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Show IMAl OE NAN MIMSd : IS POSTPONED; ATTORNEYS .' ' TRYING SARD TO CONVICT Flying Squadron of Detectives Kept Within Call to lnves-tigate lnves-tigate Stories of Witnesses; Story That Smith Is Pound. 00. 00 ' PROSECUTION IS SPARING NO EFFORT. S 1 I The prosecution in the Nan Patterson case Is sparing no effort to convict the girl of the murder of Caesar Young. A flying- squadron of detectives is kept at, the door of the courtroom ready at a moment's no- tice to go out to investigate the stories of new witnesses. S) It is asserted that many of the witnesses for the defense previously c,lled upon attorney for the prosecution and said that the actress had held the pistol in her hand. An effort will be made to rebut their testl- mony. NEW YORK, Nov. J6. The illness of a Juror caused a sudden and unexpected adjournment In the Patterson murder trial which was to have been continued in the criminal branch of the Supreme court today after the Thanksgiving: holiday recess. "When everything; 'was in readiness to proceed It was announced an-nounced that Juror Edward Dressier was too ill to feave his home. There remained re-mained no alternative but to suspend the trial for the time being-, and an adjournment ad-journment was ordered by Justice Davis. Da-vis. Although the members of the Jury and the defendant gave themselves over to complete rest during the lnter- val afforded by the recess, the attorneys attor-neys In the case took advantage of the Intermission in an entirely different way. All their energies were exerted toward bringing closer together the material ma-terial points upon which depends the success or failure of their case. Rumor Also Active. Rumor, which has figured prominent- l" ly in the case since the trial began, also ' ' was active during the interval. One of the stories which gained wide circulation, circula-tion, and which, if true, undoubtedly would have added materially to the sensational side of the trial, was to the effect that J. Morgan Smith. Nan Patterson's Pat-terson's brother-in-law, who fled after he had been subpoenaed to appear before be-fore the grand Jury, had been found and was locked up at police headquarters. headquar-ters. This report was later denied by the police, however. Anxious to Find Smith.- ' . The prosecution has kept up an unremitting unre-mitting search for Smith ever since he disappeared. The attorneys for the prosecution charge that it was Smith . who purchased the revolver with which' Young was shot; and that he would prove to be their strongest witness if he could be found. Already Smith's photograph has been introduced in the case and identified, and the prosecution has promised that the pawnbroker who sold the revolver will also Identify the photograph as that of the man who purchased the weapon. Squad of Detectives. Probably never before in the history of a murder trial in this city was there organized by the District Attorney's office what might well be called a flying fly-ing squadron of detectives. Assistant District Attorney Rand has enlisted in his service county detectives who are stationed at the entrance of the courtroom court-room for no other purpose than to accept ac-cept at a moment's notice an order to sally from the building and investigate the character and standing of a new witness for the defense. Will Discredit Witness. Those in charge of the people's case may strive when the trial is drawing to a close to discredit the testimony of the numerous eye witnesses the defendsnt's counsel promise to call to the stand. Mr. Rand asserts that some of the witnesses wit-nesses before they went to the office of Abraham Levy and volunteered their services for Miss Patterson called on him and declared that they had seen the' shooting and that the actress held the weapon in her hand. At that time, he says, the stories were considered hysterical, and the prosecution cast the offer aside. Investigate the Stories'. Lately, however, so many eye witnesses wit-nesses have come forth, says Mr. Rand, that it became necessary to take some steps to rebut their testimony, and the special detail of detectives has been assigned as-signed to Investigate the stories of the witnesses as quickly as their identity is disclosed. , ' All the testimony thus fai produced has been leading up to what the prosecution prose-cution declares was the motive for the crime, and with the beginning of today's to-day's session it was expected that Assistant As-sistant District Attorney Rand would begin to unfold the crucially Important feature of his case. |