The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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THE FAMOUS
CAB TRAGEDY
Nan Patterson's Own Story
"Caesar" Young's Death.
of
DIED BY HIS OWN HAND, SHE SAYS
Graphic Description of Fatal Ride and Events
Leading Up to It—Fell in Love on First
Meeting — Celebrated Case Ends
with Release of Show Girl.
New York.—Nan Patterson, the for-
mer show girl, has ended a long hut
extremely unpleasant engagement at
the Tombs, While she had formerly
been accustomed to gaily dancing In
the chorus of light musical comedies,
the role assigned her In tills perform-
ance was ihat of star In a tragedy of
life and death. The stage settings
consisted of a stern court of justice
and a gloomy prison, with the grim
•portre of the gallows on every scene.
After having the limelight of the
public press turned on her for almost
Her meeting with "Caesar" Young is
thus described:
The Meeting.
"I met Caesar Young on the train
going to California, in the latter part
ot July, 1902. I was an actress then
and had been with a 'Klorodora' com-
pany Id the early part of the season,
and later with 'A Chinese Honey-
moon.' Having received an offer to
Join a stock company in Ixis Angeles,
Cal., I had resigned from the 'Chinese
Honeymoon' and was on my way to
take up the kitter engagement.
"Caesar Young was also bound for
ihe coast, to attend the trac ks in Cali-
fornia during the racing season. Our
chance acquaintance ripened Into
warm friendship and then into love.
"I was a married woman then, hav- j
ing b(en married to Leon James Mar- 1
tin ju 1S9S, in Baltimore, when I was
only III years old. We had separated
however. I knew that .Mr. Young >!■
also married, for he told me so.
"Asa result of my meeting with
Caesar Young I did not go to Los An-
geles, but remained in his company
more or less during all of the racing
season. It was at Caesar's suggestion
that 1 sued my husband for divorce in
order to obtain my freedom. I was di-
vorced in San Francisco in May, 1903
"I left the coast and came east for j
the first time in March of last year. I
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NAN PATTERSON.
a year, with hardly an intermission,
the curtain has been rung down and
•he has retired.
"All the world's a stage," says
Shakespeare, but few have played the
part that has this young and comely
girl—Nan Patterson.
Three Trials.
Charged with the murder of
•'Caesar" Young, the prominent race
track habitue and bookmaker, she has
filially been given her liberty, after
three mistrials, the jury in the first I followed
trial having been discharged after one ' and I also did, bur on different train
did cot stop In any pawnshop. I was
never In a pawnshop kept by a man of
the name of Stern. I was never in
any pawnshop in my life.
"That night we did not go near
Sixth avenue. 1 was not present any-
where when a piitol was purchased,
then or at any other time. As for tuis
man Stern, I never saw him.
"All the time, from the moment I
left th" race track on June 3 till I got
home, both Morgan Smith and his wife
were with me."
Nan Meets Young.
It was about 11 o'clock when Young
called her up and asked her to meet
him: "I took the train, went to One
Hundred and Fortieth street, and when
I got to the bottom of the stairs I saw
Mr. Young standing In froiit of a
saloon on the corner.
"Mr. Young was talking to a man
I did not know who at the time—and
as he saw me coming he nodded his
head for me to keep on going and not
to stop. 1 walked by them—didn't
recognize them at all. I had not gone
very far when Mr. Young came walk-
ing back of me and whistled. I knew
the whistle. It was one he had used
to ittract my attention. The tune was:
'Tell Me, Pretty Maiden!'
"I started to walk faster—just play-
ing. lie ran up and grabbed hold of
my arm and we walked up to the cor-
ner. then crossed the street and walked
down to the next corner,'back to Uuc
Hundred and Fortieth street.
"lie explained to me who it was he
had been talking to—it was Mr. Luco
his brother-in-law.
"We took a surface car down t ■
Kighth avenue and One Hundred &• .
Twenty-fifth street. Then we wet.:
into a saloon, as he said:
" 'Let's go in here and sit down a-
have a talk.' He ordered a glass
beer for me. but would not let nit
drink it. He said:
"1 don t want to sit fco~e. YVh.\
will wc do—take a drive 1 And 1 >
'All right ' We lef: there and «. t
outside and g.>t into a oab and drv>.
for aa hour or a: h. r ani i
through Centra', park
Young P.ar.s Trip Eur.v«d.
