The evening world. Newspaper, June 8, 1904, Page 3

Se T Meyer Asserts that He Saw a Struggle; Just Before the Shooting During Which He Caught the Glint of a Re- volver in the Hands of the Man. BAIL FOR NAN PATTERSON IS DENIED BY CORONER Justice Clarke Refuses to Release Her on Writ of Habeas Corpus—Jerome Now Makes Open Charge of Murder. Coroner Brown refused to admit “Nan” Patterson to vail this afternoon, and for the first time since her arrest the charge that she killed “Caesar” Young was made in open court. It is understood that Detective-Sergeant Price has discovered who owned the revolver with which Young was shot. Atter Justice Clarke had dismissed the writ of habeas corpus Henry 4 Unger went before Coroner Brown and requested that his client be ad- mitted to bail The Coroner said he would hear arguments on the matter. Nan Patterson was brought over from the Tombs. Abraham Levy, Dan O'Reilly and Mr. Unger accompanied her into the Coroner's court. District-Attorney Jerome and his assistants, Lord and Garvan, ap- peared to argue against the application for bail. Mr. Levy demanded an immediate examination. This was refused. Then he asked permission to give $5,000 ba.1, saying that he had a bonds- man ::ady. Coroner Brown - ..d he could not accept bail, in view of new and important evidence. E “This woman,” said District-Attorney Jerome, “is accused of murder in the first degree. It is not a bailable offense.” The Patterson girl was sent hearing on Friday, ck to the Tombs to await the Coroner's: S4YS BOOKMAKER Pilg ie ete SH & * 999-2908-9902200606643 »4 ® ENTERING co LEAVING THE CourT HOUSE. D99O$09$-8$99-0-800004-094004; Mats © = OU THE CRowp> MOBBING THE CAB AS NAN PATTERSON LEAVES THE NAW PATTERSON AND THE wArRDENM FOR THE TOMES PRISON. UR'T HOUSE. DBODDDI-D FEDOHDDTOHPOIDHGHOS-49490GO00O668 000005094 0O5-04, | passed me and just as the man ahead of me had run out and jumped up on the step. “I turned and watched the cab go down the street. Then I saw it stop fo ete YOUNG SHOT HIMSELF, EYE WITNESS ASSERTS. The Evening World has found a man who says that be saw Caesar Young, the bookmaker, shoot himself in a han- som cab with Nan Patterson at Walker street and West Broadway last Saturday morning. His name is Algernon. C. Meyer, of Jacksonville, Fla, His home in that city is at | No, 253 East Second street, in a section called Springfield. | By occupation he is a solicitor for the Bureau of National Literature and Art, which has an office in the Jenifer Build-| ing, in. Washington, D. C. 2 pe ‘and kept away from the crowd. and saw a crowd begin to gather. 1 didn't want to get mixed up in the case After a bit I walked over to Broadway and later in the day I spoke of the incident to a relative of thine who lives in this city and whom I was visitng. . DEEMED IT HIS DUTY TO SPEAK. “T had a reason for not wanting to be mixed up in the affair, but when I bought the newspapers Saturday afternoon and saw that the case looked bad for the woman, I determined to speak If it became necessary. “I was in hopes that the other man who saw the shooting would come forward, but as hg did not I made up my mind that I would tell what I knew if I was asked. I had spoken of the matter to a number of friends and they ail advised me that it was my duty to make the facts in my pos- session public. “I HAD NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF CAESAR YOUNG NOR THE NAME OF NAN PATTERSON BEFORE THIS TRAGEDY, BUT I WOULD KNOW THE WOMAN IF I SAW HER AGAIN. I HAD A GOOD VIBW OF HER IN THD CAB, BOTH BEFORE AND AFTDR THE SHOT According to: Mr. Meyer the shooting appeared to be) WAS FIRED. IN HBR STRUGGLES SHE TURNED SOMETIMES TOW- accidental. The woman was Struggling with Young. He had | the revolver in his right hand and his right arm was around her neck. To Meyer it appeared as though she was trying to push him away from her, or perhaps, ta take the revolver | away from him. i JEROME HEARS THE STORY. After telling his story at The Evening World office to-day, Mr. Meyer went to the Criminal Courts Building and volunteered his testimony to! the District-Attorney. He was questioned an hour and a half by District-, Attorney Jerome and Assistant District-Attorneys Garvan and Rand. Mr,, Meyer did not waver in a single particular of his tale of seeing the shoot-, ing, At the conclusion of the examination, Mr. Garvan said that Mr.| Meyer's story was extremely important, and that it had a strong bearing on the case, alr. Meyer says that there was another witness to the tragedy. This! was a man about five feet eight inches tall, attired in a dark suit and wearing a straw hat. He had a small black mustache. This man, Mr. Mever says, was directly opposite the cab when the pistol was fired. He jumped up on the step of the cab and rode there a short distance. Mr. Meyer thinks that he talked to the woman, and perhaps he can explain the mystery of how the revolver came to be in Young’s coat pocket. Here is the story of the shooting as it is told by Mr. Meyer: “I was walking up West Broadway shortly before 9 o'clock last Sat- arday morning, June 4. 