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Show i EXPERTS ARE ON THE STAND Physicians Say Vouag fas Murdered. Jeclare That Dead Man Could Not Haye Killed Himself, fia Patterson Trial Still Attracts Grtat Crowds, Anxious to See Pair Prisoner. SEW YORK. Nov. 23. In the trial Nan Patterson, charged with tlte 'urder of Caesar Young, the expert stlrr.ony of physicians was offered to-iy to-iy to show that Young could not have 'fBjuM himself. Two cabmen testified to 5 !Uvlng seen Young abuse Miss Patter-'sd Patter-'sd !cn early In the morning of June 4, and itiSj -mether witness, a newsboy, swore that H saw J Morgan Smith, her brothor-ib brothor-ib slr,kfi Mi9S Patterson in the ftfee ?t'S lea the night of June 3 after Smith had 4 Jiili to her: ' You will have to do It," tzi she had answered, "I won't." 5 Large Crowds Present, J The trial still attracts unusually i'tlfc crowds and special details of po- '. iL'tt are required to keep out those who ,'hve no business In the courtroom and 3a maintain order In the building. Mother of Juror Dies. ni Tke mot"er"In'aw of Foreman of the 71H Jcry Hendricks, whose Illnc3S9 threat- $e1 t0 delay lne tr'al earlv 1,11,1 : Ca Jttlt, died today. As It already had iteai tan arranged to adjourn the court at toh ilie plo?e of tonight's session, Mr. .Hendricks will liave an opportunity to ii inlend the funeral. jKj When the trial was resumed to-i to-i gMiy her attorney, Abraham Levy, de &3BtUretl that although the prosecution rejflH&u erected several strong barriers JBllirouh which the defense will have to jMRlter Its way to secure the acquittal of JiJpl55 Patterson, ho had no fear that AiH y wou,(1 not succeed. Witness to Shooting. slSpjfli He asserted that they would bring sriffl'fcnvarl a witness who would tell a . 9KwnvlnclnS story of having actually a'jJw1411 the shooting, no matter how 3riwwBttrogg the evidence oX the people to the nSMtSt that no one was within range of 4tr!jlon of the cab when the fatal shot fired. 'vSl "ll3 witness was a passenger on a KrtfSt Car na39,nB across West Broad- a snort distance from the scene of Sffi i lraeetly' he sa,d. and In his narra-jSme narra-jSme he will swear from where he stood, zSWv k's fiance was but momentary, ww Nan Patterson's companion In gEm -b grasping a revolver In his hand l2PvLTa struggling with the young woman, QS enucavor,n t0 vrest It from Important Witness Called. jsM' Bforc tho opening of today's pro-jcttdlngs pro-jcttdlngs Mr Rand announced that' 1 5WE ot tne m0Ht Important witnesses if ! IvCul11 be called before Monday, and ir?' Greater part of today would be tjj ;Uken up with the expert testimony of S itnyslcIanB and other witnesses by U ,L w111 bo attempted to prove X Toung could not have shot himself. m whiie vitally Important to the prose-fcr"J prose-fcr"J J cation's case, this testimony will not ( tfj jtivc the human Interest motive that touW be found In tho narratives of d i ivH' YounB John Mlllln. the bookma-I bookma-I , rB former partner, and a dozen other f? r Witnesses. flJJ Ghastly Skeleton Shown, lest 5.6 skeleton which was brought Into id J20 yesterday for the use of Cor-i"8 Cor-i"8 Physician O'Hanlon In describing ilittfl ;"i5 "urse of the bullet wjilch caused j&il lnrs death, vas again brought Into ijflH courtroom when the trial was re-aMw re-aMw today- Tne Ghastly exhibit was ndcd near the witness stand when ai-Mr;; for the defense continued tho "ft !:e,xamlation of the Coroner's im"P'clan which was Interrupted by the tMEiS0Urnrnent of court yesterday ufter- J Ml Considered It Suicide. rtBllri'n Lvy ln hIs cross-examination TfKZ... O'Hanlon back over the ground i'KIl!?" Ia his direct testimony yesler-IiRlT" yesler-IiRlT" . 0 w'tness described in detail 'fl5;?b;dy?vh,ch 1,0 perj;ormed on 'iHtf ll l0iU hatl rrded the case as one fl'-teW1 cldc Ayold you have made a tSKLtvv carcful examination?" asked Mr. "IKw homlc"u 1 " reard 11 then a3 a case- lKtidr you reffard u as a case of suS- iW aid, the witness replied. tp. JWX Stin in Evidence. ci'5&n0'Inlon that while per- S3Vlift ,c autopy he found three iBW fH8 on lho second finger of HtcF ,Bht han( and ho Htripped'off JiHlatt..B.kln which were turned over jtKas ifn rlct Attorney. The witness f3Bh t"01 Permitted to answer a question irfiUfe ,whether the bluck marks were ffSCnd r V110" as to whether he iM. ftny indication of gunpowder JSMfbnd, ae examined Nan Patterson's 5nKltl r, 00 n.nfter the shooting also met iSKCd tL obJectlon from the prosecution --r CUrt tllrcctcd the witness to At Stricken From Record. ' 1Rmitnhfe,,conclua,on oC Tr. O'lTanlon's WmXhWu that Part- of his testimony tfi jm cu ac eaid that ho considered the case to be one of suicide