"While alone * h Mr i :i t 3
sal vn and in the ..r if sa V
Nan. ! wtel. > v.; - . .=.
to say to you this afternoon I m -
go a v. ay; I have been : £ t: y-i
and see how 1 couli get . ->t i
there is absolute > n> * v- :n out «
thing for y. . do > : :n
me; we are goinc ;r. * ? *
aw on a '.l±: a*. :<j-
no atrangement for nje to meet him
next morning—the day of his death.
The Fatal Day.
"I got back to the St. Paul hotel
about four a. m. and went directly to
bed. Next morning my sister awak-
ened me early and said that Caesar
Young had called me up on the 'phone.
I was too sleepy to get up, but she
called me again and I arose. While I
was dressing the 'phone rang and it
was Mr. Young. He wanted me to get
up and dress and meet him as soon as
I could. I did so and met him.
"It was half-pa.it seven or eight,
nearer eight, when I left the hotel, and
I hunied to Fifty-ninth street and
Columns avenue, where Mr. Young
wanted ine to meet him. He stood
there in front of a saloon. He swore
and wanted to know why 1 was so long
getting there. He said he had had
time to get 40 horns and have a load j the pistol. Mr. Young fell over my lap,
on. His hair was all mussed up. he had I got half way up again, fell back, and
away, and I could not get away from '
him; and I put my other hand up and '
grabbed away from him In that way,
and in some way or other I got awa^
from him. He said—I told him that h«
hurt me—he said: 'If you don't come
over there, and I have to wait until
the Saratoga meeting, I may see you
in three months, or may never see
you; my horses have gone back on me
I have lost all my money, now I am
losing my girl; do you mean that?"
"And he grabbed me with a great
deal of force, hurt me terribly--so
badly that It made the tears come to
my eyes. I tried to struggle away from
him again, and in so doing I had to
pull away over, and then there was b
flash and that was the end.
The Shot.
"I heard a report, but I had not seen
one eye closed and showed that he had
been drinking.
"Wo went into the saloon, for he
said, 'I must have another drink.' He
1 thought he was having a spasm or
something. He kept twitching and
twisting, and I spoke to him and called
him two or three times, and tried to
had been in New York only two weeks
when Caesar telegraphed me to come and you must
back to San Francisco, and I went. My cause I planned a: . ;
visit to the east made me acquainted planned; beside' I : i ti*
with my sister Julia's husband. J would go on a fish: t:
Morgan Smith, whom I had never met my wife with Har*. Tm;
before, and gave me a chance to run He is my cfc.m .n t:?a:
down to my old home in Washington this supposed fish.ii: :* ; ; v
and tee my father and mother. : you. £nd we can : r ir* t
"I went back to the coast and met or fcur weeks N.* v —
Caesar at Los Angeles in the middle that?'
of April, thft day the races closed "I I suppo?^: * v
there. We were together a few weeks,
and then Caesar went to San Francis-
co—his wife had arrived there—and I
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of tne men had been taken sick, the
oth'?r two juries not being able to
ream an agreement.
This is no doubt the last of the
famous case, and the question as to
her guilt or innocence will probably
never be decided by an earthly <>urt
of justice. If she is deserving uf pun-
ishment it must come in tin- hereafter.
Many graphic descriptions of the
tragedy and the events leading up t<>
it have been printed since the death
of Young, and they have varied great-
ly. Seme told how she deliberately
killed her companion in the cab that
fatal morning; others how the shoot-
ing could not have been anything but
accidental.
Justice Davis, who presided at the
We net by agreement at Chicago
Then we came east together, he going
to New York and I to Washington.
"\\ corresponded regularly, each
writing a letter every day."
Mrs. Young Learns of Nan.
May 1 Nan Patterson went to New j
York, and it was about this time that
the wife of Young began to suspect his
relations w ith the chorus girl. Young I
to prevent trouble promised his wife
and relatives that he would not see i
her again, but up to about May 2.">
they were living as man and wife at
a little hotel. From that date until
June 2, she declares, they did not see
each other, although he called up sev- j
eral times by telephone.
