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-.: V.'-'- THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL;.: PORTLAND. i SUNDAY-. MORNING. MAY 7. 1905. 1 - 7 fpz& NAN TV -TKW-YORK' district attorney - IX I and his assistants have Striven - I l three tlmee-with might and sin to Bill In tli death" have they failed. "THree" urnti Perhaps aha la Innocent of murder, Innocent of the blood of Frank Thomp- r-a a r-Tf oun r.aa-iia-ta-ttter. -.- known, - But most tf tha world is-con vlnced that aha la guilty. People aea a not unnatural development In Nan Patterson slaying Caesar Young, after -.tha plunging track gambler had de cided to desert her to go to Europe with - hie wife. . . r. . A more general eolutlon of Nan ; rattereon'a- fortune before the drea4 bar Ilea in a law of tiature Blie la but --'-" a girl. Her misfortune was beauty and laok of moral conscience, ' "If -he had not loved me, ha would " have loved . somebody else," ;curtly said ahaonca tlonjpf herjntruslon Into Youna Jajnlly. lire. When but a girl sne met tna race track plunger, and he lavished his ln mens rwlnnlngs on- he. Nan-.Patter-, son's -every whim was. answered. He , tirtrt rf litr, Mho would hao de-no the .. same la due time, more quickly than he 'had she been, ao eapertenced. Had ahe dona so ha would probably have killed her, as ho threatened often to do. - Jus Mortal VUlosophy. - ; If she is guilty, lhe isu Struck Ttritr say her defenders. "She waa tha leaat ' reaponalble, tha most abused. Her youth should have been her protection, his :wife should have been his restraint." But this philosophy Is hot Jaw. Murder must be punished.-"-Law. has - human agencies: Tha JudgVs" ermlneJ Is good, but there isi no ermine about ; the Jurors, the real Judges T of --all courts.; Naff Patterson had human -- juron. who ty alrrtosTj"lrianlmously "favorlri jf amanslughter "verdict "con fesaed.Uekanvlctlon rMtshswhaii killed Caesar Young, and who, with equal unanimity, ahowed the tempering influence of human breasts. . If Nsn Patteraon killed Caesar Young. "It waa murder, as she has gfven no testimony of defenaa " or extreme Hrvoeti!t, If alia is guilty f murder, and Juries are not letting' their human "seritthi en f romTnaTemne-inrt one verdict for guilt murder in the i-flrst.-degea Itthla vsrdlctwerenot rendered and the Jury la to be atem as , tha 1 law prestlng-it, there! but " One other, verdict, which Is Innocence, - -r - Bo reasoned Assistant District. Attor ney Rand. But the third time he failed. -Jlls powerful eloquence - waa - pitted against the prettycoqueitlsh face of the whow girl! aha has won, won three-tlmea,. Lnd possibly foreverae there Is a gen- cral Impression that this costly bearing wlU'not be continued' further. The neit and next juries will be human beings. - There ts sameness about human nature " whrh deep principles ar eotilderd.'-AB; sflt ' IJIHrlrl Attorney Rand la oaln to believe thla sameness has been proved when helpless,- beautiful-bit -oi agirl. - too pretty Va die and too Immoral to go lief , la brought to the bar of Justice. -Cost to ew Tork. How much has Nan Patteraon coat New-York? She "cost Caesar Jfpung thoitsandTJf-do1lrgTaftfl his life. But she has coat old Father Knickerbocker lmie-lTBr000rTrolJBlyt'eirTtn6ra "than - this. Here again 1s foujtdJmmani-4 "Tur'e at work,-for-tapayera are not in' dined to encourage the assistant dls ' trlct attorney in auch an expensive pyro-y technic enterprise." -; . Nearly a year ago tha fatal shot was tired In a hansom rushing--down-a New York street. It wss In tha morning at 1:10 o'clock. June 4.' Since that mo- rnent Nan Patterson haa been a guest of -tha awful -Tombs In New York, emerg ing only to face Judge and Jury. Thrioe haa she told her story in open court and one for the press. sUi haa clung to one ' version of the death; It Is a simple r recital. Improbable In a measure and yet It lias been, unusually, consistent. It haa great Interest Just now, when the show girl lingers between freedom and another trial. .. . 