and not homicide hom-icide when he performed the auto"psy was stricken from the record on motion of Mr. Rand. Counsel for the defense took an exception to the ruling of Justice Jus-tice Davis on this point. Pawnbroker Absent. Tho prosecution put Dr. S. Melton Leo on the stand to explain that Ileyman Stern, the pawnbroker, who has Identified Identi-fied the revolver with which Young was shot, was too 111 to appear ln court at this time. Dr. Leo said Stern was suffering suf-fering from peritonitis, but tlmt he would bo able to attend court next week. Chemist Testifies. Dr. Ernest A. Ledcrle, it chemist, who examined the two pieces of skin taken from Young's fingers, satd that he had been unsvblo to determine the cause of the black suota. "Without a chemical test, 1 would not venture to say whether or not the apecks woro mode by gunpowder," said Dr. Ledcrle. Led-crle. "I only examined them by a microscope." mi-croscope." Prosecution Objects. Mr. Levy suggested that Dr. O. llan-lon llan-lon bo put on the stand to tell the Jury what made the black marks In the skin. Mr. Rand objected to tho defense going on at tlds stago of the trial and also to culling Dr. O'Hanlon as an expert. "I have a man who extracted Bmlnfi of powder from the pieces of skin," said Mr. Lovy. Attorney Admonished. Justice Davis admonished the attorney to bo more careful ln his remarks and directed tho Jury to disregard tho utterances utter-ances of counsel regarding what It was claimed examination of the exhibit by others than the witness disclosed. Weapon Identified. Edward F. Freclclgh, a clerk In Storn's pawnshop, said that later on the afternoon after-noon of Juno 3 last, a man and a woman bought a revolver from the place whore ho Is employed. The man was tall and well built, but ho wao unable to describe tho woman. The sale was made by Mr. Stern, the proprietor. Ho Identified tho weapon exhibited ln court as tho one purchased by the man. Cabman Tells Story. John Crowley, a cabman, said he was hulled by two men and a woman about 4 o'clock on the morning of Juno 4, while his cab was standing at tho corner of Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. The woman was the defendant In this case and ono of tho men was Caesar Young. Young had abused Miss Patterson, tho witness said, and sho was crying. Young ordered him to drive the woman to her home and he did so. Watched Occupants of Cab. On tho way down town he watched tho occupants of the cab through the trap in the top of the hanaorn, and sho continued con-tinued crying all tho way down to Sixty-first Sixty-first 'street, where she left tho cab. Crowley Crow-ley said that Young and the man wero intoxicated, in-toxicated, but that Miss Patterson was not. Corroborated tho Story. Albert Schneider, another cabman, witnessed wit-nessed the scene when Miss Patterson was put ln Crowley's cab. and ho corroborated cor-roborated tho testimony of tho provlouo witness. After Crowley drove, away, ho said, Young and his companion called him and wore driven to a houoo on West One Hundred and Fortieth street. He noticed that both men were under tho influence in-fluence of liquor. Scene Described. The scene between Nan Patterson and her brother-in-law. J. Morgan Smith, which was referred to at length by Mr. Rnnd In his opening argument, was described de-scribed by Joseph Hewitt, a newsboy Ho aald ho was standing ln front of a cafe nt Flftv-nlnth street and Eighth avenue about 9 o'clock on tho night of June 3, when Smith and Miss PatterHon camo out and got Into a cab. Thoy wcro quarreling, quar-reling, and aa they got Into the cab. Smith struck Miss Patterson In the face. Smith Struck Woman. "What did the man say?" naked Mr. Levy. "Ho said 'You'll have to do it,' " answered the newsboy. "And what did she say?" 'I won t,' and then he struck her and pushed her Into the cab," Hewitt said ho rcmemborcd the Incident Inci-dent distinctly and was positive ln his Identification of Miss Patterson and tho photograph of J. Morgan Smith. Ho had noticed tho couple particularly, ho said. "There Is alwnys a little quarreling going around the circle, and I keep my oyc opon to see the fun," the newsboy explained. ex-plained. Photograph. Identified. Police Captain Sweeney was recalled to Idcntlfv a photograph of Smith and to testify" that he had summoned Smith to appear before' tho grand Jury and that ha had failed to appear, lie xald he procured pro-cured a process against Smith June 9, but that ho still had It. having been un-ablo un-ablo to servo It. A wr.rrant calling for Smith's arrest for contempt of court was then read and marked for Identification. Court adjourned until Saturday morning morn-ing at 10:30. |