She then tells of how she had at- !
not give him any deini'f Illjv '
I did rot want to g Wf v * la :
about what we w ... •; ; - -v - y4
over there and . ne thing an: a: :t'
and finally returned to the sa.x>n
Young had arranged to meet Lure
j here and go home with him s at
! his wife would not suspect th^t he
! met Nan.
Young Drinks Heavily,
j "While we sat there I guess Mr
i Young had 15 or 10 drinks of straight
whisky. I drank very little. He
talked about the way he had been
spending money, and when he had the
money out of his pocket to pay for
some of the drink3 he counted off five
$20 bills and he said: 'Here, put that
with the rest of your money; put all
that money somewhere so that Luce
will know nothing about it. Don't for
goodness' sake make any break and
say you are coming over there. Be-
cause if Mrs. Young ever saw you
again there would be trouble.'
"He would not let me put the money
in my purse for fear that Luce would
see it He made me take all my money
| and put it in my stocking. Then I told
| him ! was hungry, and he suggested
going over to Luce's table and having
something to eat He was beginning
to show the effects of his drinking.
So the three of us had something to
eat and Mr. Young and I drank some
more—half-and-half it was. There was
no quarreling there, however—the only
' thing he showed any anger about was
when he thought I did not want to go
| over to Europe very much.
| "When we left the hotel Mr. Young
; was very much in liquor. Mr. Luce
went to get a cab. Mr. Young said:
: "Now. you get in and drive up to One
Hundred and Fortieth street with us
and then drive down to the hotel.' I
said. 'Why. I cannot do it. It is so
late now Mrs. Smith will be worrying
about me. 1 must get home It is !
getting light. It is daybreak.' So that
made hi in very angry because 1 would
not drive up to the house with him. I
said I wanted to drive down. 'You
can either drive down with me and
then go back or else I want to go
| home alone.'
Kissed Her Good-Night
! "When Mr. Luce got the cab Mr
Younn, took me by the arm and walked
me over to it and I stopped. 1 did not
| want to get in and I said so. Ho did
not like it He said, 'Call another
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own'.own direction,
ari :i a while he told the cab-
io £-.op a: a hat store We talked
about my going abroad, about
my getting the things, and the same
old s:rain he had been talking of. 1
did not say whether I would go or not
—I let him believe I was going, for
awhiH We also joked about the hat
he 'lad on. He said it was the funni-
est thing in the world that I and Mrs.
Young should both be making fun of
the same hat—she had told him he
must get a new one before he sailed.
The Cab Ride.
"The cabman stopped at Knox's hat
store, under the Fifth Avenue hotel,
and Mr. Young went in and bought a
hat. Then he called the driver to take
us somewhere where we could get a
drink. I have no idea of the route the
cab followed, but v.e went to a saloon
under the elevated road somewhere,
and got out.
"We went into the side door, and in-
to a room where chairs were piled on
the tables—it was so early in the
morning. Mr. Young took two chairs
off the first table we came to, and I sat
down. He started out to give the or-
der and the man came in and met him.
Then he sat down opposite to me. but
before that he stooped over and kissed
me.
"He said he wished I was going
away then, and I said I wished so,
too.
"Wo had some drinks served, and
then Mr. Young took out a postal card
and wiote something on it, handing it
to me, saying: 'Take this—it is some-
thing you might need.' It was a fancy
postal card, and on the front was writ-
ten, 'Miss Patterson, care of Mrs.
Smith, St. I'aul, Sixty-first street and
Columbus avenue.'
"We left the saloon and got into a
cab and slaried down town again. 1
sat on the left side and he on the right.
As the cab started he said:
Nan's Refusal.
" 'Nan, I would not have made you
get up so early this morning, but I did
not feel positive Ihat you were coming
over.' I did not make him any an-
swer far a little while and he laughed.
And I asked him why he should say
that. He says. 'Because 1 do not feel
that jou are coming over there, but I
had a great habit of putting his hand
up ani pushing my face, lie was only
playing. He wasn't rough at all. lie
was not angry. He did it that night
It did not hurt me. Then I got as far
first two trials of Nan Patterson, at a tended the races the following day at HS ,1" ''r ra'' an^ 'le pulled
b ' I me over and kissed me. The cab door
was ciosed and I was driven away.
"I ac not think I cried on my way
home that night, but I may have.
Young's request with her brother-ln
law and sister. Y'oung told her to I
me*-t him that evening, as he had ]
something very Important to tell her.
j Denies Buying Revolver.