1 .... ' - 1 ahall tell tha Jury the etory of the can rld and everything that led up to It." said the accused nearly year ago. -"Mr. Young ahot himself while trying to shoot me. . He had Intended to kill me first. . and. no doubt, he meant to commit eutclde afterward; but he had been drinking heavily and hla hand -waa -u nateadyr"Ht"Blm was nnceTtatnrand he shot himself instead of me. . ""I havs the beat ' of reasons for be lieving thla. because he had threatened hla own life f "d many times. . -Be sides, while we were riding1 down town -that morning he took a blank card irom his pocket and wrote on it my nama and address. 'Miss Nan Patteraon, care Mra. J. Morgan Smith, St. Paul s hotel, corner Sixtieth street and Columbua avenue.' -The ca rd -is In tHatriet Attorney-- Je romea office. Mr. Young wrote it so lhl'iy bodv mtsht be Identified. 1 "dn FaTurday morning, JSTie . my slater, Mra. J. Morgan Smith, and my self were waked up by tha telephone bell In her room. Sister answered tha phon, and I heard her Bay: - " 'But she la asleep, and I don't want to wake her.' "She hung up tha receiver. A few minutes later it rang again. " Tel! him I am dressing.' I said, al though I waa still In bed. We both knew what a dreadful temper Mr. Young had. and we tried to humor him. "My sister came to my bed and said, You'll have to get up. Nan. He is de termined to hi you. He wants you to a - meet him at tha Circle and drive to tha pier with him.' "I dressed as quickly as 1 could, and I waa in such a hurry that after I got on the elevator I noticed that I had left rny purse, and I went back and gotjmy . eister'a." - T "DldJ;ou . carry anything bealdea the puree T" I! aaked.- j. ,"Nothlng else. -1 wore a light Jacket. Ha pockets were too smsll to hold my nurse nd I carried it In my hands. I There Waa absolutely no place where I could hava hid a pistol."1 : - - "When I met Mr. Young at the Circle . . he looked haggard and mlaerable. and he was Impatient " 'You're a nice one,' he said, to keea ' ' ma wallln -n Un T've tuA 40 balla - V whHa-raHed.-and- I'wn gfttng- to hav another one.' r ' , , II told hlm-I-had coma aa anon aa 1 .. could, and we got Into the hansom and i drove down town. "We did not say an unkind word to faeb other.- We were both sad because - he was leaving for Europe., I said very little, partly because he had been drink ing all nlghwand I knew it. was dan gerous to -Irritate him at such times. He had a violent temper. " -' " , . " 'Dear,' he said in a suddenly. symL - patlietto mood, 'did- I do anything that . hurt your feelings yesterday? Tha day Is a blank te me; but I'm. afraid I, was ugly to you ' " . . , - . ' 'You were drinking,'. I replied cheer . , fully, 'and what you do then doesn't matter . . , "'Vou know,, ha said, that I would rather see Mrs. Y. dead before ma than f hurt your little npgefT"" ' , . "Then ho 'asked sna again.-as he tujd : lrfen aaklng for a wMsv It I wouldn't sail the next Tuesday mt Wednesday by . another ateamer and Join Mm In Kurope, I shook my head, and he knew tha rea- PATTERSON'S BATTLE FOR i- - - j .. v., vrtmu . m ... iJw Nr Patterson, Accused of Mrs. Caesar Young, Who Was Not Chat Practically Assures Nan son." I had told Kim often before that I would not go to Europe alone, and be lonely-whlla-Ae-was-taking his wife around. . . ., -...... ii- "He aaked me what I would do while he was away, and I told htm that I ex pected to play at Manhattan-Beach In the SkubMrt companies. Thptl he spoke ACEDJJAN JUMPS INTO YELLOWSTONE Refused Errpfoyment ori Ac. xount of His Age, Workman Leapt to Death in Torrent. r'jL- (Rpeclsl Pltpatca to Tie Jonrnat.) Livingston, Mont., May John .Why att, for -more, than 1- years nar ,ajn known employe of the Northern Fa clfte shops In this city. Is supposed) y) have committed suicide some time yes terday by Jumping Into tha Yellowstone river near th railroad bridge. - Hla body was found this morning on-A sandbar bout one half mile below the bridge. Whyatl Is believed to hava beeti tem porarily Insane as a result of brooding over tha fact that he had been laid, oft -.