1 was killing time, walking slowly and gazing about with interest. It was the first time 1 had ever been in that part of the city. WAS WALKING ON WEST BROADWAY. “I was on the left hand side of the street going up, the west side. The street was not crowded with vehicles particularly and there were not many pedestrians close to me. “My attention was attracted to a hansom cab coming down West Broadway. At Walker street, or perhaps a little way above, the driver crossed the car tracks from the east to the west side of the street. 1 have seen reputed interviews with the driver of the cab, in which he is made to sav that he turned out to avoid a pillar of the elevated railroad. The pil- lars there are set along the curb, “It so happened that as : looked at the cab the man and the woman in it began to scuffle. The man was sitting on the right-hand side of the cab, sort of sideways—that is, his back was partly against the side of the cab, The woman was facing him. “She had her arms up, with the elbows out,as though she were try- ing to push him away from her, when I first saw her. Later it appeared to me that she was trying to hold him, or was trying to take soniething away from him. 1 did not pay particular attention at the beginning. NOT A PLAYFUL SCUFFLE. “After the cab had crossed Walker street I saw that the struggle in the cab was more than a playful scuffle. That was what I had taken it for at first, The woman's face was white. 1 could catch only a glimpse of the man’s face, and I couldn’t swear whether he had a hat on or not. “As the cab approached me I saw that the man had a gun in his right hand. His right arm was around her neck and the hand was about on a level with her head. At first I thought he was trying to put the pistol to her head. Right in front of me the tall man with the black moustache was walking, and I saw him stop and look at the scene in the cab. “I could see the glint of the. pistol barrel, and all at once I heard the report and saw a little smoke float up. The driver did not his cab, ‘The hand with the gun in it dropped down the girl's back and dodged away. Then the man in the cab fell over. This was just before the cab SP icieee ARD THE FRONT, BUT MOST OF THE TIME THEY WERE IN MY VIEW THEY QAT FACING PACH OTHER. “The sound of the revolver shot did not appear to attract any particu- lar attention in the street. Perhaps if I had not been looking,and had not seen the smoke I would not know that a pistol had been fired. “It is a,mystery to me how that revolver got into his right-hand coat pocket. I saw his arm slide down with the gun in it and I saw him topple over. It did not appear to me chat he made any move after he fell. When I first read about the case in the papers I thought that perhaps the gun had dropped out of his hand onto the floor of the cab, and that she had seen it there and picked it up and slipped it into his pocket.” HOW HE WAS IN NEIGHBORHOOD. Mr. Meyer explains how he happened to be in West Broadway near Walker street as follows: “I was up early that morning and rode downtown to see a friend who has an office in the Wall street section. When I got to the address I found that bis name was not on the directory bulletin in the lobby of the build- ing, and the elevator man didn’t know where he had moved to. “I walked slowly up Broadway to Walker street, where I turned west, with an idea of walking over to the river. I was not familiar with that part of the city, and at West Broadway—I did not then know the name of the street—I turned south. “After walking a couple of blocks I realized that I was getting into a strange part of town, so I determined to retrace my steps to the cross street and go over to Broadway again. I did not know the name of the cross street and did not remember it until I read the accounts of the tragedy in the papers. “It was while I was on my way up West Broadway in the direction of Walker street that I happened to look at the hansom cab coming toward me. If I remember rightly there was a sort of a haze in the air that morn- ing, but I distinctly saw the glint of the gun.” MEYER. TOLD HIS AUNT JUST AFTER SHOOTIN It has been the commonly accepted theory that Young was shot at or near the corner of West Broadway and Franklin street. Mr, Meyer insists that the shooting occurred at Walker street and that the cab did not stop until it had gone a couple of blocks further down West Broadway. This would make the stopping place at about Franklin street. Mr. Meyer spoke to several persons about what he said he saw in the cab, and The Evening World, in looking up his story, had reporters visit these persons, They all say that he told them the seme story he gave to this newspaper. ! REPUTATION IS GOOD, In telling