Miss Patterson has steadfastly prt>-, "v^'e arrived at the hotel from the
claimed her Innocence, and the follow- race tract at seven o'clock On the
ing is her own tory of the tragedy. [ wty- home w stopued nowhere We
dinner of an organization of lawyers
the other evening, made the remark-
able statement that he believed the
girl was guilty, and that k~ lied
throughout her whole cast
though I cannot think of any reason
except that I was very tired and
sleepy. I 'did not expect to see Mr
Y'oung the next day, or on this side of
the water for a long time. There was
make him answer, and he would not
pay any attention to me at all.
• I l new then something serious had
happened I believe I put my hand up
and told the cabman to drive to the
drug store—I do not know whether I
did o** not. I know that was my idea.
And it seemed—oh. ages before I could
get anybody to pay any attention to
me or give me any aid at all.
"And the policeman jumped on the
front of the cab and asked me what
had happened. When I saw him I felt
relieved, and I knew he would take
care of Mr. Young, no matter what
was the matter with him. I lost con-
trol of myself and seemed to be dazed
in my memory from then on. I re-
member I went to the hospital and the
policeman tried to lift Mr. Y'oung out
of the cab and his knees gave way
under him I do not remember how I
got out of the cab, or anything of the
kind.
"I did not shoot Caesar Young. I had
no pistol, I never saw the pistol. And
if it was in my power to bring him
back to life, I would willingly sacrifice
my own life."
cab.' Another cab came and he put me 1 believe you are deceiving me.' And he
>n the step. When he was drunk lie says 'Are you going?' 1 says 'Well
Caesar, there is no use to say that I
will go, because I really do not want I
to. 1 have made up my mind not to,
but you go over there and get things
quieted down until the folks have'.for-
gotten about thincs by that time and
I will see you at the Saratoga meet-
ing.'
"He looked at me for a little while
and did not say anything And he
said 'Do you mean that, Nan?' And he
grabbed me by my hand nearest to him
and pulled me toward him
The Struggle
"He hurt me so that 1 tried to pull
IN A STRANGE COUNTRY.
Where Seemingly Impossible Tilings
Were Done and Little
Thought Of.
We left Pearson's ranche in Mon-
tana about eight miles behind us, when
we came to where a man was hang-
ing to the limb of a tree, and there was
a cowboy on horseback not far away,
relates a writer in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. The stage driver pulled in
his horses when we all had a look,
and then he beckoned to the cowboy
and asked:
"Has there been a lynching here?"
"Can't say as there has," was the
reply.
"But a feller is hanging there to the
limb of a tree."
"That's true, and I've been puzzling
over it. It seems purty plain that he
was drawed up to that limb, don't It?"
"She do. Y'es, sir, it seems plain
that he was drawed up to that limb,
and then the free end ol the rope made
fast."
"And that's what I'm puzzling
about," said the cowboy.
"As to how?"
"As to how a critter can pull him-
self up, choke himself to death, and
then come down and fasten the rope
and go back up agin. It's the first
time 1 ever seen It done, and it's
suthln' new to this country, and after
this I shall go jn for all hoss thieves
t-o do likewise. "Paln't no use in dis-
turbing us when they can do the trick
for themselves Well, so long."
"Do you think the man hung him-
self?" I a.^ked of the driver, when we
were a mile away.
"1 dunno, my son—I dtmno," lie ro-
plled, with a shake of his head.
"Rut think of how Impossible It is."
"Yes, I think of that, but when you
are In a kentry where a wolf can bits
his tall 'iff and stick It on agin, what
you going to b«llev or disbelieve?"
ON HOUSE DECORATION.
It Does Not Need a Great Deal of
Money to Obtain Beauty and Com-
fort in House Furnishings.
Some houses there are that pos-
sess a mysterious charm, a nameless
something that diffuses a feeling of
harmony and tranquillity. This mus-
terlous something that distinguishes
particular houses is the charm of color
—color used in right proportion and
possessing sympathetic qualities. Color
properly understood is a powerful men-
tal influence of the home; this being
so, why don't we try and have our
home a haven of rest, a retreat, where
one can go to rest one's tired nerves
and feel refreshed anil invigorated by
the peaceful, cheery atmosphere?