- IVV, I - - -r v v V ?. ; ' the MurdefofCe8grYoung, :FromrrNewPhotof raph- ' Dissatisfied With the Verdict Patterson's Freedom. of acertaln man wa had .known In Cali fornia, and who had coma hero a few daya before" we" did. ""'He had always been Jealous of this man. I tried to change hla thoughts from that channel by speaking of something else, for he had often' said: .. ,, " " 7rX ever- hear ' ofytur going out, soma time dunjng November, last4, with the understanding that when business Improved he would ba taken back again. Frequently be haa made application for work, but each time, was put off, andflnallylt.began to dawn on .him that he had been released on account of hla age. - This worried hlra. and of late his TamlTy States he brooded deeply; and at times his mind seemed to wander. Friday morning he left hla home ear ly, and waa not again aeen .until his re mains wr found In the sandbar. Why att was a native of England and waa a vferan of the. Crimean war. H waa an unassuming', industrious man, who made mnny-f Hernia. Hewas -11 -years of age and had resided in Livingston II rr-; ' - - --r sTinczsa rom.iiO,r."r- (Copyrlgbt, Hearst News Berrtee, by LesaeS -" ; Wire to The Josraal.) Munich. April . The whole arttat colony hers is mourning the death of tha Hungarian painter, Oesa. Tlsamer, who committed, suicide In . his studio, it Is said, because of his hopeless lore for a beautiful Amerlcsn girl who hss been studying art In this city, for two yMrs, to-tha theatre or-anywhera also, rlth another man. I'll kill you. 1" T'saf lo"ktriKst-htrrrwtth"'Tr'liyrrigTie Insisted on driving through the parg anything, and he said, sm tllng lit' tie: ' - ' - .. 'How do you like thla hatr "You know I never liked you In it.' I said. 'I wish- you would stop at Knox's and get another one.' ' '"It: will do for what I want it foA-'- Ha spoke despondently. , and thena he atralshtened up and said, 'I must haveJ a drink. Come with me.' f "He ordered tha driver fo stop.' I advised Jilm not to drink any more, but ha-waa determined. Wa. got out and went into m saloon. X can't think Just where It was. I have forgotten or didn't notice. He - ordered two glaesea of brandy, and wanted me to drink. I said: "No. I don't want to drink. I have had nothing to eat, and it might turn my head. L JThat made him more despondent. "I am going away.' he said In a whlmpaxlng. drawl, -an(l youwon.'ieven take a good-bye drink with me? To please him I drank a lltuftqrui4,wn at home a day before he began beg brandy and he ordered two more glasses. This time- I refuaed to drink, and he awallowed the drinks he had ordered for both of us. That made three glasses. 1 Wa we to the pier once more, - J"You knbw, Nsn, that I love you better thsn snythtng else Itf the" world.' he said, shortly. I don't wsnt to mako this trip, but I've got to. On the rac track and' everywhere else they call roe a dug for the wajr--aq-lireatlng Mrs. Young.' t ' or Mm. but it was of no use. "Tm losing 'everything In theworld.. he said. 'I've lost $300,600 on, -the trsck. The east has beaten me. Home Is hell, and now I'm losing you.' "Suddenly he stopped the cab. ' " 'I guess I'll get that hat to please you,'- ha aatd, and he went Into Knox's hat store and bought one. I told him It was more becoming than the other, and that he looked very we(f In , but ha did not aeem to hear me. I think that he must have been nerving himself then to d what he was soon, to do ... 'He had scarcely got Into tha cab when he said ha must hava another drink. . . - " "We were driving very fnst and it was hard to attract, the attention of the driver. When we did, he stopped at Bleecker street, and he drank an other glass of brsndy At that time he wss very qulot. when we got into the cab again he waa very much under the influence of liquor. As he sat down he doubled hla left arm -wkwTdly-nindr him, and sat leaning forward, and look ing straight ahead, - " 'My Uod, Nan!' he said hoarsely. Tm going away for two months , HINDUS WILL DRIVE . THEOSOPHY FROM INDIA (CopyrlgkU . Rtartt . ltwi. Brrlc. -. byLae4 Wire te Tbs Joarul. I ' Calcutta, May , Tha leading Hindu thlnkera aTe organising for the purpose of driving theosophy from tha strong hold it has begun toj obtainli "Hindu,-, suiru . , .. Tha leaders point out that yieosophy Is almost entirely the creation of wo man, who hava built upon the aacred wrtttnga of the Hindus, a fabric of fie tlon,myth and mystery aa a meana ef gaining money and reputation - Annie Besant, the auccewsor to Mad ame Blavataky, hss Sstabllshed herself boldly la tha religious - center of the Hindus, and haa built up a college for tha development w , her personal doc trlnes. ' She wears tha. Hindu dress, ata only food coojeed by Rralrmlna, an nouncea that aha. was a Wratimtn in pvevlous IncarnaUon. and walks the Street of Beoars. counUrif her. leads I snad?"nVrpiy, for Xwaa trying to keen back the tears fin going -away for "a mnntbjjl ...h. m. .f he nuraueq. Trin' I saw that his right hanTwss In his pockeZ there was a r'oport thT soundedfar-awajrtItwat.j .muffled, sound, and I thought soma qne wss shooting "la tha street.