgment not to avail thereof for the present. "From our conscientious understanding understand-ing of the facts attending the unfortunate unfortu-nate death of Mr. Yourig we are thoroughly thor-oughly convinced that no Indictment would he returned by this or any other grand jury if the evidence of eye witnesses wit-nesses and others, whose statements the District Attorney has already taken, is submitted to that body. Under these conditions we can conceive of nothing which Mrs. Patterson can or should be called upon to explain." Mr. Levy said that he had received many letters from people who say they Avert Avitnessos to the shooting, and that his firm would see the Avrlter of each letter. I Judge Newburger, in the Court of General Sessions, has issued a body attachment at-tachment for J. Morgan Smith, brother-I brother-I in-law of Mrs. Patterson. This Is prac-! prac-! tlcally the same as a Avarrant. The attachment at-tachment avos Issued on an affidavit of Police Captain Sweeney, AVho swore that a subpoena was Isoucd for Smith for today, but that he failed to appear. Tho pawnbroker who sold th revolver with which Young was killed, when shown a plcturo of Young, declared positively that It was a llkencso of the man Avho bought the revoh-cr. He then described tho purchaeor. whoso appearance as h remembered it was strikingly similar to that of J. Morgan Smith. Another witness who has been kept in tho background Is Thomas Meagher, a driA'er, who says that he saw what took placo In tho cab Just before tho shot was Ihed. Ho says that Nan Pattorson, sitting on the left of Young, was turned half around in the cab, hor left arm thrown around Young's neck and she Avas leaning for-Aard for-Aard ns though about to press her lips to his. Tho position would make It possible to have brought a revolver up with her right hand and Into plnco so as to deliver n bullet which would cause such a wound as killed Young. |