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Show REVOLVER IS STRONG POINT Expect to Prove Smith Bought It. ! ! While Defense Claims He Was Miles Away at the Tims Alleged. Skeleton Brought Into Court for Illustrating Il-lustrating Purposes Gives Nan Another Shock. I NTSW YORK. April 25 Perhaps the I I most Interesting development 'n 'i1" testi- no n of today In the trial of Nan Pat-i Pat-i terson for the murder of Caesar Young, i came when Coroner's Physician O'Haftlon J took the witness stand for the prosecution prosecu-tion and snl.1 In r- pl to questions that he had chung d nK opinion that Voting bad committed suicide. l ir i Jim!..!, performed the autopsy on Youngs body In his testimony toda he said: "My present opinion Is not the opinion I formerly expressed to Coroner Brown." Doctor Changes His Mind. He did not know of the relations of Young -lnd the defendant at the time that report was made, he said in reply to Mr. Levy, howevqr, he- admitted that he bad expressed the opinion that it was a case- of hui. ldv e ven after lie had heard the facta of the relutloity b- tv.ei n Mis Patterson and Young Hb said that he: was Influenced In his llrut decision that oung committed sub Id by black spols on thr Inside of the dead man's ringers, which he belles : J to be. powder stains Defendant in Good Spirits. Nan Patterson apparently had fully recovered re-covered from her Indisposition of yesterday yes-terday whi n she appeared In court today to-day for the continuance of her trlul There was a trace of color In her cheeks and she seemed to be In excellent spirits when she entered tho COlirtrdom arid took a. scat at thu Counsel table. The plalii black tult which sne. hail worn during this and pr. lotlS trlalB bod been discarded und In its place she Wore a I. lack and white chei k.-d dress and a round lace hat with. white lining. Revolver Is Brought In. The revolver with which It Is alleged YOUng wiu killed and wl.h h. Il Is ! Ih v- I win figure promlnentl) in the prosei i- tle.n's case, tnad Its appearanc as s....n as tho trial was resumed today. It had been Identified by several witnesses yesterday yes-terday a-s Hie weauoii found In Young's I OQket soon after the tragedy, and today the line of Identification was followed down to the time It was brought into court. Hope of Prosecution. It Is understood that upon Its ability to establish the fact that J Morgan Smith, Miss Patterson's brother-in-law. purchased pur-chased the weapon the 'la before Young was killed, the prosecution bases its strongest hope of conviction. Mr. Rand, the prosecuting attorney. In his opening addrts declared without reservation that he would prove that Smith purchased the revolver from flyman Stern, a pawnbroker. pawn-broker. What Levy Declares. Abraham Levy, counsel for the prisoner, however, declared as positively today that he Is prepared to show that It would have i en a physical Impossibility for Smith to hf-ve done so that he was many miles away from the Stern pawnshop at tho l our the prosecution claims the gun was purchased. Police Captain's Story. After tho police ofllcors had Identified the revolver today, Police (.'apt. Dennis Sweeny told of a conversation he had with Miss Patterson soon after her arrest. ar-rest. She llrvt told him that she had not h.-i n the revolver but later said that she had put h.-r hand In Young's pocket and looked at the weapon and then dropped It back Into the po ket. Capt. Sweenv said Miss PatteTson told him thai when she heard the muffled shot she was looking out of the cab window. Spoke Fieely About Case. "Did she speak freely to you about the casi ' asked Assistant District Attorney Garvan. "She did. ' The sr . nes In Wf Broadway Immediately Imme-diately following the shooting of Young at the drug store where the ,-nh wan driven a few minutes later, and at the hospital, when Young's body finally was tnk.n were described bv witnesses who had testified at previous trials 1 n F M. Rlgrln former! of the Hudson Hud-son street hospital, testified that the bullet bul-let that cause.) xOUngS death entered the left side and after striking the bnek-bone bnek-bone lodged In the muscles or the neck. HcmorrhaK' was the causi of .ieaih. Skeleton Is Introduced. hile Dr KlKgln was being examined n headless, leglesi skeleton wns brought lnt uri Lawyer Levy strenuous!) objected ob-jected tO Its Introduction. Baying It was unnecessary and tended to prejudice the ruse against th defendant. Miss Patterson Patter-son was visibly affected. Had Suicidal Tendency. t re.es s Mr 1 v slated that he lnd H Ived 8 letter from Booth Kendall of Menasha, Wis., containing a local newspaper news-paper clipping. In will. Ii it wos reported that Joseph Kasel, a Jockey, writing from Chicago to friends in Menasha mentioned men-tioned he had t i empho ed I, r Young, and thai In knew the iattr-r to be a despondent Individual who. In trouble, -aR Inclined to commit suicide Aft. -i I r RlKgln had Indicated on i lv skeleton the course of the bullet which killed Voung. Mr Levy, counsel for the prlsonei asked that he Illustrate the position po-sition m which the revolver must have been held to produce the wound Could Not Illustrate Position. "I could not do it ot the point T have Indicated the wltnex-e replied ,.,;,,,;,,; I could not twist myself Into such a posit po-sit ion hlle Mr Levy wos quosflonlng Dr P.icgin Assistant District Attornej Rand h. ld the revolver with the muzzle' turned toward his own right brenst. and snapped the ti igger time after time. |