- t 7Thn"hs fell across my lap, hla cheek upon my hands. I felt his cheek grow ing cold but -all this I have told you. "When I understood I called to the eabman to stop. : Frord ' that moment until after I cama to tha Tomba I knew no more what waa happening than you do. It seemed Ilka a long. Dad dream. That Ja iha same story that Jtjiave told to each ,of my three attorneys, and they aay It Is remarkable that -I haveni varied a detali at any time. They asy that I hava only tolell it to District Attorney Jerome and there will be no trial. ' Tha eaae will ba dismissed.- They IMntc that r-wttr p tree, py tHe-giiaiTte of AUguat. "John Mlllln. . who charged me with murder at the coroner's Inquest, has Deen "Hanger-on of Mr. Young"a for years. Mr. Young took Uira-Out of the gutter and gave him' work and allowed him t cH himself his partner. He was always Jealous of ma because' ha waa afraid Mr. Young would give me tndr m'oney tban. ha gava.Um. -., - "Mr. Young was nagged' to death. He often Held to- mei -"I -can't stand It. It won't last much longer." J3!nce bis death friends of his In California have written me saying that they had expected this to happen before; that' they had often heard him,, when despondent, threaten Is that he did not take you with him.' they said, for they knew how Insanely Jealons he had alw,ys been, and offered to do anything thV could. for me.-- "They hava all . heard Jiim say, 'J f I loss Nan:' nmrar else shall t her. I'll TtrrrTfer TlfSt.'" 'ieTTiaaeardTitm-say it so often that they no longer paid any attention to IU .- . . - "Casting me off? ' I couldn't possibly have gotten rid -of him If I had tried.. And I didn't try. No one knows what I have gone through with him when h wss drinking." hut he was never -unkind to ma when he was himself. We loved each, allies to, Iha list, and, thftra yatJ not a harsh word between us thaUlast morning l-would ha, v gone back to him-when he. returned from Europe. I would never have left him.. Why.I would not have dared. "I. have klwHya been afraid of fire arms. IS I hsd known there wag a re volver n.TlheJca bUwouJd-have- been frightened to death." - ' - "Were you afraid while you werer In the cab?" Not that morning, I had often-been before. The day before, en Friday, while we wera driving, I waa afraid for my life of him. He talked 0 strangely. Peveral times herTiad begun3 to-4lfc-nd had left his sentence unfinished and looked into space as tnougn lie were crasy, I said to him: .. J..l " 'I believe you ara going raxy,' and ha said several-times, 1 believe I am. , I've had trouble enough to make ma so. - "While wa were driving that morn! n ; and wa started into - the park I waa 4rtgtfTneirrforZJie . had been drinking heavily for days and waa In a Tearfully I despondent mood. Let's jn tO-.tha-Caalnn. T aald,-Jut inHiwa. - - - ....... . -.- I wrote him no threatening-letters. I seldom wrote him at all, because I waa afraid my letters might fall into other hsnds than-hl But I wish I had aaved the letters Mrs. Young wrote htm while aha waa In. Ban Francisco and we were In Ijos Angelea I never asked to aea them. He voluntarily ahowed them to me. One he handed me, saying, 'What do you think of thatr it aald: 'I know what you and she want a divorce; But you shall never hava It Not .while I live shall that women be your wife.' All those letters I tore up, because I did not think wa ought to have them aboutA "Instead of trying to separate him from hla friends once when he drinking -frightfully and we had driven three mllee out-of Ban Francisco I sent a telegram to, John Mlllln. asking him t-takfclrn--teHbos-AngeUaand Jhe did. Another time, when It seemed that I could not bear It any longer, I told him my mother waa ill and that I must go home to Washington. Hut I naa noi glng ma to come back.