his story to The Evening World Mr. Meyer gave as reference as to his character the National Bank of Jacksonville. A telegram of inquiry was sent to that institution and the following reply was received; Jacksonville, Fla,, June 8. EVENING WORLD, New York—So far as we can learn Meyer's reputation for truth and veracity 1s good. NATIONAL BANK OF JACKSONVILLE. Mr. Meyer told The Evening World that on Saturday afternoon, betore he had seen the newspapers, he told of the shooting to his aunt, Miss Gene- vieve Grimme, of the firm of Briand & Grimme, modistes, ay No. 54 West ‘Twenty-second street. She was seen to-day by an Evening World reporter. “It is true,” said Miss Grimme, ‘that Algle told me of the shooting, as he claimed to have seen it, on Saturday afternoon before, I believe, he saw the newspapers. In our family we have always regarded Algie as a youth with a vivid imagination and I did not pay much attention to him. “As nearly as I can recollect he told me that he had seen a man shoot himeelf—commit suicide In a hansom cab after a‘fight with a woman on Broadway. He might have said West Broadway. TOLD HIM TO KEEP OUT OF IT. “I advised bim to keep out of it, and he said he would say no more YANKEE MARINES LAND [WOMAN STABBED BYPASTOR RECENES. FOR ACTION IN MOROCCO Protect Belgian Legation at Tangier, After Sultan Gives in to Bandit. WASHINGTON, June &—American)a brief conference to-day, ‘The Am- marines have landed in Morocco, Ad- | bassador said he did not d'scuss the Perdicaris abducti se with ey the Pren- soiral: Chadwick: tile ‘atternoon cabled lia eit. 7118) baa (received) no) secant ad the Navy Department from Tangler vings. as follows: }out 4 . | inclines to the belief that t = T have placed a guard at the Bel-'ish Government will hake ita sian Legation, having been asked © demonstration at Tangier, and that mo do #0 by our Counsul-General her: , other ships will be ordered to Join the Earlier in the day Admiral Chad-| vessel recently despatched to Morocco. sent a message (rua ‘langler to| He ested that it sombtimed Is em- he had been informed | batrassing to bark. if one in notin a ’ m0 to bite, Cane r in the experience f as sent to British Government, Sit Mortimer aaik, Ratrull to inquire whether a surgeon | 4" Ali oF thei proved einos ra will be given safe conduct. The Admiral | 4, vaten Gives In to | says that {f 90 one will be sent in com-| gjAnaleR, | Morocco, Jun ‘the! | Sultan's letier in repiy ‘to the dipio. pany with the Shereef of Wasan.| matic represent r Raisull's reply is expected on June 9, | to the Kidnapping of Mears Deraiearis Ee acre, and Varley arrived here this afternoon, 5 Jt is said by aw person in the Sultans The rumor which is agitating certain | confidence che Bulan has given European newspapers to the effect that| orders to grant all of toe condit the United States Government intends demanded by Ratsull, the bandit ieader, | to permanently posacas Itaclf of a conl-|taptives, 2 *Pedite the release of tne Ing station on the Moroccan coast as} iue sul an Incident to the settlement of the | Heri el jarrada to be Governor of Perdicaris affair ts regarded omectal!y | tong ‘Halpulis demande. Barone here as a jest; there never was end is| a member of the Council of Mohammed hot now the sitght:st intention on the| él Torres, the representative of the Bul- part of this Government of making |i" here. and lormeriy was Governor iy such demands, {fon Moreover, it is stated that {t Is not | rald ma contemplated by this Government to| tribesmen on th nin his letter appoinis here assert that the rday by armed Anjera home of an English- ere, during which they obtained welze even temporarily any Moroccan) several rifles, was only a common rob- port end custom-house in connection | very, and had no political signiticance. Rear-Admirals Jewell and Chadwick he British battleship Prince of a. recelved the cus- with the Perdicaris case. visien Prosident Roosevelt and Sir Mortimer | Wiles. tosday Durand, the British Ambassador, had | tomary salutes, about it. He bought all the Sunday papers and the papers on Monday, and then told me the story again and asked my advice. I told him that so long as there appeared to be no danger of the young woman being accused of the crime he had best keep silent. “Algie said that he thought it his duty to make his story public in case the young woman was accused of the crime, and when, he became con-{ vinced that a formal charge of murder would be made against her he decided to make his experlence public.” Another person to whom Mr, Meyer told his story was Arthur O. Gandy, a broker at No. 25 Broad street. Mr. Gandy is from Jacksonville and han- dles an account for Mr. Meyer. It was Mr. Gandy whom Meyer was look- ing for on the morning of the tragedy. H “Mr. Meyer,” said Mr. Gandy to-day, “told me about thie matter Monday. I told him that if the woman was accused of murder it was duty to tell his