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Show TOKOS DEFENSE TO BE : R5AIE -BY' NAN-PATTERSON; , GM-3S .TO TAKE STAND - i - Twenty Witnesses Will Be Called; Accused Actress Is Confident That She Will Finally Be Acquitted. BULLETIN". NEW YORK, Dec 19. Nan Patterson Patter-son was called to the stand to testify in her own behalf at the afternoon session of her trial for the murder of Caesar Young. NEW YORK, Dec. 19. When the trial of Nan Patterson was resumed today to-day . It was announced that evidence would be submitted by the defense. It was said that Miss Patterson herself would probably be one of the twenty witnesses called to the stand. Her counsel announced that they would, through witnesses and through the defendant's de-fendant's own testimony, prove that she did not kill and did not plan to kill Caesar Toung, as has been the contention conten-tion of Assistant District Attorney Rand. - Combat State's Theory, Witnesses' may bV called, they said, to swear that they beard Caesar Toung telephone to Miss Patterson on th? morning of the shooting, asking her to meet him before he sailed for Europe. They also declare they will be able to prove that she could not have premeditated premedi-tated murder sixteen hours before the shooting as was argued by Mr. Rand, as she did not know she would see Young on the morning before he sailed. Miss Patterson has declared that she Is not only willing but anxious to tell her story to the Jury. Accused Girl Confident. "There is much I can tell the Jury that they could learn from no other source," she to quoted as saying, "and when they hear what I have to say every one of them will vote to set me free.". , Nan Patterson is so confident of acquittal ac-quittal that she said today that she ' had spent her 'last Sunday in - the Tombs. She added that she would be In her father's horns In Washington before another Sunday comes. When recess in the Patterson trial was taken Mr. Levy of counsel for the defense announced that Nan Patterson would take the stand In her own behalf this afternoon. Is a Dlrorced Woman! ' "- In answer to the usual preliminary -question. Miss Patterson said she had been married to a man named Martin and had been divorced from him. She went to California in 1902. On her way to Los Angeles she met Caesar Young. In answer to a question as to whether she knew that Young was a married man. Miss Patterson replied: "I heard him speak of his wife." In answer to another question she said that It was. after she had met Young that she , obtained ob-tained a divorce from her husband.' After securing a divorce, she said she continued her relations with Young, and frequently visited the race track with him. In March of this year she came back East and lived with ber sister, sis-ter, Mrs. Smith. Toung Sent for Her. After that she went to her parents home In Washington and later went back to Los Angeles, when Young telegraphed tele-graphed for her to meet him there. Again she left for the East when Young went back to San Francisco. She and Young arranged to meet at Chicago, and did so. When they were separated ; they corresponded, exchanging letters and telegrams almost daily. Then she came to New York' on May 2, and the next day Young called on her at her hotel. They had no quarrel. She said the first proposition made to her that she should leave Young was mads by Young's brother-in-law, McKean. who said that Mrs. Young wanted Miss Patterson Pat-terson to go away and leave Young. The first alleged eye-witness of the tragedy tra-gedy In the cab called by the defense was -Milton V. Hazelton. an Inventor of One- . onta. N. Y. Mr. Hazleton said he was visiting In New York early In June and was on West Broadway on the morning on June 4. He was walking slowly along when he saw a hansom cab approaching. There were two persons in the cab, one a woman, whom he identified as the defendant, de-fendant, and the other a man. As the cab neared him he saw the flash of a revolver. "Did the man have the revolver In his hand at the time of the report and the flash?" asked Mr. Levy. He did," replied the witness. "He hud both his hands raised above his left shoulder. As the shot rang out the man's head fell into the woman's lap and she placed her hands on top of his head." |