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Show W SIT FRANK YOUNG? Efforts Being Made to Solve Mystery. Mrs. Patterson, Former Actress, Ac-tress, Is Held to Answer for the Killing. Somo Light on Tragedy Contained in Affidavit of Brother of the Dead Man. N' FjW YORK, June 6. Proceedings were begun today by Coroner Nicholas Brown In an endeavor to solve the mystery surrounding the death of Frank T. Young, the wealthy bookmaker who was shot on Saturday last while on his way in a cab to a steamship pier to sail for Europe Eu-rope with his wife. Much mystery was made of a witness wit-ness who, it was said, would be produced pro-duced at the inquest and whose testimony testi-mony would go far to clear up the case. The father and brother of Mrs. Patterson, Pat-terson, who came here from Washington, Washing-ton, called at the Criminal court building build-ing today. Beyond expressing their belief be-lief in her Innocence, they declined to discuss the case. Abraham Levy, Mrs. Patterson's counsel, said today that his client would undoubtedly be liberated after the hearing. "Everything points to the fact that Mr. Young shot himself," him-self," Mr. Levy said, "and I am satisfied satis-fied that the Coroner and all other unprejudiced un-prejudiced persons will think so after the evidence has been heard. We shall insist that there be no delay in the hearing today, for it Is our Intention to get our client out of the Tombs as soon as possible." May Hove Been Self-Murder. The Coroner's physician, , who performed per-formed the autopsy on Young's body, said today that he saw no reason why the bullet wound that caused the man's death could not have been self-inflicted, especially If the trigger had been pulled with the thumb. Pieces of epidermis epi-dermis removed from two fingers of the right hand of the dead man for close Inspection were perforated with powder, pow-der, although it was not clearly evident, evi-dent, from a hasty Inspection, that the marks were really made by powder. The hearing was postponed by the Coroner and Mrs. Patterson's bail was fixed at 55000. Adjournment was opposed op-posed by Mrs. Patterson's counsel, but after a long argument the Coroner decided de-cided to put the case over until Friday. Mr. Garvan held that ?10,000 should be the minimum bail required, saying: "If this woman Is guilty of any crime at all, she is guilty of murder in the first degree.'' Coroner Brown then announced an-nounced that he would adjourn tho case until Friday and fixed ball at $5000. Prisoner Committed. District Attorney Jerome later declared de-clared that ho would opposo the release of Mrs. Patterson on nail. He went to the office of Coroner Brown and sorved notice that In the event of a'bondsman appearing with bail he would want to be heard in opposition to its acceptance. accept-ance. "This is a case," said he, i"ln which the Coroner has no right to accept ac-cept ball. I shall oppose the release of this woman, no matter what amount of ball is offered." She was removed to the Tombs, Important Information. It transpired that this action by Mr. Jerome was due to the fact that he has in his possession an affidavit of William Luce, a brother-in-law of Young, In which Luce declares that on Friday evening Young told him that he was going out to sec Mrs. Patterson. "He asked me to go with him," the aflTdavIt says, "saying; 'The little woman has some letters which I must get from her. I'm afraid of her, and I do not know but what she might kill me. I'm through with her. I Intend to break it off tonight.' " |