story, He told me that he had seen a man ‘and a woman— whom he knew afterward to be Young and the Patterson woman—scuffling in the cab and that the man had a revolver, It was uls belief, he said, that the revolver was accidentally discharged.” GET MANY LETTERS. Henry W. Unger and Daniel O'Reilly were together outside the Grand Jury room when an Evening World reporter showed them The Evening World with the story of Mr. Meyer. Mr. Unger sald: “He is one of dozens. We have received stacks of letters every day from peop!e who said they saw shooting. Some sald that they say Young shoot the woman and others that they saw the woman shoot Young. Most of the letters were not signed.” ; himself “Secret Service Agent.” ! Young told him last Thursday that he would kill himself rather than leave Nan Patterson. “NAN” PATTERSON READS STORY. A copy of The Evening World containing the statement of Algernon Meyer was shown to “Nan” Patterson in the Tombs this afternoon. She read the story carefully, but by advice of her counsel refused to say whether Mr. Meyer's account of the shooting was correct. 1 “I cannot talk about that now,” she sald. “All I can say is that I am i ‘om his Government regarding tt, |} Mr, O'Reilly showed a letter he received to-day from a person signing | te This man said be knew Young and that | = the authorities are at lust getting uear the truth.” George Considine, proprietor of the Metropole Hotel, said to-day that he had no inteution of furnishing a bond for Nan Patterson. He says that he has not been approached on the subject and would refuse were the re- quest made of him. | te?at thankful that some light is being thrown upon the matter and that dis ahs Aiea INAN RANDOLPH PATTERSON, SKETCHED BY EVENING _ | WORLD ARTIST AFTER LEAVING TOMBS FOR COURT-ROO GODHODDDHOHODHOLOOHDSOHHHLLHGHHGOG HH HEOOOG90656O96000000508069006 998495956 9OO849db959090094% 64459968008 SKETCHES OF NAN PATTERSON AS SHE SAT IN THE CORNER OF INWTHE COURT OOM. WOMAN IN HEART Admiral Chadwick Sends Them Ashore to| Relatives, They Met in Real] Rev. Dr. Baylis Also Gets Insult= Estate Office, and One Ended Quarrel by Wielding Penknife —lJealousy the Cause. DELPHIA,June §—Mary Rich- young married woman, w: y stabbed through the heart by Richardson, her sister-in-law, dur- ‘el. They in a real office and after a few words Mi rdson drew & penknife and drove the biade into the other woman's heart. ' Jealousy is watd to have been the cause of the tragedy. . DIED SUDDENLY WN UPTOWN HOTEL George F. Hall Stricken with Heart Disease While on His Way to Take Automobile Ride with a Friend. Mr. Hall lived in New Jersey. Up to this afternoon in the Murray Hill Hotel. It was stated by the management that Mr, Hall was stricken with heart disease while passing along Park ave- nue, and that he was carried into the corridor of the hostelry. Mr. Hall lived in eNw Jersey, Up to year ago he lived at No. 24 Hancock street, Brooklyn, in a house which he owned, He leaves a widow and three children, He had come to New York to take an automobile ride with a friend. WOMAN WILL BE HANGED. t of Pardons Re- y to Mra. Valentina. N, J,, June 8§—The Board TRENTOD of Pardons, «which have been consider- ing the case of Mrs, Anna Valentina, who had been convicted of kiling Mrs. Ros Salzs, at Lodi, and who Js under sentence of death, to-day refused to interfere !n the matter, and Mrs. Val- entina will now be hanged in Hacken- sack on June 15, Mrs. Valent was tried and con- victed of murder in Hackensack some months ago and sentenced to be hanged. A movement was tarted to have her sentence commuted to life imprisonment, and the case was brought before the Board of Pardons on a petition which had been signed by a number of people living in Bergen County. The Court after hearing the ‘ts of the case have refused to in- Absolutely Perfect Food That's Lord & Tayloy, SCURRILOUS NOTES. ing Pictures Through ti Mails and Postal Inspect Are Seeking the Sender. - . Scurrlious pictures and anodymous notes containing anything but pleasant insinuations concerning Rev. Dr. Cha . Baylis, pastor of the Bushwick, nue Congregational Ghuroh, have been delivered at the p through the mails and now the Inspectors are endeavoring to trace, writer. Pastor Baylin would not feel Bo over the matter, he sald to-day, ths fact that the notes contain ins references to Mra. Baylis as well. — Tt is not the first time that a of the Bushwick Avenpe Chur tlus been annoyed, and from» this fact the sender of the notes and thought to be a member of and oppoaing faction In the chi “I cannot unders and myself should be cruelly, said Pastor Baylis “but as the senders of the ni pictures seem to persevere In mean work I have determined to the matter in the hands of the find and punish the perpet Important Sale. Raincoats, Automobile Coats & Travelling Coats, Atan Average Reduction of One-Half. 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