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Show XII) KILL Z1LISELF were made by gunpowder." aaid Dr. Led-erle, Led-erle, "1 only txanilned them by a microscope." mi-croscope." ... Edward F. Freelelgh, a clerk In Etern'a pawnshop, aald that later on the aiter-noon aiter-noon of June 1 last, a man and a woman bouicht a revolver from the place where he is employed. The man was tall and well built, but he was unable to describe th woman. The Bale was made by Mr. Stern, the proprietor. He identified the weapon exhibited in court aa the one purchased by the man. John Crowley, a cabman, said he was hailed by two man and a woman about 4 o'clock on the morning of June 4, while hla cab waa atandlng at the comer of Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. The woman waa the defendant In this case and one of the men was Caesar Young. Young had abused Miss Patterson, the wltneaa said, and she was crying. Young ordered him to drive the woman to her home and he did so. On the way down town he watched the occupants of the cab through the trap in the top of the hanrom, and she continued con-tinued crying aJl the way down to Sixty-first Sixty-first street, where she left the cab. Crowley Crow-ley aaid that Young and the man were intoxicated, in-toxicated, but that Miss Patterson was not. Albert Schneider, another cabman, witnessed wit-nessed the scene when Miss Patterson waa put In Crewley'a cab,, and he corroborated cor-roborated the testimony of the previous witness. After Crowley drove away, he NEW YORK, Nov. 21. In the trial of Nan Patterson, charged with the murder - of Caesar Young-, the ' expert testimony of physicians was offered yesterday to show that Young- could not have killed himself. Two cabmen testified tes-tified to having- seen Young; abuse Miss Patterson early in the morning of June 4, and another' witness, . a newsboy, wore that he saw J. Morgan Smith, her brother-in-law, strike Miss Patterson 1 In the face on the night of June S after Smith had said to her: "You will have to do It," and she had answered, "I won't." The mother-in-law of Foreman of the Jury Hendricks, whose tllnesss threatened threat-ened to delay the trial early this week, died yesterday.' As it already had been arranged to adjourn the court at the close of last night's session, Mr. Hendricks will have an opportunity to attend the funeral. The prosecution put Dr S. Melton Leo on the stand to- explain that Heyman Stern, the pawnbroker, who has Identified Identi-fied the revolver with which Toung waa shot, was too 111 to appear in courx at this time. Dr. Leo said Stern was suffering suf-fering from peritonitis, but that he would be able to attend court next week. Dr.- Ernest A. Lederle, a chemist, who examined the two piecea of akin taken from Young's fingers, said that he had been unable to determine the cause of the black soots. "Without a chemical test. I would not venture, to say whether or not the specks said, 1 oung . ana nis companion cauea him and were driven to a house on West One Hundred and Fortieth street. He noticed that both men were under the influence in-fluence of Uauor. The scene between Nan Patterson and her brother-in-law, J. Morgan Smith, which waa referred to at length by Mr. Rand in his opening argument, was described de-scribed by Joseph Hewitt, a newsboy. He said he was standing in front of a cafe at Fifty-ninth street and Eighth avenue about 9 o'clock on the night of June J, when Smith and Miss Patterson came out and got Into a cab. They were quarreling, quar-reling, and as they got into the cab. Smith struck Miss Patterson in the face. "What did the man say?" asked Mr. Levy. ."He 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 he remembered the incident inci-dent distinctly and was positive in his identification of Miss Patterson and the photograph of J. Morgan Smith. He had noticed the eouple particularly, he said. "There is always a little quarreling going around the circle, and I keep my eyea open to see the fun," the newsboy explained. ex-plained. Police Captain Sweeney was recalled to identify a photograph of Smith and to testify that he had summoned Smith to appear before the grand Jury and that he had failed to appear. He said he procured pro-cured a process against Smith June , but that he still had it, having been un- able to serve It. A warrant calling for Smith's arrest for contempt of court was then read and marked for identification. Court adjourned until Saturday morning morn-ing at 10:80. |