- He said ha could hot live away from me. He would not let me stay away from him. I waa not anxious about his going to Europe. I bnd-ttdnj,nCW-he would come backr and " that sooner than he Intended. "On the mornlngthat we drove to the pier together he Was more wretched than I had ever seen him. Hla hands shook as though ho was In a palsy. I believe that , during the night hehad planned to kill mo and himself. The unsteadiness of his hand from drlnk- inm suss want Sanaa ssy life." Agalnst this story has been bullded a strong case by the- proseetttkm MrsrJ. Morgan Smith, the sister, haa been made to teetify of pawning Jewela at the place where the revolver la supposed to have been bought. Letters from this same sister hava been produced, containing the elementa of a threat against Caesar Young. Mrs. Smith haa 4een charged with conspiracy to kill, and the prom ise of quashing thla Indictment haa been made In effect, at leaat If She would aiva certain testimony -which the.prose- cutlon scema to- think would b convict-) rnr Phyatcltme- have-teled 4 plain that the course of the bullet wound through Young's body could scarcely have been made by himself pointing the revolver, but would have been a nat ural direction If fired from K person sit ting where Nan Patterson says she sat. These and other facta have been arrayed by-thi prrmewitton.'snd against them all Is Nan Patterson, who tells the story of the death In her own way and without change of detail. , -In the flrst-trla a Juror dteaVtarm- natlng the caae untimely. In .the twd following there was disagreement. The last Jury Is said to have stood 11 for manslaughter and One I or "acqulftaf" surrounded by. young and Interesting persons of both sexes. ". India Is a tranquil place, where re ligions of various kinds ire always wcl cQmbut.MrsBeaantnaagona a. Step too far, .hernrw" announces that th religloa JTtsald-J.a.her1predcessor, Madame Balvatsky,- Is - tha oldest . re ligion In the .world ah precedes the Ve das, the secred writings of the Hindus. This haa brought forth "an organisation -nnderthssnthortty ofAgumyt "Ouru Paramahans. tha "Tiger Mahatma" of India, the objects of which are to coun teract Beaant's ' Influence Mrs. Besan has claimed to possess occult powers. Tha native maaters--of occtiltlasa -have asked her to prove it and they' also de elara that iha knows neither Hindu nor Sanscrit. , 7 - Theosophy hts' pictured Ihs Mahata maa to the western word, under the gulsa of JuSglers and charlatans, stop ping to perform low tricks to deceive the Ignorant and this organisation of Hindu thinker! Is"nfrng Indian teach ers abroad to explain to theosophlsts the world over how-. wtchUl they havs pcea dsssl.vsd, ,J fLewisand Clarli taii Jyentyltye , trlprto bcdlvlded among theQ rhoet pojr- ular persons in Oregon and ' THE JOURNAL will pajr the entire expense, including railroad and sleeping car fare, hotel bills, for one week, ad . missions to the f xposition for one week andjother amuse ments. . : - i The contest closes at midnight on June 30. Read the conditions and -start the ball rolling by sending in a nomina tion blank for your candidate. '" . "' T x-:'.- The Tlme THE TRIPS WILeL BE DIVIDED AS - FOLLOWS : - ' ; vSlOOIr -Baker eounty -1 r Benton" and ttneoln: coiantlesrr 1 Clackamas .county ........... X . Coos and Curry, counties.,..'. 1 Columbia and Clatsop counties 1 Douglas-county -JL Grant. Harney and Malheur - counties - . . i nun osepillneah$"Jffson counties" 1 JClajnath and Uk counties.... 1 lni county ................ 1 .UnJcounty-tJjt-. X . 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X Umatilla eounty. ............. 1 tinln-and Wallowa eotintiea... Jl WsscorBherman;- and Croolt eeaptlea muimum - Waahlngtoa sad TTflamook cgantles . iJJtrlTTry.t-Xr Yamhill sndr lBorkr-rn'ntles.'.-i . : Eastern .Washington -i-.., ! Western Waahington ......... 1 "IhcJournal': torvoter-wtlt-be-glvn Is, one voter- (postofflce) as the most pop pulr ,T county. ........ , .'.'.. . f . . . . . . 1905. r