It seems comparatively easy to have
a beautiful home when there is plenty
of money to buy appropriate and beau-
tiful things, but when, for instance,
the trained art student marries and
settles down in a house and knows
that between $200 and $:!0l) is all that
can be spent on furnishing—here fol-
lows a hard and difficult, task and the
student often succumbs to the fatal
habit of buying commonplace things,
because they are easy to find and cheap
to buy. Write the word color before
your menial vision and have that so
good and pure that the absence of rich
fabrics and expensive furniture shall
be more than counteracted by tho
restful influence of good color schemes.
The hall and parlor might both be
papered in green felt, with yellowy
green ceilings; the parlor woodwork, if
white, leave as it is, if shabby, stain
green. The hall woodwork Is too largo
ail undertaking to alter; Ihe dining-
room should be ivory white, and a
pretty delft blue paper on the wall.
If there Is a plate rail have a blue
paper at 25 cents that looks like bur-
lap, below the rail, and a figured one
above if there is no break in the
room, the expense of plate rails or
moldings must not be incurred by you,
so that the delft figured paper would
answer all over the wall. Then, with
blue denim curtains at the windows,
the room would be very pretty.—Phila-
delphia Press.
SOME SPRING SALADS.
These Light and Appetizing Dicliea
Should Be Omitted from No
Table at This Season.
Cress Salads.—Wash the cresses, put
into a salad bowl, season with pepper
and salt; mix half a pint of vinegar
with two tablespoonfnls of cream or
melted butter and pour over the cress
and serve.
Lettuce Salad.—Take two large
heads of lettuce, remove the outside
leaves and wash in cold water; pull
apart and put in a salad bowl, sprin-
kle over it one teaspoonful of salt, half
teaspoonful of pepper; add half a
pint of salad oil. gradually, and tho
same of vinegar. Stir lightly until
mixed well with the lettuce.
Kale Salad.—Strip from the stalks
the inside leaves of tender kale, lay
in a dish and sprinkle with >epper and
salt; pour over a dressing of beaten
raw egg, three tablespoonfnls of sweet
cream, with two of lemon juicp and a
tablespoonfui of mustard, beaten well
together.
Spinach Salad.—Pick and wash some
spinach; steam ten minutes; beat, the
yolk of an egg with a spoonful of
mustard into a cup of sweet cream;
add a teaspoonful of salt and one of
sugar, with two teaspoonfuls of olive
oil and one of strong vinegar.
TRANSPLANTING ROSES.
Either Spring or Fall Is the Season
and Ground Should Be Very
Carefully Fertilized.
Roses may be transplanted in fall
as soon as the leaves have dropped,
alter a hard frost, or in the spring
just before beginning growth. As a
rule It is safer to transplant in tho
spring after hard freezing is over. hTe
best fertilizer is probably well rotted
stable manure, applied liberally and
well dug in the soil. Fine ground
bone and wood ashes rank next in effi-
ciency, and may be separately applied
whenever needed, and hoed or culti-
vated in the soy over the roots. There
is no direct cure for rosa blooms blast-
ing in the bud and failing to open,
properly. This defect lias a variety of
causes, but is generally associated with
the poverty of soil and deficient root
action. It is also caused by cloudy
weather, or too much rain. All that
can be done is to pick off the blasted
buds, and endeavor to keep the plant
growing thriftily until the next crop
of bloom is formed. For this purpose
the plant should be well cultivated and
extra manure applied to them if their
growth seems to be checked.—Rural
New Y'orker.
Vegetables and Fruit.
"Gold In Ihe morning, silver at noon
ind lead at night," is always used with
reference to fruit. Most people think
it means that the explanation of tho
proverb 13 that digestion is strongest
in the morning, and weakens as the
day goes on. But you will note Ihat
the proverb refers to fruit alone. If
it has to do with the digestive pow-
er only It should bo applied to all
foods. The real explanation is very
different It is that fruit freshly
gathered is filled for eating, and less-
ens in value as the hours pass. That
is true not of fruit only but of all veg-
etables. That which conies direct
from the garden to the table is the
most palatable and in evt ry way besl
fitted for consumption.
Jelly Drops.
Cut any kind of firm jelly into small
cubes, roll thickly in granulated sugar,
anil keep In a cool place two or iliitse
days before using
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