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Show ACTRESS NAN PATTERSON RECOVERING , FORMER GOOD HEALTH; INDICTMENTS I AGAINST SMITH AND WIFE QUASHED NEW YORK. May 5. Nan Patterson's Patter-son's condition was much Improved today. to-day. ' Her recovery from the , almost complete break-down which followed the failure of the Jury in her case to agree early yesterday morning, began yesterday afternoon and has progressed steadily. She arose today a,t the usual hour In apparently good htalth and spirits and ate a good breakfast. " That she has not fully regained her norma) health became evident, . how ever, when she expressed a desire to retire re-tire again immediately after Mating breakfast. She was very tired, she said, and needed another hour of sleep. She did not wait long enough even to open the letters which came to her in the morning mail. There was a big bundle of letters for the prisoner today and with them a bundle of picture postal cards. One of these bore a message urging Miss Patterson Pat-terson to keep up her-courage and to "be game to the last." 8:vral other cards bore messages of a similar nature. na-ture. Judge Foster, in the Court of General Sessions today, quashed the indictments indict-ments charging conspiracy against J. Morgan Smith and his wife. Julia Patterson Pat-terson Smith. He gives the District Attorney At-torney permission to resubmit the case to the grand Jury. The Smiths were arrested In Cincinnati and are now In the Tombs prison here. Nan Patterson was told today by her attorneys that she probably will not be released on ball before Monday. |